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Instructor Manual March 2018/ V 10.3 1

INSTRUCTOR MANUAL

March 2018 / Version 10.3


INSTRUCTOR MANUAL

Contents

1. ABOUT ................................................................................................................................. 6

2. GETTING STARTED ............................................................................................................. 6

Side Panel ............................................................................................................................ 6

Where to locate instructor tools ......................................................................................... 9

How to exit instructor tools .............................................................................................. 11

Providing students with the section key .......................................................................... 12

3. SETTING UP YOUR SECTION ........................................................................................... 14

Set section start date (continuous enrollment) ............................................................... 15

Set section mastery level .................................................................................................. 15

Set a Welcome Message .................................................................................................. 16

Set Announcement ............................................................................................................ 16

Add a Teaching Assistant ................................................................................................. 17

4. INVITE OR ENROLL STUDENTS .................................................................................... 17

Invite Students .................................................................................................................. 18

Enroll Students .................................................................................................................. 20

5. USING TRACK TO MANAGE YOUR COURSE/SECTIONS ................................................ 22

DEMO DATA ....................................................................................................................................................23

Roster ................................................................................................................................ 24

To create a tag and add to a student ............................................................................... 25


Move and Remove Student ............................................................................................... 27

How to send message to a student.................................................................................. 28

How to change student’s password ................................................................................. 28

Study Planner .................................................................................................................... 30

How to Remove Student ................................................................................................... 31

How to Filter Students ...................................................................................................... 32

FILTER BY TAG ...............................................................................................................................................32

FILTER BY EMAIL ...........................................................................................................................................33

ADVANCE FILTER ..........................................................................................................................................33

Export ................................................................................................................................. 34

TRACK REPORT .............................................................................................................................................34

ATTENDANCE .................................................................................................................................................35

TEST MODE ....................................................................................................................................................36

Lessons ............................................................................................................................. 36

Labs ................................................................................................................................... 37

Practice .............................................................................................................................. 38

Prepengine Tab ................................................................................................................. 41

Assessment ....................................................................................................................... 41

Gradebook Tab .................................................................................................................. 42

More ................................................................................................................................... 47

STUDY PLAN ..................................................................................................................................................47

ACTIVITIES .....................................................................................................................................................48

6. ASSESSMENTS................................................................................................................. 49

Setting up assessments ................................................................................................... 49

Auto selection of items ..................................................................................................... 53


........................................................................................................................................... 54

Schedule assessments ..................................................................................................... 54

Unschedule assessments ................................................................................................. 56

Assign assessments ......................................................................................................... 57

Modify assessments ......................................................................................................... 59

Preview assessment ......................................................................................................... 60

Archive assessment .......................................................................................................... 61

Delete assessment ............................................................................................................ 62

Adding a Grading Criteria and Grade Scale ...................................................................... 63

Reordering assessments .................................................................................................. 64

Sharing assessments ....................................................................................................... 65

Importing assessments .................................................................................................... 66

7. DESIGN COURSE/SECTION .............................................................................................. 68

PRE-ASSESSMENT ........................................................................................................................................69

LESSONS ........................................................................................................................................................73

Settings of cards, quizzes, and exercises ........................................................................ 74

CARDS.............................................................................................................................................................75

QUIZ ................................................................................................................................................................75

EXERCISE .......................................................................................................................................................77

TEST SETS ......................................................................................................................................................77

ASSESSMENTS ..............................................................................................................................................78

Settings.............................................................................................................................. 78

Adding annotations within the course material............................................................... 80

Review annotations........................................................................................................... 83

8. RESOURCES ...................................................................................................................... 83


9. CREATE ............................................................................................................................ 86

10. STUDENT VIEW........................................................................................................... 88

11. ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS.................................................................................. 88

How to create and clone a master section ...................................................................... 88


1. ABOUT uCertify courses and labs are ADA (Americans with Disability Act) compliant. They are accessible to students with features such as:

Change the font, size, and color of the course content.

Text-to-speech, reads the text into spoken words.

Interactive videos, how-tos videos come with transcripts and voice-over.

Interactive transcripts, each word is clickable. Students can clip a specific part of

the video by clicking on a word or a portion of the text.

JAWS (Job Access with Speech) is a computer screen reader program for Microsoft Windows that reads the screen either with a text-to-speech output or by a Refreshable Braille display. Student can easily navigate uCertify course using JAWS shortcut keys.

Note: All the instructor tools are device friendly: Mac, Tablet, and smartphones.

2. GETTING STARTED

Side Panel

You can organize multiple courses in your library with the help of side panel. It comprises of pre-defined groups:

a. Active - All the active courses will be shown here.

b. Archived - If you have archived any course, then it will be shown here.

You can archive a course using Move to Archive option. Click the

settings menu next to the Open button and select Move to

Archived Archive option.


c. Expired - All the expired courses will be shown here.

d. Ungrouped – All the courses, which does not belong to any group will be

shown here.

So, if you have multiple courses in your library you can easily manage it under these categories. You can even create custom groups to organize it further. Go to your My Library and click the Add group button. Enter the name for the group of courses, which you want to create. Pick a color to identify your group and select the required courses for your group. Finally, click the Add button to create the group.


You will observe a colored bullet below the Add group option. You can also add courses to the group by dragging the desired course and dropping it in the respective course group. To edit the details of the group or to delete the desired group, click the side panel and click the pencil icon to edit the details or click Delete button to delete the group.


Where to locate instructor tools Instructor tools help you manage a course or a section. On the My Library page, look for the course you want to manage and click Manage to go to instructor tools. To add new section, click on the Add new section button.


You can Create a New Section, Clone Using Section List, Clone Using Section Key. Provide the other required details and click the Save and manage section button. Click Instructor Tools.


On the dashboard, you will see the following horizontal tabs:

1. Setup

2. Invite

3. Track

4. Assessments

5. Design

6. Resources

7. Create

8. Student view

Note: If there are no section created for the course, dashboard will not be visible. Based on

your license, you may/may not see all tabs.

How to exit instructor tools From the courses & sections drop-down list, select My Library and you will be redirected to the library page.


Providing students with the section key Each course has a unique 13-digit section key listed on the Setup tab, in the Section Key box. Share this section key with your students. There are two ways students can link with your course/section. Method 1: Student has a 16-digit access code & a URL to submit it. In this method, students will use their 16-digit access code in combination with the instructor keys to be linked with your particular course/section. Students will take the following steps:

1. Go to the URL: http://www.ucertify.com/start/

http://www.ucertify.com/start/?func=register_instructor_led_class


2. Provide 16-digit Access Code, select the Instructor Led type to study the course and click the Validate button.

The course enrollment page will be opened. Type the section key provided in the section key box or select the I will add section key later option from the drop-down and click the Enroll button to enroll in the course.

You can view the student information by clicking Track > Roster. Method 2: Student is already enrolled in a course in Self Paced type.


3. SETTING UP YOUR SECTION

If there are no section created for the course, then click Add new section button to create a section for the course.

New section modal box will open.

Enter the Section Name, Section Tag, Start Date, and End Date and click Save and manage section or you can clone the section by selecting desired option from Creating a new section. After creating a new section, you can edit/customize the Section Tag, Name, and Description.


Set section start date (continuous enrollment) You can set section start date under the Starts heading. The On the day of enrollment setting is used for continuous enrollment situations such as self-paced students in a continuing education program, this will allow your student to use the section (or class) from the date of enrollment. Choosing Fixed Start will allow you to set your section start date with the help of a calendar.

Set section mastery level Determine how you will define Mastery Level of the course in terms of percentage. To set this percentage, simply type the desired percentage or click up or down arrow button to increase or decrease mastery percentage.


Set a Welcome Message

You can set a welcome message for your students enrolled in a section, the message would be visible to students on their section’s dashboard. To set a welcome message, click the Welcome Message tab. Enter the desired message in the box and click the Save button.

Set Announcement You can set announcements for your students enrolled in the section, the announcements would be visible to students on their section’s dashboard. To set announcements, click the Announcement tab and click the expand button next to End Date heading. Enter the desired message/text, which you want to announce, under Announcement heading. You can set start and end date for your announcement under the Start date & End date heading. Use the calendar to set desired dates.

To delete any announcement, click the delete button parallel to the announcement.


Add a Teaching Assistant Just below the section description, there is an area where you can add Teaching Assistants to the new section. Click Add New, and enter your TA’s email (if your TA has signed-up on uCertify, his/her first and last name will be fetched automatically) and click Save. This individual has the ability to view roster, readiness score, focus, engagement report, activities, and test performance.

4. INVITE OR ENROLL STUDENTS

You can invite or enroll your students to your course.


Invite Students

You can invite desired students to use your course or section by clicking Invite button and selecting Invite option. Enter the email ids of students, one per line or space delimited

Let's take a look on all the used cases for inviting students:

1. You can’t invite yourself as a student. If you do this, you will get the following message: Error in email: [email protected]. You cannot be your own instructor.

2. If you invite a student who is already enrolled in the current section, you will get the

following message: Student enrolled and linked to current section (no action required)


3. If you invite a user who is already enrolled in another section of the same course, you will get the following message: Student enrolled and linked to other section (you can change section)

If you want to change the section of the student, check the checkbox before the course class of the student and click the Move selected student to Security_plus button.

Note: The name of the button will change according to the current section. After successful change of section, you will get the success message.


4. If you invite a student who didn’t sign up on uCertify, you will get the following message: Student not enrolled (ask student to enroll and link with you) with N/A mentioned in the First Name and Last Name column.

5. If you invite a student, who has signed-up on uCertify but didn’t have any course or class, you will get the following message with the first and last name: Student not enrolled (ask student to enroll and link with you)

Enroll Students You can enroll students to use your course or section by clicking Invite button and selecting Enroll option.


To enroll single student select Enroll as a student option, provide the required details and click the Submit button. To enroll multiple student select Multiple Enroll option, provide the required details and click the Next button.


Check the checkbox before the students Email ID and click the Enroll Selected button.

5. USING TRACK TO MANAGE YOUR COURSE/SECTIONS

On the Track tab, you have following tabs that control student data – Roster, Lessons, Labs, Practice, Prepengine, Assessments, Gradebook, and More.

Note: Labs tab will appear if the course/section has labs.


DEMO DATA uCertify provides a comprehensive set of instructor tools to manage each course and section efficiently and effortlessly. To understand the functionality of each instructor tools, it is necessary to have students enrolled in a course or section. Demo data allows you to query the instructor tools without having on-board real students enrolled or authenticate real data sources. uCertify provides demo data of students to analyze the functionality of instructor tools.


Note: If there are students enrolled in a course or section, the demo data will not appear. To view the demo data of students click the close button at the top right corner of the box. You will be able to see demo data of students with sample watermark on it & a pink box will appear on the bottom of the table. If you want to hide the sample watermark from the demo data, click the close button of the pink box.

Roster The primary roster view provides you at-a-glance view on your students’ data such as their


Name/Tags, Readiness, Start Days passed, Target Days needed, Estimated Days required, and Last Login date.

Note: Numbers below dates, Start Days passed, Target Days needed, and Estimated Days required, denotes the number of days passed after starting the course, target days needed

to complete the course, and estimated days required to complete the course. To create a tag and add to a student Use the Roster tab to view your students within a course or section. Locate the student you wish to tag and click the settings menu in the last column of the table for that student.

To remove a previously set tag, click .


To add a new tag, type your tag in the Tag box. The program will look for a match which will enable your tags to be consistent across multiple students.

If no match is found, select Create New Tag. The new tag will be added. Click Save.


Move and Remove Student On the Track tab, select Roster. Click the settings menu in the last column of the table, and select Set Section. The Set student section modal box opens.

Select another section to move student from one section to another. Click to remove student from that particular section. Click Save after selecting or removing course.


How to send message to a student If you are on the Roster tab and would like to send message to a student, click the settings menu in the last column of the table, and select Send Message. Complete the email and click Send. To view previous sent messages, click Message history tab.

How to change student’s password

You can change your student’s password or send the reset password link. To do so, click the settings menu in the last column of the table, and select the Change Password option.


Provide the required details and click the Save button. To send the reset password link to your student, click the Send Reset Password Link tab and click the blue button.


Study Planner You can monitor individual student performance by study planner. Click the settings menu in the last column of the table, and select Study Planner option.


How to Remove Student You can remove student from your section. Click the settings menu in the last column of the table, and select Remove Student option.


Click OK to confirm.

How to Filter Students

FILTER BY TAG Select a tag and click Get to show students.


FILTER BY EMAIL You can search students in a course or section by email. Enter student’s email in search box and click Get.

ADVANCE FILTER Click Advance. Define your criteria sort order and click Search.


Export You can export gradebook and attendance of your students across the section.

TRACK REPORT

To download track report of your students across the section, click Export and select Track Report option. Select the desired options, which you want to export and click Download.


ATTENDANCE To download attendance of your students across the section, click Export and select Attendance option.

Note: Sample student data is loaded for demonstrating functionality. Unless you have students in your section and they have begun completing assessments, no data will appear.


TEST MODE To see your students score based on test mode only, click the Test mode only button.

Lessons The Lessons tab shows readiness or preparedness percentage attained by the students in the cards, exercises, and quizzes of each lesson and the reading percentage of each chapter.


Labs The Labs tab shows the information about the activity of the students in lab. This tab can be viewed in two views: Table View and Student View. Table View


Student View

Practice The Practice tab shows readiness or preparedness percentage attained by the students in the lab, pre-assessment, post-assessment, and test-prep. You can also change the points of your students. To do so, click on any grade point. A modal box will open showing the test history.


Click on the settings menu and then select Review option.


You can now grade the item as correct or incorrect. You can delete your students test. To do so, select the Delete test option from the settings menu.

Click the Yes button to delete the test.


Prepengine Tab This will show readiness or preparedness percentage attained by the students in Prepengine. This tab can be viewed in two views: Table view and Student view.

Assessment If you have created assessments for your section, you will see an additional tab i.e. Assessments. This will show readiness or preparedness percentage attained by the students in the items of assessments created by you.


Gradebook Tab You can define the parameters for assessing your student’s performance by setting up a gradebook. Click Define Gradebook button. This will allow you to define the grades for cards, quiz, exercise, labs, test sets, or assessments.


You can export the gradebook of your students. To do so, click on the Export button and select the Gradebook option.

Select the file format option in which you want to download the gradebook and select the Percentage or Points option. Click the Download button. The gradebook will be downloaded with the settings provided by you.


LTI Help You can create LTI links, custom parameters, download help guides, and can view help videos for different LMS. Click LTI help button, you will be redirected to LTI help page.

Click My LMS drop-down, to select the desired LMS for creating the LTI link.

Click CRN drop-down, to select the desired CRN.

Click Module drop-down, to select the desired Module. If you want your LTI link to be secure, check if the LTI link Secure button is on.

Different additional parameters related with the selected Module will be visible.

Select the desired options.

Click settings menu, to provide additional parameters related to the LTI link.

LTI Link based on your selection will be created.


To view the custom parameters related to your LTI Link, click Create Custom parameter. Now, to view Guides related to the desired LMS integration, click the desired guide button next to My LMS drop-down. To view Videos related to the desired LMS integration, click Videos tab.


You can hide the gradebook from the Track tab or can make gradebook visible to students. Click the Settings button and click On or Off as per the requirement and click the OK button. Finally, click Save to freeze your preferences. Items represents the number of items in the particular grade item.

To hide desired grade items or chapters, under Visibility, click On or Off button.

To edit settings of the grade items or a chapters, click the settings menu next to the

desired grade item or chapter.

Points represents the summative evaluation of a student’s performance across

a grade item tracked in the gradebook. Enter points parallel to the grade item.

To include or exclude grades of a particular item in the gradebook and sync,

click On or Off button, under Report, parallel to the grade item.

To include or exclude grades of a particular item from the final grade calculation,

click On or Off button, under Graded, parallel to the grade item.

Note: You can include or exclude grades of a particular item, after you have turned on the

Report for a grade item. Click Save to freeze your preferences or click Reset to set everything in default state.


More

STUDY PLAN To view the study planner of your students enrolled in your section/course, click More tab and select Study Plan option.


ACTIVITIES This enables you to view the performance of your students in different test preps, assessments created by you, pre and post assessments, and lectures. Click More tab and select Activities option. You can search a particular test activity by using search box, you can sort the results further using Test Mode and Test Type. Using Test Mode drop-down, you can view the details of the selected test mode. Using Test Type drop-down, you can view the details of the selected test. You can view or delete the test of your student. To do so, click on the settings menu in the last column of the table and select the desired option.


6. ASSESSMENTS

Setting up assessments Previously added assessments will show initially. If you want to create a new assessment, click Create a new assessment. Enter the following properties for your assessment:

1. Enter the name for your assessment.

2. Type of feedback you want your students to get from the Feedback drop-down.

3. Check the Untimed Test check box to disable the duration for the assessment.

4. Enter the duration for the assessment.

5. Provide the settings for the assessment.

1. Check the Randomize and select check box under the Items heading to randomize the items.

2. Check the Randomize check box under the Answer Options (when applicable) heading to randomize the answer of each item selected for the assessment.


3. To set the last option of an answer as None of the above, check the Last item as “None of the above” check box.

4. Increase or decrease the passing score by clicking the arrow button. Provide the instructions for the test, if any.

5. Click My Selection drop-down, to choose the item selection procedure. There are two tabs next to All Type drop-down:

Selected: It will show the items which you have selected for the assessment.

Available: It will show the items which have not selected for the assessment. To view in list, click the list-view icon.


7. Select items for an assessment

Choose a lesson from the Lessons drop-down, to select item from a particular

lesson.

If any lesson is selected exercise, test sets, labs, quiz, or assessment of that chapter

will be shown. Click the desired tab to select item from that particular tab. (Green

color denotes the selection.)

Select the type of the item from the All Type drop-down.

You can also search any item using search box, type the item name and click

Search button.

Click on the items you want to select.

In grid view, check symbol at the top-right corner of the item and the light gray color indicates the item is selected. To deselect any item, click again on the desired item. In the list view, as soon as the item gets selected, the right arrow on the item is changed to left arrow. All the selected items are shown on the table on the right side of the page. To deselect any item in list mode, click the delete icon of the required items from the right side table (In grid view, click the selected item to deselect them).


Click Save to save the assessment.

You can create a copy and save the assessment with a new name. To do so, click the Save As button.


Enter the assessment name and click the Create a copy button.

Auto selection of items Auto selection create assessments with random questions from exercise, test preps, labs, and assessments. Click the My Selection drop-down, select Auto Selection. Drag the Items slider left or right to choose the number of items.


You can Auto Select the exam objectives. To do so, click the My Selection drop-down and select the Auto Select Exam Objective option.

Schedule assessments Schedule the assessments after creating them. Click the settings menu next to the assessment which you want to schedule and select Schedule.


Provide following details:

Assessment tag: Using this option, you can set tag for the assessment.

Availability – Due: Using this option, you can set the start and end date of

the assessment.

Tries allowed: Using this option, you can set the numbers of attempts to attempt

the assessment.

Prerequisite: Using this option, you can select a prerequisite assessment for that

assessment. And Score at least option enables you to set the minimum percentage

to pass the prerequisite assessment. To set the percentage, check And Score at least

0% check box and drag the slider.

Grader: This will allow you to set a teaching assistant for that assessment.

Protected by: This box enables you to set a password for that assessment or provide

proctor login to unlock the assessment. Check the Protected by check box, select the

desired option, and provide password or the proctor’s email accordingly.

Disable: Using this button, you can hide or disable the assessment from students.


Click the Save button in the schedule assessment modal box and the Save button to schedule your assessment. Unschedule assessments After scheduling assessment you can easily unschedule it. Click the settings menu and select Unschedule.


Confirmation modal box will appear, click OK to unschedule the assessment.

Assign assessments You can assign the assessment to the desired student. Click the settings menu and select Assign To.


Provide the following details:

Student’s – Using this option, you can assign the assessment to a particular student.

Test Start On – Using this option, you can set the starting date of the assignment.

Due - Using this option, you can set the end date of the assignment.

Time allowed - Using this option, you can set a time limit for the assignment.

Retest - Using this option, you can reschedule the assignment for the desired

student.


Modify assessments You can modify an existing assessment created by you. Click the settings menu and select Modify assessment. This will redirect you to select the desired items. My Selection


Auto Selection

Preview assessment

If you want to view the assessment created by you, click the settings menu and select Preview assessment.


Click Preview. You can return to your Assessment tab by clicking Go back on the bottom bar.

Archive assessment You can archive an existing assessment created by you. Click the settings menu and select Archive assessment.


Confirmation modal box will appear, click OK to archive the assessment.

Delete assessment To delete an assessment, click the settings menu and select Delete assessment. Confirmation modal box will appear, click OK to delete the assessment.


Adding a Grading Criteria and Grade Scale The Grading Criteria allows you to assign a percentage for activities that will comprise your student’s final grade as well as the relationship between the students’ final score and their corresponding letter grade.

Note: We are discouraging Grading Criteria, therefore we do not provide it in the new assessments. However, if you are accessing our old assessments, the Grading Criteria

option will be visible. Grade scale defines grades for a range of percentage, you can add grades by clicking +add letter grade button.

Note: The Grade Scale feature is available under assessment tab only in the old courses. Instructors using the new course will find this feature under the design tab.


You can search an assessment using the Search assessment box. There are three tabs next to the Search assessment box:

All: This will show all the assessments across the section/course.

My: This will show assessments created by you.

Scheduled: This will show the scheduled assessments across the section/course.

(This tab will appear if there are any scheduled assessment across the

section/course.)

Archived: This will show the archived assessments across the section/course. (This

tab will appear if there are any archived assessment across the section/course.)

Reordering assessments You can reorder the assessment as per your requirement. To do so, drag the desired assessment and drop it to the desired sequence. Click the Save button to reorder the assessment.


Your assessment will be reordered as per the sequence provided by you. Sharing assessments You can share the existing assessments of a section and import to the other section. To do so, click the settings menu next to the Create new assessment button and select the Share assessment option.


The Shared key modal box will appear, click the clipboard button to copy the assessment key. If the assessment key is not visible, click the Generate key button and then click the clipboard button to copy the assessment key.

Importing assessments You can import the assessments from a section into the other section. To do so, open the desired section in which you want to import the assessment. Click the Assessments tab and click the settings menu next to the Create new assessment button. Finally, select the Import assessment option. The Import assessment modal box will appear.


Select the desired option:

Link assessment: The selected assessment will be scheduled in your section. Copy assessment: A copy of selected assessments will be created in your course.

Enter the Shared key and click the Get button. Click the desired checkboxes of the assessments, which you want to copy/link and click the Copy button. The copied assessments will be visible under the Assessments tab.


7. DESIGN COURSE/SECTION Click the Design tab to customize your course or section. You can view the number of items available in cards, quiz, exercise, or labs; hide or unhide chapters, cards, quiz, exercise, or labs; modify the settings of chapters, cards, quiz, exercise, or labs; allot points to each items; include or exclude grades of a particular item in the gradebook and sync or include or exclude grades while the final grade calculation.

Note: Functionality of each option is explained in the Gradebook tab section


PRE-ASSESSMENT

Settings Menu

Settings menu allows you to manage test settings by selecting the criteria accordingly. On clicking settings menu, you will get the following options:

Availability - Due allows you to select the date to open the pre-assessment at desired

date or days.

Tries allowed allows you to set the numbers of attempts to attempt the Pre-Assessment.

Time allowed checkbox allows you to set a time limit for the Pre-Assessment.

Grader allows to set a teaching assistant for the Pre-Assessment.


There are four buttons:

1. Randomize Items: Selecting Randomize items will randomize items in the Pre-Assessment. Blue color denotes the selection.

2. Randomize options: Selecting Randomize options will randomize options of

the questions.

3. Pausing allowed: Selecting Pausing allowed will allow student to pause the Pre-Assessment in between.

4. Last item as “None of the above”: If you want to add “None of the Above” as the last answer option in the Pre-Assessment, click Last item as "None of the above".

Levelling Levelling option allows you to manage the visibility of Lessons and Post Assessments on the basis of readiness score. To do so, click Enable button.


>Score (%) option allows you to set the readiness percentage for the desired lesson. Student will be able to access the lesson or questions of a lesson in the Post Assessment, after he/she has completed the given percentage in the Lesson. To set the readiness percentage for every lesson, click drop-down next to >Score (%) option. Enter the desired readiness percentage and click OK.

To turn Off or On the visibility of entire accessibility of every lesson or questions of a lesson in the Post Assessment, click drop-down next to Lesson or Post Assessment and select the desired option.


To turn Off or On the visibility of entire accessibility of every lesson or questions of a lesson in the Post Assessment, click drop-down next to Lesson or Post Assessment and select the desired option. After the required customization, click OK to freeze your preferences or click Disable to remove the changes made using levelling option from the course or section.


LESSONS Settings menu is available next to lesson name, from where you can lock the desired lesson to a particular date, with a password, or with readiness percentage of the previous chapter (readiness restriction is not available for the first lesson). The Unlock when >= checkbox allows you to set a readiness percentage for the previous chapter, exercise, quiz, or flashcards. Student will be able access the chapter, after he/she has completed the given percentage in the previous chapter, exercise, quiz, or flashcards.


Settings of cards, quizzes, and exercises To edit settings of the cards, quizzes, or exercises click the settings menu next to the desired cards, quizzes, or exercises.


CARDS Settings of the Availability - Due, Password, and Unlock when >= checkboxes are same as that for the Pre-Assessment and Lessons (Unlock when >= is not available for the cards of first lesson).

QUIZ

Settings of the Availability - Due, Password, and Unlock when >=, Tries allowed, Time allowed, Grader checkboxes are same as that for the Pre-Assessment and Lessons (Unlock when >= is not available for the quiz of first lesson).


Test mode checkbox allows you to set test modes for the Quiz. There are three modes of Quiz:

1. Test Mode: It's same as students take exams.

2. Learn Mode: In this mode, students can check their answers immediately after each question by clicking the Learn button or the Next button on the bottom bar. This mode provides more practice and increases knowledge for the course.

3. Review Mode: In this mode, students can review each question with its answer and explanation.

4. Test and Learn mode available: In this mode, student can take exam in two modes, test and learn. The test mode is same as students take exam and no explanation is available. The learn mode allows each students to check their answers immediately after each question by clicking the Learn button or the Next button on the bottom bar.


EXERCISE To customize Exercise follow the methods described for Quiz.

TEST SETS


ASSESSMENTS

Settings

To edit, view or delete the grade scale of your student, click on the Settings button at the right corner.


Grade Scale

Enter the minimum and maximum under the Grade % heading and enter the required grade letter under the Grade heading. To delete the Grade Scale, click the delete icon next to the assigned grade and then click the Save button. Gradebook Settings

You can hide the gradebook from the tab or can make gradebook visible to students. To do so, click the Gradebook Settings tab and click the On or Off button as per the requirement. Click the Save button to freeze your preferences.


Sequence

You can adjust the sequence of the course components appearance. Click the Sequence tab, drag the component and drop it as per the desired sequence. Click the Save button.

Adding annotations within the course material This feature allows you to create highlights within the course material that your students can see from their course view. To add highlights and annotations, go to My Library and click the Open button of the course/section of your choice.

Click the Chapters & Lessons tab.


Select the desired chapter from Table of Contents.

Select the text you want to annotate. Click the annotation tool that pops up.


If you want to highlight the text, click the Annotation icon ( ). Write a brief note for your students and then click Save. All the notes created by you will appear in the students’ bookmarks.

You can also change the color of your annotation by clicking on the desired colored circle. Check share with your section checkbox to share your annotation with your students across that section/course.


If you want to search the selected content from Wikipedia or Google, you can click the Wikipedia ( ) or Google ( ) icon. It will take you to a new tab in your browser with search results for selected content. If you want to link the selected content as with a webpage, click the link ( ) icon.

Review annotations To review annotations, go back to the dashboard and click Chapters & Lessons. Click Annotation tab. Your students will see their own bookmarks and highlights as well as the annotations you have created.

8. RESOURCES Resources tab allows you to download and upload the resources, such as: course-slides, answer-keys, and other reference or study materials related to the course. Click Download to download the desired resource.


To upload any resource for your students, click Choose Files and select the desired file. To edit the resource uploaded by you, click settings menu next to the uploaded resource and select Edit Resource. Enter the desired title and required description for your resource. Finally, click Save to freeze your preferences.


To delete the resource uploaded by you, click Delete Resource. Click OK to confirm.


9. CREATE Create tab allows you to create questions for the course. Note: Create tab may vary from course to course, you may or may not see Create tab. Previously added questions will show initially. If you want to create Add item button and select the type of question from the left side of the list or you can search the desired type of the question using search box.


Select the chapter name for the question, click Select Domain drop-down and choose the desired chapter name. Provide name for the question in Title box, description of the question in Stem box, and explanation in the Remediation box. Click the Save button, to freeze your preferences.


To edit the question, click the pencil button. To delete the question click the delete button.

10. STUDENT VIEW You can view your course or section as a student by clicking Student view tab.

11. ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS

How to create and clone a master section Go to the Setup, and click the Save As button.


Save as modal box opens. Enter the Section Tag, Section Name and click Save. Click Share to share your course or section with the desired person. The Share with modal box opens. Enter Email, Salutation, First Name, and Last Name of the person with whom you want to share the course or section. Finally, click Share.


Note: Instructor permissions for the cloned course can be granted only if your colleague has

instructor access to the original course. If you want to delete the section, click Delete. Finally, click the OK button.


To go back to the list of sections created for the course, click Back to section list.

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