There may be several reasons that you do not wish for astudent to know his/her grade immediately after you have entered it. One may be that you are grading multiple essays and do not want one student to know their grade and then have another not receive a grade for several hours or even a day.
To diminish this there is a way to hide the student grades until you are ready. You can find the directions here: GradeBook-HidingGradesfromStudents
If you are using the Assessment tool inside of eLearning you may need to extend the time limit for a studetn with a documented need. You are able to do this without affecting the time limit for the rest of the class. Please follow the directions located here.
One of the most disconcerting things about on-line education is that you miss the face to face interaction with your students and you don’t get to see what they look like!!
With eLearning’s Discussion Boards you are able to have student’s post pictures of themselves. Click here to find out how: Creating a Discussion board for Student introductions
Surveys are anonymous tests in eLearning for which no grades are assigned but which provide you with statistics. Survey responses are automatically tabulated and the results are summarized. Because the results are anonymous, surveys are ideal for course evaluations or for canvassing opinions on an issue discussed in the course.
For instruction on how to create an anonymous survey click here
“SafeAssign™ is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.”
If you would like directions on how to have a student submit their own paper click here
Student directions on submitting a paper can be found here
OR
You can directly submit a paper yourself. For directions on how to create a Direct Submit area click here
For directions on how to upload a paper click here.
Hailey M. Ruoff
Coordinator, Training & Production Services
SUNY Cortland
hailey.ruoff@cortland.edu
A tutorial on how to create an assessment in eLearning can be found here.
If you would like more indepth training please contact hailey.ruoff@cortland.edu
You are capable of denying access to anyone listed in your eLearning room. It is especially useful if you want to deny access to students before a semester starts or at the completion of a course.
Follow the directions to deny access located here.
If you need asssistance in setting up a new eLearning area you can follow the tutorial below:
Directions on how to set-up a blank course
If you would like personalized training a one-on-one can be set up by contacting:
Hailey M. Ruoff ‘98
Instructional Materials Design Specialist
SUNY Cortland
hailey.ruoff@cortland.edu
From semester to semester you may find the need to change the course description, the section number or even your name.
You can do so by following the directions located here: Editing Home Page
Hailey M. Ruoff
Instructional Materials Design Specialist
SUNY Cortland
hailey.ruoff@cortland.edu
As a faculty member there are two distinct ways to back-up the content in your eLearning course. An internal back-up, which will save all the content that you created in case of a system failure AND a local back-up of all the student content.
The internal back-up should be done once at the beginning of the semester and then once when ALL of your content is in place. The system administrator takes these files and saves them for use (if needed) in the future. You are also able to save a copy on your U drive “just in case” but will NOT be able to use this file without assistance from the system administrator. You can find a tutorial on how to create a system back-up here: System Back-up of eLearning
In order to save your class information in a format that is readable to you (ie: you do not need a system administrator to restore it for you) several steps need to be taken. Tutorials for backing up Discussion Threads, Mail, Assessments and Assignments can be found here:
Backing up all content in Discussion threads
Backing up internal mail
Backing up completed assessments
Backing up handed in assignments
If you need assistance please contact eLearninghelp@cortland.edu
Hailey M. Ruoff
Instructional Materials Design Specialist
SUNY Cortland
hailey.ruoff@cortland.edu
