eLearning for Faculty – Gradebook – Hiding Grades

Filed under: Tech Tips, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ November 6th, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – Extended Time Exam

Filed under: Tech Tips, distance learning, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ November 3rd, 2009

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.

eLearning for Faculty – Using a Discussion board for student introductions (w/photo)

Filed under: Tech Tips, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ November 2nd, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – Creating an Anonymous Survey

Filed under: Tech Tips, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ October 29th, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – SafeAssign (Turnitin Alternative)

Filed under: Tech Tips, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ October 19th, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – Assessments

Filed under: Tech Tips, distance learning, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ October 13th, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – Denying Access

Filed under: distance learning, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ October 9th, 2009

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.

eLearning for Faculty – Setting up a course

Filed under: Tech Tips, distance learning, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ September 14th, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – Changing course homepage information

Filed under: Tech Tips, distance learning, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ August 12th, 2009

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

eLearning for Faculty – Backing up content!!

Filed under: Tech Tips, distance learning, eLearning — Hailey Ruoff @ July 21st, 2009

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