Discussion Forums
- Creating forums and posting discussions
- Subscription settings and setting requirements for participation
- New feature: Scheduled posts i.e. posting a message now to appear to students on a future date.
- New feature: Subscribing to individual discussions (as opposed to the complete forum).
Quizzes
- Creating a question bank
- Organising questions into categories
- Adding questions to a quiz
- Quiz settings
Choices – brief overview
Lessons
- General overview
- Building a Lesson
- Question types
- Moving the lesson forward
- Grading lessons
Assignments and the Gradebook
- Assignment settings
- Downloading Assignments
- Grading
- Editing and organising the gradebook
- Downloading/exporting gradebooks as a spreadsheet
Core Administrator-only Functions
- Resetting courses (i.e. empty a course of user data, while retaining the activities and other settings)
- Uploading and updating users
- Creating ‘manual’ accounts
- Creating courses, categories and sub-categories
- Backing up and restoring (i.e. duplicating) courses
- Importing (all or partial) content from one course to another
- Merging users (new feature – to be used in rare circumstances with extreme caution!)
Location: Mercer PC Lab, SSG
Date: 31st August 2015
Time: 2pm – 5pm
Location: ERC, PC Lab, Beaumont
Date: 2nd September 2015
Time: 10am – 1pm
Click here to view the booking form and for further information on each session. Select the session(s) you wish to attend, and click on ‘Save My Choice at the bottom of the page to book your place.