Research Guides: Teaching & Learning Survival Tools: User Guides &amp; FAQs

Assignments

Exam Buddy

Plagiarism Detection

Peer Evaluation

Quizzes

Grades

Respondus Lockdown Browser

Exam Extraction

Results Processing

Respondus Campus-Wide

Rubrics

Competency

eLearn Quiz / Online Exam Settings Checker

Peer Self Feedback

Peer Tutoring

Class Management

Announcement

Groups

Seating Chart

Classlist

Find Free Time Slots

eLearn Accessibility

TA Enrollment

Content

LOR

Publisher's eResources/eTextbook/eLab

Kaltura - My Media

Links

Bongo learn

Discussions

Padlet

Gamelead

Zoom

MediaWiki

Google Drive

Journal

Google Calendar

Surveys

In-Class Sensing

ePortfolio

WooClap

Content

Assignments

Quizzes

Create an assignment mini guide

Set up assignment to release feedback only mini guide

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Assignments" and set up the assignment.
Go to the "Turnitin" tab to set up the Turnitin features in the assignment.
Under "GradeMark -> Evaluation", check "Enable GradeMark for this folder".
Under "Originality Check", check "Enable Originality Check for this folder".
If you want your students to view the results of this Turnitin's plagiarism check, you can check "Allow learners to see Turnitin® similarity scores in their submission folder" under "Originality Check -> Display".
Click on "More Options in Turnitin" which will lead you to to another window to set up some optional settings.
Configure the optional settings if you want to override the default settings, e.g. you can check on "Allow submission of any file type" if you allow any file type to be submitted for this assignment, etc. Click on "Submit" if you made any changes to the settings in this window.
Save and Close the setup page.

AI writing indicator has been added to Turnitin Similarity Report which will show an overall percentage of the student's submitted assignment that may have been AI-generated.

You can now enable Turnitin in assignment folder to sieve out students’ assignments that may have a high chance of being generated by AI, such as ChatGPT.

Refer to this guide for the view of this AI writing indicator.

Start and End Date determine the availability of an assignment wherein a student can start or submit their paper.

"Due Date" is like a soft deadline for students and if they exceeded the "Due Date", they are still able to submit their works but their submissions will be marked as late. "Due Date" should always be set in between the "Start Date" and "End Date".

Visibility status or the strikeout eye icon in eLearn Assignments signify that students will not be able to see the assignment, i.e. the assignment is not visible and is hidden from the students.

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Quizzes".
Select the quiz you want to replicate and click on the dropdown arrow beside the quiz and hit on "Copy".
This will bring you to the copied quiz configuration page.
Setup the quiz accordingly (e.g. rename the quiz, update the questions, set up the restrictions, etc.).
Click the "Save/ Save and Close" button once you are done with the replicated quiz setup.

You can also refer to the guide here for more information on the replication of quiz within the same course.

Start and End Date determine the availability of a quiz wherein a student can start or submit their quiz.

If you are using "Enforced Time Limit" restriction, do note that the "End Date" will not force the students to end their current quiz based on the time indicated in the "End Date". "Start Date" and "End Date" are the times that the students can access the Quiz. Once they have accessed and started the quiz, they will be allocated with the duration set up in the "Enforced Time Limit".

"Due Date" is like a soft deadline for students and if they exceeded the "Due Date", they are still able to submit their works but their submissions will be marked as late. "Due Date" should always be set in between the "Start Date" and "End Date".

Visibility status or the strikeout eye icon in eLearn Quizzes signify that students will not be able to see the quiz, i.e. the quiz is not visible and is hidden from the students.

"Special Access" can be used to grant "special condition(s)" to individual student who is taking the same quiz as the rest of the class. Example, to grant extra timing to the student's quiz duration, to allow the student to take the quiz at a different date/time as the rest of the class, etc.

Set up special access in quiz mini guide

There is currently no good way to extract the quiz questions into a Word document.

However, you may follow the guide here to copy the questions in your quiz into a Word document.

An eLearn Chrome extension has been set up to assist instructors in the quiz settings check.

To access this Chrome extension feature, please follow the guide here to install the extension (do take note of the restriction in the installation and access of this Chrome extension).

With the Chrome extension installed in your browser, you can validate the settings in the quiz you have set up by

Go to the desired quiz and click on the "eLearn Chrome extension icon" located at the top of the page.
Note: The icon is available once you have installed the eLearn Chrome extension.
The "Quiz Readiness Check" window will let you know the readiness of your quiz and highlight any detected issue in red.

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The readiness score of the quiz will also be displayed at the bottom on the window.

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eLearn team has created the Exam Buddy widget which aims to make it easier for you to monitor the status and progress of any online eLearn quiz session being taken by your students in your class.

You will be able to know which student has not started the quiz, which student is still doing the quiz and which student has completed and submitted the quiz all in one simple glance.

To access Exam Buddy,

Go to the home page of the course in which the online quiz is being conducted.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see the Exam Buddy widget.
Select the quiz which you would like to monitor and click on the "Start" button.
The quiz progress report will then be loaded and it will be refreshed every 5 seconds.

A new feature has been included in the exam extraction tool to detect the possibility of AI writing in the students’ submitted text answers in eLearn quiz.

This detection allows you to sieve out the submitted text content that may have a high chance of being generated by AI, such as ChatGPT.

Refer to this guide for the AI writing detection option in exam extraction.

Allow students to view previous quiz score mini guide

Copy questions from quiz to question library mini guide

Copy quiz from one course to another course mini guide

Enable quiz with Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor mini guide

Enable quiz with Respondus LockDown Monitor and Screen Recording mini guide

Export quiz questions into QTI-XML format mini guide

Shuffle questions in quiz mini guide

Set up written response question in quiz mini guide

Grades

Teaching Assistant

Google

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Grades" and click on "Manage Grades".
Select all the grade items (that are to be weighted) by ticking on the checkboxes.
Click on the "Bulk Edit".
Configure the "Weight" column in the loaded page.
Note: Ensure that the overall weightage is 100%.

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Grades" and click on "Manage Grades".
Click on "New" and select "Item".
Select the "Numeric" grade item type.
Enter the "Name", "Maximum Points" and "Weight".
Click "Save and Close" to save the changes and create the grade item or "Save and New" if you have more grade items to set up.

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Grades" and click on "Manage Grades".
Click on "New" and select "Item".
Select the "Pass/Fail" grade item type.
Enter the "Name", "Maximum Points" and "Weight" (the maximum points and weight should each be set to 100), select "Pass/Fail" from the "Grade Scheme" dropdown list.
Click "Save and Close" to save the changes and create the Pass/Fail grade item.

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Grades" and click on "Enter Grades".
If you are not able to see any textbox for grade entry, click "Switch to Spreadsheet View" to switch the gradebook to eidt mode.
In the edit mode, you will be able to key in the grades/marks of each student in the respective textboxes.
Click "Save" to update the gradebook with your grade entries.

Navigate to your destination course.
Go to "Grades" and click on "Enter Grades".
Identify the grade item you want to reset/clear (e.g. Final Adjusted Grade column).
Click on the dropdown next to the grade item and select "Enter Grades".
Ensure that all the students' grades are displayed in the loaded page. You can load all the students information in the page by adjusting the number of records to show per page option that can be located at the bottom right of the page.
Select all students display in the page.
Click "Clear Grades".
Verify that the number of students/records to clear is correct. Click "Yes" to confirm the clearing of the grades.
Take note that the grades in the specific grade item has been cleared.
Click "Save and Close" to complete the steps.

Go to your course (in which you want to enroll your TA) homepage.
Scroll down to locate the TA Enrollment widget in the right panel of the page.
Add the TA's email address, select the role you want to assign to your TA and click "Submit".
You can go to the "Classlist" of the course and check that your TA has been enrolled with the correct role under the "Teaching Assistants" tab.

You can reinstate the role of your TA with the TA Enrollment widget.

The new role you assign to your TA will overwrite the previous role.

Please refer to "How do I enroll my TA in my course?" FAQ on the steps to reinstate your TA's role.

TA (Basic) – able to view course materials, create groups, create/view discussions, email students and view class management.
TA (Content) – all the things that Basic role can do and with the ability to upload/edit/create/delete course materials.
TA (Quiz) – all the things that Basic role can do and with the ability to upload/edit/create/view/delete quiz.
TA (Assignment) – all the things that Basic role can do and with the ability to edit/create/view/delete students’ assignments and their submissions.
TA (Content_Quiz) - all the things from TA (Content) and TA (Quiz)
TA (Content_Assignment) - all the things from TA (Content) and TA (Assignment)
TA (CDQ) – all the functions from the roles of Basic, Content, Assignment and Quiz. No access to Grades.

	Course Materials (View Only)	Course Materials (Upload / Edit / Create / Delete)	Discussions (Create / View)	Assignments (Edit / Create / View / Delete)	Quizzes (Edit / Create / View / Delete)	Email Students	View Class Management
TA (Basic)
TA (Content)
TA (Quiz)
TA (Assignment)
TA (Content_Quiz)
TA (Content_Assignment)
TA (CDQ)

There are some restrictions to your TA's access in the course regardless of the access level he/she is holding.

Your TA will not be able to access the course's Zoom configuration. Thus, you have to configure it for the course.
Your TA will not be able to configure Turnitin for the assignment dropbox.
Note: TA(Assignment/Dropbox) access level will be able to create/modify assignments but will not be able to configure Turnitin.
Your TA will not have access to the course's gradebook.

Yes, all TAs and students should have a Zoom account.

No, you will need to set up the Zoom session using your subscribed Zoom account.

However, you can make your TA a "co-host" in your Zoom session so that he/she can help you with the controls in the live session.

Your TA can help you with following tasks:

Admit students into your Zoom Session.
Mute the other participants in your Zoom session.
Take note of and prompt you on the questions posted in the Zoom Chat.

Please refer to this link for more details on the functions and limitations of a co-host.


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