Tag: Learning Central
Adaptive Release allows Instructors to set rules which control access to course content items. Access to items can be allowed or prevented depending on criteria such as: date/time; group membership; individual users; assessment attempts and scores; and whether or not another content item has been viewed. This tutorial will be useful if you want to [...]
Adaptive Release (PDF)The Contacts section allows instructors to post information about themselves and other instructors involved in the module. It provides the students with a resource to look up the name, e-mail, office hours, or a picture of the module leader(s).
Adding Contact Information (PDF)This tutorial describes how to link to pages on web sites anywhere on the World Wide Web from your module.
Adding External Links (PDF)This tutorial describes how to publish files for your students in Learning Central, accompanied by a description. Optionally you can also set dates for when the file will be available (so it will not appear until a certain date and/or will disappear later).
Adding Files (PDF)The content system in Learning Central provides online storage and access for your files. The My Content area is where you can place files to share with named individuals or participants in a module. The Institutional area is where you can store and share files with staff and students across the institution. For example, you [...]
Adding Files to the Content Collection (PDF)Folders are a useful way of organising and presenting content, assessments and interactive tools to users. Folders can be created in any area within your module (including inside other folders).
Adding Folders (PDF)The content collection in Learning Central provides online storage and access for your files. The My Content area is where you can store files that are personal to you. The Institutional area is where you can store and share files with staff and students across the institution. Folders can be created in anywhere you have [...]
Adding Folders to the Content Collection (PDF)If you are uploading multiple files at once into a content area in Learning Central, it can be quicker to upload them as a batch than individually. This process involves creating a zip file (a single compressed file containing all your individual files) on your computer, which is then uploaded to Learning Central where it [...]
Batch Uploading Files (PDF)You can load multiple files and folders into the My Content area. One way of doing this is by using WebDav which provides you a drag-and-drop interface for copying files between your computer and the Content Collection. You simply open a local (eg. Explorer or Finder) window, locate the files you want to copy over [...]
Batch Uploading Files to the Content Collection (PDF)It is possible to copy or move an item such as a folder, document or link and place it in another folder or content area within the same module, or to another module in which you have an Instructor role. You have the option of deleting an item after it is copied and/or to keep [...]
Copying and Moving Content (PDF)Discussion boards contain forums for online discussion. Each forum is dedicated to a particular topic, and contains a “thread” for each conversation on that topic. A thread can be started by a participant posting an idea or question; and others can read and respond to this when they log in (because discussions are asynchronous participants [...]
Creating a Discussion Board Forum (PDF)Portlet pages will be familiar: the home screen and help screens of Learning Central feature portlets (boxes of often personalised content). These are now available to add to modules, either in the module menu or in content areas. Portlets within modules can contain contextual information: for example an announcement portlet will show the announcments for [...]
Creating a Module Portlet Page (PDF)Each forum in a modules discussion board is dedicated to a particular topic; each can have different settings and you can have a different role in each. Discussion board forums contain a “thread” for each conversation on that topic. This tutorial describes how you can post replies, and may start new threads (if you have been [...]
Creating a thread and replying in a Discussion Board forum (PDF)Learning Central includes two tools for creating tests and surveys. This document describes a simpler tool that allows instructors to create an online graded test, as well as ungraded self-assessment tests. You can use a variety of types of questions (multiple choice, true/false, matching, short answer, etc.). A more sophisticated tool, Questionmark Perception, provides a [...]
Creating Online Tests (PDF)Each module in CUE is created with a set of navigation links along the left hand side, the Module Menu. This allows access to the different content areas within your module. You can rename these, remove those which are not in use or add new items to the menu.
Customising the Module Menu (PDF)The Grade Centre allows both you and your students to manage their grades and track their progress. Online tests can be set to populate the Grade Centre automatically, and you can create an entry to add grades and feedback from any assessment you set your students (whether an essay, laboratory practical, examination or anything else). [...]
Entering and Viewing Grades (PDF)For each assessment you can have a column in the grade centre to record and distribute students’ grades and feedback. Columns can be automatically created for assessments you have set up within CUE (for online tests, assignments submitted online, assessed blogs or wikis, etc.) but you can add a column for anything else you choose. [...]
Grade Centre Columns (PDF)Grading periods allows you to divide the Grade Centre into blocks of time, such as semesters. It can then show only the columns that belong to a particular grading period, calculate a total or average grade for a grading period or create a performance report for a grading period. This tutorial shows you how to [...]
Grade Centre Grading Periods (PDF)Instructors can create printable reports for their modules and students. Reports can display all or a number of students, groups; columns or calculated columns, a Grading Period, or all of the columns in a category. For example an instructor can create a report, like a progress report, that contains all of the grades from a [...]
Grade Centre Reports (PDF)Dr Dianne Watkins (SONMS), Prof. Paul Dummer, (DENTL), Dr Kamila Hawthorne (MEDIC) led a project to pilot the use of Grademark to provide electronic feedback across their schools. The report showed that it was generally very well received by students and assessors, but that there are issues that need to be overcome. GradeMark Project
As a moderator (the default role in discussion board forums for instructors), you are able to grade student participation at the forum or thread level. This way you can incorporate online discussions in student assessment. Assessing performance in a discussion board forum can increase participation.
Grading Discussion Board Participation (PDF)In Grade Centre a grading schema defines the values of letter grades and customised grade symbols. This can be used if you want to display a grade as letters A, B, B+ or Pass/Fail based on the student’s score. This guide demonstrates how you can change the predefined grading schema so that you can determine [...]
Grading Schemas (PDF)There are two ways you can allow people to access your files in the Content Collection: you can give users who have can log into Learning Central specific permission and you can give anyone (including users who do not have access to the Content Collection or Learning Central) a pass. Passes can also be useful [...]
Granting Access to Content in The Content Collection (PDF)We are pleased to announce that from July 2010 the University will have an enhanced Virtual Learning Environment, to be known as CUE (Cardiff University E-learning).
If you have been given the role of moderator or manager in a discussion board forum (the latter is the default role for instructors) you will be able to edit or delete posts in the forum; and if the moderation queue is enabled (which means every post must be approved by a moderator before it [...]
Moderating a Discussion Board Forum (PDF)GradeMark is part of the Turnitin suite and is a tool that can be used for providing feedback on assignments that have been submitted in Learning Central as a TurnitinUK assignment.
Online Marking with Grademark (PDF)This session looked at the purposes for using the VLE within a module, and in the context of these objectives considered which tools and functions best support these. By the end of the session attendees had looked at: identifying the objectives of their VLE module and the VLE tools which support these; customising the structure, [...]
The announcement tool in CUE can be used to communicate important information to users enrolled on a particular module e.g. remind students of assignment deadlines, inform students of lecture cancellations or room changes, add information about upcoming events or other information relevant to your module and students.
Posting Announcements (PDF)The send email feature in Learning Central enables users to send email to students and/or instructors enrolled on a module. In addition, users can select particular individuals or groups who will receive it. When you use this function it will get sent to all students enrolled on the module. It is therefore a very quick [...]
Sending Email in Learning Central (PDF)To enable students to submit assignments electronically, you must set up the assignment in Learning Central. This allows you publish details and a submission point anywhere within the content areas for your module. You can also opt to have an entry added automatically to the Grade Centre where you will be able to enter marks [...]
Setting Up Assignments (PDF)During summer 2010 the interface to the VLE is changing. This document gives side by side comparisons of the differences for some key tasks. Differences Summer 2010
When you create a test or survey, each question you can add can be one of a range of question types. The different types of question are described in this document, with step-by-step instructions on how to use them.
Test and Survey Question Types (PDF)There are some new features in Learning Central that you may not have noticed. If you wish to explore them to see if they may be of use in your module(s), the guides linked below provide a brief introduction.
If you maintain a spreadsheet of grades outside CUE you can upload the grades into Grade Centre so students can access their grades via CUE. Instructors can also download Grade Centre data to a spreadsheet for offline viewing or further statistical analysis. Instructors can select specific data to download, or download the complete Grade Centre [...]
Uploading to Grade Centre (PDF)Each forum in a modules discussion board is dedicated to a particular topic; each can have different settings and you can have a different role in each. Discussion board forums contain a “thread” for each conversation on that topic. This tutorial also describes how to view and sort the forum threads.
Viewing and sorting threads in a Discussion Board forum (PDF)After students have completed a test or survey in CUE the Grade Centre can be used to access the results. You can see an overall view of how each question has been answered and the results will show each test/survey question with related percentages showing how difficult the cohort found each question. If you want [...]
Viewing Test and Survey Results (PDF)