There are two ways to get to the Courses page:
- From the Navigation Bar, click on the "Courses" Tab at the top.
- From the dashboard tile, click on the "myCourses" tile right on the front page.
Upon getting to the courses page, you will be greeted a page similar to the following, with each course being an item in a list.
By clicking on "Title", or "Rating", you are able to sort the course list accordingly.
The action menu has several different actions available:
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Creating a New Course
To create a new course, click the "+" button. -
Joining an Existing Course
- Select the checkbox next to a course, then click the "Join Selected" button.
- The selected course will now be part of your myCourses, and visible on the front page dashboard.
- You can join multiple courses at once.
- Alternatively, click on a course from the list, then click the "Join" button in the top-right corner of the course page.
- Select the checkbox next to a course, then click the "Join Selected" button.
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Leaving a Course
- Select the checkbox next to a course you're already part of, then click the "Leave Selected" button.
- The course will be removed from myCourses and no longer appear on the front page dashboard.
- You can leave multiple courses at once.
- Alternatively, click on a course in the list, then click the "Leave" button near the top-right corner of the course page.
- Select the checkbox next to a course you're already part of, then click the "Leave Selected" button.
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Changing Collections
Select the checkbox next to a course, then click "Change Collections".
To learn what a collection is, click here. -
Sending Courses to Nation/Earth
Select the checkbox next to a course, click on "Manager Actions", then click "Send Courses".
You will need to enter your administrator password. -
Sending Courses to Nation/Earth
This feature allows you to push a course to the "upstream" nation if your planet instance is a community, or to "earth" if your planet instance is a nation. To send a course, select the checkbox next to the desired course, click on "Manager Actions," and then select "Send Courses." You will need to enter your administrator password. -
Deleting a Course
Select the checkbox next to a course, click on "Manager Actions", then click "Delete".
You can delete multiple courses at once.
By default, the rating on the right side of a course item shows the average rating of all users who have rated the course.
To add a rating for a course:
- Click one of the stars on the right side of the course item (1 being the lowest, 5 being the highest).
- A module will pop up, showing your rating and an optional comment.
- You can change your rating within this module.
- Once you click "OK", your rating will be submitted, and the course's average rating will update.
The search bar near the top-right of the page allows you to search by:
- Grade Level
- Subject Level
- Title
The search will automatically perform when you change any of these. You don't need to press Enter or click Submit.
To reset your search filters, click the "Clear" button, which will return all fields to their defaults and show all available courses again.
For filtering by collection, please check out Course Collections
At the bottom-right of the page, you can adjust how many courses are displayed per page:
- Options include 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, or 200 courses per page.
If there are multiple pages, use the left and right arrow buttons to navigate through them.
To begin adding a course, press the "+" button on the action menu.
You will be greeted by the following page:
The Course Title and Description fields are mandatory, along with Grade Level and Subject Level. Trying to submit the course without any of these will stop you.
Add a collection or subcollection to the course by clicking on the "Collections" button.
The following module will pop up:
You are able to filter your available collections by their name at the search bar near the top.
To create a new collection or to see the subcollection of a collection listed below, click on their respective dropdown buttons.
By clicking the "Edit" button next to each collection, you are able to change the collection's name and subcollection status.
To see what a collection is, try Course Collections.
Clicking on the "Add Step" button near the bottom will reveal extra fields to the right of the page, as seen above. These steps are where you can give learning materials, tests, resources, and surveys. Click the "Delete" button near the top to cancel the step creation or click the "Add Step" button on the bottom of the page to add your newly created step.
When finished adding your steps, click the "Submit" button to create your Course.
- Tests
When creating a step, click on the "Add Test" button to create a test for what you have learned in the previous steps.
Upon clicking the "Add Question" button, you will find there are four types of questions:
- Text - Short answer
Simply fill out the question detail or query for this type of question. The test taker will automatically get a textbox for filling out his or her answer.
- Text - Long answer
Simply fill out the question detail or query for this type of question. The test taker will automatically get a textbox for filling out his or her answer.
- Multiple Choice - single answer
Click the "Add Choice" button to create a choice of answers for the question. The checkboxes denote the correct answer for the question and is required for creation of the question. Only one checkbox can be chosen for this type of question. Click the red circle button to the right of the choice to delete it from the question.
In the image seen above, the correct answer is set by checkbox to be the second choice, "Two".
- Multiple Choice - multiple answer
Click the "Add Choice" button to create a choice of answers for the question. The checkboxes denote the correct answers for the question and are required for creation of the question. Click the red circle button to the right of the choice to delete it from the question.
In the image seen above, the correct answer is set by checkbox to be the first, second, and fourth choices, "One", "Two", and "Four".
While multiple choice questions are automatically graded, text questions must be manually graded.
Fill out the appropriate fields on however many questions you want for this test. When you are finished, press the "Preview Test" button to preview how your test will look, then press the "Save" button to save the entire test.
- Resources
Clicking on the "Add Resources" button will display the list of resources in your current Library. Select one or more resource by checkbox to add the resources to the current step then click "OK" to add the resources to your step, or "Cancel" to return without adding them.
- Surveys
Surveys are nearly identical to tests in function, but are used for the purpose of collecting data from the course's students rather than testing their knowledge.
Upon clicking the "Add Question" button, you will find there are four types of questions:
- Text - Short answer
Simply fill out the question detail or query for this type of question. The survey taker will automatically get a textbox for filling out his or her answer.
- Text - Long answer
Simply fill out the question detail or query for this type of question. The survey taker will automatically get a textbox for filling out his or her answer.
- Multiple Choice - single answer
Click the "Add Choice" button to create a choice of answers for the question. Click the red circle button to the right of the choice to delete it from the question. Unlike tests, there are no checkboxes denoting the "correct" choice, as this is a survey.
- Multiple Choice - multiple answer
Click the "Add Choice" button to create a choice of answers for the question. Click the red circle button to the right of the choice to delete it from the question. Unlike tests, there are no checkboxes denoting the "correct" choice, as this is a survey.
While multiple choice questions are automatically graded, text questions must be manually graded.
For multiple choice questions, click the "Add Choice" button to create a choice of answers for the question. Click the red circle button to delete the choice from the question.
Fill out the appropriate fields on however many questions you want for this survey. When you are finished, press the "Preview Survey" button to preview how your survey will look, then press the "Save" button to save the entire survey.
Course collections are the categories that a course can have, assisting in finding a desired course when you want to search your list of courses by category.
Collections can be standalone without being a subcollection of another collection, or can set another collection as its supercollection, as long as that supercollection is not a supercollection of another collection. In other words, there can only be one layer of collection to subcollection correlation.
There are two ways of filtering the Courses page by collection:
- By clicking on the "Collections" button next to "Courses" on the top-left of the page. This will bring up a module where you can filter the course list on the Courses page by selecting checkboxes next to collections and subcollections, seeing only the courses that have these collections or subcollections.
You are also able to edit the course's name or subcollection status from this module.
- By clicking directly on the collection name listed under the course, you can filter the courses by the clicked collection. Free collections are blue while subcollections are gray.
Note that this filtering is not retroactive, and clicking on a subcollection to click on its supercollection afterwards will not update the filtering to filter by the supercollection.
In order to take a test, you must first join the course. If you have not joined the course, you will only see the Preview button and not the Take Test button. The visuals of both are identical, but while previewing, you will not be able to submit your answers.
On the courses list, click on your desired course.
To take a test, click on the step with the associated test then click on "Take Test".
- Text - Short answer
Enter your answer in the textbox then click "Submit Answer" to submit your written answer.
- Text - Long answer
Enter your answer in the textbox then click "Submit Answer" to submit your written answer.
- Multiple Choice - single answer
Only a single answer may be selected by the radio buttons to the left of the answer choices. Click on "Submit Answer" to submit your selected answer. In the case that your answer is incorrect, the submission will fail and you will have to try again.
- Multiple Choice - multiple answer
Multiple answers may be selected by the checkboxes to the left of the answer choices. Click on "Submit Answer" to submit your selected answers. In the case that your answers are incorrect, the submission will fail and you will have to try again.
In order to take a survey, you must first join the course. If you have not joined the course, you will only see the Preview button and not the Take Survey button. The visuals of both are identical, but while previewing, you will not be able to submit your answers.
On the courses list, click on your desired course.
To take a survey, click on the step with the associated survey then click on "Take Survey".
- Text - Short answer
Enter your answer in the textbox then click "Submit Answer" to submit your written answer.
- Text - Long answer
Enter your answer in the textbox then click "Submit Answer" to submit your written answer.
- Multiple Choice - single answer
Only a single answer may be selected by the radio buttons to the left of the answer choices. Click on "Submit Answer" to submit your selected answer.
- Multiple Choice - multiple answer
Multiple answers may be selected by the checkboxes to the left of the answer choices. Click on "Submit Answer" to submit your selected answers.