Security features for online exams are important to ensure quiz
integrity. eClass offers a range of features that provide varying
levels of security which meet different needs. Most of the features
listed below can be used in combination. In addition to t...
For students who require special conditions for taking a quiz or
submitting an assignment, instructors can create a user or group
override that changes the settings only for those particular users.
Overrides can be useful in cases where students need a b...
In some cases, you may wish to set conditions which limit whether a
student can access a resource, activity, or an entire topic or section
based on any of number of different criteria, including time range,
grade range achieved on previous activity, user ...
This article outlines how instructors can set up courses so that
students can track the completion of items in their course. Items can
be marked manually as completed by the students or be flagged
automatically as completed based on the conditions set by ...
The assignment tool has a wide range of configuration options that
make it a powerful tool for assessing students. It can be especially
useful in large course sections where there are several options
available to streamline working with a high number of s...
CONTENTS:
* 1 Conditional release based on activity completion
* 2 Restricting access
* 3 Restriction Sets
CONDITIONAL RELEASE BASED ON ACTIVITY COMPLETION:
In order to conditionally release a resource or activity in your
course based on the com...
NEW IN JUNE 2023, instructors can create attempts for students within
the quiz activity. These attempts would reflect any random answer
ordering or question ordering _SPECIFIC TO THOSE STUDENTS_. Once
created, these attempts can be easily printed, giving ...
This article describes how instructors can manage their Assign2
assignments, ensure students have access to the assignment, adjust due
dates, and release grades and feedback to students. See CREATING
ONLINE ASSIGNMENTS USING ASSIGN2
[https://support.eclas...
There are multiple methods that allow an instructor to grade forum
posts.
One option is whole forum grading, where instructors can see all of
their course participant's posts within a forum and give it a grade
that is reflected in the gradebook, be it ba...
Through the normal course content copy procedures, student and
instructor contributions into the database activity are not copied
forward from year to year.
These submissions are considered user data and for that reason
are excluded from the regular rout...
This article will explain how to set up the word limit feature for
assignments.
The word limit feature allows professors the option to set a cap on
the number of words students can submit in their assignments.
NOTE: THIS FEATURE IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN ONL...
While eClass quizzes are usually designed to be delivered online, it
may be useful to print out paper copies in some scenarios.
NEW IN JUNE 2023, eClass now has functionality to CREATE QUIZ ATTEMPTS
FOR SPECIFIC STUDENTS
[https://support.eclass.ualberta....
An effective way of preventing students from accessing course material
during exams is disabling access to your course by changing the course
availability on eClass. You may want to preemptively notify your
students of the course closure as some students ...
This article describes how instructors can use the Feedback activity
to deliver questions to students. Please see Adding Feedback
activities
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/147/42/adding-feedback-activities]
to co...
This article will explain how to add a word count to forum posts.
1. First, click on the forum.
2. Next, click on the SETTINGS tab.
3. You will be taken to a new page. Scroll down until you find_
Attachments and word count_ and click it to expand th...
The TIMELINE is a new block that's been added to the eClass dashboard
in the summer 2023 upgrade. It gives students and instructors a
heads-up for upcoming due dates and cutoff dates:
By default, it will only show dates for quizzes and assignments, but
e...