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When you combine multiple course sections in a single eClass course,
students are automatically assigned to groups based on the course
sections they registered in when registering for your course (LEC,
LAB, SEM, etc.).
You can also create additional grou...
CONTENTS:
* 1 Getting started
* 2 Course Creation
* 3 User Accounts
* 4 Course Enrollments
* 5 System Features
GETTING STARTED:
The eClass External system is available for use by any U of A Faculty
or Staff with courses that require the part...
This article provides a general overview for instructors using the
Yuja enterprise video platform. The platform provides instructors and
students with a place to upload videos, share them with course
channels, tools for recording and editing, and a pathwa...
A grouping in eClass is a set of groups.
If you are creating different groups for different assignments and
activities, all groups will be assigned to all assignments and
activities all the time without GROUPINGS, and students would need to
submit on be...
This article describes how instructors can add the new Approved
Student Accommodations Dashboard external tool to their courses. This
tool provides a convenient listing of any students who are approved
for academic accommodations for a particular course i...
This article shows how instructors can quickly embed Google Drive
files including videos into their eClass courses. This process occurs
through an external integration provided by the Google suite
'Assignments' tool and only functions for files inside the...
The eClass mobile app, currently in a public beta release, offers
faculty, students, and staff easy access to eClass course
content. The app is available for download here.
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/374/10/u...
Ratings can be useful for instructors who wish to track or grade forum
posts, glossary entries, and database entries and link them directly
to the course gradebook. They can also be used as a collaborative
activity by allowing students to rate each other'...
The GROUP PEER ASSESSMENT activity allows students to provide scores
and ratings to the other members of their assigned groups in eClass.
This tool can be used to monitor team progress, peer assess group work
output, or deliver feedback on team project pa...
Instructors can now add H5P interactive activities directly to their
eClass courses.
H5P ( ) activities are interactive learning objects based on a range
of open-source templates that can now be used as gradable activities
[https://support.eclass.ualber...
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...
As an extension of the Groups/Groupings
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/List/Index/33/working-with-groups]
functionality, the GROUP SIGN-UP BLOCK allows students to create or
join pre-created groups for collaborating in eClass...
This article describes how instructors can add the YUJA VIDEO
INTEGRATION into their course. This external tool links to the U of
A's enterprise video platform, a full-featured media storage,
streaming, and editing suite. The tool can be added to non-cred...
This article describes how instructors can use Google Jamboard though
the UAlberta google tools suite. Jamboard is a collaborative digital
whiteboard for capturing and sharing ideas. The platform features
intelligent handwriting display, shape recognition...
Working in conjunction with the Library, the eClass team has developed
a customizable block to make it easy for students to access resources.
The block is available on the user's homepage, and instructors can add
it inside their course.
To add the Libra...
CONTENTS:
* 1 H5P from an external URL
* 2 Upload from file
* 3 H5P from content bank
(H5P) activities are interactive learning objects based on a set of
open-source templates that instructors can add into their courses
(the name is an abbreviat...
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...
Instructors can now generate course syllabi using a custom tool within
their eClass courses. The tool contains a series of entry fields for
the required elements of course syllabi based on GFC policy and
creates an editable, downloadable file that instruc...
The Collapsed Topics with Collapsed Labels course format provides
instructors with an additional mechanism for shortening the length of
their course in eClass. As with all the other available course formats
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/K...
YOU CAN IMPORT EVENTS FROM GOOGLE CALENDAR INTO ECLASS USING TWO
METHODS:
* CALENDAR URL (AUTOMATICALLY UPDATED AT YOUR PREFERRED INTERVAL)
* CALENDAR FILE (.ICS) (A SNAPSHOT OF EVENTS DURING TIME OF CALENDAR
FILE GENERATION. THIS MAY BE USEFUL FOR I...
There are two major kinds of blogs in eClass:
* Blogs that can be added to course pages
* Personal blogs that are external to eClass but are included in a
course via the HTML editor. These blogs are generally available to all
users at the U of A (or ...
This article describes how instructors can take videos they have
already uploaded to YouTube and easily embed them in an eClass course.
For an overview of how to upload videos to YouTube, please view this
CTL Webinette [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4K...
Instructors can hide activities and resources using 'stealth mode' and
still allow students to access the content. This can be useful as a
course design strategy where an instructor wants to nest content to
provide a clean and compact course home page. An...
This article lists the current known issues, technical problems, and
workarounds for the YuJa Enterprise Video Platform. Any wider
performance issues with the service will be reported on YuJa's system
status page
[https://yujasystemstatus-1564678088336.si...
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...
This article describes how instructors can share videos they have
uploaded into YuJa with colleagues inside or outside the U of A. In
most cases, as long as YuJa has been added to a course (as shown in
this article
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/inde...
This article describes how instructors can add H5P activities which
push their scores directly into the gradebook in their courses.
H5P is an interactive HTML5 package that instructors may have
previously created and/or hosted on h5p.org
[https://h5p.org/...
This article describes how instructors can add Crowdmark assessments
(assignments and exams) to their course. This type of assessment will
transfer a student roster directly from eClass to the Crowdmark
system and allow instructors to set up assessments o...
This feature allows instructors to use tags to categorize resources
and activities within their course. These tags can be used for any
manner of internal organization schemes for instructor reference
(differing content areas, meeting learning outcomes, ex...
Instructors choosing to incorporate content from 3rd party textbook
publishers in their eClass courses or link their courses directly to
textbook websites need to be aware of the following policies announced
in late 2014.
Instructor Use of Online Homewo...
This article describes step-by-step how to upload a video directly to
your course channel and three ways that you can make it available to
your students. In this example, the upload process will automatically
publish the video to your course channel and s...
SETTING VIDEO PERMISSIONS (PUBLIC VS. PRIVATE)
UPDATE DECEMBER 22, 2021. WITH THE ADDITION OF SSO TO YUJA WE HAVE
CHANGED THE THE DEFAULT VIDEO PERMISSIONS FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC WITH
PORTAL (CCID) AUTHENTICATION.
Instructors concerned about video priva...
If you are working in groups in eClass, your instructor may have set
up an activity for you to rate all the other members of your group.
This activity will be identified in your course with an appropriate
title and the icon shown here.
Once you enter th...
This article will show INSTRUCTORS how to enable STUDENTS to rate or
score forum posts as a collaborative or peer review activity in
eClass. The setup for this function requires that a forum is already
set up on eClass for you to access the required setti...
The Yuja platform
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/486/23/using-the-yuja-enterprise-video-platform]
includes a basic video editor that runs from your web browser allowing
you to make edits, add titles, and/or combi...
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...
This article outlines how to customize roles in your course to prevent
certain users from receiving the email messages normally sent by the
Announcements forum or block. The use case would be if you have any
administrative users who require access to cont...
Adding Twitter Feeds to eClass course pages is a great way to
communicate course updates to students, or even filter tweets directly
concerning particular courses, or education in general using the
hashtag key. Hashtags are words or phrases preceded by a ...
Instructors can add a self-serve tool called SensusAccess into their
eClass course that will provide students with the ability to convert
files posted within the course into a variety of accessible
alternative formats. For more information on this subject...
This article describes how approved users can access all the courses
on eClass that relate to their particular Faculty or Department
_without needing to be enrolled directly in those courses_. Some
example uses for this type of access are departmental adm...
At the request of the Faculty of Nursing, the eClass team added a
site-wide block making it easy for instructors to add links to general
U of A policies into their courses. The block can also be configured
to have a section with policies pertaining to the...
NEW IN JUNE 2023, instructors can now add selections of blocks within
a single block on their course pages. Multiblocks are added to courses
using the standard block creation process
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/Vie...
In non-credit and training course situations, it may be desirable to
allow students to receive and print a custom certificate upon
completing any requirements set by the course instructor/designer.
Certificates can also be added to credit courses, but it ...
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...