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This article outlines best practices and suggestions for delivering
fully remote exams using the eClass quiz activity.
With the mix of online and in-person delivery methods now available,
one challenge facing students with mixed schedules is finding a
lo...
This article outlines the centrally supported tools available to make
a rapid transition to teaching fully online when face-to-face lectures
are not possible. It was originally authored at the onset of the Covid
pandemic when all courses were forced onlin...
An eClass sandbox course is useful for any instructor or staff member
who wants to explore the system, try out various activities, or do
some practice course construction. NOTE: You can only have one
sandbox per account.
You can create an eClass sandbox...
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If you are an instructor using eClass for the first time, or are
interested in re-designing or improving upon your course content, the
U of A has a number of different groups and resources that are
available to assist you.
IST ECLASS SUPPORT TEAM
Websit...
During the rapid shift online in March 2020 due to the Covid pandemic,
eClass began assisting instructors moving assessments online by
converting digital files into electronic exams. AS THIS SERVICE WAS
INTENDED TO PROVIDE INSTRUCTORS WITH A STARTING POIN...
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Forums are a useful way to facilitate classroom discussion in an
online discussion room format. They can be set up in a number of ways
for different situations such as small group discussion, 1-to-1
conversation between instructor and student, question an...
Quizzes are excellent ways to assess students' comprehension of course
material. They can provide a secure, automatic way of collecting
students' responses to questions that can be used as activities,
weekly homework assignments, confidential feedback, et...
ExamLock is a quiz integrity application developed by the IST eClass
team. The tool can be installed on Mac and Windows computers and
limits students to a quiz interface while an exam is being completed
and will block them from using a number of other app...
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...
WHAT IS SEM?
Smart Exam Monitor (or SEM) allows instructors to remotely proctor
online exams. It is a 3rd party external tool that is deployed inside
the eClass hosting environment and is approved by U of A Security and
Privacy.
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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...
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Embedded Answers (Cloze) is a way of designing multiple choice, short
answers and numerical answers within a passage of text. They are
useful when you want to have a single question have multiple sub-parts
and when it makes better sense to have answer box...
This article explains how to add quiz questions to an existing quiz on
eClass. If you have not yet added a quiz, please see Adding Quizzes
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/150/13/adding-quizzes].
CONTENTS:
* 1...
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This article outlines how instructors can use the ExamLock Manager to
manage secure exam sessions and review student activity during
quizzes. Instructors should configure their quizzes first following
the instructions at Using ExamLock to Promote Quiz Int...
The following is a summary of the question types available on eClass
for use in quizzes:
* ALL-OR-NOTHING MULTIPLE CHOICE: Allows the selection of multiple
responses from a pre-defined list of choices but uses all-or-nothing
grading (100% or 0%). For m...
Generally, there are two ways to add content to a course: creating new
'Page' resources (HTML files with content added directly to eClass)
and uploading existing documents as 'File' resources.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Dragging and Dropping Existing Files
* 2...
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This article discusses some considerations in using eClass to create
and manage large sets of quiz questions. For courses without extensive
question banks, you may instead refer to Adding Questions
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This article explains how to upload a video from your computer into an
editable content area on eClass. If you are a STUDENT, you would
normally be doing this in a discussion forum, an online assignment
submission (not an assignment requiring a file uploa...
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Article Last Updated July 2021
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 onl...
CONTENTS:
* 1 Introduction
* 1 Using Import
* 2 Select a course to import from
* 3 Include activities and resources
* 4 Select specific activities and resources
* 5 Review selections
* 6 Notes
INTRODUCTION:
You can copy material from ano...
This article outlines how instructors can use the ExamLock Manager to
schedule secure exam sessions for students to complete quizzes.
Instructors will need to configure their quizzes first following the
instructions at Using ExamLock to Promote Quiz Integ...
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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...
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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.
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This article lists the current known issues and technical problems in
ExamLock that are already under investigation or have been added to
our product backlog for repairs.
ISSUE/PROBLEM
SUMMARY
KNOWN WORKAROUNDS
Course activity can sometimes cause s...
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_PLEASE NOTE: _THE STREAM2 VIDEO INTEGRATION WILL BE DEPRECATED DURING
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This article describes the Question bank in eClass and the basic
operations available within it.
Adding any new question within a quiz also automatically stores it in
the question bank for the course - for more details, see Adding
Questions to Quizzes
[...
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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...
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...
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The eClass summer upgrade in 2018 introduces a redesigned user
interface as well as a range of feature improvements. This article
contains a number of short videos that highlight the changes.
The full outage announcement and complete list of features ch...
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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...
Instructors can now create H5P interactive activities directly in
their eClass courses. H5P ( ) activities are interactive learning
objects based on a range of open-source templates that can now be
used as gradeable activities
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eClass allows instructors to add essay questions to a quiz. This
question type should also be used for long answer questions. Note that
these questions cannot be automatically marked by the system, so
instructors have to go in and manually grade them afte...
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(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 abbreviation for HTML5 Package). Any pre-existing
H5P activities created and/or hosted on h5p.org [https...
This article explains how INSTRUCTORS can add a banner to their
course. If you already have a banner image for use, you can skip down
to step 2 below - the first portion (Step 1) covers how to use one of
the existing Faculty and Department banners availab...
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This article describes best practices for ensuring eClass course
content meets accessibility standards and has been provided by the
Academic Success Centre
[https://www.ualberta.ca/current-students/accessibility-resources].
CAPTIONING
As a part of the t...
This article describes the changes released for ExamLock in January
2020.
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS:
Two major issues are resolved for winter term:
* The mac application performance problem issues are fixed (released
as an emergency fix December 4th 2...
As an alternative to the standard Forum
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activity on eClass, instructors may add Anonymous Forums if they want
students to be able to post in forums without bei...
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This article describes how instructors can use the PDF Annotation
activity as an interactive tool for social annotation in their course.
This tool allows instructors to upload PDF files to have
students markup the texts with questions, notes, or other
mar...
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The Collapsed Topics with Collapsed Labels course format provides
instructors an additional mechanism for shortening the length of their
course in eClass. As with all the other available course formats
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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...
For questions involving numeric calculations, the calculated question
types on eClass can help to ensure that each student sees a different
version of each question. For example, you could have a question that
asks “what is the sum of X and Y” where X and...
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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 Homew...
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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-cre...
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/...
Non-credit courses are courses that are not tied to a credit section
on Bear Tracks. These can include research/collaboration courses,
content development templates, or resource courses that supplement a
regular credit course. Non-credit courses are also ...
This article describes how instructors can use the ExamVis external
tool to provide students with feedback on their eClass exams. This
tool, developed as a part of a TLEF project headed by Dr. Okan Bulut
from the Faculty of Education, splits exam question...
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The External tool activity module allows an instructor to set up a
secure link between their eClass course and an external website or
tool, allowing students to interact with learning resources and
activities from systems outside of eClass. The External t...
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This question type uses a computer algebra system to evaluate student
responses constructed as mathematical expressions. The ability to
provide a range of feedback based on different incorrect answer
pathways make this option very useful for formative ass...
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...
By default, eClass treats glossaries as a collaborative tool that
students have the ability to edit (i.e. students can create new
entries). It is however possible to restrict the glossary such that
only course administrators (instructors and teaching ass...
A NEW FEATURE ADDED IN SUMMER 2017 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...
The Question Bank
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/173/13/using-the-question-bank] allows
instructors to tag questions as an enhanced means of organization.
Questions can each have multiple tags and can be used to ...
This article will explain how to add a word count to forum posts.
1. First, click on the forum.
2. Next, click on the GEAR icon, then on EDIT SETTINGS.
3. You will be taken to a new page. Scroll down until you find_
Attachments and word count_ and c...
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In addition to shuffling question and multiple choice
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/360/45/security-features-for-delivering-eclass-quizzes]
orders as an academic integrity mechanism, instructors
can distribute m...
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...
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There are three types of drag-and-drop questions available in eClass
quizzes. This article has a breakdown of each question type as well as
basic setup instructions.
For a summary of the other question types available on eClass quizzes,
please review Qui...
NEW IN JUNE 2021, 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 informati...
When importing questions from the Question Bank there are several
formats that easily transfer into eClass quizzes. One approach is to
write questions using the AIKEN format. The AIKEN format allows you to
create multiple choice or true/false questions u...
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_PLEASE NOTE: _THE STREAM2 VIDEO INTEGRATION WILL BE DEPRECATED DURING
THE ANNUAL ECLASS UPGRADE JUNE 24TH 2023
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/News/NewsItem/View/268/major-eclass-upgrade-june-2023---upcoming-changes].
INSTRUCTORS SHOULD US...
Simple calculated questions is a simpler version of calculated
questions
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/326/13/adding-calculated-quiz-questions]
which are like numerical questions but with the numbers used select...
This article covers how to use the YuJa software capture application
to record audio, video, and screens for upload to your course.
Recordings can be made on personal laptops or desktops and is also
available on the campus classroom podium computers.
C...
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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...
Instructors can now create online reading lists with the library and
link them on their eClass site using the resource "Library Reading
Lists". This will create a comprehensive reading list for a course
and can be organized to show readings by topics or w...
An instructor may need to adjust scores globally on a quiz by adding
or subtracting points or scaling the scores without having to enter
mass gradebook overrides to student scores.
eClass can do this by any combination of adjusting the 'OFFSET' and/or
'M...
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 shows how instructors can create video quizzes using YuJa
and then link them into eClass for students to complete to have their
scores entered directly in the eClass gradebook. Note that quiz
grades are all that is passed from YuJa into eClas...
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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...
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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...
The feedback activity can be used to query your students with
questions that you create. Common uses of the tool are as quick polls
for student preferences, to elicit feedback about your class, or even
to build datasets of demographic information. The too...
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...
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