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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. [https://drive.google.com...
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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 [https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgeb...
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. [https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/374/10/u...
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 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...
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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 [https://support.eclass.ualb...
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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 [https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/146/13/adding-forums] 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 [https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowle...
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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