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It is now possible to generate visual reports that analyze student
activity in your course. Instructors have the option to choose from a
number of configurable reports that can help them see patterns of
student access, engagement, and performance. The new...
In all regular Bear Tracks section on eClass, students are
automatically enrolled by the IST eClass Support team as a part of the
automated course creation system. For each section that gets
requested, a cohort gets created on eClass that contains all the...
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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...
To communicate with your class, there are two options, ANNOUNCEMENTS
and MESSAGES:
CONTENTS:
* 1 Announcements (recommended)
* 2 Messages
ANNOUNCEMENTS (RECOMMENDED): Post in the Announcements Forum
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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...
eClass has a wide range of roles available to allow different users
different sets of capabilities in courses. If you have any questions
about the different roles and capabilities, please contact IST
eClass Support.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Basic Roles
* 2 No...
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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 recommended process for communicating with the students in your
eClass course is to use the ANNOUNCEMENTS forum, which is
automatically created in every eClass course. If you do not see this
in your course, please consult the article Missing the Cours...
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If you have been teaching in eClass for a number of years or are an
administrator involved in numerous courses per term, you may wish to
remove courses from your Course Overview list. You can now accomplish
this easily through the self-serve archiving pro...
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If you know that you are going to lose access to an eClass course and
you wish to retain the content from the course, you have several
options depending on the type of content and your role in the course.
IF YOU ARE A STUDENT IN A COURSE:
* For conten...
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...
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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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The course participants list allows users to see all of the users
enrolled in a class. The participants can be filtered by role,
group, enrollment, and level of inactivity. Different roles on
eClass have different options on the page with students often o...
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When the lifecycle of a forum
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topic has reached its natural conclusion or if instructors wish to
prevent students from making any more posts in it, forum topic...
CONTENTS:
* 1 Getting started
* 2 Types of Reports:
* 3 Running a basic Log Report
* 4 Running a Statistics Report
* 5 Running an Activity completion Report
* 6 Running a Course completion Report:
* 7 Running a Learning Analytics Report
G...
The user enroll search feature is kind of quirky in eClass Moodle;
Therefore, the surest way to _CONFIRM THAT A USER IS THE CORRECT
PERSON YOU ARE TRYING TO ENROLL IS BY KNOWING THEIR CCID._ The
searches return on either the full name, CCID, or email add...
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If you have set up groups in your course, you might want to enable the
option to filter different course administration pages by those
groups. The most common use case for doing this is in the gradebook
but this also works for the participants page, list ...
eClass keeps logs of activity by every user at a variety of contexts,
and these logs are available to Instructors, TAs, and Category
Administrators at any point to gain insight into activities inside of
a course. The following steps will walk you through ...
The Forum Posts by User advanced usage report produces a detailed view
of student participation in forums in your course. The report can be
configured to include any number of students in your course and can be
filtered to only show specific forums (for m...
This article features advanced features to filter students by criteria
when using the Advanced Usage reports in eClass. For basic information
on the use of Advanced Usage reports, please see Common Features of
Advanced Usage Reports
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This article describes how instructors can use the management tools on
the PARTICIPANTS page in their course to change group enrollments,
modify enrollment durations, and unenroll users from a course.
TO VIEW AND MANAGE THE USERS IN YOUR COURSE:
* To ...
This article will explain how to change the role of a user that is
already enrolled in your course. For instructions on how to enroll
someone, see the article Adding Additional Users to my eClass Course
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This article describes how instructors can use the feedback activity
to deliver questions to students. Please see Adding Feedback
activities
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to co...
While eClass quizzes are usually designed to be delivered online, it
may be useful to print out paper copies in some scenarios. Note that
many of the question types and features will not translate to paper
(eg. dropdown boxes or drag-and-drop questions) a...
This article will explain how to block students from viewing the
participant list in your course. This list is normally available to
all students by default in every eClass course.
* Click on the GEAR icon on your course main page, then on MORE.
* O...
By default, only instructors have permission to access the Advanced
Usage reports in eClass courses. But if an instructor chooses to do
so, they have the option of changing the default permissions so
students could view their OWN usage data for a course. ...
The ENGAGEMENT OVER TIME ADVANCED USAGE report will display student
access counts to content in your course across the range of time
specified. The report can be filtered by students (or groups) and by
specific pieces of content to identify usage patterns...
The reports in the Advanced Usage plugin include a number of common
elements to ease querying class data. These features are numbered in
the image below with detailed descriptions underneath.
* This is the “basic” filters area, which in most reports
con...
While groups can be entered manually on eClass, it is possible to
create and import groups from a spreadsheet (CSV). This tool can be
used only for importing empty groups - students must be added manually
after the groups are created.
It is also importan...
The Advanced Usage report suite can be configured to send instructors
a weekly report based on the criteria they specify. A weekly criteria
report follows the same process as searching for student based on
criteria
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The CONTENT ENGAGEMENT REPORT can be used to view student access to
content in your course. The figure below shows an example of such a
report filtered over a range of time (for more information on basic
filtering see Common Features of Advanced Usage Rep...
The FORUM ENGAGEMENT REPORT can be used to view counts of student
access to forums in your course. The figure below shows an example of
such a report with no basic filters applied (for more information on
basic filtering see Common Features of Advanced Us...
The FORUM ENGAGEMENT OVER TIME advanced usage report will display
student access counts for forums in your course across the range of
time specified. The report can be filtered by students (or groups) and
by specific pieces of content to identify usage pa...
This article describes how instructors can use the ADVANCED USAGE
report plugin to discover how specific students are interacting with
their eClass course. The example below shows the results from a
completed course but the same lessons can be applied to ...
The ADVANCED USAGE reports in eClass can be useful to assess student
performance and provide tools to contact students who may need
assistance.
COMPARING STUDENTS TO AVERAGES
Using the AVERAGES dropdown in the 'Show Advanced' area of the Content
Engagem...
To get the most out of the ADVANCED USAGE REPORT plugin
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for your course, it’s helpful to know a bit more about how eClass
logs ...
_PLEASE NOTE: _THE STREAM2 VIDEO INTEGRATION WILL BE DEPRECATED DURING
THE ANNUAL ECLASS UPGRADE JUNE 24TH 2023
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INSTRUCTORS SHOULD US...
Article Last Updated August 2021
The Advanced Usage report plugin in eClass can quickly identify which
types of content and specific pieces of content students access most
frequently in a course.
To do this, begin by adding an unfiltered content engag...
Instructors can export students along with their group information
from eClass courses. This functionality is not part of the core Moodle
system so has been added as a custom external tool. The tool will
produce a .csv spreadsheet containing the first nam...
If you created a blank course during the course request
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but later decide that you would like the content from an existing
co...
Instructors may use the built-in tool within FORUM activities that
allows them to look up a report of student activity.
TO VIEW THE FORUM SUMMARY REPORT:
* Go to the _Forum_
* Click on the _Actions menu_ (gear icon) on the upper-right
* Click on _...
Instructors will often combine several of their course sections so
that general course content only needs to be posted in one place.
However, there may still be other content (assignments, quizzes, etc)
that are specific to each section (lecture, lab, sem...
This article describes how instructors can link the Group Sign-Up
block to a feedback activity to have students fill in a questionnaire
about themselves to aid in the formation of project teams. For basic
usage of the Group Sign-up block, please see our a...