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ExamLock is a University of Alberta application that instructors may
use to promote academic integrity during eClass exams. The tool is
available in IST managed computer labs and IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
ONTO STUDENT'S MAC OS X AND WINDOWS MACHINES BELOW...
This article is for students who encounter issues when attempting to
validate their device or laptop for ExamLock exams
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/376/10/taking-quizzes-using-examlock].
If the steps below do ...
You can use eClass to prepare a spreadsheet that can be imported
directly into Bear Tracks as a part of the new electronic grade
submission process. To use this capability, you must be the instructor
or TA of a credit section on eClass.
To perform a Bear...
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...
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If you choose to set or display letter grades in eClass, it is
important to review the default grade boundaries to ensure that the
system assigns the appropriate letter grade for each range of marks
that you assign. Letter grades are also THE REQUIRED OUT...
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...
If your students have completed an offline activity (such as a midterm
or final examination) and their grades have been published or recorded
in a spreadsheet, it is possible to import these grades into eClass to
publish them to students.
Once uploaded, ...
Although most question types will be graded automatically, some work
may need to be done to GRADE ESSAY QUESTIONS
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/112/0/quizzes---grading-quizzes]
or repair issue with questions and...
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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...
Rubrics are advanced grading forms used for criteria-based assessment
and are most commonly used within the assignment activity. Rubrics
allow for ease and consistency in grading and allow for grade
transparency with students. To create a rubric for use i...
When grading assignments in eClass, there are a number of mechanisms
for releasing the grades to students. By default, as soon as any
grades or feedback are entered by instructors or TAs, these are made
available to students. NOTE: this occurs regardless ...
ExamLock is a University of Alberta application that instructors may
use to promote academic integrity during eClass exams. The tool is
available in IST managed computer labs but may also be used by
students on their own laptops.
THIS ARTICLE OVERVIEWS T...
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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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The eClass Gradebook does not directly allow the import of textual
information into standard gradebook columns.
This article describes the workaround of importing the text into the
_Feedback_ location for a column. Common uses for this would be to
impor...
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...
You are able to assign letter grades to specific assignments or
activities in eClass using the Improved Letter Grade Scale. YOU SHOULD
ALWAYS USE THIS SCALE INSTEAD OF THE STANDARD 'LETTER SCALE' SINCE
THAT ONE TRANSLATES POORLY TO NUMERIC VALUES. This is...
There are a number of ways to use only letter grades in eClass
courses. This article will recommend best practices and provide
examples for some specific use cases. Because letter grading is a
complicated area, users can also contact eClass support at
780...
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Instructors experiencing issues while attempting to upload CSV files
into the eClass gradebook can try the following troubleshooting steps:
CONTENTS:
* 1 User Mapping Error
* 2 Writing to Database Error
ERROR MESSAGE: 'USER MAPPING ERROR, COULD NO...
If you wish to have your students submit their work in groups, the
relevant settings are available in the GROUP SUBMISSION SETTINGS area
(and not in the COMMON MODULE SETTINGS area where most group and
groupings setup is done in eClass).
* If you want ...
The TSQS optical scoring data provided by IST may include a number of
columns in addition to the raw score including the students' wrong
answers and their actual responses.
eClass Moodle will only allow instructors to import one column as the
'Comments' ...
Instructors have several options for formatting the display of grades
to students in eClass. These can be set at either the course level
(ie. for all grades in the course) or on individual grade items.
CONTENTS:
* 1 Formatting Grade Display for the E...
UPDATE JULY 2019: RESPONDUS LOCKDOWN BROWSER IS NO LONGER CENTRALLY
SUPPORTED AT THE U OF A.
Please see this article for instructions on using ExamLock to promote
quiz integrity
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/37...
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UPDATE JULY 2019: RESPONDUS LOCKDOWN BROWSER IS NO LONGER CENTRALLY
SUPPORTED AT THE U OF A.
Please see this article for instructions on using ExamLock to promote
quiz integrity
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/37...
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Instructors can annotate student submissions directly online without
needing to download them. This grading mechanism can be used in
conjunction with any or all of the other options for providing
feedback on assignments. This tool supports common submissi...
Instructors can grade students on the entirety of their posts in a
forum by setting up whole forum grading in the forum. When activated,
whole forum grading allows for an instructor to view students' history
of posts on a forum, and mark it via a numerica...
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By default the Grader Report in eClass identifies students by first
and last name, email address, and CCID - student 7-digit student ID
numbers are not displayed. Even though they don't display, you can
still match imported grades to Student ID numbers if...
If you have downloaded all the student submissions from an assignment
using the bulk download procedure
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/259/15/downloading-assignment-submissions],
after you have graded the documen...
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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 ...
There are a number of additional columns and settings which can be
used to modify WHAT STUDENTS SEE when they look at their grades. The
student view of the grade book can be viewed under USER REPORT in the
gradebook.
CONTENTS:
* 1 To access the User ...
By default, eClass has some grading scales already available for use
in student grading. These include the standard numeric scales (can be
out of any number of points, up to 100, with 1 point intervals), and
several others such as ‘Quarter points (10 tota...
Some aggregation methods in the eClass gradebook allow instructors to
give bonus marks for certain grade items. The aggregation methods that
allow this are _Simple weighted mean of grades _and _Natural_. These
two aggregations can be used to replicate mos...
If an eClass assignment has been set up to receive file
submissions, instructors can either grade files online using the
inline marking tools
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/35/15/grading-student-assignments] or
d...
Once enabled, the 'Marking workflow' opens up the option for course
coordinators or lead instructors to assign specific grading tasks to
any of the other the graders in the course (including themselves).
To split up grading of assignments:
* Turn on ...
_Note: With new options for grading posts on a forum, such as whole
forum grading to be added in the May 2020 eClass update (see this
article
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/393/15/whole-forum-grading]
for more in...
This article describes how to make edits to existing manual grade
items, specifically the required option to specify whether to rescale
existing grades when editing the maximum grade for an item after
grades for students have already been entered.
This ...
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UPDATE: As a part of the University’s shift to online course
delivery in response to Covid-19, these suggestions provide
instructors with a mechanism to provide and display Credit/No Credit
scores to students as a part of shifting assessment online. Pleas...
UPDATE: As a part of the University’s shift to online course
delivery in response to Covid-19, these suggestions provide
instructors with a mechanism to convert existing numeric scores (for
an entire course or for individual assessment items) into CR or N...
In large courses where multiple TAs mark a single assignment, it can
be useful to see a per-grader average to compare how different graders
have graded students. This article will walk through setting up a
course to view per-grader averages and suggest a ...
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 ...
In the eClass gradebook, as an alternative to using the built-in
mechanisms to calculate a course total
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/152/0/calculating-your-course-total],
instructors can use formulas to compute...
This article will explain how to re-use an existing rubric that you
have already created in one eClass assignment for grading a different
assignment.
First, we will need to create a template from an already existing
rubric. If you do not have a rubric, p...
In addition to shuffling question and multiple choice
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orders as an academic integrity mechanism, instructors
can distribute m...
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...