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* 1 Getting started
* 2 Course Creation
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* 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...
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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...
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...
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[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/News/NewsItem/View/268/major-eclass-upgrade-june-2023-...
_THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE CONTAINS FEATURES, STEPS, AND/OR SCREENSHOTS
THAT ARE UPDATED FOR THE NEW VERSION OF ECLASS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE
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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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[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/News/NewsItem/View/268/major-eclass-upgrade-june-2023-...
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THAT ARE UPDATED FOR THE NEW VERSION OF ECLASS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE
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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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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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(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...
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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...
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...
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/...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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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