Courses

For students to take a quiz, it is imperative for the moderator to create a course first. A course can contain several modules and a module can contain several lessons and/or quizzes.

To create modules, lessons and quizzes go to the Lessons and Modules and Quizzes section of the documentation.

Setting up a new course

To create a course, click on the Add New Course button on the moderator’s dashboard. This will lead you to a create add course page, where you need to fill in the following fields.

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  • Name
    Name of the Course
  • Enrollment
    Open enrollment is open to all students. Enroll Request requires students to send a request which the moderator can accept or reject.
  • Active
    If the course should be active for students to take the quiz. The status of the course can be edited later.
  • Code
    If the course should be hidden and only accessible to students possessing the correct course code.
  • Instructions
    Instructions for the course.
  • Start Date and Time for enrollment of course
    If the enrollment of the course should be available only after a set date and time.
  • End Date and Time for enrollment of course
    If the enrollment of the course should be available only before a set date and time.
  • Grading System
    Add a grading system to the course.
  • View Grade
    This field allows the student to view the grade if checked else grade is not visible to student.

Features in Courses

Click on the Courses link on the navigation bar.

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This page shows all the courses created by a moderator and all the courses allotted to a moderator.

The following options are available in the courses page

  • My Courses
    Click to show all the courses created by you.
  • Add/Edit Course
    Click to add the details of a new course.
  • Add/View Grading Systems
    Add or view grading systems. More info on creating grading system
  • Search/Filter Courses
    Search the courses by name or filter the course with active and inactive status.
  • Course Name
    Shows course name of all the created and allotted courses.
  • Edit Course
    Click this button to edit the corresponding course details.
  • Manage Course
    This provides more options for the course. For e.g. setting up modules, lessons, quizzes, practice exercises, students enrollments etc.
  • Download
    This button provides two options. One is to download the course CSV containing student data, Other is to download entire course for offline viewing.
  • Clone Course
    Click to create a copy of a course along with its modules, lessons and quizzes.
  • Activate/Deactivate Course
    Toogle to activate or deactivate the course.

Manage Course

Click on the Manage course button to view the course details page.

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Following are the features for course details -

  • Enroll Students
    • Upload Users
      Create and enroll users automatically by uploading a csv of the users. The mandatory fields for this csv are - firstname, lastname, email. Other fields like username, password, institute, roll_no, department, remove fields are optionals.
    • Requests
      This is a list of students who have requested to be enrolled in the course. Moderator can enroll or reject selected students.
    • Enrolled
      This is a list of students who have been enrolled in the course. Moderator can reject enrolled students.
    • Rejected
      This is a list of students who have been rejected for enrollment in a course. Moderator can enroll rejected students.
  • Course Modules

    Moderator can send mail to all enrolled students or selected students.

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    • Add Module

      Click on this button to add a module to the course. Fill the details of the module and save it.

      After creating a module for the course, following options are available:

      • Add Lesson
        Add lesson to the corresponding module.
      • Add Quiz
        Add a graded quiz to the correspoding module.
      • Add Exercise
        Add a ungraded practice exercise to the corresponding module.
      • Design Module
        This option allows you to change the order of the units added to the module, check for prerequisites of the module and remove a unit from the module.
  • Design Course

    Clicking on Design Course will show the below page.

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    • Available Modules contains all the modules that are not added to a course.

      To add a module to the course select the checkbox besides the desired module to be added and click Add to course button.

    • Chosen Modules contains all the modules that are added to a course.

      Following parameters can be changed while designing a course:

      • Order

        Order in which modules are shown to a student.

        To change a module’s order change the value to a desired order in the textbox under Order column and click Change order.

      • Check Prerequisite Completion

        Check if previous module is completed. Default value is Yes.

        For e.g., Assuming a course contains modules Demo Module and Trial for trial_course in the given order; a student has to first complete Demo module to attempt Trial for trial_course if the Check Prerequisite value for Trial for trial_course is checked Yes.

        Currently column shows the current value of Change Prerequisite Completion which in this case is Yes.

        Select the checkbox from Change column under Check Prerequisite Completion and click Change Prerequisite Completion button to change the value.

      • Check Prerequisite Passing

        Check if previous module is completed. Default value is Yes. This is similar to Check Prerequisite Completion except that it checks if all the quizzes in the module are passed or not.

        Currently column shows the current value of Change Prerequisite Passing which in this case is Yes.

        Select the checkbox from Change column under Check Prerequisite Passing and click Change Prerequisite Passing button to change the value.

      • Remove Module

        To remove a module from the course select the checkbox beside every module and click Remove from course button.

  • Course Progress

    It shows progress made by the students in the course. Moderator can also download the course progress data.

  • Send Mail

    Moderator can send mail to all enrolled students or selected students.

  • Add Teachers/TAs

    Moderator can search for the users by username, email, first name and last name to add as Teacher/TA to the course.

  • Current Teachers/TAs

    It shows all the added Teachers/TAs to the course. Added users can view and edit the course, modules, lessons and quizzes available in the course.