Faculty Resources/eLearning
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[edit] Customize Your Course Space
Learn how to customize and organize your course, limit the tabs that show at the top, and open your course directly to the Lessons tab.
[edit] Apply Themes
The eLearning system makes it very easy to customize the look and feel of your course space by applying different themes. However, it is important to consider the type of content you have in your space prior to selecting a theme. The background images of many themes can make text on the page very hard to read. If you have a lot of text try a simpler theme with no images. It may not look as “pretty” but it will be readable which is much more important!
[edit] How to Copy and Paste Text from Microsoft Word
Many of you have noticed that when you copy and paste from Microsoft Word into eLearning strange code appears on the page. You may have also found it difficult to edit text once you paste it from Word. That’s because Microsoft has its own special way of handling HTML code (the language of the web) and adds a lot of extra stuff that you really don’t need. This “extra stuff” causes problems with the way browsers understand and interpret the code and that’s why things don’t look or act the way you expect them to.
Learn how to copy and paste text from Word into eLearning.
[edit] How to Use Letter Grades in the Gradebook
Many faculty members use letters to indicate item completion and you can input these letters in to the eLearning gradebook through the use of a Label Mask.
- Go to the Manage tab
- Click on Gradebook
- Under Gradebook Management select Assignments
- Select the Assignment you want to edit (if already created) or Add New assignment
- Click on the Advanced radio button to show additional options
- Click in the Label Mask box and type in the following expression:
^[SUI]$
Replace the SUI text with the letters you want (for example, PF would be pass/fail, CI would be complete/incomplete, etc… If you left it the way it is right now the SUI could stand S (Satisfactory), U (Unsatisfactory), or I (Needs Improvement).
Click Save and enter away!
- NOTE: You will need to enter these types of grades directly in the gradebook. Attempting to enter in a letter grade at the point of submission (for example, right in the drop-box) will result in an error.
