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QMplus for Support Staff

QMplus for Support Staff. E-Learning Unit. Workshop Objectives. During this workshop you will : First half Gain an overview of QMplus Know the basics of building in QMplus Understand how access works Second half Look at some administrative functionality Communicating Managing Groups

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QMplus for Support Staff

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  1. QMplusfor Support Staff E-Learning Unit

  2. Workshop Objectives During this workshop you will : First half • Gain an overview of QMplus • Know the basics of building in QMplus • Understand how access works Second half • Look at some administrative functionality • Communicating • Managing Groups • Managing Assignments • Grades and Student Tracking We won’t cover everything!

  3. Introductions • Your name • Your School/Department/Institute

  4. What are you doing now?

  5. What is QMplus? + =

  6. Demonstration Demo • Logging in • Course settings • The structure of a course • Turn editing on • Adding resources: files, URLs, labels

  7. Activity 1: QMplus building • Go to: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk • Login with your Computing username and password • Click on My QMplus • Find your test area

  8. Activity 2: Adding simple resources • Turn editing on • In the first topic: • Edit the title • Add a URL to something interesting • Add a label with an image • Upload a file

  9. Demonstration Demo • QMplus pages • Embedding video

  10. Accessing QMplus • Much more flexible model defining who can do what on QMplus • Devolved model allowing more control at School/Departmental level • Less need to ask for help from central services for routine admin tasks

  11. QMplus accounts • Automatically created for staff and students • Accounts for “non-QMUL” staff can also be created • Guest access also possible, no account required

  12. SITS Integration • Functionality very similar to Blackboard • Generally 1-to-1 mapping between SITS modules and QMplus module areas • Also able to enrol students • By department • By programme • By multiple modules • …and combinations of the above

  13. SITS Integration • Enrolments updated more than once a day • No more “wait until tomorrow” for students! But • Still relies on data being correct and up to date

  14. Roles and Permissions • Very flexible • Allows fine grained control over who can do what • Can be refined as necessary

  15. Current Roles (staff) • Course Administrator (you!) • Course Leader • Teacher • Non-editing Teacher • External Examiner • Course Viewer • Teaching Assistant

  16. Current Roles (students) • Student • Resit Student • Manual Student • Auditing Student First two roles are used by SITS integration

  17. Course Administrator • School/Department level role • Same permissions as Course Leader/Teacher Plus • Ability to enrol other staff onto modules Not enrolled on individual modules but can access all modules in department including newly created ones.

  18. Demonstration • Enrolling users

  19. Activity 3: Enrolling Users • Find the course belonging to the person sitting next to you • Go to the Settings menu • Click Users > Enrolled Users • Click the Enrol Users button • Find the student called “Sean Cassidy” and enrol them on to the course area

  20. Communication • News Forum • Announcements by email • Adding Events • Course and personal events • No emails • No “category” level events

  21. Activity 4: Add an event • Under Upcoming Events • Click New event • Add an event for your course • Go and get coffee

  22. Break

  23. Student Groups • Auto create empty groups* • Auto-populate groups • Group Choice * Populate by spreadsheet upload not yet available

  24. Demo: Create Groups Create three tutorial groups by spreadsheet upload • Under the settings menu choose Users > Groups • Click Import Groups • Choose the file groups.csv • Click the Import Groups button to create the groups

  25. Demo: Group Choice Create a “Group Choice” activity for students to sign up • Go back to your Test Course homepage and turn editing on • Add a Group Choice activity - Call it “Seminar sign-up” • Create sign up forms for the three groups:Seminar Group A; Seminar Group B; Seminar Group C • Set the maximum size of each group to 3

  26. Activity: Join Groups Join a group • Log out and then log in as your student identity • Enter the course as instructed (you may need to search for it) • Join the seminar group you want

  27. Assignments • Electronic submission / Turnitin: • Submission Manager • Advanced uploading of files • Offline Activity Demo: Assignment set up

  28. Activity 6: Submit an assignment • As a student access the assignment we just created • Upload a Word document • Ensure it is saved and submitted Demo: Marking assignment

  29. Gradebook • Links to an activity or assignment • Input grades manually or import • Can be printed or exported to Excel

  30. Student Tracking Found under Navigation > My modules > Reports • Logs: Detailed activity on a particular dateCan send a message to all users who haven’t completed a particular action • Course Participation:Shows actions (view, add, update, delete) going back up to 4 months We will be writing custom reports for QM after launch

  31. Phew! Any questions or comments?

  32. Follow Up • Join the “QMplus Users Group” • Guides: Support and FAQs (under Help) • Email us: qmplus-interim-support@qmul.ac.uk • E-Learning Assistants to help

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