Content Quizzes Dropbox

Discussions ePortfolio Design

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Welcome to 10.3 & ePortfolio 4.3

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New Features: Content

Content Quizzes

Dropbox Discussions

The Content tool includes exciting new features making it easier for instructors to add content to courses and students to view content inline without downloading!

ePortfolio Design

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Drag and Drop

Inline Viewing

Document Templates

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Floating Table of Contents

Content: Drag and Drop

Drag and Drop files from your desktop to your course:

! Bonus: It works in dropbox and for

attachments too!

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Content: Inline Viewing

Now you can view Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files inline:

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Content: Document Templates

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Add AODA Compliant Document Templates to your content!

Turn this: Into this:

Content: Table of Contents SLATE: New Features CONTENT: New Features

The Table of Contents now features a pullout menu that will float up and down as you scroll:

! Bonus: Students can bookmark content and access it from the side menu. The floating table of contents also appears in the discussions tool!

Content: Progress Tracking SLATE: New Features CONTENT: New Features

For Students:

Students can view the number of in-progress topics in each module. When all topics have been completed, checkmarks appear and the progress bar indicates completion of the module:

For Instructors:

In addition to the newly designed User Progress tool, instructors can now see a completion summary inline with each content topic in their course:

Content Quizzes The Quiz tool layout has changed, giving instructors faster access to commonly used features!

New Features: Quizzes

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Add / Edit Questions

New Assessment Tab

Submission View Time Limits

Dropbox Discussions

ePortfolio Design

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Quizzes: Add / Edit Questions

Old Version: New Version:

Add/Edit questions is now on the “Properties” tab. In the previous version they were on a separate tab.

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Quizzes: Assessment Tab

Grade Item, Rubrics and Attempts have all been combined into a new “Assessment” tab.

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Quizzes: Submission Views

Now you can limit the amount of time students can view their quiz submission and question answers.

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New Features: Dropbox

Evaluate Without a Submission

Restore Deleted Folders

Content

Discussions

ePortfolio Design

New Dropbox features include the ability to grade and leave feedback for students without submissions, the ability to restore deleted folders and the new “Due Date.”

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Due Dates and End Dates

Dropbox: Evaluate

A grade and feedback can now be posted in the dropbox for students without submissions. Previously this could only be posted in the grades tool.

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Dropbox: Restore SLATE: New Features Dropbox: New Features

The Dropbox event log allows instructors to restore a deleted Dropbox folder including its submissions and feedback. Rubric associations, Learning Objective associations and Release Conditions will

have to be manually reinstated.

Dropbox: Due Dates and End DatesSLATE: New Features

Dropbox: New Features

A Long Awaited and Frequently Requested Feature!

Dropbox Folders can now have a due date and an end date allowing students to submit late assignments.

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New Features: Discussions

Quizzes Content

ePortfolio Design

Topic Use Summary

Hide Topics

Forum Level Posting Restrictions

New Discussion Rating Options

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The Discussion Board Tool now has an updated organization to provide a more streamlined experience for discussion participants.

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Discussions: Topic Summary SLATE: New Features DISCUSSIONS: New Features

A summary of topic activity data outlining the number of threads, posts and read status is now located to the right of a discussion topic with further details underneath.

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Discussions: Hide Topics

You can use the Hide Topics option to collapse topics within a single forum or to hide all topics for all the forums at once.

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Discussions: Forum Restrictions

Instructors can apply restrictions to posts at the forum level. In previous versions, this could only be done at topic level.

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Discussions: New Ratings

Ratings can now be set per topic rather than entire course.

In addition to 5-star ratings, users can now add rating schemes such as voting a topic up or down.

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ePortfolio

Discussions

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New Features: ePortfolio

Dropbox

Quizzes Content

Design Reflections and Dropbox

Reflections and Content

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Form Templates

Minor Additions

ePortfolio features several enhancements with closer integration to other tools making it easier to reflect on course content.

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ePortfolio: Reflections & Content

Students can add reflections to their ePortfolios directly from course content. Tags are automatically added to reflections

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ePortfolio: Reflections & Dropbox

Reflections can now be submitted to dropbox for assessment.

Assessed reflections can then be added as artifacts to ePortfolios

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ePortfolio: Form Templates

• Form templates can be added directly from a module in content.

• Tags are automatically added to form responses.

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ePortfolio: Minor Additions

• Additional presentation themes are now available.

• Links to pages can be inserted within a presentation.

• Customizable thumbnail for linked artifacts is displayed instead of generic icon.

• Shared items from users can be restored or ignored

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Design

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New Features: Design

DiscussionsDropbox

Quizzes Content

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Role Switch

User Progress

HTML Editor

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Several interface changes have brought ease to design and new features to several tools.

Design: Role Switch

The Role Switch tool has moved from its former widget to the mini bar, making it accessible regardless of where you are in SLATE. Old version:

New version:

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Design: User Progress

The User Progress tool now includes a summary page of student activity. By default the summary shows logins, content, objectives and grades. Discussions, Dropbox, Quizzes, Checklist and Surveys can appear in customized reports. In the previous version, a report had to be generated individually for each tool.

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Design: HTML Editor SLATE: New Features Interface: New Features

• The HTML editor has been redesigned to be more user friendly. It has better table functionality and switches easily between advanced and basic mode.

• The “Insert Stuff” tool has changed as well, now allowing for easier embedding.