qmplus for support staff
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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• Managing Assignments• Grades and Student Tracking
We won’t cover everything!
Introductions
• Your name• Your School/Department/Institute
What are you doing now?
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What is QMplus?
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Demonstration
Demo• Logging in• Course settings• The structure of a course• Turn editing on• Adding resources: files, URLs, labels
Activity 1: QMplus building
1. Go to: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk 2. Login with your Computing username and password3. Click on My QMplus 4. Find your test area
Activity 2: Adding simple resources
1. Turn editing on2. In the first topic:
– Edit the title– Add a URL to something interesting– Add a label with an image– Upload a file
Demonstration
Demo • QMplus pages• Embedding video
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
QMplus accounts
• Automatically created for staff and students
• Accounts for “non-QMUL” staff can also be created
• Guest access also possible, no account required
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
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
Roles and Permissions
• Very flexible• Allows fine grained control over who can
do what• Can be refined as necessary
Current Roles (staff)
• Course Administrator (you!)• Course Leader • Teacher• Non-editing Teacher• External Examiner• Course Viewer• Teaching Assistant
Current Roles (students)
• Student• Resit Student• Manual Student• Auditing Student
First two roles are used by SITS integration
Course Administrator
• School/Department level role• Same permissions as Course
Leader/TeacherPlus• Ability to enrol other staff onto modulesNot enrolled on individual modules but can access all modules in department including newly created ones.
Demonstration
• Enrolling users
Activity 3: Enrolling Users
1. Find the course belonging to the person sitting next to you
2. Go to the Settings menu3. Click Users > Enrolled Users4. Click the Enrol Users button5. Find the student called “Sean Cassidy” and enrol them
on to the course area
Communication
• News Forum– Announcements by email
• Adding Events– Course and personal events– No emails– No “category” level events
Activity 4: Add an event
1. Under Upcoming Events2. Click New event3. Add an event for your course4. Go and get coffee
Break
Student Groups
• Auto create empty groups*• Auto-populate groups• Group Choice
* Populate by spreadsheet upload not yet available
Demo: Create Groups
Create three tutorial groups by spreadsheet upload1. Under the settings menu choose Users > Groups2. Click Import Groups3. Choose the file groups.csv 4. Click the Import Groups button to create the groups
Demo: Group Choice
Create a “Group Choice” activity for students to sign up1. Go back to your Test Course homepage and turn editing
on2. Add a Group Choice activity - Call it “Seminar sign-up”3. Create sign up forms for the three groups:
Seminar Group A; Seminar Group B; Seminar Group C4. Set the maximum size of each group to 3
Activity: Join Groups
Join a group1. Log out and then log in as your student identity2. Enter the course as instructed (you may need to search
for it)3. Join the seminar group you want
Assignments
• Electronic submission / Turnitin:– Submission Manager– Advanced uploading of files
• Offline Activity
Demo: Assignment set up
Activity 6: Submit an assignment
1. As a student access the assignment we just created2. Upload a Word document3. Ensure it is saved and submitted
Demo: Marking assignment
Gradebook
• Links to an activity or assignment• Input grades manually or import• Can be printed or exported to Excel
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
Phew!
Any questions or comments?
Follow Up
• Join the “QMplus Users Group”• Guides: Support and FAQs (under Help)• Email us: [email protected] • E-Learning Assistants to help