Monitoring students

You must be wondering, now that your course is online and students are beginning to enrol / browse through your course - how do you know if your students are online or offline? It's simple, all knowledge providers should know whether their students are offline or online, they should know how many students they have, they should also know details like student's profile, student's progress, student's level of activity when they are in your course.

View Students

• To start off with let's click on the "Student" button on the top panel of the block.
• You will then come to a page where you have to select your course.
  
• Click on your course to see the students that belong to that course.
• You will find personal details of your students here (as seen in the diagram below)
  

• Also notice there's advance options available to you when you click the submenu arrow button beside.

• Here you directly view your students in groups, view the entire student list or group your students.
  

Tips and Tricks - Preparing Assignments for Assessment

Assignments, assignments, assignments! That’s how students learn and trainers gauge their student’s performance. And yes, the learning system was designed to incorporate that as well. Here’s how to set assignments for your students:

Create Assignments

• Click on Assignment as seen on the diagram below:
  
  

• You will enter into the Assignment Manager page that will allow you to Add, Edit, Delete your assignments.
• Add Assignment and fill in the necessary details such as Course Code, Assignment Code, Title of the Assignment.

In the Description column as seen below, you can write the assignment objectives and instructions, give examples and illustrations in rich media form. This should be the question/instruction seen by your subscribers.

• Once completed, go onto the assignment setting.
• Choose between switching on the email alert function upon.
• Set the allowance for late submission
• And finally pick the type of assignment submission between Offline, Online or Upload a File - then Save it

Now to Add Quiz into Individual Block

• To add specific assignments to specific blocks, you will have to go back to “My Classroom”
• Open the specific block in which you want to add an assignment to
• There add activity by clicking on the orange running man button found on the left side panel of the block (as seen in the diagram below)
  
  
  

• Next choose the type of activity you want to add – Assignment or Quiz
• Fill in the necessary details in the columns
• Select the specific assignment that you want in your block and then save it
• You should be able to see the Assignment icon in your block now
  
  

Assignments can vary from individual online research, offline documents to images of finished projects. Use your imagination to incorporate a variety of assignment types.

Tips and Tricks - Creating a Wordlist

A book is not complete without the reference section at the end of the book, it's the same for our course. It's not complete without a Wordlist (Glossary). This feature is simple a virtual dictionary that you create for your users. Remember those that enroll for your course may be newbies or amateurs, that's why they enrolled in the first place. So equip them with the tools they need.

How to Create a WordList

• Click on the wordlist icon on the left panel of your screen. To locate the "Wordlist" button, see the diagram below;
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Then you will come to a page that has an alphabetical table lined horizontally on the screen. On top of the table you will see the "Wordlist Manager" button. Click on the button.
• Then click on the "Add" button to insert the words you want in your wordlist.
• You can add Description and even support your description with an Image.
• Repeat the steps to continue inserting words.
• The finished Wordlist will look something like this;