Teaching Online at UTAS

Index of Posts

 

MyLO Basics

• The MyLO Homepage
• MyLO Basics: Log in to MyLO and MyLO Manager.
• How to Pin Units to your MyLO Homepage.
• View your unit as a student – Impersonate the ‘Student View’.
• Change your Unit’s MyLO Banner!
• Technical Issues Handy Hints. (Updated March 2019)
• View your MyLO Unit across two (or more) browser tabs.
• How to Set Release Conditions (restrictions / selective release).
• Handy Tips from Common Student Discussion Questions.
• Tool Overview: Announcements.
• Four tips to improve your MyLO site this semester.
• Using MyLO to email some or all students enrolled in a unit. (Updated March 2019)
• Providing extensions to students. [needs update to convert to post]

 

MyLO Content & HTML Page Tools

• Hiding Content in MyLO.
• Moving Content in MyLO
• Link to items inside, and outside, of your MyLO unit.
• Embed an Echo360 video in an HTML page.
• Working with the CBT Template (TSBE)
• Open a MyLO HTML page in editing mode.
• ADVANCED: How to force a space after the last element in an HTML page.
• Useful shortcuts when adding and editing text in MyLO.
• Adding a hyperlink [link] into your MyLO unit. (update for new location of help)
• Create a new MyLO page based on the ICB template or an existing page.
• Add an image element to an HTML page in MyLO.

 

Rubrics

• Tool Review: Rubrics.
• Rubric Maker Tool: Copying from word to import to MyLO easily
• Use Rubric statistics to assist with assessment moderation. (Updated March 2019).
• Create a MyLO Rubric that will calculate a grade (Custom Points Rubric). (Updated March 2019)
• Attach a Rubric to a Grade Item so that you can mark with it.
• Attach a Rubric to an Assignment Submission Folder so that you can mark with it.
• Create a MyLO Rubric to provide feedback (without scores) (updated March 2018)
• Access a Rubric from a Grade Item.
• Mark with a Custom Points Rubric (generates a score). (Updated Aug 2020)
• Mark with a Text Only (feedback) Rubric.

 

Discussion Tool & Discussions

• Quarantine a Discussion post.
• Setting expectations and guidelines for Discussion activities. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Assessment criteria for Discussion activities.

 

Grades & Gradebook

• Tool Review: Grades. (updated 2018)
• Link a Grade Item with a Dropbox, Discussion or Quiz.  (Updated Dec 2018)
• Create a standalone Grade Item. (Updated 2018).
• Release internal grade to students.
• Publish final assessment marks to the Grades tool without releasing the marks and feedback to students. [update needed]
• Export Grades to an Excel Spreadsheet.
• Quickly grade un-submitted work as 0.
• Solutions to common grading scenarios.
• Set a default Grade Scheme for your unit.
• How will students see their Grades?
• Set up the default for how students see their Grades.
• Should I use a ‘weighted’ or ‘points’ grading system?
• Hiding or un-hiding Grade Items.
• Create a Category in the Grades tool. (Updated April 2018)
• Create a Grade Item in the Grades tool. (updated 2018)
• Export Grade Columns – Ready for Importing Later
• Grading Solution: Grade a single assessment task comprising one item.
• Grading Solution: Grade a single assessment task comprising two or more items.
• Grading Solution: Distance students and face-to-face students complete different items as part of the same assessment task.
• Grading Solution: Students submit the same assessment task at different times.
• Grading Solution: Students submit several items. Only a select number of these items will count towards the final grade for the assessment task.
• Grading Solution: Track student progress without generating a grade.
• How to set up your Grades tool.
• Allow students to see a Grade Item / Hide a grade item.
• Edit/Change how students see their grades.
• Do I need to create different Grade Items and Categories to represent different cohorts of students?
• Filter Grades or Assignment Submissions so you see only a particular group of students.
• Access a Rubric from a Grade Item.
• Change how you see the Grades tool. (check for updates)
• Grading with different MyLO tools. (check for updates/accuracy – terminology and new links)
• How to create a numerical grade item.
• Assign an Existing Grade to a Category

 

Quiz Tool & Quizzes

• Tool Review: MyLO Quiz. (check for update)
• Pre-Fill a Long Answer Quiz Question
• Use Quiz statistics to improve teaching and learning.
• Determine the status of a student’s Quiz attempt.
• Writing multiple choice questions: Useful resources.
• How to Check the Quizzes Event Log – Diagnosing a Problem Quiz Attempt.
• Publishing Quiz results so students can see them. (needs checking, should still mostly be okay)
• Help students locate Quiz results and feedback. (add in help file with updated graphics)
• Marking short and long answer questions in MyLO Quizzes.

 

Assignments Tool & Grademark Tool

• Tool Review: Assignments. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Hide Grade from Assignment – While Showing Feedback!
• Setting up an Assignment Submission Folder to collect student assignments. [needs update]
• Setting up a Group Assignment for submission of group work. (updated March 2018 – check again)
• Setting up Dropboxes for submission of group assessment tasks. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Assessing student discussion posts. (Updated: Rubric docs need updating Dec 2018)
• Downloading and printing Grademark feedback. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Turnitin and Grademark/Feedback Studio: What file types will work?
• Setting up Turnitin and Grademark/Feedback Studio.
• Hide (or reveal) an Assignment Submission Folder to students. (Updated Nov 2018)
• Filter Grades or Assignment Submissions so you see only a particular group of students.
• Mark Using Rubric from an Assignment Submission Folder submission. (updating needed for new tool)
• How to export and re-use Grademark comments.
• Use MyLO Mate to view assignment marks before they’re published

 

Student Progress & Attendance

• Encouraging tutorial attendance: A different approach.
• Assessing student participation in tutorials.
• Track participation in tutorials and workshops.
• Track whether students have accessed an Item in MyLO Content.
• Record Student Engagement Activity results in the Grades tool.
• Student Engagement Activity: Track completion of the AIM Test.
• Student Engagement Activity: Track completion of a Quiz.
• Determine which students have successfully completed the AIM Module Test.
• Student Engagement Activity: Possible Activities (College of Arts and Law).
• Track student participation in a Discussion Topic.
• Track student access to your MyLO unit.
• Track student participation in a Discussion Forum.

 

Echo360 (Lecture Recording)

• Upload Video & Get Link from Echo360
• Use Echo360 to convert/edit/compress video
• Link from a MyLO unit to a MyMedia Echo360 Section.
• Provide a link to an individual MyMedia (Echo360) recording. (updated 2018)
• Link to a Lecture Recording/Video.
• Add a re-usable permanent video link: Public Link.
• Echo360 Live Lectures: Activity Slides Participation Information
• Managing MyMedia Echo360 Recordings in your unit’s Section.
• Share a video from you library to a class area

 

Teaching & Learning Design

• Help students master disciplinary vocabulary.
• Use video to model question analysis.
• Apply for a Teaching Merit Certificate. [Update Needed]
• Excellence in Teaching interview series: Vitali Alexeev. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Flipping the classroom. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Writing effectively for online learning.
• Improve your productivity with PowerPoint.
• Use Web Conferencing to support group assessment tasks and presentations for off-campus students.
• Excellence in Teaching Interview Series: Gemma Lewis.
• Finding images and videos that you can use in your MyLO units.
• Are your students engaged in the lecture environment?
• Template to assist with the planning of module/teaching weeks.
• Is it essential or nice to know?
• Higher-order thinking activity designs for face-to-face or online delivery.
• Taking it online: In-class tests.
• Taking it online: Presentations.
• Taking it online: A comparison of online assessment tools.
• Writing essay questions.
• Creating content vs. using content.
• Making your materials accessible.
• Help students keep track of Announcements. (Updated Dec 2018)
• General principles to apply when responding to students online.
• Flipping the classroom: Examples from other universities.
• Getting distance students to submit presentations. (Updated Nov 2018 – needs update to reflect Office365 capability)

 

Resources for Students

• Student Resource: How to set up your MyLO News Notifications. (Updated Dec 2018)
• Student Resource: How to attach a document to a discussion post.
• Student Resource: Include images in discussion posts.
• Student Resource: How to configure Google Scholar to search for journal articles, then access the articles through the UTAS Library.
• Student Resource: How to locate Grades and feedback associated with a Dropbox submission. (updated March 2018)
• How to sign up for a tutorial/workshop.
• Upload an Assignment to MyLO.
• How to Access Your Quiz Results and Feedback.
• How to Access your Assignment Feedback.
• Using MyLO Notifications to keep track of Announcements in your units.
• How to reduce narrated powerpoint file size
• Save Powerpoint Presentation as Video
• Live Lectures – How to Access and Participate!

 

Checklists Tool & Checklists

• How to Create a Checklist. (first 2 steps need updating)
• Edit a Checklist from Content. (update broken links)
• Copying Checklists.

 

Groups Tool & Groups

• Tool Review: Groups.  (update needed)
• Rename Groups in MyLO.
• Manually add students to Groups.
• Create Self Enrolling Groups in MyLO.
• Generate a spreadsheet detailing the groups students belong to.

 

Web Conferencing (aka Online Rooms, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra)

• Tool Review: Web Conferencing (Blackboard Collaborate Ultra).
• Providing students with access to Blackboard Ultra recordings. (needs update)

 

Survey Tool & Surveys

• Setting up Surveys and associated Reports. (PDF could use an update to graphics and survey tool location)
• Generate a Survey Report. (ditto to instruction)

 

Other Tools

• Can I change a MyLO Survey to remove anonymity?
• Use MyLO Manager to manage your unit. [Update Needed]
• Record a video, upload it to YouTube and embed it in your MyLO content.
• Using the technology in the Harvard spaces.
• Using the technology in the lecture spaces. (needs update?)
• See your sent Email in MyLO
• Record Narrated Powerpoint
• Creating a VideoNote video in MyLO.

 

Posts to be sorted/archived/updated

Embed an image or YouTube video in MyLO News and other items. (everything ok except video refers to old MyMedia, needs an edit/remake)

Have you had trouble launching an Online Room in Google Chrome? (unsure if necessary or outdated, Kevin check?)

How do I know whether a student has viewed an online activity? [needs update to blog – completion summary & also for other activities]

Quiz and Survey question types in MyLO. (redo)

Tool Review: MyLO Discussions. (write for new instruction)

Mark and provide feedback using a MyLO Rubric.

Help students locate Assignment Submission Folder results and feedback. (same again, updated help)

Provide feedback on assessment tasks using Grademark. (this is old grademark, needs updating to Feedback Studio)

Compiling ePortfolio items into a Presentation for submission to a MyLO Dropbox. (might need archiving – refers to old ePortfolio)

Narrated lectures and short videos: How do I create them? (update for new consent form)

Students experiencing difficulty accessing Blackboard Collaborate Ultra via MyLO.

Looking for samples of Rubrics? (link no longer works, but perhaps other examples could be provided from our own units?)

Help students find their way when they visit your MyLO site.

Using the ICB with MyLO: Work-around. (still relevant?)

Export a Grademark Set (Classic View) for use in other units. (not sure if classic view still avail – maybe update to the new one)

Monitoring and reporting on student engagement. (updated #SEA screenshot, March 2018)

Change your Dialog Setting to increase ease of marking with a Rubric.

 

Control the size of a left/right aligned image when using the ICB template (advanced).

 

 

 

Old/Archived Posts (no longer visible to public hopefully)

How to Allow Students to See Grademark Feedback. (now out of date, process is controlled via assignment feedback release)

Accessing and sharing Online Room recordings. (out of date, old system, archived).

Are you using webrooms in 2015?: New access procedure for you and your students. (archived 2018, not needed now)

Decide which version of Blackboard Collaborate you will use, and create an Online Room. (Removed from Public list)

Prepare your students for a web conference using our Web Conferencing Instructions template. (archived, refers to the above)

Useful resource: eLearning Gallery from the National VET eLearning Strategy. (link no longer works, archived 2018)

Issues with Campus and Mode Groups in MyLO. (archived, no longer issue)

Assessing reflections in MyLO. (This refers to Old ePortfolio – Archived)

Student Resource: How to respond to a MyLO Form. (old eportfolio, Archived)

Student Resource: Submit a Form to a MyLO Dropbox. (likewise old eportfolio)

Preparing students for the new Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. (Archived)

Blackboard Collaborate (Online Rooms) upgrade to make meeting online easier. (irrelevent, archived)

Override the score generated by a MyLO Rubric. (hidden because I updated it, the save failed & i cbf doing it AGAIN)

Student Resource: Create a Chat Room for your group. (Archived, students don’t appear to have this tool avail now)