eclass Basic Training Workshop

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1 eclass Basic Training Workshop The eclass 4.0 training is designed for the first-time users. It prepares the users to have adequate skills for creating online materials and communicating with their students. In this training session, you will be asked to try out a number of functions and discuss with other participants using eclass 4.0 (Classroom), and this online classroom had separated into 3 main functions: econtent, Assessment, Communication. Please note that this is a brief training note for your reference. If you would like to have more information, please kindly go to your classroom and simply click on the to access our Online Help. Using eclass for Online Teaching Go to elearning > eclass, or simply click on the classroom show on the right of Home econtent When you are preparing for the lesson, you will build up your own notes, PowerPoint and find many internet resources, but there is less way to coordinate them altogether and present it to student even not in class. econtent is a teaching content display and management function, which can also integrate with the assessment and forum function for a complete teaching and learning experience. You can construct your teaching materials for your lesson and public to your student for revision and extend learning. Now, we support multi-content display in the same page of econtent! 1

2 How to add a page in econtent 1. Go to econtent > New 2. Fill-in TITLE 3. In, press, then select your making method : - Text & Graphis: teacher can type their content, copy and paste text from other source or insect picture there, after fill-in the necessary content, press ADD - Web Video: teacher can paste the EMBED lauguage there to link up a Web Video, then press ADD - URL: paste a useful URL there, then press ADD - File: upload a file for display, such as Word, Powerpoint, Flash, PDF; click Attach Files > a popup window show and click > browse and upload the file > then select the file by choosing the radio button on your right hand side and click Attach, then press ADD 4. Repeat step 2 if you would like to add more related content in the same page 5. Choose to Public / Private your econtent to student 6. Click SUBMIT when you finish Manage page in econtent 1. Click, you may Public or Private all contents at once 2. You may also re-arrange the index by using Move / Swap. For more details and information, please kindly use our ONLINE HELP by clicking 2

3 Assessment Assessment has combined the previous functions of simple Assignment, Project, Exercise and Quiz into 1. It provides a more flexible and compatible way for designing different assessment to student. Besides the combination, there are 2 new key features: - the selection of Single Phase / Multiple Phases before you start work-on your assessment: Choose this if all the tasks need to be hand-in at the same deadline Choose this if the same assessment needs to be hand-in phase by phase; or a related work that have to assess at various deadline, such as Project - the multi-task concept for a specific assessment. For example, a Presentation - student need to hand-in his/her written speech as well as a sound-recording file of the verbal presentation 3

4 Creating an Assessment 1. Go to Assessment > New 2. Fill in the Assessment NAME, TYPE, and necessary information. 3. In, click Single Phase or Multiple Phases > then type in the Start Date, End Date > ADD 4. Click > then select the task assessment method: - File Upload: request student to submit file; fill-in a task name, press ADD - Answer Sheet#: attach a worksheet softcopy, and create a Answer sheet part for student to submit answer - Online Question Paper#: same as the previous Exercise or Quiz/Exam functions, need to prepare questions in the Question Bank*(please see p.7 Create Question Bank) before - No Submission: appropriate for the task which cannot hand-in on the platform, such as Model, face to face presentation; fill-in a task name, press ADD 5. After finish setup the task, mark and reference file, model answer and Public/Private to student, click SUBMIT #making of Answer Sheet - Choose + Answer Sheet - Fill-in task Name, attach your worksheet or any file - Click Confirm & Create Answer Sheet - Popup window show for you to create an Answer Sheet, use the Section Header to create each answer section - fill-in the answer and click Submit Remarks:You can provide multiple answers to fill in the blank question, enter a symbol by pressing Shift + \ to separate each answer. Edit Answer Sheet Move session upward Move session downward Delete Change description Change the number of questions #making of Online Question Paper [you must build-up your Question Bank first] - Choose + Online Question Paper - Fill-in task Name, time limit etc - Click Confirm & Create Question Paper - A popup window show - To add questions, click - Select the questions for your paper and click select; do the different types of question one at a time. - Close the window when you finish - Adjust the marks for each question and click Save. For more information about design your own Assessment, please go to 4

5 Marking an Assessment 1. To mark an assignment, click on the Number of. 2. You will see who, when and what is there for that particular assignment. - For Answer Sheet or Online Question Paper assessment: checked the boxes, click - For other assessment method: click on the Submitted File > you will see the popup window, fill in the details at the top of the marking panel > Click Mark when you ve finished. Communication You can communicate with students using a few means: Create a Announcement/Poll/Survey Announcement - notice students of latest news about your course. Poll - collect students' opinions on simple issues. Survey - learn how student feel about the course. Go to Home > Announcement/Poll/Survey >, fill in the information and click Submit. 5

6 Creat a Forum Create forum around course related themes and invite students to join. You can link them to econtent pages so that students can discuss about their content. Go to Forum > New, fill-in the information and click Submit. Resources Manage Resources File Go to Resources > eclass Files There are 3 types of file cabinet in Classroom: Personal cabinet system will auto-save Teacher attachment from ecentent, Assessment etc to the related cabinet Student cabinet your students can view or edit files here Teacher cabinet all teachers can copy, move, edit or delete files here, can be serve as a Online Share Drive Cabinet Corresponding Classroom Function ebook Resources > Glossary Assessment > Assignment, Project, Survey Assignment (the upload files from student handed-in assignment) Resources > Question Bank Resources > File (provide resource for student download) Resources > File (for student download and upload files) Resources > File (for group member download and upload files) Resources > File (can be access by all teachers) 6

7 Creating Question Bank Before creating Online Question Paper, questions have to be created in Question Bank. You can open some questions for student to revise in Assessment > Self-Test. 1. Go to Resources > Question Bank 2. Click New. 3. Add/select a question category and specify question difficulties. 4. Compose questions and answers using rich text editor. File attachments are supported. 5. Optionally support your question with additional information (hint, explanation, reference). Also, you can open the question access right by ticked 6. Click SUBMIT to finish. 7. Use the IMPORT function if your want to add a large amount of questions. Import can be done via text, Microsoft Word, or zip files. Just now you understand the concept and details of the new functions of eclass. If you have any further questions about eclass after the upgrade, you may click on the Question Mark Icon at eclass Intranet to consult our Customer Support website eclass Community. You are also welcome to fill in the enquiry form to contact our Customer Support via . Thank you. 7