There are several reasons a faculty member might need to edit a gradebook. For example, you may have offered two versions of an activity and allowed students to choose the one they wished to complete. VSTAR Learn automatically calculates grades as if all students in a course took an activity. […]
Exporting the Gradebook for Editing in Excel
Step 1 Go to your course, and click the button in the upper right hand corner to turn editing on. Step 2 Access the special gradebook menu by navigating to the course administration menu on the right-hand side of the page and clicking on the “Grades” link under “Course Administration.” Step […]
Viewing Student Grades – The Grade Report
To see the current grades for a class, look at the Administration block on the right hand side. Under that block, click on Grades. You will see a user report that displays a list of all the graded activities in the online gradebook, including completed quizzes and assignments. Once a quiz or […]
Creating a Quiz
The quiz activity () enables a teacher to create quizzes comprising questions of various types, including multiple choice, matching, short-answer and numerical. The teacher can allow the quiz to be attempted multiple times, with the questions shuffled or randomly selected from the question bank. A time limit may be set. Each […]
Extending Deadlines for Student Assignments
There may be many assignments in a course that have a set due date. Occasionally, a need arises to extend a due date on an assignment for a particular student. To change a due date for a particular student on an assignment in VSTAR Learn, you will want to follow […]
Feedback: Adding Questions
The following video shows how to set up feedback questions. Below the video are step by step instructions for setting up questions. After submitting the general settings for a feedback, you will be presented with the following screen. When you select the “Edit questions” tab, you will be presented with […]
Feedback: Settings
Below the video are step by step instructions walking through the settings for a feedback activity To add a feedback activity (custom survey): After logging in to VSTAR home, click the Learn tab to display courses. Select the course you wish to add your feed back activity. With the editing […]
The “Feedback” Activity
The feedback activity module () enables a teacher to create a custom survey for collecting feedback from participants using a variety of question types including multiple choice, yes/no or text input. It is similar to the choice activity module with the primary difference being that you can have multiple questions. Feedback responses may […]
Setting Up a Choice Activity
There are step by step directions below the video. To add a choice item: After logging in to VSTAR home, click the Learn tab to display courses. Select the course you wish to add your choice activity. With the editing turned on, in the section you wish to add your […]
Add a File or a Folder
Files and folders are the simplest resources to add to a course. In fact, in most browsers, simply dragging a file from the desktop into your course with the editing turned on will add the file to a course. Adding files can provide a lot of information for our students, […]