CSC 350 Learning Management Systems COMSATS Institute of

CSC 350: Learning Management Systems COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (Virtual Campus)

Lecture # 27 Slate: Worksite Tools (Sakai Learning & Teaching Environment) 2

Review of the Previous Lecture • • • Account. . Review Assignments…Review Home Syllabus Announcement Resources Resubmitting a returned assignment Checking a grade on an assignments Gradebook 3

Topics of Discussion • The Topics Follow: 4

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Assignments…Review 6

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Gradebook • After grading the assignment, grades are posted in SLATE. • Select the appropriate worksite (course name) to check grades • Select Gradebook within the worksite options. • 8

Gradebook… 9

DROP BOX • • The Drop Box is used to share documents within a private folder for each student. Drop Box works like Resources to upload many types of files and multiple files at a time. • Nested folders (folders within folders) are also built. Adding a new folder Drop Box has one folder in it containing student name. Subfolder can be added: • By choosing Create Folders from the Add menu, . • Name this folder in the box. • Add details for this new item. • Additional folders can also be done by clicking Add Another Folder. Click the red X to delete a file or folder. • Click Create Folders Now. • Adding a new Drop Box item • Whenever we add a new Drop Box item, there is option of sending an email notification. • Check Send an email notification to the student/teacher. 10

File upload Uploading from your computer: • Select Upload Files. • Browse, a file to upload, and then click Open. . • Next to "Display Name", type a title for the item. • You may also Add details for this item, add copyright information, and add detailed descriptors by clicking Optional properties • You can add more files, Add Another File. • Many files at once (upto 200 MB) can be uploaded. • Click Upload Files Now to finish. 11

URL: Uniform Resource Locator To specify a URL to a web site as the Drop Box item: • select Add Web Links (URLs). • For each item, type the URL in the box. (Omit http: // prefix. ) • Add a title for your URL link item. • If you don't add a title, the URL will be used as the title of the item. • Add details for this item, add copyright information, and add detailed descriptors by clicking Optional properties • Add another URL, (click Add Another Web Link). • red X next to it. • Click Add Web Links Now to finish. 12

HTML To create HTML document: • Locate where you want to add the HTML page • select Create HTML Page. • Enter the content of your page and click Continue. • Enter a title, description in the appropriate text areas. • Choose your page's copyright status, add copyright information, and choose whether or not to display a copyright alert. • Add detailed descriptors, click Optional properties. • Click Finish to add your HTML page to Drop Box. 13

Text document To create and display a plain text document: • From the Add menu, select Create Text Document. • Type the content of your text document and click Continue. • Enter a title and description in the appropriate text areas. • Choose copyright status, add copyright information, and choose whether or not to display a copyright alert. • click Optional properties to add descriptions. • Click Finish to add your text document to Drop Box. 14

Editing a Drop Box item • To edit the name, description, or copyright status, choose Actions, and then click Edit Details. • Make your changes, and Update to save them. • To update the content of most items, choose Actions, and then click Edit Content. • Make your changes, and then click Continue. • For a file, you will have to make the changes and save them on your computer, and then upload a new version. • From the Actions menu, select Upload New Version. 15

Deleting a Drop Box item To delete an item from Drop Box: • Choose Actions, and then click Remove. • Mark their corresponding checkboxes, and then, above the list of items, click Remove. • To confirm that you want to remove the item(s) listed, click Remove. • Or, to cancel, click Cancel. Note: You can't delete a folder that contains an item. You must remove (i. e. , move or delete) its contents first before deleting a folder. 16

Optional properties Click Optional properties. You can add information to the following fields: • Alternate Title • Creator • Publisher • Subject and Keywords • Date Created • Date Issued • Abstract • Contributor • Audience Education Level 17

Moving or coping dropbox item to another folder To move or copy item(s) from one Drop Box folder to another: • In the menubar of the relevant site, click Drop Box. • Click the black triangles to the left of "Title" to expand all the folders in the Drop Box, or click the folder icon to the left of the name of the folder you wish to expand. (If a folder contains items not currently displayed, a plus sign will appear on the folder icon. ) • Check the box next to the item(s), and click Move or Copy. • Click the "Paste copied items“ where you want to paste the item(s), or from the Actions menu, choose Paste copied items. 18

CHAT ROOM Chat Room tool can be used for real-time, unstructured conversations among site participants who are signed on to the site at the same time. Reading Chat Room messages Messages can be read in the Chat Room, as follows: • Click Chat Room. • To see who is presently in the Chat Room, look under "Users in Chat" on the right side of the screen. • Messages appear in chronological order, • Messages identify the sender. • To hide or display the date or time messages were posted, select the appropriate option from the "View" drop-down list …Time Only. . Date and Time, … Date Only, or Neither Date or Time. • To limit the list to messages from only the past three days, click Past 3 Days. To return to a view listing all messages, click All Messages. 19

Posting Chat Room messages Steps: • Text box …type the message …. click Add message. • None can see your message until you click Add message, only teacher or a participant can read and delete your message with special permission. • To discard a message that you haven't sent yet, click Clear. 20

Deleting Chat Room messages • You can only delete a Chat Room message with the permission of administrator to students. • To delete a message, click the trash icon, click Delete. • If you don't find a trash can icon, you don't have permission to delete the message. 21

SECTION INFO • The tool is designed to help a teacher manage a course around lectures, labs, discussions, studio work, recitations, or any combination thereof. • The Section Info tool is designed to work with other tools, such as Announcements, Gradebook, and Tests & Quizz 22

FORUMS • • Site participants New thread Threaded discussion Instructor can choose whether or not to allow site participants to post their own forums topics. • Forums are the top level in gray bars. • Topics appear under the categories, and replies appear grouped with the appropriate topic. 23

FORUMS: Posting a new message • From the Forums tool, click the title of the topic for which you'd like to post a message • Click Post New Thread…Compose Forum Message screen opens • Next to Title, type the subject (title) of the message • Under Message, use the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor to compose your message • Copy/Paste from Word document can be done. • Under Attachments, you can attach a file from computer or from Resources, or specify…. URL for a file on the web • Click Post Message or click Cancel. 24

FORUMS: Posting a Response to a Message or Topic • • • Click the Title of the desired topic Click the subject of the desired message Click Reply to Thread or Reply Title, … reply a title Under Message, use the WYSIWYG editor to compose your reply. Click Insert Original Message (located above the WYSIWYG editor). Copy/Paste, Add Attachment for a file from your computer or Resources, or add a URL Click Post Message or Click Cancel. 25

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