EasyCampus Job Aid (webinar document)

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Managing eLearning with EasyCampusJob Aid

IntroductionThis Job Aid is a companion piece for a webinar entitled Managing eLearning with

EasyCampus presented by Team EZSkillz on Saturday October 23, 2010. However, it can

also be used as a standalone resource for getting started with Educadiums EasyCampusLearning Management System. EasyCampus is a hosted, browser-based service that

requires no special software. Trying to cover everything you need to know to get started

with EasyCampus is beyond the scope of this Job Aid. In order to help get you started, weve

included a section at the end of the document dedicated to additional resources such as

quick start guides, step by step video tutorials and terminology definitions specific to

EasyCampus.

To learn more about EasyCampus, check out the webinar below:https://connect.cuonline.edu/easycampus

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Instructional Applications of EasyCampus

Educadiums Easy Campus is a learning management system that allows you to create andmanage an entire online campus. Administrators and teachers can add educational contentin the form of courses which can then be administered to students. While course creationusing EasyCampus is simple and functional, its processing the data generated whilestudents navigate courses where the learning management part of EasyCampus reallyshines.

EasyCampus allows instructors to track and compare student performance without themenial and time-consuming work of manual grade tracking. Some assignment such asessays need to be personally graded by instructors, which EasyCampus allows, for but other

Do activities such as multiple choice tests are more effectively and efficiently graded bythe software. EasyCampus can instantly tell instructors how long Jake or Ashley took to getthrough each lesson and how they did on all the assignments and tests therein. By havingthis information available and organized, instructors can spend more time on lesson contentand less time manually grading tests and adding all those grades together to figure a finalcourse percentage.

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Introduction Applications of EasyCampus .........................................................

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How to Edit the Title of a Lesson .............................................

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How to Add a Text File to a Lesson .........................................................

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How to Embed a YouTube Video .........................................................

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How to Embed a Link .........................................................

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How to Add a Chat Block .........................................................

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How to Create a Certificate .........................................................

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How to View Student Progress (Gradebook) .............................................

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Frequently Asked Questions and AdditionalResources

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Grading is not the only use for the data EasyCampus makes available. Each course inEasyCampus is its own valuable formative evaluation tool. It gives instructors data by whichto tell if things like lesson timing need to be tweaked. It also helps evaluate course content.After administering an EasyCampus course once, an instructor has data immediatelyavailable on the effectiveness of each part of that course. For example, if everyone in theclass got test 3 question 7 wrong it is immediately apparent that either the question or thecontent the question refers to needs re-working. EasyCampus does the work of collectingand organizing this kind of data. Therefore, it is much easier for instructors to spot trendsand patterns that they might not have noticed after the drudgery of manually collecting andrecording the data.

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How to Edit the Title of a Lesson

1. Click Edit This Page at the top-right of the page

2. This is what you will see:

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3. Click on Edit icon above lesson title.

4. You are then taken to an Updating Resource page:

Another way to get to the Updating Resources screen is to click the Edit at thebottom of the block.

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5. Once in the Updating Resource page you can edit all aspects of the block.

6. Once satisfied with the changes, scroll down and either choose to Save and Returnto Course (which will keep you in editing mode) or Save and Display (which takesyou to the updated page as a student would see it.)


How to Add a Text File to a Lesson1. Click into a lesson, in this example, Week 2

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2. Click on Lesson Files, in this example Week 2 Files

3. This is what we see in Week 2 Files (where no files have been uploaded at thistime)

4. Click Edit Files in the top-right corner

5. This is the page that appears:

6. Click Upload a File in the bottom-right.

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7. This screen appears:

8. Find, select, and upload your file.

9. This screen will appear:

10. Return to the Lesson Home Page (Week 2 in this example) to confirm the file hasbeen uploaded.


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How to Embed a YouTube Video

1. Obtain the embedded code for the YouTube video you want to embed (theEasyCampus training video in this example).

2. Click to obtain the code that youll be inserting into your EasyCampuslesson.

3. Select Edit in the block you want the video to appear (Week 3 home page in thisexample.

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4. Make sure you are in Edit mode.

5. Your screen should look likethis:

6. Enter the Editing Resource page by clicking on the Edit icon for whichever blockyou are editing (Lesson Three Title in this example).

7. Your screen should now look like this:

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8. Determine where youd like to embed the video and click the Toggle HTML Sourceicon, which looks like this:

9. Your selection will now look like this:

10. Paste in the code you obtained from YouTube:

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11. Click either Save and Return to Course or Save and Display to exit the resourcesscreen.

12. You can see the Lesson Home Page has been modified and the YouTube video hasbeen embedded into the block.


How to Embed a Link

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1. This procedure is identical to embedding a YouTube video, with one exception, youpaste in the link rather than the video code.

2. In this example, well embed a link in the Week 2 home page.

3. Enter Edit mode for the block you wish to add the link.

4. Highlight or type in the text you want to link (Click here for dictionary in thisexample).

5. Click on the Insert Web Link icon, which looks like this:

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6. This is what appears:

7. Type in the URL you wish to link and click OK

8. This is what you should see. Notice the linked text has changed color.

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9. Click Save and Return to Course or Save and Display to complete the job.

10. Heres what the Lesson Home Page now looks like. Notice the Click here fordictionary link that has now been added. Clicking on the link will take you towww.dictionary.com.


How to Add a Chat Block1. Make sure you are in Edit mode wherever you want to add the chat block (Week 3

in this example).

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2. This is what your screen should look like. Notice the Add Existing Activitydropdown menu that appears when you are in edit mode.

3. Choose Chat from the dropdown menu.

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4. Notice the Chat Block was added beneath the Files Block.

5. Clicking on Chat will allow you to enter the chat.


How to Create a Certificate

1. Make sure you are in an Edit Mode of a lesson (Week 3 in this example).

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6. The certificate you created will no be displayed in the Add an Activity dropdownmenu in the lesson home page (when viewing in Edit mode).


How to View Student Progress (Gradebook)

1. Click on Gradebook.

2. This is what appears:

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3. Click on Grades

4. A list of graded items will appear.

5. Choose all users from the dropdown menu in the top-right.

6. A gradebook for all users will appear.

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7. Once in this page you may click on the various Grade items for more details and/orto update grades and give additional feedback.


Frequently Asked Questions and AdditionalResources

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Q: How much is EasyCampus?

A: EasyCampus Express is free for up to 25 users

Find pricing information and package comparisons at

http://www.educadium.com/component/taxonomy/tag/lms.html

Q:What kinds of training resources are available for EasyCampus?

A: EasyCampus quick start guides and step-by-step tutorials

http://www.educadium.com/EasyCampusSupport/tutorials/step-guides.html

Q: What other resources are available?

A: EasyCampus video quick start guide library

http://www.educadium.com/quickstart.html

http://www.educadium.com/tutorials/videos.html

For a more detailed list of commonly asked questions, refer to Educadiumscomprehensive FAQ site:http://www.educadium.com/aboutus/faq.html

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