How to Guide_LMS Practicum

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Version 1.2 March 2014

How to use the LMS to record evidence of your TeachingPracticum

Table of Contents

How to use the LMS to record evidence of your Teaching Practicum .............. 1

1. Introduction ................................................................................................................. 2

2. Login ................................................................................................................................ 2

3. Opening your My Workspace in the LMS ............................................................ 3

4. Adding items to your My Workspace ................................................................... 4

5. How to add a Blog ....................................................................................................... 4

6. Adding content to your Blog Page (Posting) ..................................................... 8

a. Preview your blog .................................................................................................... 15

b. Publishing your Blog page .................................................................................... 16

c. Sharing your Blog with your Mentor using the Share Tab ........................ 16

7. Uploading assignments and files to your workspace. ................................. 20

a. Sharing your files and other workspace content .......................................... 22

8. Organising your files with folders ..................................................................... 23

9. Mentors ....................................................................................................................... 25


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1.IntroductionFor your practicum work you will use the My Workspacewithin the Kirkby

International College LMS.

Here you can store files, upload images and videos and keep a practicum diary

(Blog) which you share with your Mentors. This means that wherever you have

the internet and access to the LMS, you will always be able to use your files and

add to your workspace.

This how to guide takes you through all the steps necessary to use the My

Workspace and will be a ready reference guide for all the activities you can do

within the LMS.

You will be given the name of your Mentor in your session at the college. Yourwork should always be shared with your Mentor, Puan Sabariah (PPG

Coordinator), Mr Saddasseevan (Practicum Coordinator).

2.LoginURL - http://50.56.83.109/collegelms

Use your assigned username and password.


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3.Opening your My Workspace in the LMSa. Click on Personal Desktop

b. Click on the My Workspace link

c. The My Workspace Screen opens

To add content to the My Workspace Screen, click on theAdd New Item+


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4.Adding items to your My Workspacea. Click on Add New Item +

A menu will open showing you some tools for adding to your workspace.

You can:

create a blog to share your experiences. This can act as a diary. add a folder to manage upload files upload files. These can be images, videos, documents, spreadsheets,

presentations.

add weblinks.

5.How to add a BlogWhat is a Blog? The term Blog literally refers to a Web Log. It is the web

equivalent of a diary tool. You can make quick entries of content and they will

be automatically listed in order of date and by month. Our Blog tool allows

you to write text and add images, add web links, add video and make

comments. Your mentor will use the comments section to give you feedback

on your practicum experience. For your practicum you will share your blogwith your Mentor and the PPG and Practicum coordinator. You can share the

content of your workspace with fellow students if you wish. People you share

your content with, will not be able to delete or edit it. They can just view it or

download it, if it is file.

The next steps will take you through creating a Blog for your Practicum folio.


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a. Click on the Blog link under Add New Items +

Your will create a Blog siteand within your blog you

can create many 'pages' which are called Posts.

Add a title for your Blog site. Ask your tutor/mentor for your practicumfor advice on what to call your blogs in the forum.

*The forum is a good place to ask questions about setting up yourworkspace.

Once you have filled in the details for your blog, click on Create Blog The blog is now created and in our example it is called,

"Example

My Practicum Diary"


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b. Managing your Blog

Lets take a moment to look at the tabs, which allow you to manage your Blog.

You can see:

a. Content tabwhere you add your postings and create the content foryour posting pages.

b. Info tabWhere you can create a book mark link to your blog, add searchterms (tags). These help users you share with to search for content in

your blog. List the details of when the blog was created by and by whom.

c. SettingsHere you can see and edit your blog title and descriptionUnder Settings, you mustenable Public Comments.

This means that members who have access to your blog can addcomments about on your content pages.

This is how your mentors will give you feedback on your work.

You should make sure this is enabled with a tick.

If you have uploaded a profile picture, your picture will be displayed in

your blog.

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Tick to allow Public Comments Your mentor will use this to giveyou feedback!

Click the Savebutton when you are happy with the settings. You can editthe settings at any time by clicking on the settings tab.

Get creative:

You can customise your blog as much as you want to. You can create yourown banner image. You can ask for help with this through the forum.

You can set the background colours for your pages and the font colour ofyour blog.


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c. Creating your first postTo add a posting, (your blog entry) click on the Content tab and type into the title

box.

Ask your mentors to help with your pages and content. You can post questions inthe forum.

Click on the Content tab and type in the title of your first Posting.

Type in the name of your article or page. In this example we will type inLesson Planning.

ClickAdd Postingto create your page.

6.Adding content to your Blog Page (Posting)When you click onAdd Postingyour new page opens in the edit screen.

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d. Insert Text Click on the content bar Click on Insert Text

The text edit screen opens

Type in your text and use the edit tools to create text effects. When you have finished typing in your text, click on Save and Return


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Note : click on Save and Return Regularly to make sure you do not lose

your work.

e. Formatting ToolsTool Text effectsStandard This gives options for formatting

large blocks of text for. Try out the

different options

str This makes text bold

emp This makes text italics

imp This underlines text

A This changes the colour of the text

xln This creates a weblink.

If you want to link text to a website

click hightlight the text click xln and

type in the web address of the

website you want to link to.

Example:

This is my page about lesson planning. I can write text inthis area and edit it later. When I have finished writing,click Save and Return or Save. You can use the charactertools to create effects in your text. str makes text bold,emp makes text italic, imp underlines text. You can usethe A to highlight text. xln allows you to create links towebsites in text. [xln

url="http://www.wikipedia.com"]Highlight the text andclick on xln[/xln] Type in your web address next to thehttp:// as show in the example.

Note: The LMS times out every 20 minutes forsecurity. Remember to click save and returnregularly when you are writing your pages.


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f. Insert Image/MediaYou can use this link to add images.

Click the content bar again to add more content.

This time we will add an image. Click on Insert Image/Media

You can use the same link and process to add a video.


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Click on Choose file and browse for an image. You can add a title for your image. If you do not add a title, the image will be called its file name.


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g. Changing the size of the imageYou can set the size of the image using this feature:

Click on Custom Size Tick the "constrain proportions" box to keep the image the correct shape

when you are changing its size.

Type in the value for the size, here it is 200 /160 (pixels) Try different sizes to see how it works. You can always edit the image and

change the size.

h. Check the layout of your page Click on the Page tab to see the layout of your page. If you want to insert video into your page, use the same Insert

Image/Media link as we did to upload the image but upload a video file

instead. It can be a *.avi, *.flv or *.mpg, *.mov.

Try to keep your file sizes as small as possible.


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a. Preview your blog

To preview your blog and see what your mentor's will see:-

Click on Preview tab.You can see the full blog page as your Mentor or anyone that you have shared

with will see it. In our example we changed the background colour to green

under the settings tab earlier on in this tutorial.

Click Backin the top left hand corner of the screen to return to your BlogEdit page.


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b.Publishing your Blog pageSo far everything we have done to our page is in Draft. Our page is still

surrounded in a red box and we can see the word (Draft)in the posting list on

the right hand side of the screen. We have previewed our page to check that it

look correct and now we can Publishthe page.

Make sure that you are in the Edittab, and your page looks the same as the

illustration below.

Click onActionsand select Publish Posting. Your page content will nowbe visible to those that you have shared your blog with and the red box

around our page should be gone.

c. Sharing your Blog with your Mentor using theShare Tab

This is a very important functionand allows you to share your blog with

your mentor.

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After clicking on the Sharelink this screen will open.

In the drop down box on the left you will see two options:

Single UserorAll registered users.

You MUSTclick on the Single Userso that you can pick your mentor.

Click theADDbuttonNote: If you click All registered Users thenALLthe users of the LMS in Kirkby

International College will be able to read your blog.

If you add the wrong user, you can always remove them. You will be shown this

later on in this document.

The next step, is that you have to find your mentor to share your blog with.

Use the next screen to search for your mentor.


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1. Type in your mentors login ID or name into the Search Forbox2. Tick the box for search in system.3. Click on the SearchbuttonNote: You will be given your mentor's name by the PPG coordinator/

Practicum Coordinator.

After you click on the Search button your mentor's name will appear below the

search area. In this example we have searched for the name Ismail.


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Tick the login IDof your mentor, as shown in the example, and click theShare with usersbutton at the bottom of the page.

Your mentor is now shown in the list and they will be able to see yourwork and comment on it.

Note: You can always remove some from the list if you add them by mistake toyour share list. Click the Removelink to take someone off your share list.


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The File Upload screen opensYou can now browse for a file or multiple files uploaded as a zip.In this example we are uploading a single file for an assignment.

Click Browse Search for a file on your computer Click UploadFile.

The file is now uploaded to your workspace. It is only available and visible to

you. This means you can use your personal workspace to store files and access

them anywhere.

It works like a bit like DropBox. Use your workspace to store your work files privately.

When you are ready to share a file with your Mentor, click onActionsand select

Share.


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a.Sharing your files and other workspace content You need to share work with your mentors.

For your practicum this is the only way that you should hand in work toyour mentors.

All other methods will not be accepted.

Choose Single Userand search for your mentors nameor login idYou will be provided with your Mentor's name

Type in the name or login name of your mentor into the search box and click on

search


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Click on Share with users They now have access to your work file.

Please make sure that you also add the following staff:-

Staff Name Login ID (search term)

Puan Sabariah PPG Coordinator sabariah

Sadasseevan Lecthumany Practicum

Coordinator

sadasseevan

8.Organising your files with foldersYou can use folders to organize your files. You add them in the same way.

Click onAdd New Folder


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The Folder creation screen opens.

Type in a name for your folder Here it is "My Files" Type in a description so that you know what is kept here. This is good file

management.

Click on Create Folder

Once you have created a folder you can move files into it by clickingActionsnext

to the file and select Move.

You can then choose where the file should be moved.

You will see a selection of folders in your workspace that you can move your file

to.


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Select the folder and click on paste to move the file.Note: You can create folders before you upload files. Create the folder, click

on it to open the folder and then use the Action link to upload files to the

folder directly.

9.MentorsTo view files and blogs of your teachers:-

Click on Personal Desktopand My Workspace. Click on the tab, Resources of other users.

Select the user from the drop down box and click ok. All your students/mentees

will be listed in the drop down box if they have shared their work with you.


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Any files, blogs and weblinks will be available to you if they have beenshared.

For example:-

Clicking on the blog link shows the users blog. Click on the page title for example Lesson Planning.You can click on the title in the main page or on the title link in the Posting

box on the right hand side of the screen.


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Scroll down to the bottom of the page and add in your comments.Use this area to give feedback to your Mentees on their progress and

page content.

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