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Getting Started
Add availability and due dates in Content
Access Release Conditions
Best practices for entering grades
Best practices for using Discussions
Best practices for creating release conditions
Change personal settings
Content
Create a new module
Fix broken links in Content
Set up a quicklink to a discussion forum or topic in Content
Add availability and due dates in Content
Why can't learners see the Content I posted?
Why are YouTube videos and other embedded media using Insert Stuff not working/loading?
Discussions
Set availability and due dates for an assignment submission folder
Create a discussion thread
Lock a discussion forum or topic
About locking discussion forums and topics
About hidden discussion forums and topics
About moderated discussion topics
Create an equation
Set up a quicklink to a discussion forum or topic in Content
Hide a discussion forum or topic
Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
Assignments
Set availability and due dates for an assignment submission folder
Set release conditions for an assignment submission folder
About assessing assignment submissions
Add feedback and evaluations to assignment submissions
Email
Email learners in iLearn Learning Environment
Populating the To, CC, and BCC fields of an email using the Address Book
Unfilter your email inbox
Rubrics
Types of rubrics
Create a rubric for a course
Edit a rubric
Attach a rubric to a discussion topic
Attach a rubric to an Assignments folder
Attach a rubric to a quiz
Associate rubrics with Competencies and iLearn ePortfolio items
Quizzes
Export quiz grades to grade book
Reset quiz attempts for learners
Create a quiz report
Grade all user responses without grading individual attempts
Recalculate a quiz after adding more correct answers
Preview a quiz
Create a random set of questions for a quiz from the Question Library
Create a quiz with an auto submission
Bonus Marks
Create bonus marks
Assign bonus marks to a discussion topic
Assign bonus marks to an Assignments folder
Assign bonus marks to a quiz
Grades
Grading concepts
Create grade categories and items
Set the grading system for a course
Weighted, points, and formula grading systems
Weighted grading system
Points grading system
Cannot see the formula grading system
Exclude a grade category or item from the final grade calculation
Grades return to null after leaving feedback in the Assignments folder
Re-order grade categories and items
Hide grade categories and grade items
Set date restrictions for grade categories and items
Attach a discussion topic to a grade item
Attach an Assignments folder to a grade item
Attach a quiz to a grade item
Delete a grade item associated with a tool
Import grades
File format for importing grades
Export grades
Final Grades
Adjust final grades for all students
Release final grades
Release final grades automatically
iLearn Tools
Administering Courses
Book Management
Understanding book management in iLearn Learning Environment
Add a book
Edit a book
Course Administration
Course Administration basics
About course administration
About course colors
About course locale
Change the status of a tool
Activate a course offering
Course Admin offering information
Rename a tool
Search for courses
Managing course components
About copying course components between org units
Special considerations when copying course components
Copy course components
About importing course components from a file
Import course components
Course Import Compatibility
Troubleshooting: Course Conversion
About exporting course components
Export course components
What course components can be exported?
IMS Common Cartridge
About IMS Common Cartridge
About importing IMS Common Cartridge packages
How are protected IMS Common Cartridge resources handled?
IMS Common Cartridge versions
Mobile Branding Administration
About Mobile Brand Administration
Update mobile branding
Mobile branding reference sheet
LTI
What is LTI?
Add third-party content from the Content tool
Add third-party content from Insert Stuff
Add third-party content from Insert Quicklink
Add third-party content from Course Import
Add third-party content from Import/Export/Copy Components
Metadata
Metadata basics
What is metadata?
Metadata and the Content tool
Metadata and the iLearn Learning Repository tool
Metadata interfaces
Best practices for using metadata
Troubleshooting metadata conflicts
Using metadata views
Metadata views
Create a metadata view
Import a metadata view
Export a metadata view
Using metadata languages
Set initial metadata language
Add a metadata language
Using metadata templates
Metadata template types
Create a metadata template
Import a metadata template
Export a metadata template
Using metadata taxon schemas
What is a taxon schema?
Taxon schema types
Define your taxon schema in an XML file
Import your taxon schema from an XML file
Intelligent Agents
Intelligent agents basics
What is the Intelligent Agents tool?
Considerations for setting up agents
Best practices for creating and using agents
Replace strings for agents
Using agents
Create an agent
Edit an agent
Copy an agent
Delete an agent
Update Intelligent Agents Settings
Run an agent manually
Perform a practice run
Change the status of an agent
View the History of an agent
Registration
About Self Registration
Create new iLearn Learning Environment users using the Self Registration tool
Enroll existing iLearn Learning Environment users using the Self Registration tool
Enable self registration in a course offering
Unenroll users from a course offering using the Self Registration tool
Import users using the Self Registration tool
Run Self Registration reports
Create registration forms
Associate a registration form with a course
Set restrictions on self registration
Approve self registrations
Delete or reject self registrations
Troubleshooting self registrations
Replace Strings
Replace Strings
SCORM
About SCORM
Add a SCORM package to the Content tool
Move your imported SCORM content to a different module
Adjust the display size of your SCORM object
Remove a grade item from a SCORM object after the package is imported
Publish a SCORM package as a SWF or HTML5 file with automatic grade creation
Publish a SCORM package as a SWF or HTML5 file with manual grade creation
Troubleshooting
My SCORM objects are too small or too large in the Content tool
The top of my SCORM objects are being cropped in the Content tool
When I view my SCORM package in the Content tool, I receive a notification that an error occurred initializing communications with the LMS
An error appears when I close the window that opened to play my SCORM package
An "LMSSetValueError:cmi.core.lesson_status to [unknown] Incorrect Data Type" error appears when I open my SCORM Project
Course Planning
Attendance
What are the basics of Attendance?
How attendance is calculated
Track attendance
Set your Cause for Concern percentage
Delete attendance sessions, registers, or schemes
Calendar
Calendar interface overview
Create course events in Calendar
Change Calendar settings
Create multiple instances of an event
Change visibility for events
Offset dates for events
Checklist
How do checklists organize information?
Create a checklist
Set release conditions for a checklist
Manage Dates
About Manage Dates
Offset dates in Manage Dates
Manage Files
What are the basics of Manage Files?
Apply content permissions on folders in Manage Files
Create a Content topic in Manage Files
Course Design
Course Builder
Course Builder Basics
About Course Builder
Course Builder terminology
Understanding nodes and the course tree
Course Builder interface overview
What is the relationship between Course Builder and Content?
Creating a course structure
Add a module or placeholder
Add a new object
Add an existing object
Add a new evaluation object
Add an existing evaluation object
Repair broken objects
Homepages and Widgets
How homepages and widgets are shared
About creating a course homepage
Create a widget-based homepage
Create a tool-based homepage
Create a homepage with an external URL
List of system widgets
Create a custom widget
Are there restrictions on sharing custom widgets?
Change how a widget appears
Change a homepage layout
Change personal settings
Personal Dashboard
Understanding the Personal Dashboard homepage and Course Setup Checklist
Personal Dashboard homepage overview
Course Setup Checklist overview
Reset the welcome tour
Set course visibility
Change your default homepage
Re-enable the Personal Dashboard homepage
Why can't I view a tour of a tool when I click a link in Course Setup Checklist?
Why can't I access more tools from the Course Setup Checklist?
Instructional Design Wizard
What are the basics of Instructional Design Wizard and Learning Activity Library?
Navigation and Themes
About the navbar
Create a navbar
Style navbar links
Make your navbar accessible
Delete a navbar
Change a course navbar
Create custom link groups
About themes
Create a theme
Delete a theme
Themes layout style panels
Visual Course List Widget
About Course List widget
Add the Visual Course List widget to your course home page
Add a graphic to a course
Creating Course Content
Content
Building a course
Content tool overview for instructors
About course content organization
About accessible courses and accessible course content
What kinds of files can I use for course content?
Create a new module
Create a new topic
Add an existing course object to Content
Add subtitles to video topics
About SRT files
Managing course content using drag and drop
Set up a quicklink to a discussion forum or topic in Content
Set a content topic or module's status
Styling content topics consistently
Enable HTML templates in Content
Apply an HTML template to a new document in Content
Add a learning objective to a content topic
Create a SCORM object's grade item
Remove SCORM simple sequencing
Why are YouTube videos and other embedded media using Insert Stuff not working/loading?
Why can't learners see the Content I posted?
Delivering a course
Notify learners about updated course content
Add availability and due dates in Content
Evaluate Assignments submissions from Content
Monitoring a course
Track activity and user progress on SCORM objects
What does iLearn Learning Environment report on for SCORM objects?
What does iLearn Learning Environment report on for users of SCORM objects?
About tracking content completion and participation
Manage completion tracking settings for a topic
Check completion tracking for a content topic
Check course content statistics
Check course content feedback
Change content display settings
View user progress in Content
HTML Editor
What are the basics of HTML Editor?
About inserting equations in the HTML Editor
About the Graphical Equation Editor
Tabs in the Graphical Equation Editor
Create an equation
Edit an equation
Links
About links
Create a link
Create a link category
Delete links and link categories
Fix broken links in Content
Release Conditions
Access Release Conditions
Tools that support release conditions
How do release conditions work?
Best practices for creating release conditions
Release condition types
Collaboration and Communication
Blog
Create a blog
Write a blog entry
View your own blog
Edit blog entries
Add blog comments
Delete blog comments
Find and follow other users' blogs
Chat
Change your chat settings
Manage chat history
Personal and general chats
Create a general chat
Create a personal chat
Add or remove users from a chat
Classlist
Accessing the Classlist tool
Enrolling a Teaching Assistant or Mentor
Unenrolling a TA or Mentor
Why are tabs important in the Classlist tool?
Set which tabs appear in Classlist
Discussions
Getting started with discussions
Create a discussion forum
Create a discussion topic
Create a discussion thread
Reply to a discussion thread
Subscribe to a discussion
Unsubscribe from notifications
Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
Restrict multiple forums or topics to specific groups or sections
Automatically create restricted topics for groups or sections
Copy a discussion thread with replies
Best practices for using Discussions
View discussion statistics
Best practices for using and interpreting discussion statistics
Export discussion statistics
Moderating discussions
About locking discussion forums and topics
Lock a discussion forum or topic
About hidden discussion forums and topics
Hide a discussion forum or topic
About moderated discussion topics
Moderate discussions
Assessing discussions
Assessment methods available for a discussion
Configure a topic for assessment
Assess users in discussion threads
Assign scores to users from the Assess Topic page
Link a discussion assessment to a grade item
Link a discussion topic to a learning objective
Add an assessment to a discussion topic with a learning objective
Displaying rubric scores on the Assess Topic page
Restore deleted discussions
Email
Email overview
Disable your course address book
FAQ
Create an FAQ question
Create an FAQ category
Groups
Best practices for setting up groups
What happens when you move users to a new group?
Best practices for group enrollment
Create a group category
Create a group
Group enrollment types
What happens when you delete a group or group category?
Set up self-enrollment in groups
Restrict a forum or topic to specific groups or sections
Enroll course leaders in groups
Delete a user from a group
Locations and Seating Chart
Locations and layout basics
What are locations and layouts?
Set a location as active or inactive
Reset a layout
Add a location to calendar events
Seating chart basics
What is a seating chart?
What is a seating chart cold call?
Create a seating chart
Assign a seat to a learner
Sessions basics
What is a seating chart session?
Create a session in seating chart
Track session attendance and participation
Announcements
Create an Announcements item
Delete an Announcements item
Edit an Announcements item
Reordering an Announcements item
Restore a deleted Announcements item
Sections
What is the difference between Sections and Groups?
Considerations when setting up Sections
Create or add more Sections
Edit properties of all existing Sections
What happens when you delete Sections?
Enroll students in Sections
Assessments
Assignments
Assignments Basics
What is Assignments?
What file types are supported in Assignments?
Add categories to manage assignment submission folders
Create an assignment submission folder
Set release conditions for an assignment submission folder
Add special access to an assignment submission folder
Reorder, edit, and delete assignment submission categories and folders
Restore deleted assignment submission folders
Set availability and due dates for an assignment submission folder
Assesssing assignment submissions
About assessing assignment submissions
View the File Submissions log
Restore a deleted submission
Add feedback and evaluations to assignment submissions
Assignments and Turnitin
About Turnitin
Enable Turnitin for an assignment submission folder
About Turnitin-enabled assignment submission folders
About Turnitin-enabled group assignment submission folders
Exempt individual users from Turnitin
Viewing OriginalityCheck reports
What file types are supported in OriginalityCheck?
Troubleshooting: I see an assignment submission showing an icon that says, "An originality report could not be generated for this file".
Awards
About Awards
Create a new award
Share awards with other courses
Hide an award from the Available Awards page
Add release conditions to an award
Add an existing award to a course
View awards for a classlist
Manually grant an award
Revoke an award
Troubleshooting: Certificate text is too long
Competencies
About competencies
Reasons to use competencies
Understanding competency structures
About parent-child relationships between competency structure elements
About nested competency structures
About overlapping competency structures
Switch your view in competencies
Setting visibility for competency structure elements
Why can't I see my learning objectives?
Allow users to add competencies to their iLearn ePortfolio
Using automatic evaluation
Understanding automatic evaluation
How an automatic evaluation is initiated
Allow automatic competency evaluation after a user achieves a competency
Turn off automatic competency evaluation
Manually initiate an evaluation
Monitor the re-evaluation service
Evaluating activities
Evaluate assignment submission folder activities
Evaluate survey activities
Evaluate discussion topic activities
Evaluate manual assessment activities
Enable learning objective completion using quiz or grade item activities with automatic assessment
Evaluate quiz activity manually
Evaluate grade item activity manually
Creating and editing competencies, learning objectives, and activities
Understanding competency status settings
Create a competency
Modify an approved competency
Copy a competency
Delete a competency
Create a learning objective
Copy a learning objective
Delete a learning objective
Associating activities
Types of activities
Understanding competency structures and associations
Associate a competency structure element with another existing element
Associate a learning objective with an activity
Remove an association between competency structure elements
Remove associations between a learning objective and an activity from another tool area
What happens when you share competency structures
Share a competency structure
About competency versions
View competency structure results
Override a user's result
Associate an independent learning objective or activity to a parent element
Grades
Grade book basics
Grading concepts
Grading schemes
Create a grade scheme
Grading systems
Set up your grade book
Creating grade items
Create calculated grade items
Create formula grade items
About formula grade items
Formula Editor validation errors
Create text grade items
Create selectbox grade items
Create pass/fail grade items
Create numeric grade items
Managing grades and grade items
Manually assign grades
Release final grades
Export grades
Set grade visibility options for students
Set release conditions for grades
About bonus grade items
Inaccurate final grades
Manually recalculate the final grade
Enter an adjusted final grade
Calculate final grades for a single user
Restore a deleted grade item
Scenario: Final calculated grade using Points system
Scenario: Final calculated grade using Weighted system
About automatic transfer of overall score to a learner's grade
Automatically transfer overall score to learner's grade
Best practices for entering grades
Managing event logs in a grade book
About event logs
Access the event log for a user
Access the event log for an individual grade item
Access the event log for a users’ final grades
Access the event log for changes to a grade item's properties or restrictions
Access the event log for restoring grade items
Question Library
Importing questions into Question Library
About importing questions into Question Library
Access Question Library
Import questions into Question Library from an existing collection
Import questions into Question Library from a CSV file
Import questions into Question Library from a learning object repository
Creating Question Library questions
Types of questions
Create true or false questions
Create multiple choice questions
Create multi-select questions
Understanding grading options for multi-select questions
Create long answer questions
Create short answer questions
Create multi-short answer questions
Create fill in the blanks questions
Understanding grading options for short answer, multi-short answer, and fill in the blanks questions
Create matching questions
Create ordering questions
Understanding grading options for matching and ordering questions
Create arithmetic questions
Create significant figures questions
Understanding arithmetic and significant figures question components
Types of supported enumerations in the Formula field
Understanding iLearn Learning Environment rounding rules
Create Likert questions
Create text information
Create image information
Understanding regular expressions
Managing questions in Question Library
Create sections in Question Library
Create sections outside Question Library
Edit a question or section in Question Library
Preview questions in Question Library
Reorder questions or sections in Question Library
Publish questions and sections to a learning repository
Quizzes
Quizzes Basics
Export the event log of all quiz attempts
Reset quiz attempts for learners
Prevent cheating in quizzes
View the event log of a single quiz attempt
Creating Quizzes
Create a quiz
Add restrictions to a quiz
Add special access to a quiz that requires Respondus Lockdown Browser
Add assessments to a quiz
Set a different number of quiz attempts for an individual learner
Associate learning objectives with a quiz
Customize the submission view for a quiz
Create a quiz report
About quiz reports
Give each learner a random set of quiz questions
About random sections
Create bonus quiz questions
Quizzes and Question Library
Considerations around quizzes with associations to Question Library
Delete a question pulled from Question Library in a quiz
Copy a quiz with Question Library associations to another org unit
Rubrics
Rubrics basics
Where can you use a rubric?
Types of rubrics
Managing rubrics
Create a rubric for a course
Copy a rubric
Edit a rubric
Delete a rubric
Share a rubric
Self Assessments
Reasons to use self assessments
Best practices for creating and using self assessments
Evaluating self assessments
Create a self assessment
Delete a self assessment
Share self assessment questions with other instructors
Surveys
Set up a survey
Survey examples
Set a survey to active
Set a date range for a survey
Anonymous participation in a survey
Ensure anonymous survey participation
Setting survey restrictions
Control user responses in a survey
Create special access to a survyey
Track survey progress and results
Set up survey reports
View a survey report
Notify participants of an available survey
Survey branching
User Progress
Reasons to use the User Progress tool
Accessing User Progress data in the iLearn Data Platform
User Progress overview
Change User Progress settings
Class Progress overview
Change Class Progress settings
iLearn Apps
Brightspace Pulse
iLearn Binder
Brightspace Assignment Grader
The Basics
What is Brightspace Assignment Grader?
How Brightspace Assignment Grader works
Log in using your iLearn Learning Environment account
Log in using your D2L EduDentity account
Add a link to a iLearn Learning Environment instance
Get the URL of your iLearn Learning Environment instance
Change your display settings
Using the app
About synchronizing your iLearn Learning Environment account with Brightspace Assignment Grader
Sort assignment submission folders
Sort submissions within an assignment submission folder
Grade an assignment submission
Annotate an assignment submission
Update or retract published grades and feedback
Download assignment submissions
Troubleshooting
iLearn platform requirements
Browser
Supported Files for Course Content
iLearn guides
iLearn videos
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