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Using Announcements in MyECU
Use announcements to post important messages and information such as deadlines, changes, corrections, clarifications, and schedules. Here is a quick guide on how to add and modify annoucements in your MyECU site.
Help and Support for Elluminate Live
There are a number of resources available from Elluminate. These are available as either pre-recorded Elluminate sessions or as documents that are downloadable from the site and include the following:
How to set up a discussion forum in a MyECU site
The Discussion Board is a communication tool that can be used to enhance a MyECU unit or community site.
Each discussion topic is set up as an individual forum and conversations are grouped in threads that contain a main posting and all related replies.
Follow these instructions to create a Discussion Board Forum.
Students: How to use the Digital Drop Box in MyECU
If your lecturer/tutor uses the Digital Dropbox tool for assignment submission, the following instructions will guide you through the steps you will need to follow in order to make an assignment submission using this tool.
Staff Tip: Using the Digital Drop Box in MyECU
Blackboard has two tools that allow students to securely submit their work to instructors:
- Digital Dropbox
- Assignment Tool
Files submitted using either the Digital Dropbox or the Assignment Tool are stored on Blackboard and are accessible only by those with Control Panel access (Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and Graders).
Using the Assignment Tool in MyECU - Downloading Multiple Students' Assignments
When you use the assignment tool in MyECU, all the submitted assignments are available in the Gradebook. Here are instructions for downloading multiple students' work via the gradebook:
Students: How to submit your completed assignment using the assignment tool in MyECU
If your lecturer or tutor is using the assignment tool in MyECU to manage the submission of assignments, then this is how you go about uploading it. NB Methods of assignment submission differ from unit to unit so please check with your lecturer or tutor for the correct way to do this.
Using the Assignment Tool in MyECU - Clearing an assignment
Occasionally students will submit an assignment through Assignment Manager and will mistakenly upload incorrect files or choose submit rather than save when they have more than one file to send. An instructor will need to clear the student's attempt before they can resubmit their work.
Using the Assignment Tool in MyECU: Adding an assignment to a content area
Here is a step by step guide showing how to add an assignment to a content area in a MyECU Site...
Setting up an Elluminate Live Session in MyECU
Have a look at these instructions for setting up an Elluminate Live session in a MyECU site.
Starting Elluminate Live! via MyECU
Elluminate Live! is an online collaboration tool which enables groups to communicate using text and voice and to share presentations, websites, documents, their desktops and applications.
If you are using it on campus, in a lab or via the ECU wireless network, then a few settings are required to set up the ECU Proxy, through which you need to authenticate to access the internet.
Read more about connecting through the ECU Proxy server
Also if you are launching an Elluminate session via Internet Explorer you will need to open the session in a new window by right-clicking the "join" button and selecting "Open in new window". You could also try using Firefox as an alternative.
Web collaboration technologies trial at ECU
Starting in semester 2, The Centre for learning and teaching will be conducting a 12 month trial of web collaborative technologies in order to evaluate their educational effectiveness and to make recommendations about future purchasing.
Wikis in MyECU: site wide vs group wikis
There are two kinds of wiki available in MyECU; site wide and group...
Campus Pack Upgraded on 28 June 2008
The Campus Pack tools that include blogs, wikis, podcasts, personal websites and search tools have all been upgraded to offer various fixes and improvements.
If you had a wiki, podcast, search or blog tool (ie the site wide version of the tool rather than one created in a content area) linked from a menu item in your MyECU site then you will need to add it again to the menu. NB Only the link to the tool will have gone - no data will have been lost.
Apologies for any inconvenience.
Software and Settings for using LAMS
LAMS is available to use in Blackboard and your lecturer may have set up sequences for you to work through in your unit.
If you find that you have problems using LAMS via Blackboard please check the following:
Wikis, Blogs and Podcasts in Blackboard - Video Demos and Case Studies
If you're interested in using the wiki, blog or podcast tools in Blackboard then have a look at the new videos and the case studies that show how the tools can be used for learning and teaching.
Staff Tip: Using Turnitin's Grademark tool to mark assignments online
With the Grademark tool that comes with Turnitin, you can mark and annotate student papers online in your web browser. The grading integrates with the Blackboard Gradebook so you can avoid having to download and sort every assignment.
MERLOT Edcuational resources available in MyECU
Lists of educational resources from MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) are available as modules in MyECU.
MyECU Wikis upgraded today - 7 March 2008
In order to fix a fault with several unit site wikis, the MyECU wiki tool (Teams LX) has been upgraded today.
No content will have been affected but you may have to re-add a link to a site wiki to your MyECU menu if you had one there previously.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Staff Tip: Basic MyECU Test Question Types
The Test Manager and Add Test features of MyECU allows Lecuters or Tutors to create and add a test to any Content Area of a MyECU site.
Here's how to add the basic question types available in Test Manager.
Sending emails via MyECU
Email can be sent by students and staff who participate in a unit or community site from the Send Email page.
Staff Tip: Using Adaptive Release
In MyECU there is a tool called Adaptive Release that provides a way to release content to students based on a set of rules.
Student Tip: How to submit a Turnitin Assignment in MyECU
If your lecturer or tutor has asked that you sumbit your assignments via Turnitin in MyECU then here is how you go about it.
Staff Tip: Using Turnitin in Blackboard
Step by step instructions for creating a Turnitin Assignment in Blackboard.
Staff Tip: Viewing Turnitin Originality Reports
Originality Reports will reveal the originality of your students' paper submissions based on the information within the extensive Turnitin database, assisting you in determining the validity of submitted assignments.
Accessing MyECU Blogs
Your Lecturer or Tutor may have set up blogs in your site for you to use.
In MyECU there are a two different types of blog:
Accessing MyECU Wikis
Your Lecturer or Tutor may have allowed access to or set up wikis in your site for you to use.
In MyECU there are a two different types of wiki...
MyECU Gradebook: red exclamation or question marks
why you might see red exclamation marks or question marks when you check the MyECU Gradebook.
Staff Tip: Adding a Test to your MyECU Site
The Test Manager and Add Test features of MyECU allows Lecuters or Tutors to create and add a test to any Content Area of a MyECU site.
General Tip: Using MyECU Discussion Boards
The Discussion Board is a communication tool that can be used to enhance a MyECU unit or community site.
Campus Pack upgraded to the lastest version
Blogs, wikis, podcasts, portfolios and search tools have all been upgraded to offer various fixes and improvements.
For example, you can now link between personal wikis and blogs within Expo and share Expo wikis and blogs with individuals or whole unit or community sites.
NB If you had a wiki, podcast or blog tool (ie the site wide version of the tool rather than one created in a content area) linked from a menu item in your MyECU site then you will need to add it again to the menu.
Student Tip: Using the Digital Dropbox
If your lecturer/tutor uses the Digital Drop Box tool in MyECU (Blackboard) for assignment submission, click the Digital Dropbox link in "Tools" on the navigation menu.
Using the assignment tool in MyECU
The assignment tool is the preferred method for managing assignments via MyECU.
The tool provides an easy way for students to sumbit and integrates with the Gradebook so feedback and grades can be provided.
Here are quick step by step guides for using this tool.
Lecturers' guide to the assignment tool (pdf)
Student guide to the assignment tool (pdf)
Other Assignment Tool Guides
Instructors: Downloading Multiple Students' Assignments
Students: How to submit your completed assignment using the assignment tool in myecu
Staff Tip: How to use Podcast LX
Podcast LX is a new tool for MyECU which enables instructors to post up pre-created audio or video files to their MyECU sites and easily turn them into a podcast.
What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a plagiarism detection system that instantly identifies papers containing unoriginal material and acts as a powerful deterrent to stop student plagiarism before it starts.
Continued trial of LAMS (Learning Activity Management System)
The Centre for Learning and Teaching have a hosted copy of LAMS2 for the puropose of evaluating potential future use at ECU and we are looking for teaching staff who would like to be involved in a trial during semester 2, 2008.
Blogs, Wikis, Search, Podcasts and Portfolios for MyECU
ECU has provided this add-on for MyECU so instructors and students can benefit from using blogs, wikis, podcasts and portfolios for their teaching and learning.
Setting up private blogs in MyECU Sites
Private Journals allow an instructor to go to one blog to review each student's work, but students are only able to see their own entries in the blog.
Staff Tip: Creating a Turnitin Assignment
Turnitin is available as a plugin for MyECU (Blackboard) as a tool that can be used to detect plagiarised assignments.
The Turnitin tool can be accessed via the control panel in your Blackboard site.
Staff Tip: Podcast LX in MyECU
The Podcast LX tool in MyECU is managed from the control panel and added via the drop down list of content area tools. When an audio file is added via this tool into a content area in a MyECU site, an RSS feed can be created for use with iTunes or other audio players.
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Quick guide for using Podcast LX in MyECU