QMplus for

Support Staff

E-Learning Unit

Workshop Objectives

During this workshop you will :

First half• Gain an overview of QMplus• Know the basics of building in QMplus• Understand how access works

Second half• Look at some administrative functionality

• Communicating• Managing Groups• Managing Assignments• Grades and Student Tracking

We won’t cover everything!

Introductions

• Your name• Your School/Department/Institute

What are you doing now?

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What is QMplus?

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Demonstration

Demo• Logging in• Course settings• The structure of a course• Turn editing on• Adding resources: files, URLs, labels

Activity 1: QMplus building

1. Go to: https://qmplus.qmul.ac.uk 2. Login with your Computing username and password3. Click on My QMplus 4. Find your test area

Activity 2: Adding simple resources

1. Turn editing on2. In the first topic:

– Edit the title– Add a URL to something interesting– Add a label with an image– Upload a file

Demonstration

Demo • QMplus pages• Embedding video

Accessing QMplus

• Much more flexible model defining who can do what on QMplus

• Devolved model allowing more control at School/Departmental level

• Less need to ask for help from central services for routine admin tasks

QMplus accounts

• Automatically created for staff and students

• Accounts for “non-QMUL” staff can also be created

• Guest access also possible, no account required

SITS Integration

• Functionality very similar to Blackboard• Generally 1-to-1 mapping between SITS

modules and QMplus module areas• Also able to enrol students

– By department– By programme– By multiple modules– …and combinations of the above

SITS Integration

• Enrolments updated more than once a day• No more “wait until tomorrow” for students!

But• Still relies on data being correct and up to

date

Roles and Permissions

• Very flexible• Allows fine grained control over who can

do what• Can be refined as necessary

Current Roles (staff)

• Course Administrator (you!)• Course Leader • Teacher• Non-editing Teacher• External Examiner• Course Viewer• Teaching Assistant

Current Roles (students)

• Student• Resit Student• Manual Student• Auditing Student

First two roles are used by SITS integration

Course Administrator

• School/Department level role• Same permissions as Course

Leader/TeacherPlus• Ability to enrol other staff onto modulesNot enrolled on individual modules but can access all modules in department including newly created ones.

Demonstration

• Enrolling users

Activity 3: Enrolling Users

1. Find the course belonging to the person sitting next to you

2. Go to the Settings menu3. Click Users > Enrolled Users4. Click the Enrol Users button5. Find the student called “Sean Cassidy” and enrol them

on to the course area

Communication

• News Forum– Announcements by email

• Adding Events– Course and personal events– No emails– No “category” level events

Activity 4: Add an event

1. Under Upcoming Events2. Click New event3. Add an event for your course4. Go and get coffee

Break

Student Groups

• Auto create empty groups*• Auto-populate groups• Group Choice

* Populate by spreadsheet upload not yet available

Demo: Create Groups

Create three tutorial groups by spreadsheet upload1. Under the settings menu choose Users > Groups2. Click Import Groups3. Choose the file groups.csv 4. Click the Import Groups button to create the groups

Demo: Group Choice

Create a “Group Choice” activity for students to sign up1. Go back to your Test Course homepage and turn editing

on2. Add a Group Choice activity - Call it “Seminar sign-up”3. Create sign up forms for the three groups:

Seminar Group A; Seminar Group B; Seminar Group C4. Set the maximum size of each group to 3

Activity: Join Groups

Join a group1. Log out and then log in as your student identity2. Enter the course as instructed (you may need to search

for it)3. Join the seminar group you want

Assignments

• Electronic submission / Turnitin:– Submission Manager– Advanced uploading of files

• Offline Activity

Demo: Assignment set up

Activity 6: Submit an assignment

1. As a student access the assignment we just created2. Upload a Word document3. Ensure it is saved and submitted

Demo: Marking assignment

Gradebook

• Links to an activity or assignment• Input grades manually or import• Can be printed or exported to Excel

Student Tracking

Found under Navigation > My modules > Reports

• Logs: Detailed activity on a particular dateCan send a message to all users who haven’t completed a particular action

• Course Participation:Shows actions (view, add, update, delete) going back up to 4 months

We will be writing custom reports for QM after launch

Phew!

Any questions or comments?

Follow Up

• Join the “QMplus Users Group”• Guides: Support and FAQs (under Help)• Email us: qmplus-interim-support@qmul.ac.uk • E-Learning Assistants to help