itslearning - Guides - Teachers

Anyone with an SDU email address can log in to https://sdu.itslearning.com/.

Select ‘Log in with Office 365’ (with your SDU username and password).

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SDU has decided to import your course material from two years (F19-E19-F20-E20 of courses created from STADS, and manually created courses created later than 1 January 2018) from Blackboard to itslearning. 

This tutorial shows you how to access this course materials and get it into your courses in itslearning.

This guide contains information about:

• Automatic transfer of groups from STADS
• How to find course groups in a course
• Manual setup of groups in a course (defined by the teacher, randomly generated and by student registry)
• How to limit permissions to view and edit materials to certain course groups

This guide shows you how to:
1. Copy a single item (e.g. a file, folder, Page, Test, Learning Path, and more) to a new course
2. Copy a single row in a lesson plan to a new course
3. Copy your full lesson plan with all material to a new course

See guide

This guide contains

1. Briefly about plans
2. Create a plan
3. Add a Topic
4. Add a Plan to a Topic
5. Filling out plans
6. Assign resources to plans
7. Editing plans

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3 things to remember creating plans in itslearning:

Read your Faculty’s recommendations on Setting a time for Plans.

Here is a brief overview of: 

1. Public link to plans  
2. How to print plans

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This guide provides inspiration on how to set up a course room in itslearning which is shared by multiple teachers.

1. Add a plan column called “Teacher”
2. Every teacher has their own topic/topics

• Access rights to the course
• Tips

Read guide here.

Many factors influence which solution works best. If you need guidance, please contact SDUUP / sduup@sdu.dk.

This guide provides information on how to copy the same Topic from one course to another specific course multiple times. The guide is thus complementary to the guide referred to as 'Copy teaching materials to a new course'.

To prevent copying the same Topic several times into a new course, you can only copy a Topic from one course to another specific course once – this to avoid duplicates. This is also the case despite deleting the copied Topic from the new course, as it will still part of the new course – just placed in the Trash can. Therefore, this guide shows you how to permanently delete a Topic from a course. You can then re-copy the original Topic from the previous course and to your new course.

Note: The guide also applies if you wish to repeat coping one or more Plans.

Content
Step 1: Select the course and the Plans tab in the menu
Step 2a: Deleting one Topic
Step 2b: Deleting multiple Topics in one step
Step 2c: Deleting a Plan
Step 4: Open the Trash can
Point 4: Deleting Topics and/or Plans in the Trash can

Read guide here.

Guide on how to download an Excel list of names and emails of the students in your course. 

This guide shows you how to: 

1. Writes a message to a course 
2. Write a message to a student 
3. Write a message to a team in a course 

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Recommendations for using the communication channels in itslearning

Here is a brief overview of:

• Link to a file in Office 365 (OneDrive, SharePoint og Teams) vs. upload a copy. Pros and cons.
• How to link to a file or upload a copy

Two ways you can add files to your course:

1. Add files from Plans
2. Add files from Resources

See guide

Here is a brief overview of how to give students permissions to write in a document or add material to a folde (change of permissions in general).

Content:

• Step 1: Settings in general
• Step 2a: Allow all  students to write in a Word document
• Step 2b: Allow selected  students or groups to write in a Word document
• Step 3: Change permission at folder-level
• Step 3a: Allow all  students to add resources and activities to a folder
• Step 3b: Allow selected  students or groups to add resources and activities to a folder

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In this guide you find:

• Creating Projects 
• Inviting participants  
• Accepting the invitation  
• Roles 
• Communication

See guide

Attendance is a useful tool which provides you with the possibility of taking attendance on each of your lectures or events in itslearning. The feature further provides the possibility of obtaining an overview of attendance across events. 

This tutorial provides an introduction to the following:

• How to access the feature Attendance in Itslearning
• How to take attendance via the feature Attendance at a specific lesson or event
• How to access an overview of attendance across your lessons or events

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Feedback options in Assignments

A brief guide to:

• Create discussion 
• View and reply to a discussion 
• Start a new discussion thread
• Tips & Tricks

This guide contains information regarding:

• Uploading videos in Mymedia
• Using Course Media Gallery in a course
• Commenting on videos via Course Media Gallery
• Using a video in a page

See guide here.

This guide shows you how to: 

• Setup Zoom meetings in itslearning
• Use of already-existing Zoom meetings

See guide

The following guide contains a walk-through of: 

• Setting up an MCQ test 
• Monitoring answers during the test 
• Feedback to students 

See guide

• Import of multiple choice tests in Word using Getmarked

See guide

See also webinar: MCQ/test/resultatovervågning (Status and follow-up)

Afholdt: Tirsdag 19. januar 2021

The webinar gives an overview of the test tool in itslearning, including how to set up a test and how to prepare your questions and feedback.

00.00: Introduction
02.55: Tools in itslearning vs Blackboard
04.55: Examples of test questions in itslearning
07.08: Feedback opportunities in test questions
08.55: How to set-up a test
18.30: How to import questions e.g. from a text file or another test
26.08: How to import your existing test in Blackboard to itslearning
28.40: Test and question statistics and other opportunity to follow the students' progress
31.54: Questions and comments

itslearning help to import/export of questions here.  

Download example file here. 

Exam assignments and questions are usually not handled in itslearning, but instead in Digital Exam.

Setting up exams and uploading exam assignments is typically handled by the study secretary - this differs from faculty to faculty.

You can log in to Digital Exam at digitaleksamen.sdu.dk, where you can see an overview of the exams you are associated with.

Instructions for assessment etc. can be found at sdunet.dk.

As an administrator or a lecturer, you do not have to do actively archive or delete your courses (subjects, modules). Instead you should be aware, that the courses are deleted by SDU IT 4 years after creation and thereby your access to the course material.
To simplify the overview of your courses at the homepage (Home), you can unstar the relevant course cards after course completion. Consequences:

• That the course will no longer appear in the pop-up window under the Course menu item
• That you no longer receive notifications from the course (e.g. Announcements, deadlines for assignments)
• That you no longer can access Updates about the course from the homepage

Follow steps 1 through 3 below to unstar a course card:

For faculties with quarter structure - please note regarding courses at the second or fourth quarter: If you start informing the students about elements they need to be aware of weeks before the start of the course, then consider using the messaging system as a first step. This to make sure that the students see the information as they the students might have unstarred the course until the course beins and therefore, do not receive any notifications.

An example of such a message: Dear students. Please be aware that the course “xxx” is ready for you. To make sure you receive notifications, please check that you have starred the course card at the itslearning homepage. Best regards. XXXX

The formal teaching evaluation is carried out digitally via the eval.sdu.dk system. In itslearning it is possible to use the Survey function to evaluate and get feedback on your teaching.