Staff Guides

Topic outline

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  Tutorials (Video)

  • Resources

  • Video Tutorial: Add a Label Book

    To embed text and images directly on your module page, add a Label resource.  Labels are especially useful for adding sub-headings and improving the appearance of your module page.
  • Video Tutorial: Add a File Book

    To share files with your students such as readings or handouts, simply add it to your module page as a Resource.  You may add PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint presentations, zip files, and media such as image, video and audio files.

  • Video Tutorial: Add a Folder Book

    To organise files into a Folder, you may upload a Folder resource.  It can contain files such as PDFs, Word documents or image files.  

  • Video Tutorial: Add a URL Book

    To share a link to a web page with your students, add a URL resource.

  • Video Tutorial: Add a Page Book

    A Page resource allows students to see a single scrollable page within your module. You can format text, add links, images and videos using the text editor.

  • Activities

  • Video Tutorial: Creating Assignments Book

    The assignment activity allows students to submit work for teachers to grade and give feedback on. This is more efficient than email as the submissions could be downloaded at once.

  • Video Tutorial: Send Announcements to Students via News Forum Book

    News Forum is a one-way tool that allows easy communication with your students.  You can post announcements using News Forum to announce exam dates or any important information about the course.  All students and staff enrolled in the module will receive an email copy of the announcements. 

  • Video Tutorial: Create Calendar Events Book

    Lecturers can manually create events to help students keep track of upcoming due dates and events.  Events created in a module will only be visible to either all the students enrolled in the module or a specific group of students depending on the type of event selected.

    
    

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  Tutorials (Text)

  • Resources

  • Add a Label Page
  • Add a File Page
  • Add a Folder Page
  • Add a Page
  • Add a URL Page
  • Activities

  • Creating Assignments Page
  • Creating Turnitin Assignments Page

    Turnitin is an Internet-based plagiarism-prevention service to which LASALLE subscribes.  Click the link above to learn how to create Turnitin assignments.
  • Add a Scheduler Page

    The Scheduler module helps you to schedule one-on-one appointments with all your students. You specify the periods during which you are available to see the students and the length of each appointment. The students then book themselves into one of the available timeslots.
    
    
    

  • Send Announcements to Students via News Forum Page
  • Create a Calendar Events Page
  • How to Create a Quiz Page

    Quiz allows the teacher to design and build quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types, including multiple-choice, true-false, short answer and drag and drop images and text. These questions are kept in the Question bank and can be re-used in different quizzes.