Managing eLearning with EasyCampus Job Aid

Introduction
This Job Aid is a companion piece for a webinar entitled Managing Elearning with EasyCampus presented by Team EZSkillz on Saturday October 23, 2010. However, it can also be used as a standalone resource for getting started with Educadiums EasyCampus Learning Management System. EasyCampus is a hosted, browser-based service that requires no special software. Trying to cover everything you need to know to get started with EasyCampus is beyond the scope of this Job Aid. In order to help get you started, weve included a section at the end of the document dedicated to additional resources such as quick start guides, step by step video tutorials and terminology definitions specific to EasyCampus. To learn more about EasyCampus, check out the webinar below: https://connect.cuonline.edu/easycampus

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Instructional applications of EasyCampus.. .2 How to edit the title of a lesson. .3 How to add a text file to a lesson.. .5 How to embed a YouTube video.... 7

How to embed a link ..11 How to add a chat block ..13 How to create a certificate .15 How to view student progress .17 Frequently Asked Questions and Additional Resources.20

Instructional Applications of EasyCampus

Educadiums Easy Campus is a learning management system that allows you to create and manage an entire online campus. Administrators and teachers can add educational content in the form of courses which can then be administered to students. While course creation using EasyCampus is simple and functional, its processing the data generated while students navigate courses where the learning management part of EasyCampus really shines. EasyCampus allows instructors to track and compare student performance without the menial and time-consuming work of manual grade tracking. Some assignment such as essays need to be personally graded by instructors, which EasyCampus allows, for but other Do activities such as multiple choice tests are more effectively and efficiently graded by the software. EasyCampus can instantly tell instructors how long Jake or Ashley took to get through each lesson and how they did on all the assignments and tests therein. By having this information available and organized, instructors can spend more time on lesson content and less time manually grading tests and adding all those grades together to figure a final course percentage. Grading is not the only use for the data EasyCampus makes available. Each course in EasyCampus is its own valuable formative evaluation tool. It gives instructors data by which to tell if things like lesson timing need to be tweaked. It also helps evaluate course content.

After administering an EasyCampus course once, an instructor has data immediately available on the effectiveness of each part of that course. For example, if everyone in the class got test 3 question 7 wrong it is immediately apparent that either the question or the content the question refers to needs re-working. EasyCampus does the work of collecting and organizing this kind of data. Therefore, it is much easier for instructors to spot trends and patterns that they might not have noticed after the drudgery of manually collecting and recording the data.

How to Edit the Title of a Lesson

1. Click Edit This Page at the top-right of the page

2. This is what you will see:

3. Click on Edit icon above lesson title.

4. You are then taken to an Updating Resource page:

Another way to get to the Updating Resources screen is to click the Edit at the bottom of the block.

5. Once in the Updating Resource page you can edit all aspects of the block. 6. Once satisfied with the changes, scroll down and either choose to Save and Return to Course (which will keep you in editing mode) or Save and Display (which takes you to the updated page as a student would see it.)

How to Add a Text File to a Lesson

1. Click into a lesson, in this example, Week 2

2. Click on Lesson Files, in this example Week 2 Files 3. This is what we see in Week 2 Files (where no files have been uploaded at this time)

4. Click Edit Files in the top-right corner

5. This is the page that appears:

6. Click Upload a File in the bottom-right.

7. This screen appears:

8. Find, select, and upload your file.

9. This screen will appear:

10. Return to the Lesson Home Page (Week 2 in this example) to confirm the file has been uploaded.

How to Embed a YouTube Video

1. Obtain the embedded code for the YouTube video you want to embed (the EasyCampus training video in this example).

2. Click <Embed> to obtain the code that youll be inserting into your EasyCampus lesson.

3. Select Edit in the block you want the video to appear (Week 3 home page in this example.

4. Make sure you are in Edit mode.

5. Your screen should look like this:

6. Enter the Editing Resource page by clicking on the Edit icon for whichever block you are editing (Lesson Three Title in this example).

7. Your screen should now look like this:

8. Determine where youd like to embed the video and click the Toggle HTML Source icon, which looks like this: <>

9. Your selection will now look like this:

10. Paste in the code you obtained from YouTube:

11. Click either Save and Return to Course or Save and Display to exit the resources screen.

10

12. You can see the Lesson Home Page has been modified and the YouTube video has been embedded into the block.

How to Embed a Link

1. This procedure is identical to embedding a YouTube video, with one exception, you paste in the link rather than the video code. 2. In this example, well embed a link in the Week 2 home page.

3. Enter Edit mode for the block you wish to add the link.

11

4. Highlight or type in the text you want to link (Click here for dictionary in this example).

5. Click on the Insert Web Link icon, which looks like this:

6. This is what appears:

7. Type in the URL you wish to link and click OK

12

8. This is what you should see. Notice the linked text has changed color.

9. Click Save and Return to Course or Save and Display to complete the job. 10. Heres what the Lesson Home Page now looks like. Notice the Click here for dictionary link that has now been added. Clicking on the link will take you to www.dictionary.com.

13

How to Add a Chat Block

1. Make sure you are in Edit mode wherever you want to add the chat block (Week 3 in this example).

2. This is what your screen should look like. Notice the Add Existing Activity dropdown menu that appears when you are in edit mode.

14

3. Choose Chat from the dropdown menu.

4. Youll notice the Chat Block was added beneath the Files Block.

15

5. Clicking on Chat will allow you to enter the chat.

How to Create a Certificate

1. Make sure you are in an Edit Mode of a lesson (Week 3 in this example).

2. Click on the Manage Activities tab.

16

3. Select Certificate from the Add an activity dropdown menu.

4. This is what appears:

5. Title and describe the certificate you are creating. Save your work by clicking Save and Return to Course or Save and Display.

6. The certificate you created will no be displayed in the Add an Activity dropdown menu in the lesson home page (when viewing in Edit mode).

17

How to View Student Progress (Viewing a Gradebook)

1. Click on Gradebook.

2. This is what appears:

18

3. Click on Grades

4. A list of graded items will appear.

5. Choose all users from the dropdown menu in the top-right.

6. A gradebook for all users will appear.

19

7. Once in this page you may click on the various Grade items for more details and/or to update grades and give additional fee.

20

Frequently Asked Questions and Additional Resources

Q: How much is EasyCampus? A: EasyCampus Express is free for up to 25 users Find pricing information and package comparisons at http://www.educadium.com/component/taxonomy/tag/lms.html Q:What kinds of training resources are available for EasyCampus? A: EasyCampus quick start guides and step-by-step tutorials http://www.educadium.com/EasyCampusSupport/tutorials/step-guides.html Q: What other resources are available? A: EasyCampus video quick start guide library

http://www.educadium.com/quickstart.html http://www.educadium.com/tutorials/videos.html For a more detailed list of commonly asked questions, refer to Educadiums comprehensive FAQ site: http://www.educadium.com/aboutus/faq.html

21