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<p><b>Adding users</b></p> <p>You can subscribe existing learners one by one to your course, by clicking on the link 'Subscribe users to this course'. Usually however it's better to open your course to self-registration and let learners register themselves. </p> <p><b>Description</b></p> <p>The description has no computer related function and does not indicate any particular rights or privileges within the system. It simply indicates who is who, in human terms. You can therefore modify this by clicking on the pencil, then typing whatever you want: professor, assistant, student, visitor, expert etc.</p><p><b>Admin rights</b></p><p>Admin rights, on the other hand, provide technical authorization to modify the content and organization of this course area. You can choose between allowing full admin rights or none.</p><p>To allow an assistant, for instance, to co-admin the area, you need to be sure he/she is already registered, then click on the pencil, then check 'Teacher', then 'Ok'.</p><p><b>Co-Trainers</b></p><p>To mention the name of a co-teacher in the heading (co-chairman, etc.), use the 'Course settings' tool. This modification does not automatically register your co-Trainer as a course member. The 'Teachers' field is completely independent of the 'Users' list.</p> <p><b>Tracking and Personal Home Pages</b></p> <p>In addition to showing the users list and modifying their rights, the Users tool also shows individual tracking and allows the teacher to define headings for personal home pages to be completed by users.</p>

<p><b>Introduction</b></p><p>This tool allows you to create and manage workgroups. On first creation (Create groups), groups are 'empty'. There are many ways to fill them:<ul><li>automatically ('Fill groups (random)'),</li><li>manually ('Edit'),</li><li>self-registration by users (Groups settings: 'Self registration allowed...').</li></ul>These three ways can be combined. You can, for instance, first ask users to self-register.Then if you find some of them didn't register, decide to fill groups automatically (random) in order to complete them. You can also edit each group to determine membership, user by user, after or before self-registration and/or automatically on registration.</p><p>Filling groups, whether automatically or manually, is possible only for users registered on the course. The users list is visible in <b>Users</b> tool. </p><hr noshade size=1><p><b>Create groups</b></p><p>To create new groups, click on 'Create new group(s)' and decide the number of groups to create.</p><hr noshade size=1><p><b>Group settings</b></p><p>You can determine Group settings globally (for all groups).<b>Users may self-register in groups</b>:<p>You create empty groups, users self-register.If you have defined a maximum number, full groups do not accept new members.This method is handy for trainers unfamiliar with the users list when creating groups.</p><b>Tools</b>:</p><p>Every group is assigned either a forum (private or public) or a Documents area(a shared file manager) or (in most cases) both.</p><hr noshade size=1><p><b>Manual editing</b></p><p>Once groups have been created (Create groups), you will see, at the bottom of the page, a list of groups along with with several options:<ul><li><b>Edit</b>Manually modify group name, description, tutor, members list.</li><li><b>Delete</b> Delete a group.</li></ul><hr noshade size=1>

<p>The tests tool allows you to create tests containing as many questions as you like.<br><br> You can choose from a range of question formats clearly displayed at the top of the page when you create a test including (for example):<br><br><ul> <li>Multiple choice (single or multiple answers)</li> <li>Matching</li> <li>Fill in the blanks etc.</li></ul>A test can include any number and combination of questions and question formats.</p><hr><b>Test creation</b><p>To create a test, click on the "New test" link.<br><br>Type a name for the test, as well as an optional description.<br><br>You can add various elements to this, including audio or video files, e.g. for listening comprehension, but take care to make such files as small as possible to optimise download time (e.g. use mp3 rather than wav files - they're far smaller but perfectly good quality). <br><br>You can also choose between two modes of presentation:<br><br><ul> <li>Questions on an single page</li> <li>One question per page (sequentially)</li></ul>and opt for questions to be randomly organised when the test is run.<br><br>Finally, save your test. You will be taken to the question administration.</p><hr><b>Adding a question</b><p>You can now add a question to the newly created test. You can if you wish include a description and/or an image. To create the test types mentioned above, follow the following steps: </p><hr><b>Multiple choice</b><p>In order to create a MAQ / MCQ :<br><br><ul> <li>Define the answers for your question. You can add or delete an answer by clicking on the right-hand button</li> <li>Check the left box for the correct answer(s)</li> <li>Add an optional comment. This comment won't be seen by the user until he/she has answered the question</li> <li>Give a weighting to each answer. The weighting can be any positive or negative integer (or zero)</li> <li>Save your answers</li></ul></p><hr><b>Fill in the blanks</b><p>This allows you to create a cloze passage. The purpose is to prompt the user to find words that you have removed from the text.<br><br>To remove a word from the text, and thus create a blank, put brackets [like this] around it.<br><br>Once the text has been typed and blanks defined, you can add a comment that will be seen by the learner depending on the reply to the question.<br><br>Save your text, and you will be taken to the next step allowing you to assign a weighting to each blank. For example, if the question is worth 10 points and you have 5 blanks, you can give a weighting of 2 points to each blank.</p><hr><b>Matching</b><p>This answer type can be chosen so as to create a question where the user will have to connect elements from list A with elements from list B.<br><br>It can also be used to ask the user to arrange elements in a given order.<br><br>First, define the options from which the user will be able to choose the best answer. Then, define the questions which will have to be linked to one of the options previously defined. Finally, connect elements from the first list with those of the second list via the drop-down menu.<br><br>Note: Several elements from the first unit might point to the same element in the second unit.<br><br>Assign a weighting to each correct match, and save your answer.</p><hr><b>Modifying a test</b><p>In order to modify a test, the principle is the same as for creating a test. Just click on the picture <img src="../img/edit.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> beside the test to modify, and follow the instructions above.</p><hr><b>Deleting a test</b><p>In order to delete a test, click on the picture <img src="../img/delete.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> beside the test to delete it.</p><hr><b>Enabling a test</b><p>For a test can be used, you have to enable it by clicking on the picture <img src="../img/invisible.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle"> beside the test name.</p><hr><b>Running the test</b><p>You can try out your test by clicking on its name in the tests list.</p><hr><b>Random questions</b><p>Whenever you create/modify a test, you can decide if you want questions to be drawn in a random order from amongst all test questions.<br><br>By enabling this option, questions will be drawn in a different order every time a user runs the test.<br><br>If you have got a large number of questions, you can opt to randomly draw only x-number of questions from the questions available.</p><hr><b>Questions pool</b><p>When you delete a test, its questions are not removed from the database, so they can be recycled back into another test via the questions pool.<br><br>The questions pool also allows you to re-use the same question in several tests.<br><br>By default, all the questions pertaining to your course are hidden. You can display the questions related to a test, by chosing 'filter' in the drop-down menu.<br><br>Orphan questions are questions that don not belong to any test.</p><hr><b>HotPotatoes Tests</b><p>You can import HotPotatoes tests into a Chamilo portal, to use in the Tests tool. The results of these tests are stored the same way as the results of Chamilo tests and as such can be readily monitored using the Reporting tool. In the case of simple tests, we recommend you use html or htm format; if your test contains pictures, a zip file upload is the most convenient way.</p><p>Note: You can also include HotPotatoes Tests as a step in the Learning Path.</p><b>Method of import</b><ul> <li>Select the file on your computer using the Browse button <input type=submit value=Browse name=submit2> on the right of your screen.</li> <li> Launch the upload with the Upload Button <input type=submit value=Upload name=submit2>. </li> <li> You can open the test by clicking onto its name. </li> </ul> <br><b>Useful link</b><br><ul><li>Hot Potatoes home page : <ahref="http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/">http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/</a></li></li></ul>

The Course tool supports two approaches :<ul><li>Create a new course (allowing you to author your own content)</li><li>Import SCORM course</li></ul><img src="../img/path_help.gif"><p><b>What is a Learning Path?</b></p><p>A Learning Path allows for the presentation of a sequence of learning experiences or activities arranged in distinct sections (in this sense, the Learning Path is what distinguishes a 'course' from a mere repository of random documents). It can be content-based (serving as a table of contents) or activities-based, serving as an agenda or program of action necessary to understand and apply a particular area of knowledge or skill.</p><p>In addition to being structured, a Learning Path can also be <i>sequential</i>, meaning that the completion of certain steps constitute pre-requisites for accessing others (i.e. 'you cannot go to learning object 2 before learning object 1'). Your sequence can be <i>suggestive</i> (simply displaying steps one after the other) or <i>prescriptive</i> (involving pre-requisites so that learners are required to follow steps in a particular order).</p><p><b>How do I create my own Learning Path (Course)?</b></p><p>Proceed to the 'Learning Path' section. There you can create as many courses/paths as you wish by clicking the <i>Create a new course</i> tool. You will need to choose a name for the course/path (e.g. <i>Unit 1</i> if you plan to create several units within the overall course). To begin with, the course is empty, waiting for you to add sections and learning objects to it.<br>If you set a course to Visible, it will appear as a new tool on the course homepage. This makes it easier and clearer for students to access.</p><p><b>What learning objects can I add?</b></p><p>All Chamilo tools, activities and content that you consider useful and relevant to your course can be added :<br><ul><li>Separate documents (texts, pictures, Office docs, ...)</li><li>Forums as a whole</li><li>Topics</li><li>Links</li><li>Chamilo Tests</li><li>HotPotatoes Tests<br />(note :tests made invisible on the homepage, but included in a path, become visible for learners only as they work through the course.)</li><li>Assignments</li><li>External links</li></ul></p><p><b>Other features</b></p><p>Learners can be asked to follow your course in a given order, as you can set <u>pre-requisites</u>. This means for example that learners cannot go to e.g. Quiz 2 until they have read e.g. Document 1. All learning objects have a status:<i>completed</i> or <i>incomplete</i>, so the progress of learners is clearly reported.</p><p>If you alter the original title of a learning object, the new name will appear in the course, but the original title will not be deleted. So if you want test8.doc to appear as 'Final Exam' in the path, you do not have to rename the file, you can use the new title in the path. It is also useful to give new titles to links which are too long.</p><p>When you're finished, don't forget to check Display mode, (showing, as in learner view, the table of contents on the left and the learning objects on the right,one at a time.)</p><br><p><b>What is a SCORM course and how do I import one?</b></p><p>The learning path tool allows you to upload SCORM-compliant courses.</p><p>SCORM (<i>Sharable Content Object Reference Model</i>) is a public standard followed by major e-Learning companies like NETg, Macromedia, Microsoft, Skillsoft, etc. They act at three levels:</p><ul><li><b>Economy</b> : SCORM renders whole courses or small content units reusable on different Learning Management Systems (LMS) through the separation of content and context,</li><li><b>Pedagogy</b> : SCORM integrates the notion of pre-requisite or <i>sequencing</i> (<i>e.g. </i>"You cannot go to chapter 2 before passing Quiz 1"),</li><li><b>Technology</b> : SCORM generates a table of contents as an abstraction layer located outside the content and the LMS. It helps both communicate with each other. Mainly communicated are <i>bookmarks</i>("Where is John in the course?"), <i>scoring</i> ("How did John pass the test?") and <i>time</i> ("How much time did John spent in chapter 1?").</li></ul><b>How can I create a SCORM-compliant Learning Path?</b><br><br>The obvious way is to use the Chamilo Authoring tool. However, you may prefer to create complete SCORM compliant websites locally on your own computer before uploading it onto your Chamilo platform. In this case, we recommend the use of a sophisticated tool such as Lectora®, eXe Learning® or Reload®<br></p><p>