We continued our
LON-CAPA training this afternoon, covering a lot of material. It's a powerful system.
Can organize into folders
- Can randomize order within a folder
- Can subset from within a folder
Dropbox for file upload type assignments
- If submitted plain text, can do plagiarism checker against all other submissions to that same problem (regardless of course, institution, etc.)
- Instructors can download file
- Can upload a feedback file for each uploaded file
- Can assign grades (but need to configure the assignment if wanting decimal score)
- Can reset (allow student to resubmit)
- Can excuse (as in, excused absence from completing the assignment?)
Groups
- Can contain students from multiple sections.
- Can set L-C to auto-add students to a certain group based upon section.
- Groups can (if given permission to by the course coordinator)
- Have own discussion boards
- Create own discussion boards
- Can set their own permissions
- Groups and sections are functionally the same except:
- Students can only be a part of one section at a time (can be in multiple groups)
- Collaborative tools (chat, portfolio, etc.) can be granted to groups, but not sections
- Certain permissions (e.g. for a TA) apply only to sections (and are limited to just the section for which the TA is responsible)
Permissions
- Browse resources
- System Level - grants access to insert/view any resource, enabling the user to see how a problem is answered, thus not recommended for students
- Several others, much like permission in Moodle
- Can create custom roles with their own permission set
Authoring content in the construction space
- Once published, cannot be moved
- Once published, every course that uses it automatically will see latest version (so author can fix errors and they are immediately available to courses that use the resource)
- Making a resource "obsolete" allows those who are already using it to continue to do so
Additional notes:
- Can import from any institution that has published resources
- Must set open date for each problem in order for students to access it
- Can import a CSV file (any order of any columns) for roster import, specifying LName, FName, email, initial password, etc.
- Best practice: rather than rely upon "switch to student view", instead add yourself as a student and (to ensure clarity) put that student in an "admin" or "999" section.
- Course calendar available via the homepage
- L-C 3.0 next summer... will push course management features more in the foreground
- Can block access to L-C's messaging, chat, discussion, portfolio, groups, and blogs for a limited duration, e.g. during an exam
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