Help for Instructors
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Help for iLearn is available in a variety of forms. There are descriptions of each iLearn tool along with online help documents (available via web, PDF, or Word). Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's).
Browser Check
Test your system settings to see if it is compatible with iLearn requirements.
Chat
Chat tools allow you and your students to communicate via text while online at the same time. Using the iLearn Chat tool, students can hold private chats with other students in the course or communicate on group projects. You can also use the Chat to hold online office hours.
Checklist
The Checklist tool allows you to spell out the steps of a specific
process. Your students can then 'check off' each step of the process
as it is completed.
Classlist/Groups
The Classlist provides you and your students with a list of
students currently enrolled in your course. The Classlist is
automatically updated from the University's Student Banner System. Groups can be created to arrange students
in your
class and have different access to course tools.
Components
Using this tool you can copy course content, course files, news, links, dropboxes, grade books, quiz questions, quizzes, and surveys from one course to the next.
Conditional Release
By setting release conditions, you can direct students to complete certain requirements before they can view specified tools and content.
Content
The Content tool is the main delivery point of course content.
Divided into Modules and Topics, you may include content you have created in
iLearn or instructional web pages. Access to documents such as Word, Excel,
PowerPoint;
movie
or
audio files; and links to the other tools within iLearn can be placed here.
Course Home
Course Home is the entry page for your specific course. It is
the first page that your students see when they enter the course. This page contains
the News tool and provides you and your students with access
to iLearn's Schedule tool. You may also change a variety
of preferences or use the Role Switch tool.
iLearn Email
iLearn creates iLearn email accounts for all users. This account is different from a TTU email account. An iLearn mail address looks like this: elearn.tntech.edu
Instructors of large classes may be interested in using their iLearn email account so that the large volume of mail generated by a large class does not swamp their personal …@ tntech.edu account.
iLearn allows users to send and receive messages to/from external, non-iLearn email addresses. But to read messages sent to a iLearn email address, one must login to iLearn and click on the “iLearn Email” link. It is not possible to automatically forward iLearn mail.
Discussions
The Discussions tool can be used for online discussions between
you and your students or between groups of students. After setting up a discussion
Forum (major categories), you can create individual topics within the forum for
discussion. Students can post messages in a 'threaded' discussion.
Students can also attach documents to their messages making the Discussions tool
is an excellent place for students to work on group projects.
Dropbox
The Dropbox tool is an electronic storage space for
documents submitted by your students. You can create multiple folders for assignments
that can be opened and/or closed for submission based on specific dates and times.
For example, you have assigned the students to write a report on their lab findings.
The reports are due on Friday at 5:00 PM and you will accept reports until midnight
on Friday. You can set the dropbox so, starting at 5:00 PM, students can
submit
their assignment by 'uploading' the document to the dropbox. The
student's submission is date and time stamped. They are not allowed to
submit after the midnight deadline (unless you specify that they can submit the
document late). Dropboxes can also be created that remain open for the entire
semester for regularly scheduled submissions.
After the midnight deadline, you can review the documents, grade, and submit
comments to the student on their work. iLearn informs the student when you have
looked at the document.
Edit Course
The Edit Course tool allows you to change certain basic parameters of your course and to modify the NavBar, Files, and Content. You should consult with a iLearn consultant before changing the course Info, Tools, or Components.
Generally, it is easier to use the  edit button in the upper left-hand corner of the NavBar to modify the NavBar and the Manage Files and Manage Content sections of the Content tool to make changes to your course.
FAQs
FAQs stands for Frequently Asked Questions. The FAQ tool allows you to collect and answer common questions that students may have about the course or an individual topic. FAQs can be clustered in categories or simply listed for the student to read through.
Glossary
The Glossary tool allows you to provide students with terms or acronyms and their definitions. Students are provided with an alphabetized listing of the terms that they can access anywhere within iLearn.
Grades
The Grades tool allows you to establish an online grade book.
Items in the grade book can be tied to other iLearn tools such as the Dropbox and Quizzes tools
so that a grade entered in one of these tools is automatically updated in the
grade book. Question items from the Quizzes tool such as multiple-choice,
true/false, matching, ordering, etc. can be set to grade the items automatically
and then update the grade book.
Students can use the Grades tool to check their grade at anytime during the course.
HTML Editor
The HTML Editor allows you to change the information in a course file using HTML tags or a word processing like editor.
Journal
The Journal tool allows you and your students to create and save personal journals.
Manage Files
iLearn saves a variety of different Content pages as html files within the iLearn system. Manage Files allows you to view, upload, or delete these files. In some cases, you can even edit the files within the Manage Files tool.
My Home
My Home is the main entry page for iLearn. It is the first page you and your students see after signing in to iLearn. Like the Course Home page, this page contains a News section. However, this News section is controlled by the iLearn Support Staff and is used for system announcements.
Also, like Course Home, My Home provides you
and your students with access to iLearn's Schedule tool.
You may also change a variety of preferences or use the Role Switch tool.
NavBar
The NavBar contains links to the various
iLearn tools that you have defined. It is made up of the red and blue lines at the
top of the iLearn page. Editing the NavBar allows you to change
the tools that are accessible to your students.
News
Found on the Course Home page, News allows
you to post messages to your students so that they will see it when they first
enter your course page. These messages can be released or removed based on a
date and
time.
Pager
The Pager allows you and your students to 'page' each
other by sending a short text message. The next time that the person being paged
enters the course, the pager will flash and beep that a message is waiting.
Preferences
The Preferences tool allows you to change your font settings, paging preferences, discussion room layout, email preferences, and password.
Quizzes
The Quizzes tool allows you to create a variety of assessments
for your students. While labeled 'Quizzes', this tool can be used
for exams, surveys, and/or homework assignments. The Quizzes tool
can be used to create the following types of questions: multiple-choice, true/false,
arithmetic (including specifying ranges of numbers with significant figures),
fill-in-the-blank, multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers.
Many of these questions can be graded automatically and then automatically entered
into the Grades tool. Quizzes can be released
conditionally based on date and time.
Role Switch
The Role Switch tool, found on Course Home,
allows you to view your course from another role such as a student or TA. There
is a limitation to this tool. When in student mode, you will NOT be able
to view what a student would see in the Quizzes and Grades tools. 
Schedule
You and your students have access to an online calendar through the Schedule tool.
Available on the My Home and My Course pages,
the Schedule tool allows you to set reminders of important dates
and activities. As an instructor, you can create an event for yourself, or one
that is added to every student's schedule.
Self-Assessment
Similar to the Quizzes tool, the Self-Assessment tool
allows you to create assessment items such as multiple-choice, true/false, arithmetic,
fill-in-the-blank, multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers.
The Self-Assessment tool does not keep a record of the student's
response.
Survey
Similar to the Quizzes tool, but you cannot connect a Survey to
the Grades tool and it has less question response tracking capabilities
than Quizzes. If you need that kind of information you must
use the Quiz tool. Simply name the Quiz as
a Survey. The Survey tool allows you to create
assessment items such as multiple-choice, true/false, arithmetic, fill-in-the-blank,
multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers. The Survey tool
allows you to keep a record of the student's response or makes the survey
anonymous.
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