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Creating Content Pages and Assignments
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Let’s take a look at the process for building a Content Page. Here is a group page for a US History course. Let’s say that we wanted to create a page for the students. It will be a page with a video, multichoice question and a short answer essay question.
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DO THIS: - Click the Add.. pull-down menu in the Content section
- Select A NEW PAGE
This takes you to the CREATE NEW PAGE - PAGE INFO screen.
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Good going. You’ve now created your basic page, but at this point it’s really just a placeholder. There’s no content in it yet. To add content you need to begin adding sections by using the ADD NEW SECTION button (or) the QUICK ADD pull-down menu. Notice that by default there is already a BLANK SECTION waiting for you to edit and add content into. Next, let’s add a video from YouTube in the blank section. DO THIS:
- Click the EDIT SECTION link in the upper right corner of the section labeled Blank Section.
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Notice that the page asks you, "What do you want in your section." You know have a menu of content options from which to select. DO THIS: - Click YouTube in the portion of the menu that offers External content elements (i.e., content from outside of Ecto)
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As you can see, the video now appears in your learning page. Let’s say we want to add questions to accompany the video. To do this we will need to create a new sections on the page. Let’s add a multichoice question and an essay question. We’ll add the multichoice question first. DO THIS: - Click the ADD NEW SECTION button
- Note that once you are a bit more familiar with the process you could use the QUICK ADD pull-down menu
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Notice that there a number of menu options for Gradable Items that you can create in Ecto and add to your pages. Some of these items, such as Multiple Choice Questions, are auto-graded in Ecto, which can save you time and allow you to rapidly guage your students' progress and comprehension. DO THIS: - Click the Multiple Choice Question link in the Gradable Items section
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This is the multichoice question creation page. Take a minute to note the layout and the various sections. - Enter question text (stem) in the rich text editing field at the top and then enter the answer choices in the Answer Text (distractors) fields below.
- There are only 2 Answer Text fields to begin with but you can add as many as you like by clicking Add More Answer Choices at the bottom of the screen.
- Above the answer choice fields is a pull down menu that let’s you select the “Choose Best Answer” or “Select All that Apply” format.
- Note that underneath each Answer Choice field Ecto asks: Do you want to create an answer explanation/feedback? Clicking these links allows you to enter feedback to accompany the answer choice—for instance, explaining why it was incorrect or correct.
- When you have filled in the answer choice fields don’t forget to check the radio button labeled “This Answer is correct” in the field that contains your correct answer choice.
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So, to complete our example we will take the following steps: DO THIS: - Enter the question text
- Click ADD MORE ANSWER CHOICES to create a third answer choice field
- Enter the three answer choices
- Click Do you want to create an answer explanation/feedback? to add the explanation text for the correct answer
- Mark which answer is correct
- Click CREATE
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Now let’s add another question about the video. This time, let’s make it a SHORT ANSWER question. DO THIS: - Try clicking QUICK ADD pull-down menu this time instead of CREATE NEW SECTION. The QUICK ADD pull-down menu is on the right under Content Actions
- Select SHORT ANSWER
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DO THIS: - Type your short answer question into the Question field
- If you wish to include the answer for the students' to review after they submit their response, you can type it in the Answer field
- By checking the and create rubric box, you can use the answer to create a rubric for your grading purposes--the answer will automatically become part of the gradbook entry associated with the question
- Click CREATE
Now you can see the short answer question you created at the bottom of the page.
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ADMINISTRATOR FUNCTIONSAs the adminstrator of the page, you can control when it will become visible to your group. To keep the page hidden until a particular date click, DO THIS: - Click the EDIT PAGE INFO button on the right hand side of the page
- This takes you to the EDIT PAGE INFO area --note the HIDDEN UNTIL field highlighted in the example screenshot
- Fill in the HIDDEN UNTIL field with the date (DD/MM/YYYY) that you wish the page to become visible to your group
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CREATING AN ASSIGNMENT A content page does not have to be a quiz or an assignment. It could be purely informational! You might even create a content page as a "sandbox" to store information. Quite often, however, as in the example on this page, the content page you are assembling is homework or a quiz. Let's say that you've created a content page which is a comprehension quiz for a US History Course, incorporating a YouTube movie, a multichoice question and a short answer question. You associated the page with the group page that belongs to the history course you are teaching. As a result, it appears on your group page. You've marked it HIDDEN until the date of the quiz so only you can see it. In order to administer the page as a quiz, you need to CREATE AN ASSIGNMENT and associate the assignment with the content page. Let's take a look at how to do this: From your group page, DO THIS:
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