Overview

This is a quick-start user guide for teachers. The aim of this guide is to give the ULearning teacher users the necessary knowledge and skills to use ULearning LMS. By following the steps in this guide, you can quick start your journey to perform the most common LMS tasks as a teacher.

This guide is organized around the necessary tasks you will perform, step by step accompanied by ULearning platform screenshots.

Quick Start Checklist for Teaching with ULearning

This checklist provides a high-level overview of steps to take as you continue to transition from face-to-face to online learning with ULearning. Unfortunately, there is no magic wand to automatically convert your face-to-face course to online, but we want to help you get started with these easy-to-follow steps.

After you get familiar with these basic steps, you can put your creativity into full play and explore a full range of possibilities with ULearning.

Steps/Tasks

LMS Log in

• First things first: Platform URL, your username, and password

Course Setup

• Before the course starts
• Create course
  • As a new user to use ULearning, this is your starting point
• Create class
  • When you're creating a new course, a default class will also be created for your course.
  • You can create more class(es) as desired
• Enroll students
  • This is usually handled by your school's administrative staff
  • But sometimes, you need to do it too
• Add teacher to course
  • A course can be co-taught or co-managed by multiple teachers.
• Assign teacher to class
  • A class can be co-taught by multiple teachers in different roles:
    • Course admin
    • Teacher
    • TA (Teaching Assistant)

Courseware Setup

• Usually before the course starts, but you can also create and add more courseware to the course after the course starts
• Author courseware
  • Reusable and sharable digital learning content in HTML format
  • Authored using ULearning proprietary authoring tool: U-Author
  • Structured into 5 layers: Courseware, Module, Topic, Page, and Content Elements (text, images, videos, practice questions, etc.)
  • It could be authored by somebody else and then shared with you
  • It can also be co-authored by a team
• Preview courseware
  • View the digital learning content in editing as you were a student
• Publish courseware
  • Make it available to students. Before it is published, only you can see it
• Insert courseware into course
  • A courseware itself can be consumed standalone
  • But most commonly, it is used with a course and could be reused by many courses and over time again and again

Teaching/Learning Activities and Resources

• Various teaching/learning activities and events happen after the course starts, including extra learning resources added to the course.
• Announcements
  • Creating/Publishing announcement
    • You can use announcements to do many things creatively
    • You can differentiate announcements by class
• Resources
  • Adding resource
  • Creating micro course
    • Extra learning resources other than courseware
    • Many different formats: images, videos, audios, documents, links, ULearning pages, etc.
    • You can convert PPT/PDF and image into a micro course with ULearning's built-in and easy-to-use micro-course authoring tool
• Assignments
  • Creating assignment
  • Publishing assignment
  • Grading assignment
    • Three types of assignments: Individual, group, and quiz
  • Creating a quiz for the first time
    • Creating questions and adding them to the Question Bank
    • Creating a quiz
    • Inserting questions from the Question Bank to the quiz
  • Both graded and ungraded (by assigning 0 points)
  • You can differentiate announcements by class
• Discussions
  • Creating/Publishing discussion
  • Grading discussion
  • Replying to a discussion
  • You can use discussions to do many things creatively
  • You can differentiate discussions by class
  • You can manually overweight the scores assigned by the system based on the scoring rules you set up

Assessments & Evaluations

• After the course starts and even after the course ends
• Exams
  • Creating exam questions
  • Creating exams
  • Creating class exams and sessions
  • Grading class exams
    • Two types of Class Exams
      • Class exams using pre-defined exam(s)
      • Class exams using a randomly generated exam by directly drawing questions from the Question Bank based on the drawing rule you defined.
  • Exam events happen after the course starts, but preparing it can happen far before the course starts
  • You can differentiate discussions by class and students
• Grades
  • Setting grading rules
  • Viewing grades
  • Exporting grades
  • Theoretically, you can set the grading rules toward the end of the course. But in reality, you should set the grading rules as early as possible (even before the course starts) so that students have a clear understanding of the expectations and how the course will be evaluated
  • You can differentiate grading rules by class

Data and Analysis

• Analytics
  • Viewing data
  • Interpreting data
• Continuously keeping an eye on course data as the course progresses
• Finding trends and identifying problems
• Being ready to make changes