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How do I leave comments for students in the Gradebook?
If you want to leave simple feedback for your students, you can leave a text comment directly from the Gradebook. Open Gradebook In Course Navigation, click the Grades link. Open Grade Detail Tray Locate the student name and assignment where you want ...
How do I curve grades in the Gradebook?
You can use the Gradebook to curve grades for an assignment. In the academic community, curving grades is advisable if only a certain number of students can pass, or when you require a fixed distribution of grades distributed throughout the class. To ...
How do I use modules to view the progress of students in a course?
Within Modules, you can view the progress of your students and see how they are progressing through the course. Module progress is determined by the students completing required elements in the module. If you don't set up any requirements, you won't ...
How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?
As an instructor, you can publish or unpublish a module in a course. Unpublished modules are invisible to students. Modules control the entire flow of your course and its content. When you add items to a Module, please be aware that the status of the ...
How do I prevent students from switching groups in self sign-up groups?
When self-sign up is enabled for a group, students are able to switch groups. To prevent students from switching groups you can disable self sign-up at any time. If a group has a student leader, the leader will be able to manage group memberships ...
How do I automatically create groups in a group set?
In a group set, you can automatically create groups for users to participate in. You can also manually create groups in a group set or create groups by importing a CSV file. Open People and Add Group Set Create Group Set Name your new group by typing ...
How do I add a group set in a course?
Group sets house the different groups within a course. Before creating a new group set, you may want to view the existing group sets. You can also clone an existing group set. You can also edit or delete an existing group set. Once you have created a ...
How do I view all groups in a course as an instructor?
The Astria LMS has two types of groups: student groups and group sets. Student groups can be created by either an instructor or a student and are self-organized by students. Group sets are groups that you create to use for graded assignments. Open ...
How do I give extra credit in a course?
Extra credit is currently not a default option in the Astria LMS. However, you can give students extra credit using a variety of options. Notes: If you are weighing your assignment groups, please pay attention to how weighted groups can affect the ...
How do I exclude an assignment from the course's final grades?
When creating an assignment, you can choose to not count assignments toward the final grade. This feature allows you to provide feedback for assignments without the assignment counting toward Gradebook calculations. By default, everyone in the course ...
How do I download assignment submissions from all my courses?
As a student, you can download all your assignment submissions in the LMS. Submissions are for both current and concluded courses and only includes any files that were submitted to fulfill an assignment; they do not include any submissions modified ...
How do I create rules for an assignment group?
Once you have added assignments to your assignment group, you can create rules for the entire assignment group. Assignment group rules determine how the LMS handles any exceptions you want to create for grade calculations. Assignment groups can be ...
What is the difference between assignment due dates and availability dates?
In addition to setting a due date for an assignment, instructors can specify a specific date range when students can submit the assignment. These dates are called availability dates. These dates are optional and can be set depending how you want to ...
How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?
When you download all student submissions for an assignment, you can re-upload the assignment submissions as a bulk upload in your course. Please make sure you have not changed the names of the submission files from your bulk download. If the file ...
How do I download all student submissions for an assignment?
If you want to download all student submissions for an assignment, you can download them as a bulk download. All submissions are downloaded as a single ZIP file that you can use to grade submissions on your computer offline. If a student has ...
How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
When you download all student submissions from the Gradebook, you can re-upload the assignment submissions as a bulk upload in your course. Please make sure you have not changed the names of the submission files from your bulk download. If the file ...
How do I download all student submissions for an assignment in the Gradebook?
If you want to download all student submissions for an assignment, you can download them from the Gradebook in a bulk download. All submissions are downloaded as a single ZIP file that you can use to grade submissions on your computer offline. If a ...
How do I delay posting an announcement until a specific date in a course?
You can set new announcements to post at a certain date and time. The delayed post information also displays directly in the Announcements page. Delayed announcements are not displayed to students until the intended date and time. Notes: If you ...
How do I view and sort announcement replies as an instructor?
You can view all replies in an announcement by scrolling or searching content. Announcement replies are hierarchical, collapsable, and expandable. Note: Not all announcements may allow replies. Additionally, announcement replies may be disabled in ...
What are Question Banks?
You can create account and sub-account level Question Banks in your LMS instance. This allows anyone in the account to have access to the questions. Open Question Banks Account-level question banks are question banks created and stored at the account ...
What is the Observer role?
In the Astria LMS, the Observer role can be used to enroll parents, mentors, and guests who would like to participate in a course but do not need to earn course credit. Observers have limited permissions that allow them to see what is going on in a ...
What is the Student role?
In the Astria LMS, the Student role is most commonly used to enroll users who will participate in a course for course credit. Users enrolled as Students can view course content and participate in course assignments and communications. Students cannot ...
What is the Teacher Assistant role?
In the Astria LMS, the Teacher Assistant role is most commonly used to enroll individuals who will work with and support a teacher in a course and who do not need to earn course credit. Teachers are also referred to as instructors in the LMS. Teacher ...
What is the Admin role?
In the Astria LMS, the Admin role is the administrator role. Users assigned the Admin role oversee and manage an institution's LMS account or a sub-account within an institution. Admin permissions allow users to manage terms, create courses, view and ...
What is the Designer role?
In the Astria LMS, the Designer role is used to enroll users responsible for course creation and management. In general, users with the Designer role have permissions that allow them to create and curate course content and view course usage data. ...
What is the Teacher role?
In the Astria LMS, the Teacher role is used to enroll users responsible for course creation, instruction, and management. Teachers are also referred to as instructors in the LMS. In general, users with the Teacher role have permissions that allow ...
How do I use the Conferences interface as a moderator or presenter?
Once you have started a conference or joined a conference as a moderator, you can use the Conferences interface to moderate and participate in the conference. Any user who starts a conference or an instructor who joins the conference will be given ...
How do I create a conference in a course?
In this article you will learn how to create a conference in a course. You can create a conference in a course to hold virtual office hours and speakers. Conference invitations are sent out when the conference is created. To alert invitees about ...
How do I use the Conferences Page?
The Conferences Index Page allows you to view all the conferences within a course. As an instructor, you can create new conferences, start conferences, and manage concluded conferences. View Conferences Conferences are grouped in two parts: New ...
What are Conferences?
Conferences are primarily used for virtual lectures, virtual office hours, and student groups. They can also be used to demonstrate technologies or troubleshoot technology issues online. For best performance, Conferences should be limited to 100 ...
How do I use SpeedGrader?
SpeedGrader makes it easy to evaluate individual student assignments and group assignments quickly. SpeedGrader displays assignment submissions for active students in your course. However, SpeedGrader displays assignment submissions according to the ...
How do I use the Gradebook?
The Gradebook helps instructors easily view and enter grades for students. Depending on the Grade display type, grades for each assignment can be viewed as points, percentage, complete or incomplete, GPA scale, or letter grade. Only graded ...
How do I add a rubric in a course?
If you cannot find a rubric you want to use in your course, you can create a new rubric. Once you create a rubric, the rubric is saved in your course for future use. You can add the rubric to an assignment and use the rubric for grading and adding ...
How do I create an outcome for a course?
If you cannot find an outcome to use in your course, you can create a new outcome. Outcomes can be included in assignment rubrics as an easy way to assess mastery of learning objectives. When you create a learning outcome, you should also define a ...
How do I export a course?
You can export a course to give to someone in another account, to upload to another institution's account at a later date, or to create a copy as a backup on your local computer. You can import an export file into the Astria LMS at any time. Exports ...
How do I import course export package?
If you have a course export package that you want to use in the LMS, or you have previously exported a course, you can import the course as a course export package. An export package is imported as an IMSCC file. Open Settings Select Content Type In ...
How do I copy content from another course using the Course Import tool?
You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous courses into existing courses. You only have access to copy content from courses in which you are enrolled as a user with instructor permissions. This ...
How do I copy a course into a new course shell?
If you are allowed to create courses, you can copy a course and create a new course shell. Copied courses are added to the same subaccount as the course that is copied. Courses should be copied when you want to use or repurpose previously created ...
Course Student View
Student View allows you to see the course as a student views it and create a Test Student for your course. You can use Student View to see how your students view assignments, discussions, quizzes, and other areas of the Astria LMS. Please note that ...
How do I add prerequisites to a module?
When you set up prerequisite modules, students must complete a module before moving to the next module. Please note that you cannot prevent a student from accessing an upcoming module unless prerequisites have been set for the prior modules. For each ...
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