eCampus Tips for Instructors & Students

1. Log in to eCampus.
2. Mouse over the My Courses module.
3. Click the Gear Icon at the top right-hand corner of the My Courses Module.
4. On the next page, check the box next to Group by Term and click Submit.
5. The courses in the My Courses module are now organized into collapsible headings by term.
6. Click the term headings to collapse/expand the list of course in that term.

1. From the Control Panel, click Customization > Teaching Style.
2. Choose Course Entry Point in the Select Menu Style section.
3. Click Submit.

• Self-Enroll allows students to add themselves to a group with a sign-up sheet. Self-enrollment is an option available for both single groups and group sets.
• Manual Enroll allows you to assign each student in your course to a group. Manual enrollment is available for both single groups and group sets.
• Random Enroll is available for group sets only. It automatically distributes students into groups based on your settings for maximum members per group or total number of groups. Random distribution applies only to students who are currently enrolled in your course.
• Group Sets allows the instructor to set the number of Groups that are created at one time.

Instructors may also manage groups and group properties in bulk.

1. Setup and access groups from the Control Panel: Users and Groups> Groups.
2. To create a single group, select Create Single Group > Self- Enroll or Manual Enroll.
3. To create multiple groups at once, select Create Group Set >Self-Enroll, Manual Enroll or Random Enroll.

See Blackboard's Create and Manage Groups page for more information.

• Tests are sets of questions that are graded to measure student performance. Once a test is created here, it must be deployed within a content folder or learning module before students can take the test. Test results are reviewed in the Grade Center. Note that some question types are not automatically graded.
• Surveys are not graded. They are useful for gathering data from students that is not used to evaluate student performance. Surveys must be deployed in a content folder for students to respond to the survey. Pools are sets of questions that can be added to any test or survey.
• Pools are useful for storing questions and reusing them in more than one test or survey.

The difference between tests and surveys is test questions have points assigned to them for grading evaluation, whereas surveys do not. Tests and surveys are used to measure student knowledge, gauge progress, and gather information from students.

1. Instructors create goals. Instructors can email a word document with their goals to ITSHelp@mail.wvu.edu or log a ticket with eCampus Team. eCampus administrators will then create the goals.
2. Once the goals have been created, instructors can align course content to one or multiple goals. Content types include discussion forums and threads, blogs, journals, tests and individual questions, assignments, and Grade Center columns.
   

• Adaptive release: Instructor can apply one rule to a content item. This rule can contain all four types of criteria, but not multiple instances of the same type. All criteria in the rule must be satisfied before the item is released.
• Advanced adaptive release: Instructor can set more complex release criteria. For example, they can add more criteria to a rule, or specify different options for releasing the content. Students must meet all of the criteria of one of the rules to gain access.

There are four types of criteria when you create rules:

• Date: content items can be displayed based on particular dates. There are three options available:
  • After a specific date with no end date.
  • Until a specific date with no beginning date.
  • After a specific date and until a specific date.
• Grade: content items can be released based on attempt or score.
• Membership: will allow content items to appear to specific users and groups.
• Review Status: use review status criteria to release content based on a student's review of a specific content item.