IBM Partner Pavilion 2.5 manual MediaCenter option, Assessment Manager options

MediaCenter option

1.If you want to enable the course designer to allow students to create or join discussions from MediaCenter documents, leave the “Show Start/Join Discussion buttons” option selected. Otherwise, deselect this option.

2.If you want students to be able to create their own annotations to MediaCenter documents, leave the “Show Annotations buttons?” option selected.

3.Click OK.

Assessment Manager options

This dialog box only appears if you selected “Enable Assessment Manager?” in the Course Locations dialog box.

In some cases, you may want an Assessment Manager for a course, but may not use all of its features. This dialog box allows you to select the parts of the Assessment Manager you want to use.

1.If you want to enable automatic grading of assessments in the course, leave the “Is this course graded?” option selected. Otherwise, deselect this option.

This option allows LearningSpace to automatically grade certain question types in assessments when the instructor retrieves completed assessments.

2.If you want to enable e-mail notifications to students, select the “Mail Acknowledgments?” option. Otherwise, deselect this option

This option causes e-mail messages to be sent to students when an instructor retrieves completed assessments or assignments and allows instructors to notify students when their grades are posted. For this option to work, students must have entered e-mail addresses in their profile documents, and must choose to accept notifications.

3.(Optional) Edit the Default Assessment Instructions.

This text provides information to students about taking an assessment. These are the default instructions. Instructions for individual assessments can be modified when you create the assessment.

4.Click OK.

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