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More Teacher Info

• Reporting Course Errors

• Teacher Keys

• Making your Own Intro Video

• What is LTI?

• Test Notification Issues

• Student Enrollment Expired

• Student Progress

• Test Issues

• Modifying a Test

• Combining Courses

Reporting Course Errors

Our development strategy involves major contributions by practicing BC teachers.   This helps keep content practical and relavent, but also opens opportunities for typos and minor errors.   If you run into an error, please report ASAP through this site within the Discussion Forums.

At the top of the Discussion Forums, you'll find a video on how to subscribe to the appropriate forums.

Scrolling down from there, you'll find the course-specific forums, teacher keys, and course downloads.

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Teacher Keys

Scroll way down in the Discussion Forums area (see above), and you'll find the Teacher Keys.

Because access to the WCLN.ca site is based on teacher email addresses, and some districts have student accounts that closely match teacher email formats, we have to be careful about who can access keys.

For this reason, those districts that have student email formats that are script-indistinguishable from teacher accounts, you'll need to have the local OL administrator email Brent to confirm your account as a teacher in that district. First, make yourself a WCLN account, THEN have your admin email the request.

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Making Your Own Intro Video

Note that the following video was done for a Moodle course. All steps are the exact same in D2L, other than where you turn on editing for the intro.

Sample:

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What is LTI?

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) is an education technology specification developed by the IMS Global Learning Consortium.

It allows an LMS (such as D2L, Moodle, or Canvas) to securely receive course content and tools from an external server.

Why does WCLN use LTI?

• • Courses are more up-to-date and students benefit immediately with new games, projects, videos, etc...
  • If one teacher reports an error, everybody benefits (as a consortium should).
  • Although reporting errors takes time, the individual effort to keep courses current is reduced.
  • Teacher ideas for improvement find their way to the Discussion Forum for conversation (Pro-D interactions). 

Spero LTI & Terminology

Rather than building/maintaining our own LTI system, we partner with Spero, who has been pushing ahead in the LTI universe for a number of years.   Their system aligns nicely with the goals of helping teachers maintain strong courses easily and in a flexible way.

To help with communication, please note this terminology:

• • The icons that you click in your course are called Lessons.
  • Within each Lesson, there are a number of Readings.
  • Each Reading has an identifier as a link in the bottom-left.

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Test Notifications

Not sure if you're getting notifications about quiz/tests?  Good to quickly double-check:

Summary:

• • • go into a lesson > hamburger icon > account settings
    • Your courses should be "immediately" (or daily or weekly)
    • All other courses should be never

What causes the change?

• • • at the bottom of notifications, you have the standard option to unsubscribe
    • if going too quickly, you may accidentally click this and turn off notifications

Catching-up:

If you had to fix your settings and want to catch up on quizzes or tests where you missed notifications, just use your Dashboard to see recent activity.

• • • go into a lesson > hamburger icon > View Report Dashboard.
    • You can catch all the ones requiring grading in the first box.
    • You can scan student progress that you missed in the second.

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Student Enrollment Expired

If a student has been enrolled in the same course for over a year, their Spero enrollment can expire.

You can quickly extend an enrollment at any time. See:

https://help.studyforge.net/knowledge/how-do-i-extend-an-enrollment-period

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Student Progress

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Test Issues

If you have difficulties with a test or quiz not working for your students, consider:

• • It is possible that updates on the master have caused a problem and we need to fix on our end.   A post would let us know.
  • It is possible that the master is working perfectly and there has been a disconnect on the user end.   To dig deeper into this:
    • Go to the Quiz
    • Edit Quiz
    • If you see blue edit button*, then it means that the quiz currently matches the WCLN master.
    • If you don't see the blue button*, then there is some difference between yours and the master.
    • Once in, you can see details in History.
    • If there HAVE been changes made, you'll see the option to "Revert to default questions"
    • This will reset your quiz/test back to match the current publisher's quiz-build.   It won't change your "quiz settings" setups.

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Modifying a Test

If you find an error or have an idea for improving a test question, please post in the Discussion Forum (including the question ID), and it will be quickly resolved.

If you are wanting to 

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Combining Courses

Spero permissions categorize the lessons/readings into specific courses.   Thus, you (currently) are unable to pull content from one course into another.

Given that, there's an easy way around it.

1. 1. Make a brand new course in Spero.
   2. Pull the lessons that you want from one course into this new one.
   3. Pull the lessons from whatever other course you want into it.

Basically, you're doing the same thing, but avoiding the permission limitations - all your new pointers are happy in their new location.

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