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RSU E-LEARNING PORTAL
TRAINING MANUAL FOR EXAM PREPARATION
(Part A)
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Authentication, Enrollment and Logging In
To be authenticated to the e-learning portal, your details should be sent by your Head of
Department to the Director, ICTC. The details should include the following:
1. Your full names
2. Phone number and email address (School email preferably)
3. The course(s) you are teaching (Course Codes and Course titles)
Once you have been authenticated you will receive and email requesting you to activate
your account on the platform. The email will contain your user ID and a system-generated
password.
Click on the link in the email and you will be directed to the e-learning platform. You will
be required to change your password to a personalized password. For security reasons,
your password should be confidential and if possible, contain special characters.
To login, enter the URL: www.odl.ciliumgroup.com and enter your username and
password. This temporal URL is for training purposes only. The main e-learning portal
address will be sent to you soon.
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Once you are logged in, you will get to your Dashboard.
The Dashboard contains the courses you are assigned to teach under the course overview. The dashboard
contains several sections which will help you arrange your course.
1. Navigation block
Normally visible on all pages, this block helps you find your way around the course and site.
2. Administration block
Again, normally visible on all pages, this block gives different levels of access to teachers and
students.
3. Course sections
Here is where the learning materials are displayed. This element may be arranged in one or
multiple weeks, topics, forums or other (non-standard) layouts.
4. Side blocks
Which blocks you see depend on what the administrator has selected and what you as teacher
choose to add.
Course Format
There are many formats that could be used for a course. For the sake of the forth coming exams, we
will use the Topics format. To access the course format follow this: Administration > Course
administration > Edit settings.
ENROLMENT
The students will be authenticated and enrolled by the ICTC from their course registration sheets.
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ADDING ACTIVITY
To add learning content and/or activity to your
course page, you need to use the Activity Chooser.
1. Click on the Gear menu (top right corner)
and click Turn Editing on.
2. Then in the section of the course where
you intend to add the activity or resource,
click Add Activity or Resource. When the
Activity Chooser opens, select the activity
or resource you want to add. For the
coming Exams, we are to use quiz. Click
the Add button to add the activity.
Hide/Unhide Activity
To hide activity and make it invisible to students, click on the gear menu and Turn Editing On, Click
Edit button attached to the activity and then click the hide icon.
CREATING EXAMS/QUIZZES
To add an exam/quiz, Turn Editing On, then add an activity. Choose the Quiz Activity from the Activity
Chooser. Fill out the form while being careful of the Timing, Grade, Layout, and Review sections. When
done with the settings, click either Save and Return to Course or Save and Display.
To add Questions to the Exams
Click on the Exam already created and then click Edit
You can create new questions, add questions from already existing question bank or use random
questions.
Option A: Create new questions directly to the quiz
1. Click Add and add a new question
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2. Choose a type of Question to Add.
3. Fill out the details of the question and click save changes
Please note that each question type has specific fields that must be field properly to avoid wrong grading.
Multichoice Questions
1. Click Edit Quiz
2. Click Add
3. Select Multichoice Question
4. Then click Add
5. Input a question name
6. Type out the Question Text
7. Leave the Feedback field blank for now since you are not giving feedback to the students on the
correctness of their answers.
8. Insert the different options in the Answer section and give the grade. Remember that you can
have more than one answer in a question. If that is the case, then apportion the grade according.
For instance, if the question has 3 answers, each answer will have 33.3% of the grade
9. Click Save Changes
True or False Questions
Procedure is the same as multiple choice question. Remember to indicate the correct answer (True of
False) in the section provided.
Matching Questoins
The procedure is the same except for some slight deviations.
The question text is placed first and then under the answer
section, you must provide at least two questions and three
answers. You can provide extra wrong answers by giving an
answer with a blank question. Entries where both the
question and the answer are blank will be ignored.
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The options you want to match
must be placed here and the correct
answer in the answer box
Short Answer Questions
1. Click Edit Quiz
2. Click Add
3. Select Short Answer Question
4. Then click Add
5. Input a question name
6. Type out the Question Text
7. Leave the Feedback field blank for now since you are giving
feedback to the students on the correctness of their answers.
8. In the Answer section, you must provide at least one possible
answer. Answers left blank will not be used. '*' can be used as
a wildcard to match any characters. The first matching answer
will be used to determine the score and feedback.
Be careful if you must use wildcards (*). It is advisable that you set questions requiring short answers that
are straight forward or else, students may fail the question even when they provided the correct answer.
Remember to also set the grade to 100% if there is only one answer.
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Essay Questions
The procedure is the same as in other question types.
Remember to include the number of lines that you
want the essay to be. Be considerate of the time you
have set for the exams. For now, it is advisable not to
ask students to upload any file for this type of question.
This is because students are still new to this LMS and
may go out of the website to locate their files. This will
automatically close the exam and the student will be
stopped immediately.
Note: Essay Questions are graded manually.
Option B: The Question Bank
First add questions to the question bank by following the path: Courses > Administration
> Question Bank. Then click Create New Question.
To Add Question from Question Bank
1. Click Edit Quiz
2. Click Add and select From Question Bank
3. Check the boxes close to the questions
you want to select from the question
bank.
4. Click Add Selected Questions to the Quiz.
Option C: Adding Random question Set
This function enables the teacher to set random questions from the question bank, such
that each student has a different question combination. This is only possible if questions
have been uploaded to the question bank. Please note, that you have to set the marks
for each of the questions in line with the total score of the quiz or exam.
To add random question set,
1. Click Edit Quiz,
2. Click Add and Add Random Question
3. Then select the number of questions you want.
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4. Scroll down and click Add random questions
Check the scores by the right hand and ensure the agree with the maximum grade you
have created for the exam on the top right.
Preview Quiz
As a teacher, you can preview the quiz and also change your role to that of a student so
that you can view the quiz as a student will view it. To preview the quiz, to the
Administration block and click Preview Quiz.
To change your role to a student, click the arrow next to your name in the Status bar and
then choose Switch Role to….
Select Student and then your view will change to Student view. Remember to change
your role back to a teacher.
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Grade Book Setup
The grade book shows you the grade patterns for the activities in the course and helps
you to arrange the gradings in an objective manner. To get to the Grade book, click
Grades under the Navigation bar in the course page.
The Grader Report opens which shows
you all the participants in the course
and their grades. Click on Setup and
then click grade book setup to add
grade item and categories.
Click Add grade item to add an activity
item. You can also add the weight that
the activity has towards the entire
course.
Fill out the Item Name and click Save Changes. The Maximum grade for an activity is
determined when the Activity is being setup. However, you can set out the weigh of each
activity and also create categories. A category is a way of grouping similar activities. For
instance we can create a category called, Continuous Assessment which will contain Class
test, Class Assignment and attendance as Activities.
To create Category, click Add Category and then click Save Challenges. Grade Items in the
grade book can be arranged and moved up and down into the appropriate categories.
