Course Features (FrontEnd)

Frontend Course Management for course administrators, teachers, and students

Announcements

The “Announcement” module adds a news and communication board to your course.

The announcements area allows the teacher or person managing the course to publish a communication for the students, sending a personal notification to each user’s e-mail box.

View and manage Announcements

All the course users with view permissions on the module can read announcements 

Students will be able to read and archive under the “history” tab, announcements they can see.

This is the full view for user roles with edit permission on the module (i.e., course administrators, teachers, tutors):

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Insert an announcement

When adding a new announcement, you can define:

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Report Card

This module shows to the user his own scores in tests, SCORM and classroom activities.

Visibility of each evaluation item can be set in gradebook module

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Newsletter (Course)

This module allows course managers (i.e., administrators, teachers, courses) to mass-email users subscribed to subscribed users.

Features:

It is also possible to choose which users to send the communication to based on the language in which the platform is configured.

The communication can be sent either by e-mail or SMS (when this service is managed by the platform).

Check also the Global Newsletter settings

Manage Menu

This module is generally assigned only to course administrators, with view and edit permissions, and located under

Teacher Area > Manage Menu

This module will let you:

Changes made here will affect only the present course specific menu, and won't reflect on general menu templates or any other course: this will give you maximum flexibility with menu management and customization.

If you need to apply changes to several courses, consider assigning or creating a menu template from general administration, or ask a god admin to do that.

Please refer to the general menu management feature for details.

Course Forum

Course forums will be available to all course users, or only selected course users

The feature is usually located under the “Collaborative Area” menu, but you can use the menu management feature to:

Check the global community forum guide for details about forum creation and management

Gradebook

The gradebook is one of the most important and useful course features, used to manage all the evaluation activities in a course:

Overview

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View Answer stats

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Edit test gradebook options

 

Use the “Edit” icon for each test to see a list of the scores for all the user. You will also be able to:

Configure:

Plus, for each user you can

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Test execution detail

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Add a new activity

Here, you can also manually add more scores to be calculated for the final course score:

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Detail

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View History

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Edit Final score

Click on the icons on the “Final score” column to:

Course Stats

Forma provides different stats to monitor course and user progress:

These features are usually located under the “Stats Area” of the course menu

Usage Stats

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Click on the username for a detail of the user's sessions in this course:

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User Stats

User statistics provide the teacher with a report on the activities of each individual, highlighting their level of progress in the course.

By clicking on the name of each user, their progress status for each course object can be viewed.

 

Displays:

 

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Filter for the desired criteria, or click on a username for details:

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LO Stats

In statistics by object, a comparison can be made regarding the status of all the users in relation to a specific learning object.

It is also possible to view the aggregated results of a survey.

On the initial screen, the objects for which the comparison is to be made can be selected by clicking on the magnifying glasses.

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User/Objects Grid

The “User Object Grid” module allows:

Overview

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User Report

Click on a username to see detailed information:

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LO Details

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