The course settings page is a dashboard style page with multiple settings for Courses arranged into tabs
Uniquely identifies the course.
Set the course to be Conventional or Open
The title the course is given when being displayed.
There can often be multiple courses with the same title. The section is used to differentiate them. It displayed next to the Course Title.
A text input allowing professors to provide more information about their course to their students.
The day that the course becomes active.
The day the course finishes.
The Textbook that is accompanying the course.
If enabled, students will need to pay to sign up for this course.
Prices are rounded to the nearest cent.
Allow students to see exercise weights.
Allow students to see their letter grades. Set this to true to let the students see what their marks map to with the Grading Scheme.
If one of your exercises' ids is searched when importing exercises, should it appear in the search?
If this is checked, professors will be able to search for your exercises by its exercise id and import it into their courses.
If this is not checked, then this course's exercises will be private, and will not be able to be searched for.
Allow students to join your course by entering the course id.
If this is checked, students will be able to join your course by searching for it in the classes tab in the Dashboard.
If this is not checked, the course will be private, and the professor will need to add each student to their course.
Require students to submit an application via course id that requires professor approval before joining.
If this is checked, the student process to join the course will send an application instead of joining them in the course immediately.
Clicking this button in the top right of the page will open a Modal for creating a grading scheme for your course. Each row of the grading scheme has the following properties
The Grade that the a mark is worth if it falls between the minimum and maximum percentage, typically a letter such as A or B.
The lowest percentage the mark can be worth to get the corresponding grade
The highest percentage the mark can be worth to get the corresponding grade
The Grade Point Average that a letter grade is worth. This is optional, and does not need to be filled in to save changes to the grading scheme.
A Course Copy Request is for the creation of a new course that has all of the settings and exercise of the course being copied.
It is possible to copy all of the active exercises from one course to another course. Because the process can be time consuming and require copying a lot of data, EduRITA requires that a request is made to copy exercises from one course to another, and an administrator fulfills the request later. This section has a button to make a request, and a button to review the status of the requests that have been made.
If you wish to remove this course from your list of active courses, this button can be used to do so.
This section sets default values when creating new Exercises
The weight that each Quiz will have by default when calculating the final grade
The weight that each Assignment will have by default when calculating the final grade
The weight that each In Class Exercise will have by default when calculating the final grade
When creating an exercise, you will be asked for the time that it starts. EduRITA will add this value to it to create the deadline.
When creating an exercise, you will be asked for the time that it starts. EduRITA will add this value to the created deadline.
When creating an exercise, you will be asked for the time that it starts. EduRITA will add this value to the created deadline.
When creating an exercise, you will be asked for the time that it starts. EduRITA will add this value to the created deadline.
If checked, then students will have a time limit when they start their exercise
The default time limit Quizzes will have in minutes.
The default time limit Assignments will have in minutes.
Randomizes the order the questions are displayed in to the students. This is useful for ensuring the exercises students work on are more unique.
Randomize the order of Answers in Multiple Choice, Multiple Selection, Matching, and Categorizing Questions
Uses random number generation to make questions unique
Give students a limited number of attempts to answer questions
Determines whether students can submit late work. If enabled, students have until the late deadline to submit their work, and will receive a penalty to their marks set by the Late Penalty setting
Tells students whether their answers are correct or not after submitting.
If enabled the answer that has the highest mark will be used when calculating grades. If disabled the answer that was submitted most recently will be used when calculating grades.
Alerts students if their submissions contain a mistake that could cost them their mark.
Allow students to see the hints written for question parts while answering questions in the exercise.
Enables an input for the students to provide more detailed explanation for their answers.
Allows students to return to previously answered or skipped questions. This is only meaningful for Quizzes.
When viewing exercise grades, give the option for students to view summary statistics for the entire class.
Provide a button that lets students revert their work to the value of their submission kept for grading, clearing it if they have not yet submitted an a
These settings only apply to newly created questions
For questions added from the repo, settings need to be changed when Editing them.
Should the answer be incorrect if it isn't rounded to the correct number of digits?
Tolerance is the acceptable error an answer can have while still being correct. The tolerance type can be units or percent.
The acceptable error an answer can have while still being correct.
There are three types of verification for marking short answer questions:
If this is checked, then capitalization will be important while evaluating the answer. If not, then the answer will be converted to lower case before evaluation.
Remove empty space at the start and end of an answer before grading.
EduRITA uses the package Ryacas to evaluate Algerbraic Answer Questions
Should EduRITA simplify answers before evaluating?
If this is selected, EduRITA will mark an answer as correct so long as it is equivalent to the correct answer.
If this is not selected, EduRITA will only mark an answer as correct if it is correctly simplified before submitting.
Shiould students get part marks if they didn't simplify their answers?
If this is selected, EduRITA will provide part marks when an answer is equivalent to the correct answer, but not simplified.
The percentage that part marks are worth
These settings only apply to newly created questions
For questions added from the repo, settings need to be changed when Editing them.
Should the answer be incorrect if it isn't rounded to the correct number of digits?
Tolerance is the acceptable error an answer can have while still being correct. The tolerance type can be units or percent.
The acceptable error an answer can have while still being correct.
There are three types of verification for marking short answer questions:
If this is checked, then capitalization will be important while evaluating the answer. If not, then the answer will be converted to lower case before evaluation.
Remove empty space at the start and end of an answer before grading.
This tab is used to control which of our supplementary applications appear in the Apps tab for students in your class.