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Information Technology Teaching and Learning with NYU Classes Teaching and Learning with NYU Classes NYU Classes allows instructors to create a customized online site to accompany the

Information Technology

Teaching and Learning with NYU Classes

Teaching and Learning

with NYU Classes

NYU Classes allows instructors to create a customized online site to accompany their course Determining which tools within NYU Classes are necessary to achieve specific pedagogical goals is the first step towards designing a site The below document includes four common teaching and learning objectives many instructors facilitate with the help of a learning management system Each solution offered corresponds to several tools within NYU Classes Click here to download the Teaching and Learning with NYU Classes guide

How can I publish

information about

my course?

Solution: Settings, Syllabus,

Announcements, and Calendar

You can edit the name of your

course site along with the

information displayed on the home

page of your course site by going

to Settings > Edit Site Information

Add text, images, or even a video to

introduce your students to your

course!

Use the Syllabus Tool to inform

your students about the course description, objectives, and much more! You can either create and add Syllabus Items, or Redirect to an existing syllabus file that you’ve

uploaded to your Resources folder,

or have as an external URL

Use the Announcements Tool to

inform your students about upcoming events, meetings, or date changes Add an attachment or send

an accompanying email notification with new announcements The Announcements Tool will even automatically create notifications for:

o The Assignments Tool

o The Tests & Quizzes Tool

All course site Announcements will

filter into the home page of your course site

Use the Calendar Tool to organize

the course calendar for your students Each item added to the calendar can be customized to include a title, message, duration time, event location, and event frequency Events can be created for your entire course or select groups

How can I make

course content

available to my

students?

Solution: Resources, Groups,

News, External Link and Lessons

The Resources Tool is the place for

all your course documents and files

Within the Resources Tool, you can:

o Upload files (PDF, Word, images)

o Add web links (URLs)

o Create and organize multiple

folders

Resources folders can be available

to your entire course, or specific

Groups or Sections

Just want to share content with

specific students? Create Groups!

Within Settings, you can manually Manage Groups Send Messages, Assignment, and Announcements to specific groups, or create unique Resource Folders, Forums, and Tests and Quizzes just for groups

The News Tool is an RSS reader;

this allows you to embed any RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feed into your course site An RSS feed collects news updates in real time

RSS feeds are available from a variety of outside news or blog websites Within your course site, you may have more than one News Tool

The External Link Tool allows you

to share any website within your course site! The External Link Tool can either display the web site within the body of your course site, or open

in a new tab Within your course site, you may have more than

one External Link Tool

The Lessons Tool helps organize

various forms of content, interaction, and participation within your course site and presents them as a series of intuitive modules, or lessons, that your students may follow By aggregating the functionality and data within other tools into a single place, you can drastically simplify the tasks required of your students Content/functionality can either be created directly within the tool, or aggregated from the existing tools within your NYU Classes course site

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Teaching and Learning with NYU Classes

How can I

encourage

collaboration?

Solution: Forums, Chat

Room, Messages, Set

Permissions, Roster

Use Forums Tool to facilitate

asynchronous discussions with your

students The Forums Tool can hold

multiple forums, topics, and

threads Note: Notifications are sent

to your email address when an

individual replies to your thread to

encourage ongoing participation

Use the Chat Room to facilitate

synchronous discussions with your

students The Chat Room can hold multiple rooms open to all

participants within your course site

or select groups

All course site participants may use

the Message Tool to send private

messages; Messages can be sent to individual or multiple recipients as well as to

specific Groups and/or Sections withi

n the course site Note: All

messages are sent, received, and recorded within the Message tool;

only a copy of an NYU Classes message may be sent to a recipient’s personal email address

Setting Permissions within several

tools allows instructors to determine the level of participation they’d like their students and/or TAs to have

within a course site Below are the tools with Permission settings:

o Resources

o Calendar

o Announcements

o Forums & Topics

o Assignments

o Gradebook (TA only)

o Chat Room

Use the Roster Tool to help both

you and your students know each other better! The Roster Tool displays all site participants’ names, their role in your course site, and their NYU Classes My Profile!

Note: To create or edit your NYU

Classes My Profile, go to My

Workspace > My Profile

How can I grade

students’ work or

provide feedback?

Solution: Gradebook, File

Exchange Tool

Use the Gradebook as a way to

organize all of the work and tasks

you assign to your students

The Gradebook can be custom

configured in several ways including

weighted categories or setting your

own grade scale

The Gradebook can automatically

collect and organize graded items

from Forums, Assignments, and

Tests and Quizzes:

o To grade student work in Forums, you must first create an item/entry

in Gradebook and then link the desired Forum or Topic You can either grade students’ discussions (thread) within the Forum or from the Gradebook Statistical information within the Forum is provided to help determine participation

o To grade Assignments, you may either add the Assignment to the Gradebook, or link the Assignment

to an existing Gradebook item/entry Feedback for an assignment is done through

the Assignments Tool Note: If

you add an Assignment to the Gradebook you will only be able to assign and modify grades via the Assignment Tool and not directly from the Gradebook

o To grade Tests and Quizzes, a Gradebook item/entry will be created once your assessment is

published Note: Unlike Forums

and Assignments, you cannot create a grade book entry first then link to a specific test/quiz

The File Exchange Tool is a quick

way to share private files or documents with each of your students This tool provides an individual folder for each student in your course Both students and the instructor are notified when a file has been added to their File Exchange

tool Note: The File Exchange tool is

not integrated with the Gradebook

NOTE: To turn on any tool within your course site, go to Settings > Add/Edit Tools