Drive... 9 Uploading Files to Drive... 9 Managing Files in Drive Create A Bundle... 11

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Groups ... 2

Using an Auto Approve Code ... 7

Admin Options... 8

Drive ... 9

Uploading Files to Drive ... 9

Managing Files in Drive ... 10

Create A Bundle ... 11

Schoolwork ... 13

Create a New Quiz ... 13

Importing Questions... 14

MBC Documents ... 14

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Groups

Groups allow you communicate all at once with a group of students or staff members. You can create groups for each of your classes.

Clicking on the Groups icon in the MBC sidebar takes you to the Groups section.

You can see all your groups listed (both the ones you own and the others you belong to) Search your groups using the search box, filter the groups by active, Archived, Topics or Owned by Me.

Create A Group

To create a group, use the button “Create new group”.

Fill out the form. Add a picture if you have one to identify the group.

Click Save to create the group.

Note you can choose to create a group or a topic.

Topics are groups that allows membership across school boundaries and enrollments are auto-approved.

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Group Site

Once your group is created you will be taken to the group web site. There are 8 sections that make up a group site. You can disable all but the home page by editing your group settings.

Home

The home page is the first page of your Group. To add content to the home page use

the Admin Options >> Edit.

Announcements

The announcements section of the group is where you can post short (255 character) messages to your students. Depending on their notification settings they can also

receive notification of the announcement via email or text message.

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Discussions

Discussions are online discussion threads that you can use to extend a classroom discussion online. If the administrator has given the students permission then they can reply to posts made the teachers and their classmates. You can attach library items, photos, quicklinks or bundles to the post.

Chat

Chat is a synchronous communication tool for your group. You can do video chat (with enabled devices) and text chat. Any member of the group can connect and post messages in an IM fashion.

Connected users appear in the available section.

Previous messages remain visible for your group. You could use chat for virtual office hours.

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Pages

Pages are wiki-like custom pages that you can add to your groups. Use group Pages for a course outlines, classroom wikis, student journals, and lecture notes. You can give

students permission to edit or create pages in the edit settings.

Resources

Group Resources are the perfect place to store items that you would like easily accessible to your group members. These can include documents, videos,

presentations, photos, etc. Resources can be added from either your computer, the MBC Library or from Drive.

You can add as many files as you like. They appear below the box as you add them. In the example we click on Drive and choose Google Docs. We searched for All About me and the results list my Google Drive docs with that name.

Once done, click Share Attached Items and they are added to the group.

Note: Once you add something to share with a group it is also added directly to Drive.

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Group Calendar

The calendar shows group events, schoolwork and assignments that have been created by the teacher. You can subscribe to the calendar with mobile devices or calendar software.

Members

The member’s tab shows the members of the group in a list. You can give admin rights to existing members using the options menu. You can also remove the user using that menu item.

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You can add members to your section by using the Add Users button or by inviting users by email and giving them an auto approve code.

To add students to your group click Members and type the name of the person you wish to add into the Search for users box. The list will auto populate with choices click on the name to add it. The name will appear as a little box inside the search field. Type more names to add more people.

Once you are done click Add Users and they will appear in a list. You can grant admin rights to users (e.g. other teachers) or remove people using the links provided.

Using an Auto Approve Code

You can enable the course Auto Approve Code by clicking on Edit on your main course screen and then clicking the add code link next to Auto Approve Code

You can distribute this code to your students to allow them to register for your course on their own. Students with existing MyBigCampus accounts can

use the Access Code to enroll in your class without having to create a new account. The easiest way to have students sign up for your group is to use the Find a Group link in the orange box at the top of the groups page.

They then use the Join by Code button on the next screen and type in the code you gave them and they are enrolled in your group.

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Admin Options

The admin options menu is where you can Edit the settings for your group.

Edit - The home page content of the group can be edited in the Editor box on the page. Additionally you can disable/enable your page tabs (Chat, Disucussions etc.)

Maintainance - This section allows you to clean up your group at the end of the year. Remove members and clear out old announcments. Import – Import from Angel or Moodle 2.

Export – Export your course in a zip file. Clone – Make an exact copy of your group. Merge to – Merge your group into another group. Delete Group – Delete your group.

Lock Group – Selecting this item will lock all not group communication (messages/posting on walls etc.)

Archive – Moves your group out of the groups search. Can be accessed by clicking the Archive button on the main groups page.

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Drive

Drive allows for the private file storage of your photos, documents, bundles, schoolwork, Library items, and uploaded files. These files can be accessed anywhere, anytime, and on any device on My Big Campus.

You will find a number of permanent folders in Drive that contain content from other parts of MyBigCampus.

Bundles, Documents, Library, MBC Docs, Photos Schoolwork and Shared with Me and Uploads.

You can create your own folders (ScreenCasts is an example)

Uploading Files to Drive

1. Select a folder to upload into (if you do not the file will be put in the top level of the Drive)

2. Click on the blue NEW button. 3. Select New Upload File

4. You have two options: Click here to upload file or Drag and Drop files

5. Click to upload file: select one or multiple files to upload (Shift on Mac, Control on PC)

6. Click on Choose

7. You will see two spinning arrows next to the files as they are uploading.

8. Or you can simply drag and drop file(s) from your desktop into the File Upload box. 9. Files appear in the list below the upload box.

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Managing Files in Drive

Click on the folder name to navigate into the folder. Click the checkbox to select an item.

A range of actions will become available according to the type of item selected. For example if a bundle is selected the following appear.

Edit, Publish, Assign Move Rename Apply Label & Delete.

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Bundle Locks -- make bundles interactive by revealing content after user interaction

BundlesExchange -- insert previously published bundles

Drive -- link to items in your personal file storage

iTunes -- link to apps or books in the iTunes store

My Big Campus Library -- websites, files, and YouTube videos

MBC Documents -- word processor-like documents stored in My Big Campus

Schoolwork -- share quizzes, assignments, and any other type of schoolwork with other educators

Your Group's Pages -- wiki-like pages in your groups

Your Group's Resources -- select items to share from the Resources tab in your groups

Bundles

My Big Campus Bundles are collections of content that you can create, edit, publish, and share with students and educators. In short, a Bundle is a shareable container that allows you to collect text, videos, and files into self-contained online presentations.

As we learned earlier, Bundles are a content type that can be searched in the MBC Library. Any bundles that are branched in the Library will appear in the Bundles folder in your Drive.

Create A Bundle

To create a new bundle you choose it as a new item in the Drive >> New Button You can add various types of content (listed to the

right)

Information

Fill in the Title, Objective and Summary fields. Choose a bundle type and click save bundle.

In the Content section you can either upload files, insert some text or choose content using the search tools in the right column.

 Select your content type  Seach by title or tags

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Standards can be selected in the standards tab. Cover Art is set by uploading an image file.

You can share authorship with others (teachers or students using the Collaborators tab. Once completed you can save the bundle and use the View Bundle Link.

If you Publish the bundle it will appear in the Library. Unpublished bundles can only be seen by those you share it with.

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Schoolwork

Schoolwork is where you can create and assign various types of graded assessments for students in your groups.

Create a New Quiz

1. Choose quiz

2. Give it a title (required) 3. Give the quiz a description. 4. Click Save and Continue

5. Create questions in the questions section. Choose from

 Essay

 Multiple Choice  Multiple Select  True/False  Fill in the Blank  File Upload  Essay/File Upload  Question Banks

6. Create and save each question before you move on to standards.

7. Click Standards and choose your country and select from available standards and click save.

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9. A popup will allow you to choose assignees and options such as start and due dates. 10. Click on the plus sign to add a group to the assignees.

You can choose individuals within a group as well. Make sure that your due date is a time in the future.

Scroll down for more options such as allow late submissions, time allowed and other options.

11. Click save to set assignees and options. Your assignees will be notified by email or SMS according to their notification settings.

Importing Questions

Questions can be imported only in Blackboard 7.1 + Format

MBC Documents

This is an area where you can create word processing documents similar to Google Documents. Documents can be shared in several ways.

You can make the document public, to MBC users or Private to you only.