Faculty
Instructional Manual
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Table of Contents
Accessing the Site and Logging in ... 2
Setting Up your Course and Enrolling Students ... 3
Manage Course Contents ... 8
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Accessing the Site and Logging in
1. To open the NDU Learning Management System (NDU-LMS) website, on your browser type https://www.ndu-lms.net
2. Site homepage display (shown image below), you can Login using the login link.
Note: Higher Education includes colleges in the Tertiary Level, College of Law, Graduate School and academic support sectors. Basic Education includes Elementary Training Department (ETD), Junior High School (JHS) and Senior High School (SHS)
3. After clicking the Login Link, login dialogue box is displayed and you can enter your username and password. The Username Input Format is lastname.initials of firstname and middle name (ex. tagacay.mp) On your first login, the default password format is lastname.(uppercase) initials of firstname and middle name2020 (ex. tagacay_MP2020). When you login, you are forced to change your password (Rule in creating password: Should at least 1 uppercase letter and 1 number)
Login link
Search course Higher Education
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Setting Up your Course and Enrolling Students
1. After a successful login, your Homepage is displayed (see image below) which contain the Dashboard and Main Menu.
Note: If your courses do not appear under My Courses block, it means that your
courses have not yet created/started. You can click the Site Home link to view your course under a certain category or click the Course link to search for your course.
Shortcuts to other links
Your courses is displayed here
Site Home
Course Link
Click this to set your notifications.
Click this to message your students or other users
Click this to logout or change your profile Dashboard & Main Menu
4 2. Your Course display, you can change the details of your course (kindly follow the
instructions to set up your course details) a. You can click this to set up and view grade
b. Click the icon to edit the settings of your course and course contents or enroll your students
c. Display of your course content d. Edit the settings of your course
e. You can turn the Turn Editing On or Off. When it is On, you can modify the content or design of your course and add activities to your class.
6 b. To enroll students, you have the option to either enroll it manually or configure the
Enrollment Key of your course to allow the students to enroll by themselves.
Click this to manage your users/students
Click this to manage your users/students
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Click this to show it
Set enrollment key for the course
Set enrollment key for this course. Students will use this key to enroll to your course.
Shows the number of
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Manage Course Contents
1. Topics
You can change the content of your course either by topics or by term. You can change it by turning the editing on on Settings,
You can select your students here and add it after.
Search students here. Make sure to select
Student here
9 You can edit each topic or add another topic.
You can also hide or delete the topic.
2. Announcements
You can create an announcements or forums in your course. Inside your Announcements section, you can click for Add an activity or resource.
A new page will appear. You can choose the activity you want to share to your course. It can be Forum, or a chat.
Notice this additional links
Click this link
10 a) Chat
11 b) Choice
This is the choice interface.
c) Forum
12 Your discussions will be posted.
Your student can reply to your forum.
These are the links that the students will see.
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3. Attendance
You can add attendance to your course.
This is the interface of the Attendance. You can add session and change status of the attendance.
14 Add Session
You can set it to multiple sessions and allow students to record their own attendance.
15 Status Set
This is the interface of the attendance’ session.
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4. Lessons
You can add a new lesson to your class.
Choose lesson when adding an activity.
You can add the content of your lesson after configuring its settings.
Add a lesson
17 You can add a new content page.
Equation Editor:
Import questions Add another page
Add a review question
You can import an image for your lesson
18 Insert Character:
Add Button links to your content page.
This is the page of your lesson.
19 Preview your page.
Add Review question.
Question page (Essay):
Next page
Progress bar
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5. Activities
You can add an activities for you course here.
a. Offline Activities
You can record all your offline activities here.
Add the information of your assignment.
Configure the availability of your assignment and the submission types.
Add an activity
21 Configure the grade of your assignment.
Start date
Due date: any submissions after this date are considered as late
Cut-off date: Submissions are not allowed after this date
22 View your newly created assignment.
b. Quizzes/Assignments/Examinations
Input the grade of your students individually Input the grade of your
students in one page.
23 Configure your quiz description, availability and grading.
You can change the layout of your quiz and its behaviour.
Set the availability of your quiz
Set time limit for students
Student’s quiz will be submitted if the time limit has been reached.
24 As a teacher, you have the choice to allow the students to view their answers and scores right after their attempt or after the quiz has been closed.
You can add additional security to your quiz.
If your examination or quiz is conducted by sets, you can set the group of students to take your activity.
However, if there are no groups available yet, you can create one.
Add Password
25 You can add the members of your group here:
26 Assign Set A to Automata Group 1:
27 You can now see the newly created grouping in your Activity settings:
This is the user interface of your quiz. By default, there are no questions added yet to your quiz.
Click this to add questions
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Question Bank
If your question bank is empty, you can add a new question and/or new category.
Importing Questions
You can import questions from external file.
Aiken Format in text file:
Click this to add a new question Add new
category Import question Select set
29 Aiken Question in Question Bank:
Output:
Embedded answers (Cloze) in text file
Embedded Close question in Question Bank
30 Gift Format in text file:
Gift Format in Question Bank
31 Missing Word Format in Text file
Missing Word Format in Question Bank
Output:
You can also add your own question.
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Question Type
a. Multiple Choice
Math type question
Chem type question Question point
33 Math Type Equation:
Chemistry Type Equation:
34 b. True/False
35 c. Matching
Output:
Shuffle the choices Select One Answer
Only
36 d. Checkbox
You can have a checkbox question type by allowing multiple answers in a Matching Type question.
Score
Select it
Shuffle the choices Choices
37 Note: Correct answers are 33.33333% because you have 3 correct answers out of 5 choices. Hence, 100/3 = 33.33333%
Output:
38 e. Short Answer
Output:
f. Numerical
A numerical question looks like a short-answer question. The difference is that numerical answers are allowed to have an accepted error. This allows a fixed range of answers to be evaluated as one answer. For example, if the answer is 10 with an accepted error of 2, then any number between 8 and 12 will be accepted as correct.
Set if case sensitive or not
Correct answer
39 Output:
40 After adding a new question or importing questions, you can now add
questions to your quiz. To do that, you have to go back to your quiz.
Quiz Page:
Add Questions:
Click this
Click this
Total Score Click to shuffle questions
41 Select questions:
Do not forget to click the button Add Selected Questions to the Quiz
Click this
Click this to select questions
Questions
42 Switch Role
You can now preview your quiz after switching your role.
You can now view your course as a student
Click this
Click this
43 Your quiz:
Since you set the password, students cannot open the quiz unless they will enter the correct password.
Quiz Preview
6. Gradebook
All of your assignments and graded activities will automatically be placed into the gradebook. NDU LMS allows you to view, change and sort into categories and calculate grade totals in various ways. If there are no assignments or activities created, the
gradebook will not display any grades. Furthermore, you as a teacher has the choice to show the gradebook to your students or not.
44 Example Grade Calculation:
Term Grade Calculation
First Trinal Grade 60% CS + 40% Exam
Midterm Grade TMG = 60% CS + 40% Exam
MG = 66.67% TMG + 33.33% FTG
Final Grade TFG = 60% CS + 40% Exam
FG = 50% TFG + 50% MG
To start the grade calculation of students’ activities, you have to access the Gradebook setup of your course.
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1. Aggregation Type
Aggregation determines how grades in a category are combined, such as:
1. Mean of grades: the average score is calculated as the final score by adding up the total grades awarded and dividing it by the total number of graded items. 2. Weighted Mean of Grades: each graded item can be given a weight. The grade
given for the assessed item is multiplied by the item’s weight to create an increased item grade. The final grade is calculated by adding together the increased item grades and then dividing them by the total weights applied.
Click this
View grade Grade setup
Add grade item
46 3. Simple weighted mean of grades: this is the default aggregation method when
no settings have been changed within the Gradebook.
4. Median of grades: the middle grade when grades are arranged in order of size 5. Mode of grades: The grade that occurs the most frequently
6. Natural – the sum of all grade values scaled by weight
2. Letters
Letter grades are essentially number grades that are shown as letters or number presentation in the Gradebook. You can also edit it at course level.
3. Category
First Trinal Grade, Midterm Grade, Final Grade, Class Standing, Examinations, Quizzes, Class Participations and attendance are all categories. You can add a category by clicking the Add Category button.
Percentage Grade
47 Add First Trinal Grade Category:
Choose the type of aggregation
You can
enable/disable this
48 First Trinal View:
Add TG1 Class Standing Category
49 Class Standing Category view:
Add TG1 Examination Category:
Change parent category
50 Examination View:
51 Quizzes View:
Add TG1 Class Participation Category:
52 Class Participation View:
53 Attendance view:
54 You can now update the Grade category of your activities. To do that, you have to turn the Turn Editing On button.
Your activity is under TG1 Quizzes Category now.
