UVaCollab is the new online collaboration and learning environment (CLE) that will replace the Instructional Toolkit after spring 2009. See Transitioning from Toolkit to UVaCollab for more information.
Anyone at UVa may create and use collaboration sites and/or course sites with no roster to facilitate the work of project teams, research groups, committees, etc.
Instructors of record may now create course sites with class rosters.
Use the Quick Start for Courses tutorial (PDF) to get started with UVaCollab for courses on your own.
On this webpage:
Access the existing French UVaCollab SitesAnd a quick Help Guide to some tools you may use :
Tests & Quizzes (in progress) | GradebookEmail Archive | Site Info
Access the existing French UVaCollab sites (faculty/instructors)
New UVaCollab User : you have to be registered in EACH UVaCollab section you want to access
Please contact your TTSP to submit a registration request :
- Tiffany Stull
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About the "Tests & Quizzes"
Important note : this tool is still being developped and may cause some problems (the most notable one being if a student is in the process of working on an assignment and gets disconnected, the assignment is lost...)
This tool allows you to
- create and manage tests and quizzes on line;
- have some of them (MCQ) automatically graded (the grade can be automatically added to the gradebook);
- save paper!
How to use the Collab "Gradebook"
Help Guide by Tiffany Stull
Grading Basis
Most courses in the French Department operate under a different grading basis from Collab's default settings.
Collab's default baselines (the lowest scores needed to achieve the letter grades indicated):
| A+ | 100% |
| A | 95% |
| A- | 90% |
| B+ | 87% |
| B | 83% |
| B- | 80% |
| C+ | 77% |
| C | 73% |
| C- | 70% |
| D+ | 67% |
| D | 63% |
| D- | 60% |
If your course uses different baseline grades, you will need to edit them under "Course Grade Thresholds" (at the top of the page when you are in the Gradebook tool.) On that page, you can select a preset grading basis (e.g. "UG-GRD," "Undergraduate-graded," gives the baseline scores indicated above, whereas "GRA-AUD," or "Graduate-Audit" allows you to choose between the options of "Audit" or "Withdrew.")
You can also type in the baseline grades that you want, or select a default and edit some of the baselines to fit your needs. Once you have your baselines set, click "Save" at the bottom of the screen.
You can change the "Grading Basis" at any time before you submit your final grades to the SIS; it will not affect your students' scores. The numbers will stay the same, but the letter grades to which they correspond will change.
Note: If you want to round your grades from a certain point (e.g. if you would normally round a 94.6% up to 95% to make it into an A), you need to give Collab the precise baseline point from which you would round. You can do this to two decimal places.
Notes about how to enter grades
Currently, Collab's gradebook does not have a specific feature designed to "excuse" a particular grade for a specific student. Such a feature is "in process." For now, we have the following workaround (I thank Kelly McConnell for her assistance in coming up with these steps):
1. Use categories. Categories are the only way to ensure that your grades will be weighted correctly. The gradebook will take the sum of all the points the student got and then the sum of all the points that are included in the category, and average them out. If you do not use categories, Collab will add up all the points together and then divide them out of the total number of points.
You can put a single item under a category (for example, the final exam, with its associated grades, could be the only item under "Examen Final.") You cannot, however, enter a score for which you have not made a "Gradebook Item" under a category. See below for how to make a "Gradebook Item."
To make categories, go to "Gradebook Setup" (at the top of the page when you are in the Gradebook tool), select "Categories & Weighting," then "Add a Category" (at the bottom of the page.) Then "Save Changes." It will not allow you to "Save Changes" until after you have made the total percentage of all your categories equal 100%.
To create and put a gradebook item in a category when you do so, go to "Gradebook Items" --> "Add Gradebook Item" and select your Category from the drop-down box. Alternatively, if you have gradebook items already created but not categorized, click the "Edit" button next to the item and select the appropriate category, then save changes.
2. Do not insert any value for the grade you want excused; that is, delete the grade entirely. In this way, it will not calculate that grade for that category. For example, if a student has 4 tests out of 5 that together equal 400/500 points, and the student receives 385 points from those 400, the grade for that category will be 385/400 (96%). Pour rentrer des notes, vous pouvez suivre ces étapes:
1. Choisissez "Add Gradebook Item" sous le menu "Gradebook Items" et donnez un titre (Par exemple, Composition 1) et valeur, puis choisissez une des catégories que vous avez créées. Cliquez sur "Add Item."
2. Le nouvel "Item" apparaitra sous "Gradebook Items Summary." Cliquez sur le nom de cet "Item" (e.g. Composition 1) et il vous donnera la liste des étudiants, où vous pouvez rentrer les points qu'ils ont reçus.
Si vous voulez une seule note sous chaque catégorie, il faut quand même créer un "Item" pour pouvoir rentrer les notes parce que les catégories gèrent les pourcentages, tandis que les "Items" contiennent les points.
About the "Email Archive"
This tool allows you to
- contact your students;
- automatically keep a record of the emails you send your students (you can decide who is able to access these archives - see link "Permission").
Note:
- To allow the students of your class to use the Collab email address to contact the class, you have to change the default settings: when in Email archive, go to Permissions and check new in front of Students, then Save.
About the "Site Info"
This site management tool allows you to
- "Edit Site Information" and Tools available on your site ("Edit Tools");
- organize your Tools menu ("Page Order");
- "Add Participants" and "Edit your Class Roster(s)";
- "Manage Groups" and "Manage Access";
- "Import from Site" and "Import from File".