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 taking an assignment and get disconnected, the assignement 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
Issue #1: 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 then average them out. If you do not use categories, all the points will be added up together and then divided 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.")
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 put a gradebook item in a category when you create it, 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. Have all tests within a category that should be weighted the same equal to the same point value (i.e. 100 points = 100% for each test). If you have different point values for the tests, they will not be weighted equally, so you cannot remove the lowest score.
3. 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%).
4. When you go to "Course Grades" to view the students' final grades, O NOT press "Calculate Course Grades". This button inserts zeroes for every grade where you have no value.
For now, it is possible to export the final grades from Collab and to import them into a Toolkit site for submission. (Note: You must first create your Toolkit site for your course.) To do this, go to "Course Grades" to view the students' final grades and hit "Export Course Grades." Save the file to your desktop or to a folder. Then take the following steps:
1. In Collab, go to "My Workspace" --> "Worksite Setup"
2. Check the box next to "My Workspace" on the right and click "Edit" at the top of the screen.
3. Click "Edit Tools" at the top of the screen, then check the box next to "Submit Final Grades" and click "Continue," then "Finish." Refresh your browser window if you don't see "Submit Final Grades" in your left-hand tool bar.
4. Follow the steps to import the grades you saved to your desktop.
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".