This is an introductory guide designed to help you become familiar with how to begin setting up your first course from scratch in the new Ultra version of eCampus. This guide walks through the steps to add and manage content, customize your layout, create tests or assessments, interact with the gradebook, and use various course tools including the Collaborate online meeting tool. Read through the content sections below to learn more about the topics that interest you, or join us for a live training session during scheduled events.
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About eCampus Ultra
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Click the Gradebook tab at the top of the course page.
Click the gear icon to open the Settings panel.
Scroll down a bit to see the Overall Grade section, and click on Setup up overall grade.
Choose a type of grading setup (click to show examples):
a total Points grading setup,
a Weighted grade setup for items or categories,
or Advanced to use the formula builder to create a specific grade formula.
Click Next after selecting the grading format to see the Overall Grade editing page.
You can still switch the calculation type by clicking the buttons at the top.
For each Category, you can click Edit calculation rules to choose to drop the lowest or highest scores, or use only the highest or lowest score.
Expand (click drop-down) any category to see the assessments in that category, see how many points each is worth, exclude an item, or unlink it from its current category grouping.
Under Overall Grade Settings, click the drop-down to select how the overall grade is displayed: letter, points, or percentage.
The default display will also show this calculation to students in their view of the gradebook. Uncheck the show to students checkbox to hide this gradebook item.
Click Save to create the new calculation as a gradable item (column in the gradebook).
Close (X) the Overall Grade page to return to the main gradebook settings panel.
Close (X) the Gradebook Settings panel to see the new Overall Grade appear as a gradable item.
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Blackboard Anthology Ultra Help: Grade with Rubrics
Meeting and Recording Lectures
Class Collaborate
Class Collaborate is eCampus' integrated meeting tool you can use for to deliver synchronous or asynchronous content. It is already built into all courses and is hosted by Blackboard Anthology. Collaborate facilitates online class meetings, study sessions, discussion groups, and office hours meetings - and you can use Collaborate to record lectures (or anything else) for students to review.
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WVU ITS Help: Collaborate in eCampus Ultra
MediaSite
MediaSite Desktop Recorder and storage tool is available to all faculty at WVU. You may use Mediasite either to record video you’d like to share like lectures, performances, or interviews, or to upload and host other video content. Find a link to the My Mediasite interface on the TOOLS page of the navigation menu. You can then link to the recordings in your course.
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WVU’s Teaching and Learning Commons has more details about using Mediasite in your courses. |
Books and Course Tools
You can access more tools from the Books & Tools link under Details & Actions on the main content page. Some tools require a step to connect the LTI tool to eCampus (like an email authorization or button click). You can add many of the additional tools to the Course Content page for students, too. Click the PLUS next to a tool in the list to add it to the page.
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