How+to+Use+CSILM

When Dave Anderson and Russ set up the CSILM wiki last week (csilm.wikispaces.com) we set up a section called “How to Use CSILM”. The plan is to include short how-to videos on using the system. It might be productive to have that sort of thing directly incorporated into an introductory part of CSILM. We can make some short how-to videos using jing from [|www.jingproject.com]. We do need to have a microphone attached to the computer.
 * How to Use CSILM**

** CSILM—HOW TO ** **Question:** You have created an ILM with checkboxes, radio buttons, text fields and/or text areas and want to record student answers. How do you record student answers into the CSILM system? **Answer:** You need to add a “Submit” button on the activity page. Note: a “Check” button will not record the information. Then when the student hits the “Submit” button, the information will be recorded. If you have also set the activity/lesson “Lesson Feedback mode” to “Yes (Show key after submission)” (access that by “Edit Contents”, select activity/lesson radio button, then choose “Edit Lesson Properties” under the “More Actions” dropdown list), then the students will see the answer key in addition to their answers as soon as they hit the “Submit” button. **Question:** Student answers are not being recorded—why? **Answer:** Students must log in rather than enter CSILM as “guest”. **Question:** I want to record my student’s answers, but their names do not appear in the Students list after they select “Student Login”, then select the school and chose which course they will select the activity/lesson from. How do I get their names into CSILM?

**Answer:** From the home screen, log in as the teacher/administrator, chose the course you are interested in, then click on “Manage Students”. You will see a dialog which will allow you to upload a list of students. You can create the list of students in something like Notepad. The list might look like this: Terry Andersen, Loni Anderson, Ann Baker,…  or this:   34234,55641,94544,12290,…   If you chose “Overwrite” anything that was already uploaded will be lost and the new list will be added. If you chose “Append”, then any new names in the list that were not already in CSILM will be added. **Question:** You have created an ILM with checkboxes, radio buttons, text fields and/or text areas and want to record student answers after they hit the “submit” button. How do you record the //correct/key// answers into the CSILM system? **Answer:** While logged in as the instructor/administrator, choose //Grade// mode (View|Grade|Edit) while on the specific activity page. In the Student selection box, select “Key” (not All or any particular student). Next, enter all the correct answers and hit the “Submit” button. The key information will be recorded so that you can more easily grade the results when students start to submit their answers. If you find you need to make changes to the key, repeat all of the steps above and after submitting again, all the new information will be recorded. Make sure you fill in all of the boxes—anything left blank will be blank in the Key row of the student answer table—not what was previously stored. **Question:** You created one or more activities in an ILM, but they are all called “Activity”. How do you change the name of an activity? **Answer:** While logged in as the instructor/administrator, go to the activity in question and select //Edit// mode (View|Grade|Edit). There will be a text box just to the left of the dropdown list containing the descriptions of all the activities. The text box contains the current name of the activity. Change the contents of that text box and then hit the “Save” button.