Download IRTI Virtual Learning Environment Student User Manual

IRTI
Virtual Learning Environment
Student User Manual
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Logging Into the IRTI e-Learning Portal ................................................ 3
2. Searching for Courses ..................................................................................... 6
3. Launching the Course ..................................................................................... 8
4. Launching the Assessment ......................................................................... 12
4.1 Question Types in Assessment: ............................................................................................................................. 17
a) True / False Question: ............................................................................................................................................ 17
b) Essay Question: ...................................................................................................................................................... 17
c) Multiple choices: ...................................................................................................................................................... 17
5. Launching the Summary .............................................................................. 18
6.1. People ........................................................................................................................................................................ 20
6.1.1. Blogs ................................................................................................................................................................... 21
6.2. Course Menu ............................................................................................................................................................ 23
6.3. Control Panel ............................................................................................................................................................ 27
6.3.1. Grades ................................................................................................................................................................ 27
6.3.2. Profile ................................................................................................................................................................. 29
6.4. My Courses ............................................................................................................................................................... 36
6.5. Announcements ....................................................................................................................................................... 37
6.6. Recent Activity .......................................................................................................................................................... 38
6.7. Calendar .................................................................................................................................................................... 40
6.8. Upcoming Events ..................................................................................................................................................... 42
6. Chat: ..................................................................................................................... 47
7. Logging out of the IRTI e-Learning Portal ........................................... 49
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1. Logging Into the IRTI e-Learning Portal
You will be provided with a username and password, which you need to enter in the login screen
of IRTI e-Learning Portal.
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Forgot Username/Password
If you forget your user name or password, click on the Yes, help me log in button. The page
navigates to the Forgotten password page.
1. Enter your Username OR enter the E-mail address you provided during registration.
2. Click the OK button.
You will see a message:
“If you supplied a correct username or e-mail address, then an e-mail should have been
sent to you."
3. You can login again using the new password sent to your registered e-mail. You can also
contact the Administrator through the built-in chat functions or discussion forum available.
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4. The courses, which are assigned by the Administrator, are shown in sequence when you
login. You can click the course categories link to view the list of chapters available in it. A
detailed explanation about launching, viewing and closing the course is given in the following
pages of this document.
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2. Searching for Courses
After logging in, the list of available courses or course categories is displayed. A search option is
also available to find a particular course by providing the course name in the search field. The
sample screenshot below shows two listed course categories and the Search courses field.
To search a course:
1. Type the course name into the Search courses field.
2. Click the Go button.
After clicking the Go button, the search results are displayed. In the search result page, you can
find the course name and its respective category will be displayed.
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1. To launch the course, click the course name that is displayed.
2. To view the courses that are grouped under the respective category, click the Category
link.
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3. Launching the Course
From the Home page, you can launch the course, on clicking the corresponding course name. The
course launch page displays a summary statement about the course.
1. To launch the course, either click the Course name or click the Enter button.
2. If you had already accessed the course earlier and now if you want to launch the course
newly, select the Start a new attempt check box and click the Enter button. The course
launches in a separate HTML page.
3. If the course does not open in the normal way, in the launch page, click the Click here to
launch the activity link.
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4. On clicking the Click here to launch the activity link, the corresponding course opens in
a separate HTML page. First, you will see a a brief visual introduction with background
music, which will provide an overview of the key ideas of the course. At the end this
introduction, which lasts a few seconds, you will be taken to the first screen of the course
automatically. You can also skip this brief introductionscreen by clicking the Skip Intro
button.
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Exiting the Course
1. At any point of time you can exit the course by clicking the Exit (
) button placed in the
top of the course window.
2. When you click the Exit button, a pop-up opens and confirms or reconsiders your action.
You can click either the OK button to exit the course or the Cancel button to continue with
the course.
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3. In the launch page, click the Exit activity link; By doing this task, your current status such
as the page you exited from (bookmark) and the time you were engaged in viewing the
course are sent to the LMS.
4. If you want to review the same course, from the Course Launch page, you can click the
course link or the Enter button and follow the same procedure as before to launch the
course. Now, before the course launches, a bookmark pop-up will be displayed. You can
either resume the course from where you had left or start from the beginning by clicking the
YES or NO button respectively.
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4. Launching the Assessment
Note:
Each chapter is having a post assessment which has questions to be answered by the students
and based on the students response grades will be provided.
In post assessment, questions are created and stored in question bank
Only the instructor can add or release questions into the question bank, and assign the
assessment to a course and to a student and grading the assessment. You can access the
assessment only after the instructor releases it for answering to you.
After completing the course, you can assess your understanding of learned content using the
Assessment. In the course launch page, you can view the panel called Course Menu. In that
panel, you can view the corresponding Post-Assessment link of the course.
1. Click the Post Assessment link to reach the assessment screen.
2. Click the Attempt quiz now button to launch the assessment screen.
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The page displays the list of questions.
3. Each question carries some average score according to your answer. When you have
answered all the questions, you need to submit your answers to know your score. You can
either submit the answers to check your knowledge of content or save the answers without
submitting by clicking the Submit all and finish or Save without submitting button
respectively.
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4. On clicking the Submit all and finish button, a confirmation pop-up displays. Click the OK
button to confirm your submission. Please note, on clicking OK button, you cannot change
your answers. In case, if you want to change any answer, click the Cancel button to return
to the same assessment page.
5. On clicking the OK button, the page navigates to the Review of attempt 1 page. In this
page, you can verify your answers against the correct answers. In addition, you can view
the summary such as, duration of assessment, individual mark and qualitative grade.
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6. When you complete your verification, click the Finish review button to complete the
assessment.
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7. You can view the summary of your previous attempts. If you feel to re-attempt the same
assessment, click the Re-attempt quiz button.
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4.1 Question Types in Assessment:
Assessment comprises of the following questions
a) True / False question:
b) Essay question:
c) Multiple choice:
a) True / False Question:
Only two choices for an answer in this kind of question: True or False. The question content can
include an image or html code.
When feedback is enabled, the appropriate feedback message is shown to the student after the
answer. For example, if the correct answer is "False", but they answer "True" (getting it wrong)
then the "True" feedback is shown.
Note that the True/False question type in a Lesson module is quite different. It is effectively the
same as the Multiple Choice question type in a Lesson, but with only 2 responses
b) Essay Question:
The essay question type is intended for short answers of a paragraph or two, which one often
finds on exams
Question grading
The essay question will not be assigned a grade until it has been reviewed by a teacher and
manually graded. Until that happens, the student's grade will be 0.
To grade a student's answer in a quiz, use the manual grading tab on the Results section of the
quiz. When manually grading an essay question, the grader is able to enter a custom comment in
response to the essay and assign a score for the essay.
c) Multiple choices:
Single-answer questions
These questions allow one and only one answer to be chosen by providing radio buttons next to
the answers. You will specify non-negative marks for each answer; usually zero marks for wrong
answers, maximum marks for correct answers and partial marks for partially correct answers.
Multiple-answer questions
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The teacher can select "multiple answers are allowed" in a Multiple Choice question type. "Multiple
answers" questions types in a quiz allow one or more answers to be chosen by providing check
boxes next to the answers. Each answer may carry a positive or negative grade, so that choosing
ALL the options will not necessarily result in good grade. If the total grade is negative then the
total grade for this question will be zero.
Feedback can be associated either with specific answers, or with the question as a whole.
5. Launching the Summary
Each chapter has a summary which concludes the chapter by revising the points that has been
covered in the particular chapter.
The chapter summary will be in hidden state for the students and they will not be able to view the
summary page. The instructor / teacher will release the summary page for the students after the
class room activity gets completed.
6. Exploring the Activity Block
When you select a course, you will be directed to the Course Launch page. In this page, you can
view a summary statement about the course. Along with the course summary, you can view the
content in various panels on both the sides of the summary.
 People
 Course Menu
 Control Panel
 Profile
 My Courses
 Announcements
 Recent Activity
 Calendar
 Upcoming Events
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6.1. People
1. Click the Participants link in the People panel to find the other participants in your course.
2. In the Participants page, you can also view the other students details such as the student’s
picture, first and last name, city/town, country, last accessed time are displayed. You can
also click the alphabet links (First name and Surname) to quickly search for the respective
student.
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6.1.1. Blogs
1. Blogs are used to post a discussion on the course. You can read a topic in a blog created by
the Administrator. You can also view your previous entries, set your blog preferences, view
course entries and view site entries.
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2.
You can also create new blogs by clicking the Add a new entry link from the Blog Menu.
Enter the necessary inputs in the respective fields and click the Save Changes button to
add the new blog.
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6.2. Course Menu
In this panel, you can access
a) Course
b) News forum
c) Post Assessment (Quiz)
a) Course:
From the Course Launch page, you can view the link for the respective courses.
1. Click the course name link to review the course.
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2. The page navigates to the course launch page. Click the Enter button to launch the course.
b) News forum:
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1. Click the News forum link to view the general news and announcements. Only the
Administrator can create the news and announcement, whereas other students can only
view the news.
C) Post Assessment (Quiz):
1. Click the Post Assessment link to attempt a quiz of the respective course. You will be
directed to the post assessment launch page. In this page, you can view the number of
attempts you have already had and their corresponding date and time of completion,
marks, grades and highest grades.
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2. Click the Re-attempt quiz button to attempt the assessment again.
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6.3. Control Panel
In the Control Panel panel, you can view the Grades and Profile link.
6.3.1. Grades
The Grades page displays the summary of your grade, range, percentage and feedback of the
completed courses and assessments.
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You can view your grade in two different views,

Overview report

User report
You can select any one of these views in the drop down box present at top of the page.
User report:
1. On clicking the User report view, you can view your grade, range, percentage, and
feedback of the completed course and assessment in the following format.
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2. You can also review the course or assessment on clicking the course name and
assessment link.
Overview report:
On clicking the Overview report, you can view the grade and rank of the individual courses,
which you have already completed.
6.3.2. Profile
At any point of time, you can view and update your profile. View your profile by clicking your
username.
In addition, you can view your profile using the link provided in the Control Panel.
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1. In the Control Panel you can find the Profile link.
2. Click the Profile link to view your profile.
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The Profile page has the following tabs:
1) Profile
2) Edit profile
3) Blog
1) Profile:
In this tab, you can view the summary of your details, such as:

Country

City/Town

Courses assigned

Date and time of first access

Date and time of Last access

Change Password

Messages
Country:
When creating your profile, the Administrator has mentioned your country and the same is
displayed in the Country field.
City/Town:
When creating your profile, the Administrator has mentioned your city or town of residence and
the same is displayed in the city/town field.
Courses:
This field displays the list of courses assigned to you.
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First Access:
This field displays the date and time by when you had accessed the course for the first time.
Last Access:
This field displays the date and time by when they had accessed the course for the last time. This
date and time will automatically change whenever you access the course.
Change Password:
1. If you wish to change your current password, click the Change password button.
2. The page navigates to the Change password page.
3. Provide your current and new password in the appropriate fields and click Save changes
button.
Messages:
The Messages option allows you to share your feedback or other conversations to other students.
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2) Edit Profile:
This tab has various sections with your information. You can update the details as per your
current situation.
General
In this section, you can update the following details.

First name

Surname

Email address

Email display

Email activated

Email format

Email digest type

Forum auto-subscribe

Forum tracking

AJAX and Javascript
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
Screen reader

City/town

Select a country

Timezone

Preferred language
Picture:
In this section, you can update your photo and the description. Please note that the maximum file
size should be 70MB. If you wish to remove the existing picture, select the check box against
Delete field.
Interest:
In this section, you can update your field of interest.
Optional:
This section is considered as optional. If you wish to provide or update the information, click the
Show advanced button.
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You can view the following fields.

Web page

ICQ number

Skype ID

AIM ID

Yahoo ID

MSN ID

ID number

Institution

Department

Phone

Mobile Phone

Address
After updating all the necessary fields, click the Update profile button to save your updates.
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6.4. My Courses
When you login into the IRTI Learning Portal, in the My courses section, you can view the list of
courses, which are assigned to you.
1. Click the corresponding course name to review the course.
2. Click the All courses… link to view all the courses.
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6.5. Announcements
In the Announcements panel, any course related information posted by the Administrator is
displayed. If any information is not posted then the News panel will display a message as “No
news has been posted yet”.
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6.6. Recent Activity
In the Home page, you can view find one of the panels called Recent Activity. This panel
displays the recent activities as well as the activities that were conducted earlier.
1. To view the past activities, click the Full report of recent activity link.
2. You can select the activities, sorting style and the date limits in the appropriate fields.
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3. In addition, you can also disable the selection of date by selecting the check box against
the Disable.
4. After you select all the necessary fields, click the Show recent activity button. Now you
can view the list of activities according to your selection.
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6.7. Calendar
1. In the home page, you can find a calendar, which displays the current month and date.
2. You can navigate to the previous or next month by clicking on the arrow indicators placed
on the both sides of the calendar.
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3. The shaded date indicates the current date. When you move your mouse cursor over the
date, a small window will appear, which will show if any event or activities are scheduled
for the current date. On clicking the shaded date, you will be directed to the corresponding
event or activities page.
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6.8. Upcoming Events
In the home page, you can find the panel called, Upcoming Events. This panel displays the list
of new tasks or events, which are assigned to you. You can click the link to complete that
particular task or event.
In addition to the tasks or events, you can also view two links,
o
Go to calendar
o
New Event
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Go to Calendar:
1. The Go to calendar link displays the events, which are created by the other students or
Administrator.
2. You can also create a new event on clicking the New Event button.
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New Event:
1. In the New Event page, you have to provide the name of the event and its description.
Also, you must provide the date, time, duration and repeats for these events.
2. Instead of typing in the date, you can directly select from the calendar, which is placed in
the right side of the screen.
3. After you provide all the information, click the Save changes button to save your event.
Your new event will be displayed in the New Event screen.
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4. You can export the new event as a calendar and send the event to other students using
the Export Calendar button.
5. Click the Export Calendar button to export the events. After selecting the desired
options, you can share the event with other students either by sharing the corresponding
URL or by exporting the calendar.
6. You can share the event details with other student by either sending the corresponding
URL link or sending the respective .ics file.
a. Click the Get calendar URL button to get an URL. When you share the URL, other
students can view the event details in their browser.
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b. Click the Export button to save the calendar in the .ics format. Click the Save button
to save the calendar.
Now you can send the .ics files to other students to view the event details.
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6. Chat:
The Chat activity module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion in a
Moodle course.
This is a useful way to get a different understanding of each other and the topic being discussed –
the mode of using a chat room is quite different from the asynchronous forums. The Chat module
contains a number of features for managing and reviewing chat discussions.
Chat session is created by the Instructor and assigned to student. Chat’s can be assigned to
particular chapter. Chat is a effective way of communicating in the class and a students and
instructors can communicate as any other normal chats.
A chat link will look like as shown in the below screenshot
After clicking on the click here to enter the chat now link, a new pop up window opens which
shows the other users who has logged in the chat. Messages can be communicated
simultaneously between the users and the same is shown below:
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7. Logging out of the IRTI e-Learning Portal
To logout the current session, click on (Logout) link, which is placed next to the username. This
link is available in top and bottom of the page.
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