QMplus
Staff guides
Administering your module
- *** GETTING STARTED WITH QMPLUS ***
- Assignments: Marking – SITS Marks Transfer (Admin)
- Course Creation and Settings: Adding a Sticky Block (Admin)
- Course Creation and Settings: Course Creation Wizard (Admin)
- Course creation and Settings: How can I request a new QMplus course to be created (including test and practice areas)?
- Course creation and Settings: How to backup and restore a course (Admin)
- Course creation and Settings: How to create new courses from Module Templates (Admin)
- Course creation and Settings: How to delete a course (Admin)
- Course creation and Settings: Keeping track of your students with the completion progress block
- Course creation and Settings: Keeping track of your students with the progress bar
- Course creation and Settings: Noticeboard: Display and Update Information
- Course creation and Settings: Using activity completion to track student progress
- Course creation and Settings: Using the Module Info Block
- Editing your module area
- Enrolment/Access: Can I access a module from a previous year?
- Enrolment/Access: Can I get access to a course on QMplus that already exists (either my own or someone else’s)?
- Enrolment/Access: Can I get access to my old course?
- Enrolment/Access: Can I give access to my QMplus course to someone who isn’t a member of QMUL?
- Enrolment/Access: Can I give other staff access to my course?
- Enrolment/Access: Course Mapping Block
- Enrolment/Access: How can I enable guest access on my course?
- Enrolment/Access: How can I give people access to my course?
- Enrolment/Access: How can I see who has access to my course?
- Enrolment/Access: How do I allow people to self enrol on my course?
- Enrolment/Access: How do resit students get access to my course area?
- Enrolment/Access: How do students get access to my course?
- Enrolment/Access: I can see my course(s) but my students cannot.
- Enrolment/Access: I can’t see all of my students in QMplus
- Enrolment/Access: QMplus Enrolment Mapper (Admin)
- Enrolment/Access: Who can see the content/material in my QMplus course area?
- Groups and Groupings: Allowing students to select their own group
- Groups and Groupings: Automatically assigning students to groups
- Groups and Groupings: How to bulk upload users into a course or users into groups
- Groups and Groupings: Organising students using groups and groupings
- How do I show/hide my QMplus course area to make it available/unavailable to students?
- How to hide content in a course area
- How to manage categories (Admin)
- How to manage cohorts (a collection of users)
- Rewarding achievement with certificates
- Rollover: Bulk Rollover (Admin)
- Using two column layout
- What are the risks associated with having a large course?
- What are the roles on QMplus?
Design and Build
- *** GETTING STARTED WITH QMPLUS ***
- Adding a Calendar
- Adding a Scheduler activity
- Adding a Workshop Activity
- Adding image to topic zero
- Adding or deleting sections/topics
- Adding text, images and video using a label
- Adding Web Links
- Building your QMplus module area – the basics
- Changing the look of your course with formats
- Converting PDFs to a ‘Page’ resource in QMplus
- Course Creation and Settings: Adding a Sticky Block (Admin)
- Course creation and Settings: Using the Tab Display
- Creating a Book
- Creating a Glossary
- Creating a Lightbox Gallery
- Creating a Page
- Customising your course page with blocks
- Database tool in QMplus
- Enrolment/Access: QMplus Enrolment Mapper (Admin)
- Fixing sub-page resources after the July 2018 upgrade
- How to add more topics
- How to add the Grid Format (QMUL)
- How to create a Checklist
- Landing pages in QMplus
- Moving content around with the sharing cart
- New Features: QMplus July 2018 release
- Organising QMplus course content into tabs
- Pulling in external content with an RSS Feed
- Reducing the length of your course page with ‘one section per page’
- Stealth activities – available but not shown
- Structuring resources and activities with a sub-page
- Tidying up and naming the files on your course page
- Updating Assessment Information in Topic 0
- Uploading a file
- Uploading multiple files as a zipped folder
- Working with a Landing Page in QMplus – Style Guide (Admin)
Getting Around
- Adding image to topic zero
- Bookmarking and to do lists
- Can I use QMplus on my mobile phone?
- Can I use QMplus on my own computer?
- Do you offer training for staff?
- How can I change my QMplus password?
- How do I get an account in QMplus?
- How do I log in? What is my username and password?
- How should I print PowerPoint files
- How to see a list of all courses you are enrolled on
- How to update your profile and preferences
- I can’t login, what do I do?
- I have a QMplus course, now what? Where can I find help to edit it or build it?
- Landing pages in QMplus
- My Modules in QMplus
- My QMplus – hidden course alert
- Personalising your QMplus Information
- Searching for QMplus module areas
- What does a course area on QMplus look like?
- What support will you provide for my students?
- Where do I find the QMplus login page?
- Why QMplus?
Communication and Collaboration
- *** GETTING STARTED WITH QMPLUS ***
- Add a module announcements forum
- Adding a Scheduler activity
- Adding a Twitter feed to your course area
- Blackboard Collaborate Activity in QMplus (Webinars & web conferencing)
- Chat: synchronous communication
- Create a Forum
- Creating a Discussion Topic in Forum
- Emailing and Messaging Your Students
- Forum Types in QMplus
- Groups and Groupings: Allowing students to select their own group
- Using the Quickmail block
Assessment and Feedback
- *** GETTING STARTED WITH QMPLUS ***
- Adding a Workshop Activity
- Assignments: Anonymous marking
- Assignments: Can students save/copy a submission receipt?
- Assignments: Can students submit a draft and then resubmit their assignment in Turnitin?
- Assignments: Can the “Submit Assignment” button be turned off?
- Assignments: Can you turn off the student comments function for submissions?
- Assignments: Creating a standard QMplus assignment
- Assignments: Creating a Turnitin assignment in QMplus
- Assignments: Creating a video assignment
- Assignments: Extending blind marking to include additional identifiers (Admin)
- Assignments: How can I submit an assignment on a student’s behalf?
- Assignments: How do I bulk download assignments?
- Assignments: How to allow students to resubmit their work in QMplus and Turnitin
- Assignments: How to filter your assignment submission lists
- Assignments: Is the PDF annotation available for a Turnitin assignment?
- Assignments: Marking – Advanced grading (Marking guides and Rubrics)
- Assignments: Marking – Granting extensions to students
- Assignments: Marking – How does double marking work?
- Assignments: Marking – How to bulk download marked assignments from Turnitin
- Assignments: Marking – How to bulk upload feedback files
- Assignments: Marking – Is it possible to use PDF markup anonymously?
- Assignments: Marking – marking an assignment in QMplus (standard or Turnitin)
- Assignments: Marking – Providing feedback with the online annotation tool
- Assignments: Marking – Providing grades and feedback for offline activities
- Assignments: Marking – SITS Marks Transfer (Admin)
- Assignments: Marking – Using a CSV file to upload grades and feedback to QMplus
- Assignments: Marking – Using a rubric
- Assignments: Marking – Using the offline grading worksheet
- Assignments: Marking – Using the Turnitin Grademark
- Assignments: Setting a grading reminder on an assignment
- Assignments: Setting up a group assignment
- Assignments: Setting up a QMplus Hub portfolio as an assignment
- Assignments: Turnitin – Allowing students to see their originality reports
- Assignments: Turnitin – How do I download a student’s Turnitin assignment receipt?
- Assignments: Turnitin – Setting up the Turnitin iPad app
- Assignments: Using the grading workflow on assignments
- Creating an Assignment for Physical Coursework
- Gradebook: How do I transfer marks from QMplus to SITS?
- Gradebook: Manually adding a Gradebook item (column)
- Gradebook: Removing a grade book item (column)
- Gradebook: Single View option in Gradebook
- How to use equations within QMPlus
- Is there any way to use student ID’s as a field then display them instead of names in assignment upload?
- Quizzes: A basic overview of how to create & manage a Quiz
- Quizzes: An overview of quiz question types
- Quizzes: How Questions Behave
- Quizzes: How to use equations within Quiz Questions
- Quizzes: Importing quiz questions from Microsoft Word – a simple method
- Quizzes: Moving quiz questions from one course to another using export/import
- Quizzes: Question Banks and Sharing Questions
- Quizzes: Question Type – Drag and drop into text
- Quizzes: Question Type – Embedded answer (Cloze) crib sheet
- Quizzes: Sharing Questions via Categories
- Quizzes: Using description questions in quizzes
- Quizzes: Using the user and group overrides on quizzes
- Scanning Physical Coursework Coversheets
- Uploading a video to your My Media area
Getting started with QMplus
Getting things done
Student guides
Administering your module
Getting Around
- Accessing your personal timetable
- Bookmarking and to do lists
- Can I use QMplus on my mobile phone?
- Can I use QMplus on my own computer?
- How can I change my QMplus password?
- How should I print PowerPoint files
- How to see a list of all courses you are enrolled on
- How to set a landing page in QMplus
- How to update your profile and preferences
- I can’t see my course, what should I do?
- I can’t login, what do I do?
- I can’t see my course material, what do I do?
- My Modules in QMplus
- My QMplus – hidden course alert
- My timetable on QMplus is incorrect
- Personalising your QMplus Information
- Searching for QMplus module areas
- What does a course area on QMplus look like?
- Where do I find the QMplus login page?
Communication and Collaboration
Assessment and Feedback
- Assignments: Submitting a video assignment
- How do I view my assignment feedback using Gradesplus?
- How to submit a QMplus assignment
- How to use equations within QMPlus
- I have submitted the wrong file, how do I resubmit my assignment?
- Submission receipts for assignments
- Uploading a video to your My Media area
- Where do I see my grades?