Staff guides

Administering your module

• An overview of QMplus
• Bulk Activity Creation (Admin)
• Course Creation and Settings: Adding a Sticky Block (Admin)
• Course Creation and Settings: Course Creation Wizard (Admin)
• Course creation and Settings: Displaying important information with the module info block
• 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: Using activity completion to track student progress
• 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 bulk enrol users onto a QMplus course area?
• 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)
• How to manage permissions in QMplus (Admin)
• How to recover missing content at the top of a course (Topic 0)
• Marking – SITS Marks Transfer (Admin)
• QMUL Evaluations (in QMplus) – Beta
• Rewarding achievement with certificates
• Rollover: Bulk Rollover (Admin)
• Using the Assessment Information block in QMplus to organise assessments
• Using the Content Creation Tool
• What are the risks associated with having a large course?
• What are the roles on QMplus?

Design and Build

• Adding a Calendar
• Adding a Scheduler activity
• Adding a Workshop Activity
• Adding or deleting sections/topics
• Adding text, images and video using a label
• Adding Web Links
• An overview of QMplus
• Building your QMplus module area – the basics
• Bulk Activity Creation (Admin)
• 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: Displaying important information with the module info block
• Course creation and Settings: Using the Tab Display
• Creating a Glossary
• Creating a Lightbox Gallery
• Creating a page
• Creating interactive activities with H5P
• Customising your course page with blocks
• Database tool in QMplus
• Enrolment/Access: QMplus Enrolment Mapper (Admin)
• Landing pages in QMplus
• Making the QMplus Media course media gallery visible to students
• 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’
• Setting your module image and announcements area
• Stealth activities – available but not shown
• Structuring resources and activities with a subpage
• Tidying up and naming the files on your course page
• Uploading a file
• Uploading multiple files as a zipped folder
• Using a book to structure your content
• Using the Assessment Information block in QMplus to organise assessments
• Using the checklist activity to keep students on track
• Using the Grid Format (QMUL)
• Working with a Landing Page in QMplus – Style Guide (Admin)

Getting Around

• Bookmarking and to do lists
• How to see a list of all courses you are enrolled on
• How to update your profile and preferences
• 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?
• Why QMplus?

Communication and Collaboration

• Add a module announcements forum
• Adding a Scheduler activity
• Adding a Twitter feed to your course area
• An overview of QMplus
• Chat: synchronous communication
• Create a Forum (Updated July 2020)
• 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
• How to set up Blackboard Collaborate using the External Tool (LTI) activity
• How to set up Blackboard Collaborate with the Collaborate activity
• Scheduling announcements with timed forum posts
• Using the Quickmail block
• Using Turnitin within a Forum

Assessment and Feedback (all)

• ** Creating a standard QMplus assignment
• ** Creating a Turnitin assignment in QMplus
• ** Marking an assignment in QMplus (standard or Turnitin)
• ** Using Turnitin Feedback Studio
• *** A basic overview of how to create & manage a Quiz
• *** An overview of quiz question types
• Adding a Workshop Activity
• Advanced grading (Marking guides and Rubrics)
• Allowing additional attempts and providing user overrides
• An overview of QMplus
• Anonymous Marking (Blind Marking)
• Assessment Info Block – Changes in Jan 2020 release
• Can students submit a draft and then resubmit their assignment in Turnitin?
• Can the “Submit Assignment” button be turned off?
• Can you turn off the student comments function for submissions?
• Creating an Assignment for Physical Coursework
• Creating and marking a video assignment
• Defining how quiz questions behave
• Embedding a question on your QMplus page
• Extending blind marking to include additional identifiers (Admin)
• Granting extensions to students
• How can I submit an assignment on a student’s behalf?
• How do I bulk download assignments?
• How does double marking work?
• How to allow students to resubmit their work in QMplus and Turnitin
• How to bulk download marked assignments from Turnitin
• How to bulk upload feedback files
• How to filter your assignment submission lists
• How to use equations within QMPlus
• Importing quiz questions from Microsoft Word – a simple method
• Is it possible to use PDF markup anonymously?
• Is the PDF annotation available for a Turnitin assignment?
• Is there any way to use student ID’s as a field then display them instead of names in assignment upload?
• Manually adding a Gradebook item (column)
• Marking – SITS Marks Transfer (Admin)
• Moving quiz questions from one course to another using export/import
• Precise time of assignment submission
• Providing feedback with the online annotation tool
• Providing grades and feedback for offline activities
• Question Banks and Sharing Questions
• Question Type – Drag and drop into text
• Question Type – Embedded answer (Cloze) crib sheet
• Randomising questions from question banks in quizzes
• Removing a grade book item (column)
• Scanning Physical Coursework Coversheets
• Setting a grading reminder on an assignment
• Setting up a group assignment
• Setting up a QMplus Hub portfolio as an assignment
• Sharing Questions via Categories
• Single View option in Gradebook
• Turnitin – Allowing students to see their originality reports
• Turnitin – How do I download a student’s Turnitin assignment receipt?
• Turnitin – Setting up the Turnitin iPad app
• Uploading a video to your My Media area
• Using a CSV file to upload grades and feedback to QMplus
• Using a rubric to mark an assignment
• Using description questions in quizzes
• Using equations in quiz questions
• Using the Assessment Information block in QMplus to organise assessments
• Using the grading workflow on assignments
• Using the offline grading worksheet
• Using the user and group overrides on quizzes

Getting started with QMplus

• How to hide content in a course area
• Using Bookmarks and To do lists

Getting things done

• Activities Calendar
• Bookmarking and to do lists

Assignments

• ** Creating a standard QMplus assignment
• ** Creating a Turnitin assignment in QMplus
• Allowing additional attempts and providing user overrides
• Can students submit a draft and then resubmit their assignment in Turnitin?
• Can the “Submit Assignment” button be turned off?
• Can you turn off the student comments function for submissions?
• Creating and marking a video assignment
• Granting extensions to students
• How can I submit an assignment on a student’s behalf?
• How to allow students to resubmit their work in QMplus and Turnitin
• How to filter your assignment submission lists
• How to use equations within QMPlus
• Precise time of assignment submission
• Setting a grading reminder on an assignment
• Setting up a group assignment
• Setting up a QMplus Hub portfolio as an assignment
• Turnitin – Allowing students to see their originality reports
• Turnitin – How do I download a student’s Turnitin assignment receipt?
• Turnitin – Setting up the Turnitin iPad app
• Uploading a video to your My Media area
• Using the grading workflow on assignments

Grading & Feedback

• ** Marking an assignment in QMplus (standard or Turnitin)
• ** Using Turnitin Feedback Studio
• Advanced grading (Marking guides and Rubrics)
• Anonymous Marking (Blind Marking)
• Creating and marking a video assignment
• Extending blind marking to include additional identifiers (Admin)
• Granting extensions to students
• How do I bulk download assignments?
• How does double marking work?
• How to bulk download marked assignments from Turnitin
• How to bulk upload feedback files
• How to filter your assignment submission lists
• Is it possible to use PDF markup anonymously?
• Is the PDF annotation available for a Turnitin assignment?
• Marking – SITS Marks Transfer (Admin)
• Providing feedback with the online annotation tool
• Providing grades and feedback for offline activities
• Setting a grading reminder on an assignment
• Using a CSV file to upload grades and feedback to QMplus
• Using a rubric to mark an assignment
• Using the grading workflow on assignments
• Using the offline grading worksheet

Gradebook

• Manually adding a Gradebook item (column)
• Removing a grade book item (column)
• Single View option in Gradebook

Quizzes

• *** A basic overview of how to create & manage a Quiz
• *** An overview of quiz question types
• Defining how quiz questions behave
• Embedding a question on your QMplus page
• How to use equations within QMPlus
• Importing quiz questions from Microsoft Word – a simple method
• Moving quiz questions from one course to another using export/import
• Question Banks and Sharing Questions
• Question Type – Drag and drop into text
• Question Type – Embedded answer (Cloze) crib sheet
• Randomising questions from question banks in quizzes
• Sharing Questions via Categories
• Using description questions in quizzes
• Using equations in quiz questions
• Using the user and group overrides on quizzes

Peer Assessment

• Adding a Workshop Activity

FAQs

• Can students submit a draft and then resubmit their assignment in Turnitin?
• Can the “Submit Assignment” button be turned off?
• Can you turn off the student comments function for submissions?
• How can I submit an assignment on a student’s behalf?
• How do I bulk download assignments?