Usage: Learners' View
The course element Task divides into several areas. These areas are displayed depending on the configuration and processing status. The example image on the right shows a course element Task, which contains all areas and has already been completely processed by a user.
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The availability of the individual areas depends on the configuration of the tutor and on your processing status.
Automatic progress
If the course progress indicator is activated for a course, the course element will automatically be marked as completed upon the first finished attempt of the user. This process is independent of any possible assessment.
As a user, you can use the following functions in a course element of the type Task:
Subscribe to task | You can subscribe to course elements to get automatically informed about changes. For further information about the general configuration options for receiving notifications, refer to the page Subscriptions and notifications. | |
Preview | If the course author has enabled the preview function, you can view the tasks before making your selection. Just click on the file title. The download will start immediately. If nothing happens when clicking on the file title, the preview is disabled. | |
Selection of task by user | If a task is followed by this symbol, you can make your own selection. By clicking on this symbol, your selection will be saved, and the selected task file will be highlighted. At the same time, the selection button will disappear from all other task entries. | |
Deselect | If this symbol appears at the end of the entry of the selected task, you can cancel the selection of this task and select another one. Click on the symbol. The coloured marking disappears and the button to select a task reappears for all available task files. The option to deselect a task will only be available if previously configured by the author of the course. | |
Create tasks | If these two buttons appear in the area Your task, the course author has enabled you to create task files.
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Submit solutions | If you see at least one of these symbols, you can submit a solution. | |
Edit already submitted solutions later | If you see this icon, you can still edit your solution after creating or uploading it. | |
Save solution to the eportfolio | By clicking on this symbol, you can also save your solution as an artefact to your eportfolio or assign it to a collaborative folder. | |
Delete already submitted solution | You can delete a previously created or uploaded document if you can see the delete icon at the end of the line. |
You can be assigned extended rights by a course supervisor. These rights will make additional functions, such as creating and editing tasks, available to you. For more information about these functions, refer to the section Functions in the course view.
Configuration: Authors' View
The following functions are available for the course element Task in the course editor:
Add a course element task | ||||||||||||
General configuration settings | In the course editor, you can see the following configuration tabs:
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Configuration settings in the tab assignment |
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In the tab Access, you can additionally specify whether or not and under what conditions learners are allowed to delete solutions. If learners are allowed to delete solutions, they can edit already submitted solutions and upload them again. | |||||||||||
| In this area, you can provide sample solutions to your course participants. Click on the button Open sample solution folder. The folder with the same name opens. Create new task files or upload existing files. | |||||||||||
| In the tab Assessment, you can make various settings for the later assessment using the assessment tool. Specify whether score, mark, and passed status will be available for assessing submitted solutions. Further information is provided in the section Assessment. For the course element Task, it is also possible to enable peer assessment. This form of assessment allows the learners to assess each other anonymously, which leads to the overall assessment of all solutions submitted. For a detailed description of all options available, refer to the section Peer review. The assessment of learners is only possible in combination with a learning group, i.e. all participants must be enrolled (automatically or manually) in a learning group of the course. |
Publish your course to complete the configuration and to make the resource available to participants.
In the course of a course element Task, the following additional editing options will be available to you as a course supervisor:
Task management - Provide tasks |
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Task management - Assignment overview | The assessment tool provides an overview of the tasks that have been assigned to each participant. | ||
Submitted solutions - View and assess task solutions | This area contains a text note on already available task solutions from course participants. To view the solutions, switch to the assessment tool. The assessment tool also provides various bulk actions. These actions can, for example, be used to download all tasks and submitted solutions. For more information, refer to the section Assessment tool. | ||
Provide sample solution | Both the Create and Upload button in the area Sample solution allow anyone with the right to edit the sample solution folder to create new sample solution files or upload existing files to the area.
It is also possible to suggest good user solutions for publication as a sample solution via the Assessment tool. The user will then receive appropriate information and only needs to agree to the publication. If the user gives their consent, the solution will then be available for all users in the area Sample solution. | ||
Cancel task | If a user has already selected a task or was assigned one, you can still undo this action. | ||
Returned documents - Return documents to individual users | Using the assessment tool, you can return documents to an individual course participant. |
As a course supervisor, you can assign extended rights for a course element's additional editing functions to individual or even all course users. These rights can be configured in the tab Access. Further information can be found in the section General configuration settings on this page.