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This page contains answers to common questions handled by our support staff, along with some tips
and tricks that we have found useful and presented here as questions.
Note: In these answers we will follow a few shorthand conventions for describing user-interface
procedures. Navigational combinations will be presented like this: Login->Enter
as Designer->Author Assignments, which means that you
should login to CPR, click the Enter as Instructor/Designer link on the start page, and
then click the Author Assignments link on the designer home page.
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General
Creating/Managing Users
Assignment Libraries
Activating Assignments
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General
All new CPR users must complete an account
profile. To complete an account profile, new users must access the following
URL: http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr/login.asp.
Click on the New Users: first time
logging in? link and follow the
onscreen instructions. New users will be allowed to select their own password
and a challenge question and answer during this process. You will be given your
CPR username after you complete setting up your profile.
The URL to the CPR login page is:
http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr/login.asp
CPR users must use either Internet Explorer version 4 or higher (recommended)
or Netscape Navigator version 4 or higher.
Administrators create and delete institution courses, and create, edit, and delete user
accounts.
An instructor activates and monitors assignments in a course. A designer authors assignments.
Students take CPR assignments. During
assignments students explore source material, enter text, perform reviews, and
view results.
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Creating/Managing New Users
Creating Users -
Every new user in CPR must have a new account created by an administrator.
Once an account is created it can added to multiple courses as students and
can be assigned multiple uses levels (i.e. administrator, designer, student).
Adding Students
- Users must be added as students to each and every course that they are
enrolled in. Both administrators and instructors can add students to a course.
Only administrators are allowed to create new
users. Both administrators and instructors are allowed to add students to
courses.
Yes. A single student can be enrolled in more
than one course at any time. Students can also be enrolled at more than one
institution.
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Assignment Libraries
An instructor's personal library is the collection of assignments he or she has authored using the designer tools. Those assignments
in an instructor's library that are finished and ready to use are eligible to be published to his or her institution's library. This
allows other instructors at the institution to preview and use those assignments. The instructor may also
choose to publish his or her assignments to the server library, thereby making them available to all instructors
who use CPR.
All finished assignments in your personal library are eligible to be published to your instititution's assigment library as well as to the server library.
Before you can publish any of your assignments, you must contact your institution administrator or contact us to request access to the assignment publishing tool.
You can share your assignments with instructors at your institution by publishing to the institution's assignment library.
To do this: login->Enter
as Instructor/Designer->Author Assignments->select assignment->Publish Assignment->choose your institution library and follow the remaining instructions.
If you wish, you can share your assignments with all instructors who use CPR by publishing to the server library.
To do this: login->Enter
as Instructor/Designer->Author Assignments->select assignment->Publish Assignment->choose "Contributed assignments" and follow the remaining instructions.
An institution library contains assignments authored by instructors at a single institution. By publishing assignments to their institution's library, instructors can share their assignments with all other instuctors
at their institution. Instructors are not able to preview or use assignments published to institution libraries other than their own.
An edited assignment is one that has been reviewed and edited by instructors who teach the topic of the assignment. The source materials and student instructions in these assignments have been edited for use by any instructor. Instructors can preview and use these assignments in their courses.
A contributed assignment is one that has been placed in the server library by an instructor so that other instructors can preview and use it. Unlike edited assignments, these assignments have not been modified or peer reviewed.
Before you can publish assignments you must be granted access to the assignment publishign tool. Contact your institution administrator or contact us to request access.
To publish an assignment, do this: login->Enter
as Instructor/Designer->Author Assignments->select assignment->Publish Assignment and follow the remaining instructions.
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Activating Assignments
Instructors can activate library assignments
for use in their courses. To use a library assignment you must first activate
a new assignment: login->Enter
as Designer->Access Courses->select course->Manage
Assignments->Activate New Assignment. The
first step in the activation process requires the designer to pick an
assignment. At this point, the designer can click on the plus sign in front of
the Server Library heading
to pick a library assignment.
No. Instructors cannot currently make changes
to CPR library assignments.
To create your own assignments in CPR you
must have designer access. All designers have access to the Authoring
Assignment tools.
To create a new, custom assignment: login->Enter
as Designer->Author Assignments->Create New Assignment.
Yes. Instructors can customize the timing for
an individual student. This tool is very useful if a student does not complete
their work by the required deadline. Extensions can be granted for both the
text entry and review stages.
To customize timing: login->Enter
as Designer->Access Courses->select course->Manage
Assignments->select the assignment->Tools->Customize Timing for
Individual Student(s).
CPR contains several tools for downloading
student results.
To download student results: login->Enter
as Designer->Access Courses->select course->Manage
Assignments->select the assignment->Tools->Download Options.
Yes. CPR contains a tool for editing either a
student's text rating or a student's overall assignment score. This tool can
be used after an assignment is finished.
To edit a student's text rating: login->Enter
as Designer->Access Courses->select course->Manage
Assignments->select the assignment->Tools->Edit Text Rating.
To edit a student's overall score: login->Enter
as Designer->Access Courses->select course->Manage
Assignments->select the assignment->Tools->Edit Overall Score.
Yes. CPR allows instructors to edit scoring and
grading information after an assignment is finished.
To edit scoring or grading information:
login->Enter
as Designer->Access Courses->select course->Manage
Assignments->select the assignment->Tools->Edit Assignment Settings.
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