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Active Learning Platform – Engagement (ALP-E) Moving from LectureTools to ALP-E
Active Learning Platform July 2015
Table of Contents Moving from LectureTools to ALP-Engagement ...................................................................... 1 What's the same? ..................................................................................................................... 1 What's different? ....................................................................................................................... 3 What's new? .............................................................................................................................. 4 How do I...?.................................................................................................................................... 6 Create a new section (course)............................................................................................... 6 Add a presentation file ............................................................................................................ 7 Add activity or multimedia slides............................................................................................ 9 Publish/Unpublish a presentation ......................................................................................... 10 Present materials in class ....................................................................................................... 12 But how do I view the class content the way students would? ................................... 13 Add or edit classes (lecture dates) ...................................................................................... 13 View student questions and class discussions..................................................................... 15 Wait, without a dashboard, how do I see the students' responses to my activities? 17 How do I know if a student is confused? ......................................................................... 17 Manage section details ......................................................................................................... 17 View and download student analytics ............................................................................... 18 Getting LectureTools Presentations into ALP-Engagement .................................................. 20 Content creation option for Windows users ....................................................................... 20 Creating/Uploading Presentations into ALP-Engagement ............................................... 21 Uploading and adding activities to presentations ............................................................ 21 Adding activity slides.............................................................................................................. 24 Why do it this way? ................................................................................................................. 28
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Moving from LectureTools to ALP-Engagement "Ugh! You mean I have to learn a new software tool? New interface? But I'm used to THIS one!!" We know how you feel. We do. Despite working in software, we don't always freely accept change either. It's human nature. The good news is that the same people who brought you LectureTools helped guide the development of the Active learning Platform - Engagement (ALP-E) service and features. To that end, we have done our best to present you with the best of LectureTools' capabilities, combined with more complete and robust functionality, all topped off with a streamlined and intuitive interface. (Doesn't that sound delicious?) All that being said, yes it's different. But we hope you can find everything you need fairly quickly. To help you, this whole section of the online help is devoted to pointing you to the similarities and differences between LectureTools and ALP-E, and how to find the corresponding functionality in the new interface.
After reviewing this page, the next topics you should review are How do I...?, Getting LectureTools Presentations into ALP-E, and Getting Instructors Started. These topics provide workflow overview for common instructor tasks, as well as links to help topics with detailed information and instructions.
What's the same? LectureTools, lets me upload PowerPoint (PPT) presentations, then add interactive activity slides to them, and present them in class or let students view them and answer the activities outside of the classroom. ALP-E does this and more. A LOT more. Just like LectureTools, you can:
Upload and present PPT or PDF files (including Keynote files saved as PDF).
Create both interactive activity slides and/or multimedia slides within the ALP-E interface.
Import slides into an existing presentation file, either from another PPT file or from another, previously-uploaded presentation. In fact, the interface for selecting which slides to import to the currently presentation is nearly identical.
In addition, ALP-E lets you:
Upload and present video files. Including the ability to perform minor edits on uploaded videos.
Take a single presentation or video and publish it to multiple sections.
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See and work with all of your presentation and video files in a single location; your LIBRARY.
Work with your presentations entirely in PowerPoint, including adding activity slides and presenting slideshows in class. This is done through the PowerPoint add-on, developed for the Echo360 active learning platform, free for instructors to download and use.
LectureTools lets me see how students are participating in class, and helps me assess their involvement. ALP-E does this too. Just like LectureTools, you can:
View attendance, activity participation/correct, and number of questions submitted, for each class and/or student in the section.
Download the engagement metrics to a CSV file, for analysis outside of the program.
In addition, ALP-E lets you:
View engagement graphs, either by class or by section (all classes), to see where students are paying the most/least attention to the materials.
View which students are taking notes in the class, and how copiously (notes word count).
Set the engagement metrics that mean the most to YOU, to allow you to assess student involvement on your terms (not ours).
LectureTools lets me set up the class schedule and add classes anytime I want, and name each class as is appropriate to the lecture. ALP-E does this too. Just like LectureTools, you can:
Create classes as you need to, either to correspond directly to the class schedule, or to hold presentations and videos. Or a combination of both!
Name each class in a way that identifies the topic of the lecture you present, or as is represented by the media you load to the class.
In addition, ALP-E lets you:
View all the classes, including class name, date, and time, all at once on the Class List page for the section.
View what media has been added to which class, all at once on the Class List page for the section.
Manipulate, edit, move, remove, make unavailable (unpublish) the media for each class from the Class List page.
What we're getting at here is that when you switch to ALP-E from LectureTools, you lose almost no functionality, and gain quite a bit. The important features are still there, they just live inside a different interface.
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System Requirements The next section will tell you (seriously...it does) what you can't do anymore. But because we don't want you to lament those losses too deeply, below that is a section that lists all the new things you CAN do, that we're pretty sure you'll like. A lot.
What's different? Let's get this over with. Here's what you could do with LectureTools that you cannot do with ALP-E: You cannot draw on presentation slides. ALP-E doesn't provide a drawing tool for marking on slides while you are showing them. This functionality was rather limited, and our research indicated that not many people used it. If you were one who did, we're sorry. However you may find that presenting through PowerPoint provides you a way to do this instead. And that's something ALP-E does let you do. You cannot see which answers to activities were given by which students. You can see the answers given, you just won't know which student gave which answer. The student analytics (like Assessment in LectureTools) show you activity participation and correct answer percentages for each student, both for each class or across all classes. You may be able to extrapolate some details from that. You cannot enter the class schedule for the section (i.e., every MWF from 10am to 11am) and have the system automatically create classes based on that schedule. Each class for a section is created individually. Yes, you may find that annoying. On the flip-side, you may have lectures where you don't have media to present, so you don't have to create a class for that (though you may want to, so students can use the ALP-E interface to take notes and ask questions or post discussion points for the class). This method does provide flexibility. You may find that you like creating each class just before class time, to avoid having classes created during school holidays or other dates when class isn't held. Or you may like being able to create one-off classes for special discussions around a particular presentation or video. You do not receive an email summary of class engagement and participation. Lecture Tools would automatically send you an email after class, identifying which activities were not answered, whether students were confused about content, and other participation information. In ALP-E, all of that information is available, but it isn't pushed to you; you can see this information in the Analytics tab for the section, and review that information at a variety of levels (for each class, for all classes, for each student for all classes, or for each student for a particular class). Keep in mind that ALP-E is designed to serve both "inclass" type engagement but also provide a 'flipped classroom", so that students can review your content outside of the time-frame specific to the class itself.
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System Requirements That's it. Other than that, everything you could do in LectureTools, you can do in ALP-E.
What's new? Your ALP-E Instructor HOME page provides you with a quick listing of all sections for which you are an instructor. You can filter the list by Term, though the current Term is shown first. From there, you can click ALL CLASSES for any section whose classes or other details you want to view. Your ALP-E LIBRARY page provides a central repository of all media you upload. It is the definitive location for everything you publish to classes, and/or for media you upload in advance of publishing it to a class and making it available for students to view. The LIBRARY also lets you publish the SAME item to multiple classes or sections, instead of having to create-and-import or upload the same file to each class. Being able to publish a single file to multiple locations is extremely handy for videos, and for presentations that don't have activity slides. That content is likely to always be the same regardless of which class is seeing it. For presentations with activity slides, especially those being presented to different sections during the same term, you may want to upload different versions, so you can present activity answers, close polling, and use the other activity controls separately for each class. In instances where you are presenting the same presentation/activities during different terms, you can use the same file repeatedly (from your LIBRARY), being sure to reset the activities before publishing to subsequent terms' classes. The content details for each piece of content lets you see where (to which sections/classes) you have published each item. You can add media to a class, but make it unavailable to students until you manually make it available. OR you can set date-based availability, making it available on X date, and have it become unavailable on Y date. You can then inform students that they MUST view the media during that time and enforce it via the availability settings. ALP-E also allows you to share media with other individual users, either students or instructors, as long as they are also ALP-E users. This allows for peer-review of content, or allows students and instructors to share content with each other, for review outside of class. ALP-E allows you to share videos outside of ALP-E via URL. You can send the link to users via email, or post it to a public location, allowing anyone with the link to view the video. The Q&A Tab in ALP-E provides a place for open discussion and Q&A between instructors and students, and is not limited based on whether or not you respond. Students can ask each other questions and respond to comments, instructors can post questions or responses, and both instructors and students can endorse the questions and responses entered here.
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System Requirements Furthermore, the Q&A discussions don't have to correspond to a specific class. There is a "General Questions" category into which participants can post comments or questions that apply across the section material. Finally, questions or responses posted IN a classroom can reference the class content, either a specific slide or video location. Participants can even attach external files to their questions or responses, to support or clarify their post.
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How do I...? This topic is devoted solely to showing you how to access the same features from LectureTools to Active Learning Platform - Engagement (ALP-E). We then provide links to the topics with more specific instructions. But the information shown here should help get you started and help you become more comfortable with the new interface.
And after you're done here, work your way through Getting Instructors Started to get your ALP-E service set up and customized for you.
Create a new section (course) When you first sign up for ALP-E, the system asks you if you want to create a new course and/or section at that time. This is very similar to the original LectureTools Welcome page, that provided a link to creating a course. After you are in the UI, the process is a little less obvious. But only a little.
In LectureTools: After logging in, select the course/section drop-down list from the menu bar, then select Add new course (located at the bottom of the list).
In ALP-E: After logging in, you are automatically taken to your HOME page. Click New Section from the top of the page.
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Select/create a Course, select/create a Term, and create a Section. ONE DIFFERENCE: You must create a Section in ALP-E, even if there is only one section being offered for the course, though they can have the same name/code. In LectureTools, the section is optional and only the course name is used if a section is not created.
Add a presentation file In LectureTools, you must select a class to hold the presentation file, then pass through the steps to add at least lecture objectives in order to do anything with the class.
In ALP-E, the Class List page exists as soon as you create the section. Click ALL CLASSES from the HOME page, as shown below.
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From here you can create new classes then add media to them as needed. Furthermore the class list icons indicate which classes have media and of what kind, and which do not.
ALTERNATELY you can select to upload content directly to your library, then place it into one or more classes from there.
If you select to Add presentation, you can choose to import a file from another location (your computer or a shared/cloud drive), import from your library, if the file had been uploaded previously, or create a new presentation within ALP-E. 8
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Add activity or multimedia slides In LectureTools, you enter the class and click Prepare to open the presentation for editing. Once open, the buttons for adding slides and editing the presentation appear at the top of the screen.
In ALP-E, you can edit the presentation from the LIBRARY page or from the Class list.
With the presentation open in Edit mode, you can add interactive activities...
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...or add multimedia slides, blank slides (as placeholders or separators, such as before a quiz slide), or import slides from another presentation.
After that, the interface for creating activity and multimedia slides should look reasonably familiar to LectureTools users.
Publish/Unpublish a presentation In LectureTools, presentations only exist in classes, therefore publishing a presentation was the act of making it visible to students.
In ALP-E, publishing has a similar meaning, in that when you publish an item, you are placing it in a class for a section. You can Share content from your LIBRARY page, as shown in the below figure. Or you can add the content directly to a class on the Class List page (see Add a presentation file section above).
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You can share to an individual or to a class. Furthermore, you can add the content to an existing class or create a new class to hold it (each class can contain one presentation and one video).
By default, publishing makes the content available to students, but as the instructor you can make it unavailable, or set availability based on date. Availability can be configured when you publish the item (see publishing dialog box above), or from the Class List page, by clicking the content icon and selecting the appropriate command.
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Present materials in class In LectureTools, clicking Launch Presentation opened your presentation full screen in a new browser window. In ALP-E, you present your classroom materials the same way your students view them; by selecting a class from the class list, then clicking GO TO CLASSROOM.
Once in the classroom, you'll see:
If there is a video published to the class, the video is maximized by default and begins playing automatically. Because you are the instructor, you will see all content in the classroom, even if it is unavailable to students. Students viewing the classroom in ALP-E will not see the unavailable content. If you are showing YOUR screen to the class, be sure the unavailable content is minimized, and that if it is a video, you pause the video.
For classes with two content items in them, when one is maximized, the other is shown in a thumbnail. CLICK THE THUMBNAIL to maximize the other media. This is identified in the figure below. 12
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To show your presentation full screen, click the "full screen" icon for the presentation, located to the right of the pagination button, identified in the below figure.
Finally, notice those icons in the top left? (If you don't see them in real-life, hover your mouse over the content control bars at the bottom of the classroom screen to make them appear.) In order from top to bottom, those are: o Class Navigation button - opens a menu tray that lists all the classes in the section, allowing you to move directly to a different class or to Exit Classroom and return to the class list page. o Questions button - opens the questions/discussion panel on the right side of the screen. This allows you (or an assistant) to monitor the questions and responses being posted by students for the class. o Confusion Flag - provides a small numeric icon showing you whether students are flagging content as confusing. The locations flagged are listed in the Analytics tab under Confused content.
But how do I view the class content the way students would? Simple. GO TO CLASSROOM, as we just described. The view you get is the same as the student gets, except you can see unavailable content, AND you can see and control the interactive activities. Otherwise you see what they see.
Add or edit classes (lecture dates) This is actually described at the top of this page, but we'll mention it again. LectureTools creates your classes for you, based on the section schedule you enter when you create the course/section. You can also select to Add & Edit Lecture Dates from the date drop-down list.
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ALP-E leaves the class creation to you, to create all the classes you need for the section at once, or to create them as you need to, for holding content. Your choice.
To create new classes 1. From the HOME page, click ALL CLASSES for the section you need. Alternately, click COURSES from the main menu across the top of the ALP-E page, and select the section you need. 2. Click NEW CLASS at the top of the class list. 3. Enter the name, start time, duration, and description for the class. Name and description are optional and can be added or edited later. For example, after you have planned each lecture, you can edit the details to identify the topic of the class. 4. When finished, click SAVE.
To edit existing classes 1. Navigate to the Class List page for the section. 2. Select a class from the list. The details for the class appear on the right side of the page.
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5. When finished, click SAVE.
View student questions and class discussions In LectureTools, clicking the Dashboard option for the class opened a panel that shows information such as activity participation and answers provided, as well as any questions posted by students to which you could respond. One thing that is very different is that in LectureTools, YOU had to respond to a question in order for students to see it. And you couldn't ASK questions. In ALP-E, anyone can ask a question, and anyone can respond to a question, and everyone can see all questions and responses. It's more like a discussion tool than it is "ask the instructor a private question."
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The Q&A tab for the section provides a view of all questions posted for all classes in the section (or you can select to view questions only for a particular class). Instructors and Students can post and respond to questions in either location.
If posting from a classroom, users can select to reference the particular content location being shown in the class at that time. The identified slide or video location also appears with the question in the Q&A tab.
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Wait, without a dashboard, how do I see the students' responses to my activities? As you already do in LectureTools, you can control whether to show/hide the student responses directly in the presented activity slide. Use the Analytics tab to see which students participated in the classroom activities, and what percentage of their answers were "correct" (of activities where a correct answer is identified). See View and download student analytics below, or see Viewing Student Analytic Data for more details.
How do I know if a student is confused? If a student flags a slide or video location as "confusing" (clicks the confused flag in their classroom toolbar), you will see an icon in YOUR classroom view, for the confused flag (shown above, directly below the Questions icon). This simply lets you know that a student is confused at this particular location of your presentation. To refer to the confusion later, the Student Analytics tab (discussed below) lists all locations flagged as confusing and lets you click on the referenced location to view it for yourself. See View and download student analytics below, or see Viewing Course Analytics for more details.
Manage section details Just like in LectureTools, once you create or select a Course, Term and Section, the names and course or section codes are not editable. What you can edit is the description for the section. You can make this anything you like. Navigate to the Class List for the section, then click the Settings tab. The course and section details appear by default.
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View and download student analytics In LectureTools, clicking the Assess tab would provide you with information about student involvement and participation in your classes.
In ALP-E the student and class analytics information is contained in the Analytics tab for the section.
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Getting LectureTools Presentations into ALPEngagement Great! I'm sold! ALP-Engagement looks like a great product for me. So, how do I get my LectureTools presentations moved into ALP-E? Well, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that if you have your original presentation files (the .ppts or .pps' or .pdfs you uploaded into LectureTools), the only thing you will have to do is recreate the activity slides. Those exist solely as LectureTools objects, so to have them in Active Learning Platform - Engagement (ALP-E), you have to recreate them as ALP-E objects. The bad news is that if you don't have your original presentation files, you will have to recreate the presentations in full. LectureTools has no export capability; there is no way to get copies of those presentations. If you do not have your original presentation files and would like to get at least PDF versions of your LectureTools presentations, send an email to
[email protected], including your name/username, the institution you belong to, and which course(s) presentations you want PDFs of. Unless your originals were in PDF format however, you will still have to re-create those files in PowerPoint. And you will have to recreate your activity slides regardless. Perk up! Think of this as your opportunity to update your materials! ::crickets:: Okay, so yes, there's going to be some work involved but the steps below should lead you smoothly through the process.
Content creation option for Windows users ALP-E offers a PowerPoint Ribbon add-on for Windows that actually makes it VERY convenient to generate your content (in PowerPoint of course), add activity slides directly in PowerPoint, publish to a class, and even present through PowerPoint (Activity slides too!). It is a very handy tool, but it has some limitations that we didn't want you to be surprised by as you go through the process of recreating your content:
The PowerPoint Ribbon can only create three of the five types of activity slides: Multiple Choice, Short Answer, and Image Quiz.
Presentations published though the PowerPoint Ribbon cannot be edited in ALPE. For this reason, they can only be published to a class and not to your LIBRARY only (but everything published appears in your library). You can publish the same presentation to different classes and sections, but you are prompted (and 20
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Creating/Uploading Presentations into ALP-Engagement Obviously the first thing you need to do is to find your original file or recreate it, either as a ppt/pps file or PDF. (See Supported Content Formats for a list of supported file types.) Then save the file. TIP: If you have a set of slides or pages that you reuse within other larger presentations, start with those. ALP-E lets you create or add to a presentation using some or all of the slides in an existing file. This includes activity slides. If you have a set of activity slides you use repeatedly across multiple presentations, those can be added to multiple presentations once they are created. By the way, you don't have to necessarily save the file locally; ALP-E uses the Filepicker tool, which support selection of files from the local computer, or a cloud location such as Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, or OneDrive.
Uploading and adding activities to presentations Once you have the presentation file located (or re-created), use the below procedure to upload the file, then generate new activity slides. And yes there are multiple ways to do what we describe below, but there are good reasons for telling you to do it this way. Trust me, I'm a professional (you'll have to keep reading to see what those reasons are).
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To upload your presentation into ALP-E 1. Log into ALP-E and click LIBRARY from the main menu (across the top of the screen). 2. On the LIBRARY page, click Upload Content.
3. In the Filepicker window that appears, navigate to the location of the file and select it, or you can drag-drop the file into the main section of the Filepicker window. The file is uploaded and then processed. Depending on the size of the file, this may take some time. 4. Once the file is processed, it appears on the LIBRARY page. Hover over the item to expose the menu arrow (also called a "chevron") in the top right corner of the tile. 5. Click the chevron and select Edit presentation.
6. In the presentation edit screen, click ADD ACTIVITY then select the type of activity slide you want to create.
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The section below shows each of the activity slide options, so you don't have to jump to those help topics right now (you have enough to do, we know). 7. To change the location of any of your new activity slides, simply click-and-drag the slide to its proper spot in the presentation. 8. To add a Multimedia slide or Blank slide to the presentation, click ADD SLIDES.
9. Select Create a blank slide to insert (logically) a blank slide to the presentation. These can act as separators (such as before a quiz slide) or as placeholders for later additions to the presentation. Blank slides cannot be added to or edited; they are simply blank. 10. Select Create a media slide to insert a slide containing a URL or embedded video link, or some other media object.
11. Again, to change the location of any of your new blank or multi-media slides, simply click-and-drag the slide to it's proper spot in the presentation.
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13. Use the arrow buttons on your keyboard, or the arrow icons to the left and right of each slide to page through the presentation. 14. When finished previewing, click the X in the top right corner of the screen to close the preview. 15. When you are finished editing and previewing the presentation, click the returnarrow button located to the left of the presentation title at the top of the screen.
You are returned to the LIBRARY page and the edited presentation is re-processed. Once reprocessing is finished, you can view your presentation, or share/publish it to a class or to another user.
Adding activity slides The activity slide options in ALP-E are the same as those in LectureTools, and the interface for creating them is nearly the same. One difference is that in LectureTools, you could select which slide came immediately before the activity you are creating. In ALP-E, you can simply drag-and-drop the activity slide into its proper location in the slide deck. All of the activity slides allow you to PREVIEW the activity. They also all contain a Require justification checkbox. Checking this box requires students to provide a short-answer type follow-up to their response. The below procedures provide an overview of creating each of the activity slides in ALP-E.
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3. Enter the Question. 4. Enter a single value in the left text box (if there is one correct answer) or the first and last of a range of acceptable values in each text box. 5. Click DONE. To add an ordered list activity 1. In the Edit presentation window (see above instructions), click ADD ACTIVITY. 2. Select Ordered list.
3. Enter the question or instruction text. 4. If the activity requires more than four answer options, click ADD ITEM. 5. If appropriate, enable the Has a correct answer checkbox, then enter the answer options in the correct order.
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To add an image quiz activity 1. In the Edit presentation window (see above instructions), click ADD ACTIVITY. 2. Select Image quiz.
3. Enter the question or instructional text and click CHOOSE IMAGE. The image appears in the window.
4. Click MARK SOLUTION to outline the area on the image that is the solution to the question. 5. Click DONE.
To add a short answer activity 1. In the Edit presentation window (see above instructions), click ADD ACTIVITY.
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3. Enter the question or instructional text. 4. Click DONE.
To add a multiple choice activity 1. In the Edit presentation window (see above instructions), click ADD ACTIVITY. 2. Select Multiple choice.
3. Enter the question. 4. Enter the answer options, clicking ADD ANSWER if you want to provide more than four options. 5. Designate the Correct answer option(s). 6. Optional: If you have multiple correct answers but want students to get credit only if they select all of the correct answers, click the checkbox above the answer entries. 7. Click DONE.
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Why do it this way? As stated earlier, there are multiple ways, or rather locations in the interface where you can upload your file, and from which you can edit it, adding activity slides or other kinds of slides. Ultimately, however, everything you upload ends up in your LIBRARY. In LectureTools, each presentation exists as a 1:1 relationship with the class that contains it. That means that if you make changes to a presentation, it makes the change to ONLY that presentation in THAT class. ALP-E allows you to have a single presentation published to multiple sections, or even to multiple classes in the same section (maybe a quiz at the beginning of the term, and the same quiz at the end of the term). While you CAN upload the same file separately for different sections/classes, that will leave you with multiple copies of the same file in your library. The reason we led you through the re-creation process by uploading to your library, is so that you become accustomed to the paradigm of having reusable content. This includes not only the idea of reusing slides and activities, BUT ALSO the idea that you can make a change to a presentation ONCE and it appears in ALL PUBLISHED INSTANCES of that presentation. That's also the reason for the TIP at the top of the page. If you have groups of presentation or activity slides that you re-use frequently, upload those to your library and use them as a base from which to create/edit other presentations. That process would go something like this: 1. Create a presentation with the re-used slides/pages. 2. Upload the presentation. 3. Create a presentation containing the slides that are specific to the class/section to which they will be shown. 4. Upload the presentation. 5. Open the second presentation for editing. 6. Click ADD SLIDES, and select Import from Library. 7. Select the first presentation, then select the slides you want to add. 8. Click-and-drag the slides into the proper order. 9. Click the "return arrow" to return to the Library, and send the edited file for processing and saving. 10. Once processed, you may want to Edit the details of the presentation, to give it a name/description that identifies the class/section it is has been developed for. This will allow you to more easily find it in your LIBRARY once your library becomes populated with all your content. The same process can be done for Activity slides - if you have a set of questions, quizzes, or other activities that you use repeatedly across classes, sections, even terms, 28
System Requirements you can create the base presentation, then import select activity slides into different presentations as needed. TO ADD AN ACTIVITES-ONLY PRESENTATION you have to create a class, then click the + sign for the class and select Add presentation. Yes, this goes against the idea of "working through your library" for content management, but there's a good reason for this too. When you CREATE a presentation in ALP-E, you can do so either by importing slides from other files, or by creating activity or other slides, or a combination of both. The implication is that any presentation created through ALP-E would be specific to the class for which it is created, because it probably re-uses some existing content. However, even though you must create the new presentation through the class, it does not have to stay there. Once you've generated your re-usable activity slides, you can remove the presentation from the class. The presentation will remain in your library. Again, be sure to Edit the details of the presentation to provide a name that identifies its content and purpose, so you can find it in your Library when you need it. Activities in multi-location presentations: While you can use the same content slides in multiple locations, activity slides can be a bit tricky, particularly if you are publishing the same presentation in different sections during the same term. Remember that in this case there is ONE instance of an activity slide, so that if you Show responses or Reset the activity in one class, that change occurs in ALL published versions. For this reason, you may want to create separate activity sets for different sections in the same term.
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