LON-CAPA Help

System Overview

• What Is LON-CAPA

Help

Where to find additional help
• Additional Help

Requesting New Features and Submitting Suggestions

• Bugzilla

Logging In

Roles Screen
• Roles Screen

Remote Control and Menu Mode

• Remote Menu

Setting Preferences

Change Password
• Change Password

Nickname and Anonymous Discussion Screen Name

• Prefs Screen Name Nickname

Message forwarding and email notification addresses

• Prefs Messages

The 'About Me' Personal Information Screen

• Prefs About Me

Color Scheme

• Change Colors

Language Preferences

• Prefs Language

Clicker Registration

• Clicker Registration

Exploring Your Course

• Exploring Your Course

  Course Initialization Helper

  • Helper Course Initialization

  Help

  • Help

  Navigation Screen

  • Navigation Screen

  Edit Syllabus

  • Edit Syllabus

DOCS - Course Documents

• Docs Overview

  Main Course Documents

  • Docs Main Course Documents

  Adding Material to Your Course

  • Docs Adding Course Doc

  Special Documents: Folders

  • Docs Adding Folders

  Imported Documents: Import

  • Docs Importing LON-CAPA Resource

  Imported Documents: Search

  • Docs Search

  Imported Documents: Load Map

  • Docs Load Map

  Special Documents: Templates

  • Docs Creating From Template

  • Docs Editing Templated Pages

    Special Documents: Syllabus

    • Docs Adding Syllabus

    • Syllabus ExtLink

    Special Documents: Simple Page

    • Docs About Simple Page

    Special Documents: Bulletin Board

    • Docs About Bulletin Board

    Special Documents: My Personal Info

    • Docs About My Personal Info

    Alternatives

    • Docs Alternatives

  Special Documents: Navigate Content

  • Docs Navigate Content

  Special Documents: External Resource

  • Docs Adding External Resource

  Special Documents: Score Upload Form

  • Docs Score Upload Form

  Special Documents: Simple Problem

  • Docs Simple Problem

    1 out of N Multiple Choice

    • Docs Radio

    Option Response

    • Docs Option Response

    Essay

    • Docs Essay

    Short String Response

    • Docs String Response

  Special Documents: Composite Page

  • Docs Adding Pages

  Uploading a New Main Course Document

  • Docs Uploading From Harddrive

  Verify Content

  • Docs Verify Content

  Check/Set Resource Versions

  • Docs Check Resource Versions

  Dump Course Docs to Construction Space

  • Docs Dump Course Docs

  Supplemental DOCS

  • Docs Supplemental

Managing Course Users

Upload a Class List
• Course Create Class List

  Converting to CSV

  • Course Convert To CSV

Enroll a Single Student

• Course Add Student

  Password Authentication

  • Authentication

Modify Student Data

• Course Modify Student Data

View Class List

• Course View Class List

Drop a Student

• Course Drop Student

Automated Enrollment Manager

• Course Automated Enrollment

Course Groups

• Creating Groups

• Course Manage Group

Student Self-enrollment

• Course Self Enrollment

Course Parameters

• Course Setting Parameters

  Parameter Helper

  • Parameter Helper

    Open Date

    • Open Date

    Due Date

    • Due Date

    Answer Date

    • Answer Date

    Tries

    • Tries

    Problem Weight

    • Course Problem Weight

  Parameter Overview

  • Parameter Overview

  Table Mode

  • Table Mode

    Parameters for an Individual Student

    • Course User Parameter

  Course Environment

  • Course Environment

Slot Management

• Slot About

  Adding Slot Using the Interface

  • Slot AddInterface

    Required Slot Attributes

    • Slot RequiredAttributes

    Optional Slot Attributes

    • Slot OptionalAttributes

    Selecting Resource Available Within Slots

    • Slot ChoosingResources

    Specifying Proctors

    • Slot SpecifyProctors

    Specifying Users

    • Slot RestrictAvailibility

  Uploading Slot Files

  • Slot CommaDelimited

    Specifying Types of Input Fields

    • Slot SelectingField

  Editing and Deleting Slots

  • Slot EditDelete

Problem Parameters

Overview
• Problem Parameters

Allowing Collaboration on an Essay Problem

• Course Maximum Collaborators

Course Communication System

• Course Message Access

  View All Messages

  • View All Messages

  View Critical Messages

  • View Critical Messages

  Send Messages to User(s)

  • Sending Email

  Broadcast Message to Course

  • Course Broadcast Message

  Distribute Messages from Uploaded File to Course

  • Distribute Messages

  Recording Notes and Face-To-Face Communication

  • Course Face To Face Records

  Critical Messages

  • Course Critical Message

Discussion Posts and Feedback

Resource Discussion
• Resource Discussion

Giving Feedback

• Leaving Feedback

  Feedback to resource author

  • Feedback Author

  Question about resource content

  • Feedback Content

  Question/Comment/Feedback about course policy

  • Feedback Policy

  Contribution to course discussion of resource

  • Feedback Discussion

  Anonymous contribution to course discussion of resource

  • Feedback Discuss Anon

Change the way Discussion Posts are Displayed

• Change Discussion Display

Feedback Adresses

• Course Feedback Addresses

Disabling Discussion

• Course Disable Discussion

Chart Student Progress

• Chart Description

  Homework Performance Overview

  • Course Homework Performance Overview

  Sections

  • Chart Sections

  Student Data

  • Chart Student Data

  Enrollment Status

  • Chart Enrollment Status

  Sequences and Folders

  • Chart Sequences

  Output Format

  • Chart Output Formats

  Output Data

  • Chart Output Data

Grades and Submissions

• Grade Intro

  Hand Grading and Viewing Submissions

  Current Resource: For one of more students (use this for essay grading)
  • Grade One

  Current Resource: For all students in a selected section or course

  • Grade All

  The complete sequence: For one student

  • Grade Sequence

  Upload Scores from File

  • Grade Upload

  Grade Scantron Forms

  • Grade Scantron

  Verify a Submission Receipt Number

  • Grade Verify

  Viewing Student Submissions

  • Course Student Work

Statistics

Overall Problem Statistics
• Statistics Sequence

• Statistics Overall Key

Detailed Problem Analysis

• Analysis Analyze Over

Submission Time Analysis

• Submission Time Analysis

About Clear and Update Cache

• Statistics Cache

Spreadsheet

Introduction to the Spreadsheet
• Spreadsheet About

Student View

• Spreadsheet Student View

Spreadsheet Organization

Spreadsheet Hierarchy
• Spreadsheet Hierarchy

Layout

• Spreadsheet Layout

The Three Spreadsheet Levels

• Spreadsheet Levels

Export Row

• Spreadsheet Export Row

Template Row

• Spreadsheet Template Row

Modifying the Spreadsheet

• Spreadsheet Files

• Spreadsheet Editing

  Cell Editing

  • Spreadsheet Cell Editing

  Referencing Cells

  • Spreadsheet Referencing Cells

  Referencing Parameters

  • Spreadsheet Referencing Parameters

  • Spreadsheet Parms

  Special Functions

  • Spreadsheet Functions

  Examples and Comments

  • Spreadsheet HowTo

  Examples and Comments on Assessment Spreadsheets

  • Spreadsheet HowTo Assessments

Portfolio

• Portfolio About

  Creating Portfolio Directories

  • Portfolio CreateDirectory

  Changing Current Portfolio Directories

  • Portfolio ChangeDirectory

  The File Listing Interface

  • Portfolio FileList

  Uploading Files to Portfolio

  • Portfolio AddFiles

  File Actions

  • Portfolio FileAction

    Opening a Files in Portfolio

    • Portfolio OpenFile

    Deleting Files from Portfolio

    • Portfolio DeleteFile

    Renaming Files in Portfolio

    • Portfolio RenameFile

    Creating File Catalog

    • Portfolio Catalog

  Sharing Files in Portfolio

  • Portfolio ShareFile

    Setting Public/Password Protected Access

    • Portfolio ShareFile SetAccess

    Change Access Setting

    • Portfolio ShareFile ChangeSetting

    Removing Public/Password Protected Access

    • Portfolio ShareFile StopAccess

Student Grade Access

• Quick Grades Description

  Changing Course Environment for Student Access of Spreadsheet

  • GradingOptions

Scantron Exams

Building you Exam
• exam build

How Questions Will be Scored

• exam how scored

Setting the Question Type

• exam question type

Printing Your Exam

• exam printing

Scoring Your Exam

• exam scoring

Providing Answers

• exam answers

Online Exams

Building Your Exam
• exam build

Setting Online Exam Parameters

• exam parameters

Disabling Communication During Exams

• exam disable com

Misc.

Prepare a Printable PDF Document
• Print Resource

Adding Instructors and Teaching Assitants to Your Course

• Course Add Other

  Change Privileges of a User

  • Course Change Privileges

  Creating a Custom Role

  • Course Editing Custom Roles

Course Calendar

• Calendar Add Announcement

• Calendar Remove Announcement

Course Chat

• Course Chat

Evaluating a Resource

• Course User Evaluation

Searching the LON-CAPA Resource Pool

• Searching

  Basic Search

  • Search Basic

  Advance Search

  • Search Advanced

Browsing Resources

• Browsing Resources

Viewing Resource Catalog Information

• Catalog Info

Bookmarks

• Bookmarks

Annotations

• Annotation

On Deleting Courses

• Course Deleting