Adding Content
to your Vista Shell
Upload basics—how to create folders and upload files to your Vista homepage
Upload
Your Syllabus - Upload a syllabus file that has been created
on your computer.
Learning Modules - Organizing your course content into learning modules (highly recommended). Closed captioned - click on the "CC" (lower right) to display captions.
Camtasia file links—how to upload and link Camtasia Studio presentations into your Vista course.
Your picture - Adding your picture to your Vista course as an icon on your homepage.
Using Vista Assessments
Creating Test Questions—how to create test questions and add them to your question database.
Creating Assessments—creating assessments and adding questions to them.
Editing Assessments—editing assessment content and properties and deploying assessments.
Grading Assessments—taking and grading Vista assessments.
Moving Assessments—moving assessments from one course to another.
Releasing Assessment Results—releasing test results to students and controlling what they can see.
Assessment Statistics - Accessing statistics for Vista assessments.
Using Vista Assignments
Submitting Assignments—how to submit an assignment in Vista.
Publishing Assignments—sharing selected assignment submissions with the entire class.
Assignment Dates - managing assignment dates and the consequences of using cutoff dates.
Using the Vista Gradebook
Gradebook Overview—a general introduction to the Vista gradebook.
Hiding and Showing Gradebook Columns—changing column visibility for the instructor.
Releasing Columns for Student View—controlling which grades show up under the student’s “My Grades” button.
Calculating Final Grades—setting up a “total points column in your gradebook.
Reordering Gradebook Columns—changing the order in which gradebook columns display to you and your students.
Sorting Dropped Students—how to sort dropped students temporarily to the bottom of the gradebook.
Backing Up/Exporting Your Gradebook - Download your grades to an Excel spreadsheet.
Using Vista Communications Tools
Discussion Boards—Using Discussion Topics for asynchronous communication.
Live Classroom—Using Horizon Wimba’s Live Classroom plugin to communicate with your students in real time.
Using Selective Release in Vista
Early Assessment—Releasing assessments early to selected students.
Accommodation—Allowing DSPS students more time on a test.
Using the Vista Calendar
Calendar Links—Linking to a file or content item from the calendar.
Vista Course Settings, Display, and Icons
Replacing Vista Icons—Finding replacement icons for items on Vista content pages.
Vista Course Management
Section Backup—Backing up your Visa courses and saving the backup files to disk.
Managing Your Course List - Hide and re-order courses in your Vista Course List.
Vista Date Roll-over - refreshing all dates in a Vista shell cloned from an earlier course. |
