ATutor

A few questions as I get started

• meshael
  

  2010-02-05 13:43:34

  A few questions as I get started

  Hi,
  
  I am just starting to create some courses. The interface is somewhat confusing to me. If you could answer a couple of questions, I would appreciate it.
  
  1. What is the difference between creating a course as an instructor and as the administrator?
  2. Once I have created a course as an instructor, how can I go back and edit the various aspects of it, such as the banner? I don't see any place to do this.
  3. When I first created a new course, I selected for the Create Basic Announcement, content and forum. However no forum is displayed when I look at that course afterwards. How do I add a forum to a course once it has been created?
  
  Thanks!
  
  Robert

• IndieRect
  

  2010-02-05 13:59:53

  Re: A few questions as I get started

  I think you should spend a few hours playing with ATutor's interface and tools. It's quite simple -- in fact, simpler than, for example, Moodle's.
  
  1. When creating a course -- no difference, except that an admin can specify a few advanced features, e.g. the disk quota. In both cases, you'll need to log in as an instructor in order to create content and use that course.
  
  2. It's Manage -> Properties.
  
  3. It should be under Forums icon on the course home page, and Forums tab.

• meshael
  

  2010-02-05 14:02:40

  Re: A few questions as I get started

  That is extremely helpful. Thanks again!
  I hadn't explored the Manage section yet. I see a lot is there.
  
  Just a note, I was able to successfully embed a video In my first test course that I uploaded to Amazon AWS Cloudfront. Worked like a charm!
  
  Robert

• IndieRect
  

  2010-02-05 14:08:05

  Re: A few questions as I get started

  Glad it helped.
  Chances are, you'll spend most of the time as an instructor on Manage tab.