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Creating online carry marks in UTM e-learning

Posted on October 23, 2016 ·

We can utilise the UTM e-learning to create an online carry marks (exclude final) of student that registered for a subject in current semester. Lecturers can publish all student’s carry marks online so that students can know their marks easier and faster anytime. Lecturers can also write personal feedback of each assessment for each student if needed. Advantage for student, they can only view their own marks and feedback privately.

Here are some steps can be followed to do it.

: Step 1a: Turn editing on

: Step 1b: Add activity

: Step 1c: Setting

: Step 1d: Setting 2

: Step 1e: Assignment published

[ Inserting online carry marks in UTM e-learning ]

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Import questions file into your UTM e-learning

Posted on October 22, 2016 ·

You can import the question file into your e-learning with very simple steps here.

: Step 3

: Step 3b

: Step 4

Filed Under: Leaning, References, Tips and Trick Tagged With: e-learning, import question, import quiz

Export your UTM e-learning questions to file

Posted on October 21, 2016 ·

If you have created questions in the question bank for the online quizzes in your e-learning, you actually can export those. Just follow these simple steps by assuming that you have login your e-learning account.

: Step 1

: Step 2

: Step 3

[ How to import the question file into your e-learning? ]

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Creating online quiz in e-learning UTM

Posted on October 21, 2016 ·

Note:

The set of questions are recommended to be prepared before creating any online quiz. Click here to creating the questions.

It is easy to create a set of quiz in the e-learning UTM. Just follow the steps below that illustrates with pictures.

(1) Login the e-learning using your account.

(2) Turn editing on.

(3) Creating the quiz.

: 3a) Add activity

: 3b) Adding new quiz

: 3c) Setting

: 3d) Layout and behaviour of question

(4) Editing the quiz.

: 4a) Edit quiz menu

: 4b) Initial setting

: 4c) Select category

: 4d) Select questions

: 4e) Partitioning questions

: 4f) New page

(5) Congratulation !!! You have done it. You can review the created quiz once completed.

: Main page

: The created new quiz

This is the preview of the quiz created.

[ Click for larger image ]

Do you know that you can download all questions so that you can reuse or restore whenever you need in future? You might need to know how to do it and you can make it as your own personal question bank offline. It can be shared to other as a normal file with it format.

[ Click here to export the questions to file ]

Filed Under: Leaning, References, Tips and Trick Tagged With: adding quiz, e-learning UTM, online question, online quiz

Creating multiple-choice questions in e-learning UTM

Posted on October 21, 2016 ·

Lecturers of UTM can create the online multiple-choice questions in the e-learning UTM. Just follow the these simple steps in pictures for creating objective questions with one correct answer from 4 choices.

(1) Login the UTM e-learning using your account.

(2) Creating the categories according to the chapter’s name.

: 2a) Question bank

: 2b) Categories

: 2c) Add categories

: 2d) List of categories created

(3) Start creating a question.

: 3a) Choose category

: 3b) Question type

: 3c) Write the question

: 3d) Insert figure

: 3e) Setting and save image

: 3f) The question with image

(4) Preparing the choices of answers.

: 4a) Setting choices

: 4b) Answer and grade

(5) Saving the question and the choices.

: 5a) Save changes

: 5b) Preview the question

(6) Congratulation !!! You have done it. For the next question, repeat the step 3, 4, and 5. This is the question created with it choices of answers.

[ How to create an online quiz in your e-learning? ]

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Writing equations in Office 2011 for Mac

Posted on October 21, 2016 ·

Sometime we need to write a mathematical symbols, an equation or an expression in some applications especially Word and Powerpoint in Office 2011 for Mac that aren’t possible to type from the keyboard. The Office provide the Equation option to solve this equation problem.

However, through my experienced been teaching for more than a decade, it is not too flexible in term of editing and manipulate the equation created especially in Powerpoint in preparing the lecture note such as the subject of Digital Logic. Therefore, another option to overcome this is using the Equation Editor in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint within Office 2011.

Here are some steps in pictures as a guideline on how to activate the Equation Editor from Word 2011. It can be also do the same steps in Powerpoint 2011.

: Step 1

: Step 2

: The icon at the dock

: Step 3

: Step 4

The created equation using the Equation Editor can be copied and paste into the Word and Powerpoint. Here is an example of some equations or expressions that used in the subject of Digital Logic written in both Equation option in Word and Equation Editor itself.

Besides of the beautiful representation of equation written using Equation Editor, the equation size display can be resized and relocated easily in Powerpoint 2011 particularly.