Navigating the Digital Campus
This section is designed to help you successfully navigate the Digital Campus and understand its functionality. Below, we've provided a broad overview and basic instructions to help you get started. We'll soon dive into more detailed information on how to edit your profile and course content.
Course Ribbon Header
Home: the main landing page for the Digital Campus that houses all of your courses, student resources, tutoring and/or academic support links
Dashboard: contains the your course(s) timeline and calendar
My Courses: houses all course(s) you have access to and is completely customizable - courses can be shown in a card , list or summary format
Site Administration: all administrator settings for users, courses, grades, reports, appearance, etc.
Ribbon Header in Course
Course: landing page for course content - toolbox, live session links, syllabus, content topics etc.
Settings: provides access to course, activity or resource settings
Participants: will display all enrolled students and faculty that have access to the course
My Grades: defaults to grader report for all participants in the course. Allows faculty to customize the view, setup of the grade book and import /export grades.
Reports: houses the activity report, course participation and the roster
More: questions banks and content bank (H5P) can be accessed here
Course Index
The course index is scrollable, collapsable drawer that displays course sections and elements. Are you move up and down the course material, your location is highlighted in the Course index. Clicking on an item in the course index will open it up directly in the course central area.
Profile
In order to access your profile, you must first click the little arrow next to your name at the top right of the page. (see image to the right)
Once you access the Profile section, you will see a screen that looks similar to the image below. Below, find a brief description of each of the sections outlined in blue: User details, Course details, Miscellaneous, Reports, and Login activity.
User Details
Edit Profile: allows updates or changes to all profile settings
*This section will be covered in-depth on the next section of this training.
Course Details
Course Profiles: lists all courses that you are associated with.
Miscellaneous
Discussion Forum Posts: links to all discussion forum posts a user has made.
Discussion Forum Discussions: links to all discussion forum discussions a user has participated in.
Reports
Today’s logs: shows a chart and detailed log of all pages visited within the course for the current day
All logs: shows a chart and detailed log of all pages ever visited within the course
Outline Report: The Outline report helps instructors to collect and view a summarized version of an activity and grades in all the Activities and Resources in your course. The activities and resources are displayed in the same order as they are in the main course page.
Complete Report: The Complete report helps instructors to view a detailed list of an individual student's last log and activity in the Activities and resources in your course, including detailed contribution to any of the various types of course activities. The activities and resources are displayed in the same order as they are on the main course page.
Browser Sessions: shows a table of user's active session that includes columns for Log in, Last Access, Last IP Address, and Action
Grades Overview: shows grades for Courses I am Taking and links to the gradebook for Courses I am Teaching
Login Activity
First Access to Site: displays time/date stamp for the first time you accessed the course
Last Access to Site: displays time/date stamp for the most recent time you accessed the course
Last IP Address: displays the last IP Address you used during your last access to the course
Breadcrumb Navigation
A breadcrumb is a type of navigation scheme that reveals the user's location in a website or web application. It allows you to easily navigate to previously visited locations simply by clicking the link in the breadcrumb trail. See the example below.
Today's Logs
In the current section, you would be viewing Today's logs in the course. The breadcrumbs (shown in the image below) indicate that you went from Profile to Reports to Today's logs.
Reports
Clicking on Reports in the breadcrumb trail (as highlighted in the image below), will take you back to the Reports page of the course.
Profile
Clicking on Profile in the breadcrumb trail (as highlighted in the image below), will take you back to the Profile page of the course.