Instructor resources

Overview:  You will access Mobius from Brightspace.  Here, you will make a link your your private access (which you will hide from students!) and create your course on Möbius at the same time.  Be sure to put your Mobius course under the correct parent folder (eg: if you are teaching MAT1320A, you will put it under MAT1320).

Step-by-step guide with screenshots (by Benoit Dionne).

Include a link for students to the Möbius FAQ (public website):  https://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/bdionne/teaching/Mobius/Mobius_en.html 

On the FAQ website, students will find the instructions for buying the licence for Möbius ($30 for one year) and the browser requirements. The non-compatibility of the browser is the most frequent source of problems. Students must ensure that their browser accepts third party cookies.

If you are logged in as a prof of two courses, be careful!  Close the window and delete Mobius cookies if you find yourself logged into the wrong course.

Overview:  This separate link will allow students to access the marking and full solutions to each assignment (after the due date) by clicking “Details” next to the item in their Gradebook.  

You may want to call it “Solutions to your Möbius Assignments (Click “Details”)” rather than "Gradebook".

Screenshots on how to link to the Mobius Gradebook (by Benoit Dionne).

(“Getting to Know Möbius” is available for all Calculus I and II classes)

Overview: This is an ungraded assignment and provides Mobius orientation for your students.  If students have never accessed Möbius before, clicking on their first assignment (such as this one) leads them to purchase their licence for the year. 

The steps for linking this “Getting to Know Möbius” assignment to Brightspace are the same as you will use all term. 

Screenshots on how to link to a Mobius assignment (by Benoit Dionne)  At Step 2, select “Getting to Know Möbius” from the menu of assignments available.

Overview:  Use your private link to the Möbius homepage in Brightspace to access Möbius.  Go to  Content Repository and choose Questions from the column marked “Current class”.  Browse.

Screenshots for Previewing Questions On Mobius (by Benoit Dionne) 

Overview: Use your private link to the Möbius homepage in Brightspace to access Möbius.  Go to  Content Repository (top) and then choose Assignments from the column marked “Current class”.   Three choices (see step-by-step instructions, below):

a) If available, take an existing assignment.  Choose it, click EDIT, and adjust the policies (properties) carefully. For more significant edits, instead click “Clone to my class”. (Reload Mobius if you can’t find your cloned copy; it will be in the Assignment root.)

b) Import an assignment from a previous term.  Go to your old class, choose the assignment, and click Export.  Then in your new class, click Import.  Then edit it carefully. 

c) Create a new assignment.  Click the blue “Create New” button in the top left of the screen, and select “assignment”.  Then give it a title, add questions, and define the policies (properties).

Step-by-step guide: Creating Assignments On Mobius (by Benoit Dionne) and Rules for assignments (by Benoit Dionne)

These are the same instructions as Step 4 of Part A:  Screenshots on how to link to a Mobius assignment (by Benoit Dionne) 

Your students’ grades will automatically show up in the Brightspace Gradebook after each assignment is due, as long as they access their assignment through the Brightspace link directly.