Welcome to LMSKing, an effective elearning software. This software facilitates learning through assessments, lesson creation and feedback initiation through surveys.

LMSKing is a web based management learning system that can be used for creating lessons for various classes, conducting online assessments and to seek feedback through surveys. The software simplifies the learning process for the students since they can access the lessons and attempt the various assessments at any time of the day from anywhere. It helps the teachers to organize the lessons and keep a tab on the student's progress over the weeks.

What is LMSKING?

LMS facilitates, organizes and simplifies the learning process, for the teachers as well as the students. The software is useful for survey and feedback purposes as well. The assistants can use the software to review and edit manual markings; whereas the Joomla administrators can have complete control over the system and software settings.

Objectives of the user guide

The user guide will be in a free flowing tree format that allows selecting topic of interest by clicking on the link on the left hand side. IT will be basically divided into six key sections, START, STATS, MANAGE, REPORTS, QUESTIONS, AND EXTENSIONS. All possible help sections are included in the user guide to enable the user understand the software, its use, its features and its processes.

Features of LMS KING

It has the following features

* The software is easy to use with simplified navigation process and handy user interface.

* It allows the user to generate reports

* Surveys can be designed with different options such as open ended questions and closed ended questions

* The teacher can track the assessments and the progress of the students over the course with the help of STATS option.

* The teacher or the administrator can also track the logins by the student.

Users

The system is designed in such a way that it can support four different types of users

Teacher: This user would be mainly responsible for organizing, managing and administrating the course. The teacher would be able to access some part of the front end such as manual marking and the administration part of the software.

Student: This user would be the learner and would be accessing the front end of the software

Assistant: This user will have access to limited portion of front end such as Manual marking

Administrator: This user will have complete control over the software and will be responsible for course and system settings

Each user will have set of tasks and sections at their disposable.

Requirements

LMS king is a web based application and hence required internet connection and browser all the time. The software will support the following browsers that are easily available in the market

* Inter Explorer 8 or higher version

* Firefox

* Google Chrome

Also before the software is used it is important to ensure that cookies and JavaScript are enabled in the browser.

CHAPTER 2 START

This is the first tab in the application. It is the very first section used to create a lesson. It has following two categories

1. Introduction

2. Open or Create a lesson

This section gives a brief introduction about the application. It does not have any other function but to give information to the teacher about the basic use of the application.

There is also a button labelled VIEW TUTORIAL MOVIE , click on that to view the video.

Open or create a lesson

This section is used to open an existing lesson or to create a new lesson. It has following four options

1. Open a Lesson

2. Create a lesson

3. Creation Wizard

4. Import Questions from text file

We will explore option in detail in the next section.

Open a lesson

There are four categories under this option

Filter for lessons

* Category: Select the appropriate category from the drop down list to apply the filter

* Lesson type: Select the type of the lesson such as exam, presentation, quiz to apply the filter

* Free Text Search: There is a text box wherein the name of the lesson or first few characters can be typed to apply the filter. For example typing "English" will bring all lessons that start with the name English

Select Lesson

This area shows the list of the lessons based on the different criteria used for the filter.

After selecting the lesson from the list, click on OPEN LESSON which would open the selected lesson.

Create a lesson

This is the second option in the list, and it is meant to create a new lesson. There are in all 9 fields and only one of them is a mandatory field.

* Lesson Name: Enter the name of the lesson in the text box

* Lesson Description: The teacher can enter the brief description of the lesson in the text space with the option to use editor. This description will be available to the user while viewing the lessons in the front end.

* Lesson Type: Select the appropriate lesson type from the drop down list, for instance exam, survey, presentation and so forth.

* Lesson Category: Select the appropriate category from the drop down list, to add another category click on ADD CATEGORY which will bring a new pop up window. Add the new category name and click on save, the new category will appear in the drop down list, select the appropriate category.

* Pre- requisite: Select the appropriate pre-requisite from the drop down list; this will give information to the user as to what is required before attempting this lesson.

* How many of them must be successfully complete: There can be more than one pre-requisite and in this field the teacher has to mention as to how many of the pre-requisite must be completed, one or all of them or few of them.

* Select Teachers: Select the assigned teachers for this lesson that would mark the lesson and give instructions to the students or users.

* Select Assistants: Select the assigned assistants for this lesson that would assist the teachers.

* Lesson File: Upload the file that would give information about the lesson, the file can be txt, .doc, .rtf, .docx and ppt.

There are three options to save or cancel the work

1. Save and go to questions

2. Save and go to lesson list

3. Cancel

Creation Wizard

The lesson can also be created through some easy steps using the different wizards. The first wizard has the following options

1. Create a new lesson and then copy questions to it from the other lesson

2. Create a new lesson in which all questions will be entered manually

3. Open an existing lesson

Select the right option to begin lesson creation and click on next.

When the first option is selected, the following window to create the lesson appears, it has eight categories and one of them is mandatory.

* Lesson Name: Enter the name of the lesson in the text box

* Lesson Type: Select the appropriate lesson type from the drop down list, for instance exam, survey, presentation and so forth.

* Pre- requisite: Select the appropriate pre-requisite from the drop down list; this will give information to the user as to what is required before attempting this lesson.

* Select Teachers: Select the assigned teachers for this lesson that would mark the lesson and give instructions to the students or users.

* Select Assistants: Select the assigned assistants for this lesson that would assist the teachers.

Click on NEXT

LESSON WIZARD 3

* File Upload: Upload the file that will give details about the review material to the students before taking the exam. Click on upload and select the file form the computer.

* Instructions: These instructions will be presented to the students after they have qualified for the lesson having finished the pre-requisite and are about to begin the lesson. The editor has the normal word functions to format the instructions in desired format.

There are different checkboxes the teacher can use to ensure the required standards for the exam are being practised

* Make exam visible to students: This will make sure the exam is published to the students in the front end

* Pass Marks: Specify the minimum pass marks the student is required to achieve to pass the exam

* Allow multiple attempts: The teacher if selects this checkbox ensures that the student is allowed to attempt the exam more than once.

* Number: This allows specifying the number of times the student can attempt the exam or the lesson

* Force Completion: This means that the student are forced to complete the exam the first time it is launched

* Set Time limit for exam: Teacher can specify if the exam or the lesson would be time bound and mention the time limit in hours, minutes in the next drop down list box.

* Display: This allows the student to view the time left clock so that he can keep up with the pace. There is an option to specify AFTER date by selecting the date from the calendar to ensure that the display is visible after specified date which means that the lesson would be available to the students say after 2^nd week or 20^th of June.

* Display Until: IT will display the last date till when the student would be able to view the lesson. For instance after 30^th of June the student will not be able to access the lesson or the exam.

* Password Protect: The teacher can keep the lesson or the exam password protected, there is an option to specify the password in the next text box.

* Timed Lesson : The system keep track of how long the user is active on a particular lesson, if the mouse or the keyboard are inactive for long time, the timer will go off.

Important questions from a text file

This section allows importing specific questions from other lessons. It has three key fields that are subdivided into different sub fields.

1. Select the file to import

Type of lesson : Here the file format is select from the drop down list such as QTI XML file

File Name: Select the file to open by clicking on the button labelled CHOOSE FILE , this will open the open file dialogue box

Image folder: If the lesson will be using some images then select those image by clicking on CHOOSE FOLDER

1. Choose where to add new questions

Append question to the current document: This option will attach the questions in the current document in the end

Create a new document: This will create a new document for the imported questions. There is also a text box appended to the end of the question to specify the name of the document

2. Type of lesson to create

Select from the list by clicking on the appropriate radio button. Depending on the selection the questions would be presented

* Exam : No feedback will be provided to the user

* Quiz : Feedback to the user

* Survey : Information will be collected through these types of questions

* Presentation : Presentation of the lesson information and no response is required from the user

* SCORM : These types of questions are in external package but are wrapped in the site

Use 'prefix' plus question number to create title: Here the prefix plus question is used to create the question title for instance CH-1 will be CH-1-1, CH-1-2 and so forth. There is a text box to specify the prefix for the questions.

At the end there is option to preview the settings or click on finish to move to some other section.

CHAPTER 3 QUESTIONS

This section forms the central part of LMS king. It is basically used to create different types of questions from the lesson and is very useful for the teachers. In order to get into this section, select the lesson from the Start tab by clicking on option OPEN THE LESSON and click on questions. On the left hand corner, different categories are available for creating questions. We will look at each category separately.

The different types of questions that can be created using this section are as follows

1. Multiple Choice

2. Matching

3. Fill in the blank

4. Multiple Response

5. Either / Or

a. Yes/No

b. Agree/Disagree

c. Right/Wrong

d. True False

6. Drop Down List

7. Embedded answers

8. Jumbled sentence

9. Long Answer

10. Numeric

11. Option Scale

12. Quiz Bowl

13. Text (no questions)

14. Grid

15. Selector

16. Import QTI XML zip File

17. Copy from another lesson

There are in all 20 different types of question format that can be used to create lessons, quizzes and exams.

Multiple Choice

Multiple Choice means there is more than one choice for the student and he or she has to select the right answer from it. It is possible to have up to 26 choices but one right answer.

For example the question might be "Who is the current president of United States?" with multiple choice of

1. Barack Obama

2. George Washington

3. Hillary Clinton

4. Nelson Mandela

And the student has to select the right answer "Barack Obama" from the list of choices.

In order to create multiple question, click on the first tab on the left hand side, there are five fields that need to be filled in order to create the question. The fields marks with * sign are important to be filled.

1. Title of Question: As the name suggests it requires the title of question

2. Question Wording: Second is Question wording, using the text editor type the question you want the students to answer, there is also the option of randomize answers which means that the answers will appear in no particular order. If you do not want to use the word features for the editor click on TOGGLE EDITOR which will hide all the features and will show a normal text box to type the question.

3. A. Answer: This field requires you to add different options for the multiple choice answers. Click on the tab ADD ANSWERS to add different number of answers. The checkbox with label FEEDBACK gives the option of writing a general feedback to the user when he attempts the answer, a word editor opens to write the general feedback.

B. Select Correct Answer: This field requires setting of the correct answer

4. Point Value: This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper.

5. File Upload: This field is an optional field and allows uploading a file the user can download and view

There are in all four buttons at the end of the section that gives the option to ADD TO END OF LIST, INSERT INTO LIST, CLEAR FORM and PREVIEW the multiple question drafted.

Matching

These types of questions require students to match the correct items displayed in the two columns. There are two ways to create matching questions, they are

* Specify matching pairs for left and right columns, the true match for the left should be placed in the immediate right column

* Fill items in left and right column in any particular order and use the column located on the far left to specify the answer for that pair

For example there are 10 animal names in the left column and they can be categorized as reptiles, carnivores or herbivores. So the left column will carry names of the animals as entered and the right column can have drop down list with three options and they have to select the right option for that specific animal name on the left hand side.

The different grading options for this type of question are

* All Points or none: Student needs to get all answers correctly to get 100% points

* Right Less Wrong: Number of incorrect answers are subtracted from number of correct answers

* Proportional to the Number Correct - Equal weight to all answers.

In order to create a matching question click on the MATCHING TAB on the left hand side. As evident there are five fields that need to be filled in order to create the matching question.

1. Title of Question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Enter matching pairs: Clicking on the button add answer will open up multiple text boxes in a row as shown below. These are important fields to be filled, one is marked 1 and another A, to add another answer click on ADD ANSWER.

There are two ways in which matching questions can be created; the two methods however should not be combined. One method is to enter the matching pairs per row as seen above. And another is to jumble all the entries and in the left box of each left column entry, enter the letter of the correct answer in the right column.

4. Point Value: This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper.

5. File Upload : This field is an optional field and allows uploading a file the user can download and view

Fill in the blank

Fill in the blank type of questions require students to enter the correct word, string of characters or a phrase in the blank. The teacher in this case has to provide the list of acceptable answers which is then used by the computer to match with the answer provided by the student. Multiple variants for the right answer can be given as list of possible answers.

For example Adam was _______ after receiving gifts from his friends on his birthday. The answer can be HAPPY or its synonyms such as

* Joyous

* Cheerful

* Glad

In order to create fill in the blank type of question click on the tab FILL IN THE BLANK on the left hand side of the table. There are two options to create this type of question,

* One is to create the question with single fill in the blank

* Another is to create a question with multiple blanks

Select the appropriate option by clicking on the radio button on the left hand side of these questions.

On clicking single fill in the blank the following screen will appear

It has five fields

1. Title of Question

2. Question Wording

3. Enter all acceptable spelling and answers below. Exact spelling ,spaces and punctuation needed for credit (Capitalization ignored): Click on button ADD ANSWER , it will show a text box marked with * sign, insert the different combination of answers, click on X to close the box

4. Point Value

5. File Upload

In order to create multiple blank question , select the radio button on its left. It will show the following screen. This has four fields out of which two are mandatory.

1. Title of Question: As the name suggests it requires the title of question

2. Question Wording : In this type of question, the question and answers needs to be formed in the word editor, for instance

A [ rose, red flower] by any other name would smell as [sweet, good], the words in the brackets form the acceptable answers

3. Point Value : This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

4. File Upload : This field is an optional field and allows uploading a file the user can download and view

Multiple response

Multiple responses require the student to select more than one correct answer for the question. It is important to append X to all the answers that are correct in the list so that the system understands the correct answers and appends right amount of value to them. So if there are two correct answers in the list, then each will carry value of 50%.

For example which colours are included in our national flag?

1. Blue

2. White

3. Red

4. Green

5. Yellow

The student will have to select more than one answer from the list, the correct answer would be 1, 2, and 3.

Click on the tab MULTIPLE RESPONSE to create multiple response question. IT has five fields as below

1. Title of the question :As the name suggests it requires the title of question

2. Question wording: Second is Question wording, using the text editor type the question you want the students to answer, there is also the option of randomize answers which means that the answers will appear in no particular order. If you do not want to use the word features for the editor click on TOGGLE EDITOR which will hide all the features and will show a normal text box to type the question

3. Enter the answers below

The list can be created by entering the options in the textboxes. They can also be edited by clicking on the Edit tab at the right hand side of the text box. Click the left hand check box for the correct answers. For instance you may add A, B,C, D answers out of which A and D are correct so click the check box for A and D for correct answer.

4. Point Value : This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

5. Credit given: In this field there are two options one is ALL OR NONE and the other is PROPORTIONAL TO CORRECT ANSWER. The former one means the user needs to get all the answers correct to calculate the point whereas the latter option can give half the point if one or more answer but not all are correct.

6. File upload : This field is an optional field and allows uploading a file the user can download and view

Either /Or

Either / OR type of question are like true or false whereas the student has to select correct choice it can be yes/no, agree/disagree, right/wrong, true/false. So four different question types can be formed under this category

1. YES/NO

2. AGREE/DISAGREE

3. RIGHT/WRONG

4. TRUE/FALSE

They have to select the answer based on the question, so if they think the statement is correct they select yes or agree or true else no, disagree or false.

For example Moon is a planet

Answer (False) or in agree or disagree type of question the answer would be Disagree, or Wrong, or NO

To create EITHER / OR type of question click on the tab EITHER/OR from left hand side. The following screen will appear with four categories, two of which are mandatory.

1. Title of question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Select Answer options

Choices: This field has possible four options, select the most apt one.

Select correct answer: This has the option of Yes and No for either / or

4. Point Value: This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper.

Drop Down List

Drop Down list is very much like multiple choices in terms of purpose except with one difference, the answers in this case are in a drop down list. The user has to select the right answer from the list. Only plan text can be used in a drop down list.

For example: Who is an herbivorous animal from the following?

The list can have, lion, tiger, deer, jackal, cat, the student will have to select the right answer from the drop down list, which is DEER.

Drop down List can be created by selecting the tab from the left hand table. There are five fields that should be filled in order to create the list.

1. Title of question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Answers

In order to create the list click on button ADD ANSWER this will show a text box as below

Create the options by clicking on ADD ANSWER

Click the checkbox that states NEVER SCRAMBLE, this will ensure that every time the page is loaded the list remain intact.

Select correct answer: This has the option of Yes and No for either / or

4. Select Correct answer : specify the correct answer from the list

5. Point Value : This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

Embedded Answers

Embedded Answers allows combining short answer, multiple choice and number sub question in one single question. Commands in curly braces {} are used to add sub question in the question wording.

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Jumbled Sentences

Jumbled question has some parts as variables and the user has to select the right answer for each variable in order to bring the sentence together. The answers are in form of drop down list and they are same for all the variables. The variables can contain letters, number, underscores, hyphens and the square brackets.

In order to create the Jumbled sentence (sentence with several select lists for the user to select the right answer from) click on the relevant tab on left. There are five fields for this question

1. Title of Question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

2. Question wording with words/phrase to jumble in [brackets] : This means that when the question is worded put the humble words in the bracket. For instance for the sentence

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog, the jumbled sentence would be

The [fox, lazy, quick] brown [fox, lazy, quick] jumped over the [fox, lazy, quick] dog

3. Additional 'distracter' answers (Plain text only, no formatting or images) : Add another word that would distract the user from selecting the right answer for instance add fax, so the options would be [fox, lazy, fax, quick]

4. Point Value : This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

5. Credit Given: In this field there are two options one is ALL OR NONE and the other is PROPORTIONAL TO CORRECT ANSWER. The former one means the user needs to get all the answers correct to calculate the point whereas the latter option can give half the point if one or more answer but not all are correct

Long Answer

These are paragraph type of questions, they are also known as essay question wherein the students are required to enter their answer in sentences. The computer cannot grade these questions; the teacher is required to manually grade them.

A "LONG ANSWER" option allows the user to create a question with long answer.

It has five categories

1. Title of question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Select the size of the answer window: Option to select the size of the window, select from 1 line to 5 line to specify the text area for the user to enter the response.

a. Pre fix Answer box: This allows entering the text that would be automatically appended to the user response.

Numeric

Numeric questions are like fill in the blank question with only one exception, the answer has to be a number or any values within a specified ranged of numbers.

For example: How many odd numbers fall in the range 0 to 10?

In this case there can be only one answer that is 5, so the teacher has to enter "0" rather than a range.

If it is required that the student should enter the exact answer in order to receive credit, then enter "0" the "Answer Range", this means that the student will have to enter nothing but the specified answer.

If the student is permitted to answer within a range say 10% + or - then the teacher should enter the variance that would be allowed.

It has four categories, three of them are mandatory. The different categories are

1. Title of question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Enter answer properties

a. Correct Answer: This is a mandatory field and the teacher should enter the correct numeric value for the user response. There is an option to specify the + - range, for example 10%, so if the user response is 10.1 whereas the actual answer is 11 then he would get the answer as correct

4. Point Value : This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

Option Scale

It is a multiple choice question wherein predefined choices are given for answer, the choices are

Strongly Agree, Agree, neither Agree nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree, Not Applicable.

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Quiz Bowl

In this type of questions, the student is given the answer and he has to enter the right question or has to select the right question from the list of choices available. The answer should include interrogative word such as when, who, what, why, or where.

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Text (No Questions)

This is really not a question but group of text used to give some feedback, or give description about the questions that would follow.

This is mostly used by the teacher to give some description or feedback to the student. It has two categories, one of them is mandatory.

1. Title of question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

Grid

A Grid type of question allows the teacher to merge all other question types in a table of rows and columns.

It has five fields and only one of them is a mandatory field.

1. Title of Question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Add Question

a. Add Question : Click on the tab ADD QUESTION to add new question and click on submit

b. Add Answer: Click on the tab ADD ANSWER to add answer and click on submit. Each Answer is shown above the table as column labels.

4. Single Response: This means that the table will have radio buttons grouped by row. There will be one group corresponding to each question and user will have to click on the right answer from the group

Multiple Response : In multiple response, instead of radio button there will be a checkbox, group of checkbox for one question and the user will have to tick right number of check boxes for that specific question.

There is one more specification available in this category, as shown in the figure below

The first box, gives the option to change the angle of the text in the column labels. This option is basically used if the labels are too long. Using this text enables angling of the text in a manner that the width of the column is reduced.

The second box is used to change the size of the font in the column.

5. Point Value : This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

Selector

It has four categories, two of them are mandatory. The categories are

1. Title of Question : As the name suggests it requires the title of question

3. Add Question : Click on the tab ADD QUESTION to add new question

a. USE SAME ANSWERS FOR ALL QUESTIONS: check this checkbox to ensure all the questions have the same set of answers to choose from.

b. RANDOMIZE ASNWERS : As the name suggests it gives the option to randomize the answers in each set

4. Point Value: This field allows setting the points for that particular question, for example 2 points out of the entire paper

Import QTI XML Zip File

This section allows to select QTI XML file from a different location, in this case the questions are contained in an XML file.

Copy from another lesson

On selecting the tab, COPY FROM ANOTHER LESSON a different pop up window appears. There are four categories in this section,

1. Lesson filter: This allows filtering the lessons shown under the Lesson category. Type the lesson name or first few characters to get the desired lesson name

2. Select Category: If the lessons have categories, they are grouped together which facilitates their search

3. Lesson Type: This can be quiz, exam, presentation or survey.

4. Lessons : This shows the list of available lessons

Select the required lesson by using different combination of categories and click on the COPY button.

CHAPTER 4 MANAGE

There are nine options under this category, they are

1. Manage Lessons

2. Lesson Categories

3. Lesson Templates

4. Manage course

5. Course Categories

6. Certificates

7. Manage Learning Paths

8. User profiles

9. Media upload

So this section basically helps the teacher manage everything that is on the software ranging from lessons, to user profiles to media uploads. We will explore each option individually

Manage Lessons

This section is for the teachers to be able to manage lessons. Click the tab labelled MANAGE LESSONS from the left hand column; it will bring up the screen with a list of lessons in the system. There are different categories to manage the lessons available under this section, they are

Filters

1. Lesson Name: This is like a filter and based on the name and characters entered, it will filter the existing list of lesson names.

2. Select Course: This is another form of filter, select the course from the drop down list and filter the lessons, for instance if the user selects the course "English Speaking" it will bring all the lessons in that particular course

3. Select Category: Allows filtering the lessons based on category.

Add a Lesson

This option allows creating a new lesson, click on the tab labelled ADD A LESSON and it will show the following screen. It has 9 fields, and only one of them is a mandatory field.

* Lesson Name: Enter the name of the lesson in the text box

* Lesson Type: Select the appropriate lesson type from the drop down list, for instance exam, survey, presentation and so forth.

* Pre- requisite: Select the appropriate pre-requisite from the drop down list; this will give information to the user as to what is required before attempting this lesson.

* Select Teachers: Select the assigned teachers for this lesson that would mark the lesson and give instructions to the students or users.

* Select Assistants: Select the assigned assistants for this lesson that would assist the teachers.

* Lesson File: Upload the file that would give information about the lesson, the file can be txt, .doc, .rtf, .docx and ppt.

There are three options to save or cancel the work

4. Save and go to questions

5. Save and go to lesson list

6. Cancel

Edit

Select the lesson by clicking on the relevant radio button in the far left hand column. It will bring a similar screen to ADD A LESSON

* Lesson Name: Edit the lesson name in the text box

* Lesson Description: Edit the already entered lesson description. This description will be available to the user while viewing the lessons in the front end.

* Lesson Type: Option to change the lesson type from the drop down list, for instance exam, survey, presentation and so forth.

* Lesson Category: Option to edit the appropriate category from the drop down list, to add another category click on ADD CATEGORY which will bring a new pop up window. Add the new category name and click on save, the new category will appear in the drop down list, select the appropriate category.

* Pre- requisite: Option to edit the pre-requisite from the drop down list; this will give information to the user as to what is required before attempting this lesson.

* Select Teachers: Edit the assigned teachers for this lesson that would mark the lesson and give instructions to the students or users.

* Select Assistants: Edit the assigned assistants for this lesson that would assist the teachers.

* Lesson File: Change or alter the uploaded file that would give information about the lesson, the file can be txt, .doc, .rtf, .docx and ppt.

There are three options to save or cancel the work

1. Save and go to questions

2. Save and go to lesson list

3. Cancel

Delete

In order to delete any specific lesson, select on the radio button on the left hand column of that respective lesson and click on DELETE tab in the upper right hand corner.

Random Blocks

This section allows creating set of questions from which some questions will be randomly selected during the exam. The teacher can create a set of 10 random questions out of which 2 or 3 would be presented to the student during the exam. It is however important to create question in sets so that the related questions can be picked as random blocks. The teacher here needs to specify the sets such as 3, 4, 5. Click on the tab RANDOM BLOCKS in the upper right hand corner to create these questions. It will open up a new pop up window as below.

* Add a new set : This allows adding a new set

* Modify or Delete: Option to change existing set or delete existing set of questions

* Existing Set: Select the existing set from the drop down list and then click on MODIFY SET OR DELETE SET tab on the right hand side

* Enter the number of the FIRST question to be used in the set: From the drop down list, select the number of questions to be used in the first set

* Enter the number of the Last Question to be used in the set: From the drop down list, select the number of questions to be used in the last set

* Point Value: Select the point value to be assigned to the set

* How many: This means how many questions from the BLOCK will be shown to the user

There are two options here,

ALL : That means that all the questions in the set have to be correct to get the full mark or Select Number: Select the number from the drop down list which would qualify the student to get the mark from that set, for instance the set may have 3 questions and the student can get marks for the set only if he answers ALL the questions or say selected questions may be minimum 2.

Add another set or save the work and return to manage lesson screen.

Manage Questions

In order to manage questions in a lesson, select the lesson by clicking on the respective radio button and click on the tab MANAGE QUESTIONS, it will bring up a pop window as below:

Here the order of the questions can be changed and some of the questions can be blocked.

Save QTI XML file

In order to save the current lesson to QTI XML file, click on the tab SAVE QTI XML FILE in the far upper right hand corner, it will open a pop up window with following options

There are two options

* Select Preferences: The user can select either point as decimal number or as percentages. Percentages are recommended for WebCT and Desire2Learn. This can be achieved by clicking on the corresponding radio button.

* File Format: select the appropriate file format by clicking on the corresponding radio button; the options are QTI XML FILE, QTI XML zip file using IMS content packaging.

Import QTI XML file

This option allows uploading a QTI XML FILE for a specific lesson. Click on the tab IMPORT QTI XML FILE from the upper right hand corner; this will bring a pop up window

Chose the Zip file form the computer and click on upload.

Configure

This section is to specify the various settings for the specific lesson. Select the lesson from the list by clicking on the respective radio button. It will show the following screen.

There are two different sections

Availability