This checklist is a way to help ensure that each new semester begins smoothly for all faculty and students using J1 eLearning.
Beginning of Semester Checklist
- Request your J1 eLearning Course
- Review the J1 eLearning training videos
- Watch the tutorial videos
- Login and verify that all your requested courses are listed in the My Course block
- Edit your J1 eLearning Profile, update your information
- Import any previous course content into the new course
- Set an enrollment key for your course
- Provide your enrollment key to your students
- Update and post your syllabus, course info, and other course materials on your course page
- Set your Gradebook categories and items
- Switch role to student to see how would your students see
- Login to your course using a dummy student account. Check that the gradebook is consistent and accurate.
- In the first month of the semester, check the enrolled users. It must match with your course roster. Remove any unwanted students from your course if necessary
- Backup your course weekly, or monthly
End of Semester Checklist
- Export the grades to an Excel spreadsheet, and calculate final grades manually to check the accuracy of your gradebook aggregation settings
- Download assignment files
- Backup your course
