MyLO - My Learning Online
Staff Resources
The below documents have been designed to assist you with how to access your units in MyLO, how to set your personal preferences, and use the tools that may be required of you. For any technical issues that may arise please submit the Request Support for Learning Management Systems (MyLO) Form available from within the Service Portal: https://utas1.service-now.com/selfservice/
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General advice
Using MyLO for the First time
- Using MyLO at UTAS
- Creating your Online unit using MyLO Manager
- Requesting a Sandpit Unit
- Accessing Your Unit in MyLO
- Updating your Unit Homepage Image
- Navigating in a MyLO Unit
- Setting Your Account Preferences
- Setting Notifications
- Editing the Unit Information Widget
- Akari Unit Outlines within MyLO
- How to add your Reading List to your Unit
- Uploading your unit Outline
- Finding Support and Help with using MyLO
- Campus Codes used In MyLO & MyLO Manager
- Updating your Unit via MyLO Manager
- MyLO Manager: New Features
Creating Content In MyLO
- Creating Content: Adding Links
- Creating Content: Adding Files
- Creating Content: Creating Web pages/ Embedding content
- Exporting a Unit Structure
- Importing a Unit Structure
- Copying Unit content from other Units
- Adding SCORM to Content
- Trialling a Unit as a Student
- Using Classlist
- Setting Release Conditions
- Embedding external material in unit content
- Inserting an existing equella item in content.
- Adding a Module Using Unit Builder
- Creating an outline unit structure with unit builder
- Add/link content to placeholders in Unit Builder
- Unit Builder Overview
- Using Announcements in MyLO
- Using the D2L Templates to create content in MyLO
- Updated Editor within MyLO
Discussions
- Creating a Discussion Forum and Topic
- Discussion Board: Grid View
- Printing (or saving) a Discussion Thread
- Marking Discussion Contributions
- Creating an Assessable Discussion Topic
- VideoNote & Media Library
- Creating Journals for students using the Discussion Board & Groups tools
- Assignment & Discussion Grade Synchronisation
- Improvements to visibility and posting restrictions
Assignments
- Creating an Assignment Folder (+ TurnitIn)
- Copying an Assignment
- Assignment Submission Types
- Hiding your assignment from students View
- Rubrics: How to Set up a Rubric
- Marking with a Rubric
- Uploading Marked Assignments
- Setting Extensions on an Assignment
- Marking Assignments using MyLo
- Marking Assignments Offline
- Allowing Re-Submissions on Assignments
- Group Assignments vs Group Restrictions on an Assignment
- Anonymous Marking in Assignments
- New Rubric Grading Experience
- How to Annotate Assignments within MyLO
- Creating a Video Assignment
- Assignment & Discussion Grade Synchronisation
- Special Restrictions for Assessments
Using Turnitin and Online Feedback
- Creating an Assignment Folder (+ TurnitIn)
- Using Quickmark Comments in GradeMark
- Feedback Studio Turnitin Guide for Staff
- Turnitin File Types & Size
- Turnitin information for Lecturers
- Turnitin- Accessing Original Sources & Excluding Sources
- Common Turnitin Issues
- Marking Assignments using Turnitin
- Hiding Quickmark Sets From View
- Using E-rater within Turnitin
- New Features available within Feedback Studio
- Excluding assignment Templates from within Turnitin
Quizzes
- Creating a quiz
- Creating a Quiz with Randomly Delivered Questions
- Publishing Quizzes and Releasing Feedback
- Creating questions for Quizzes and Surveys
- Importing Quiz Questions into your Question Library
- Using Respondus Lockdown Browser in your quizzes
- Quizzes: How to Mark Per Person
- Allowing Re-Submissions on Quizzes
- Setting Extensions on a Quiz
- Updating Quiz Questions & Scores
- Submitting a quiz on behalf of a student
- Respondus - Desktop Software Quiz Tool
- Respondus User Guide
- Using Respondus for Live Proctoring
- Quizzes - Restore quiz attempts in the Quiz Attempt log
- Special Restrictions for Assessments
- Quiz Accommodations
- Updated Quiz Features July 2021
- Best Practice for Live Proctoring with Zoom and the Quiz Tool
- Quiz Improvements
- Respondus Screen Recording
Respondus 4 & Respondus Lockdown Browser
- Using Respondus Lockdown Browser in your quizzes
- Respondus - Desktop Software Quiz Tool
- Respondus User Guide
- Using Respondus for Live Proctoring
- Best Practice for Live Proctoring with Zoom and the Quiz Tool
- Respondus 4 – Desktop software quiz tool
- Respondus 4 and the Test Bank Network Training Video
- Respondus Lockdown Browser & Monitor Training Video
- Respondus Screen Recording
Grades
- Set up a Gradebook (using MyLO Grades)
- Create a Grade Item (& Category)
- Setting up Gradebook for My Results
- Marking in Grades
- Marking with a Rubric
- Marking Discussion Contributions
- Assessment Results and Feedback - What Students See Where
- Grade Display Options: Students
- UTAS Letter Grades for Assessment
- Optimal Grades Tool Settings for Large Classes
- Rubrics: How to Set up a Rubric
- Reviewing Class Marks For Moderation
- Viewing a Withdrawn students Grades & Assessments
- Displaying Rubric Feedback in Gradebook
- Rubric Visibility for Students
- Improvements to Rubric Feedback for Students
- Assignment & Discussion Grade Synchronisation
- Hiding Final Assessment Results
- MyResults - Grades finalisation
Grading In MyLO
Learning Outcomes
- About Learning Outcomes
- Creating Learning Outcomes within your Unit
- Associate Learning Outcomes to an Assignment
- Associate Learning Outcomes with a Quiz
- Associate Learning Outcomes with Discussions
- Associate Learning Outcomes to a Rubric
- Assessing Learning Outcomes
- About Grade Book Mastery View
- Grade Book Mastery View Calculation Settings
- Viewing Grade Book Mastery View
- Class Progress view of Learning Outcomes
Rubrics
Groups
PebblePad
- How To add PebblePad and ATLAS to your Unit
- PebblePad - Recorded webinars and how to guides
- PebblePad and Grades within MyLO
- Student PebblePad Resources
- New Atlas Sidebar
- Inserting PebblePad Resources in your Unit
- Submission Viewer 2 Information
- Using Turnitin in PebblePad
- PebblePad Submission Versioning
- PebblePad Favourites
Echo360
- How to book an Echo360 space and/or schedule recordings for your unit
- Echo360 Recording Form
- How to Link Echo360 Recordings to your MyLO Unit
- Echo360 Account & Access Information
- Sharing & Viewing Recordings from your Personal Library
- Embedding Echo360 Videos into Content Windows
- How to use Universal Capture - Classroom
- How to use Universal Capture - Personal
- How to Edit a Video
- Reordering your Recordings in your Unit Section in Echo360
- Echo360 Features
- Disabling an Echo360 file downloads on a unit
- Allowing Other staff to Edit Echo360 Videos
- Initiating Ad-hoc Recordings in a Lecture Theatre
- Echo360 Recording Venues
- New Instructor Dashboard in Echo360
- Timetable View (SWS)
- Creating a Video Assignment
- Create Live Stream from UC Personal (Echo360's Desktop Capture)
- Working Offline Using Universal Capture - Personal
- Embedded Polling and Interactive Media
- ASR - Echo360 Transcripts
- Custom Thumbnail/Preview image for Video and Audio Media
- Collections
- Echo360 Analytics
- Echo360 Browser Capture
- Using Browser Capture in Easy Embed
- Echo360 Recycle Bin
- Echo360 Spherical (360 Degree) Video
- Playlists from the Easy Embed workflow
- Viewing Playlists
H5P - Interactive Content
- What is H5P?
- H5P Overview Video Resource
- H5P - Creating content
- Sending H5P items to the Gradebook
- Sharing Content & Collaboration within H5P
- Creating interactive Echo360 content
- Reporting within H5P
- Using H5P within PebblePad
- H5P and Accessibility
- Sharing and Reassigning Ownership of H5P items in Bulk
- H5P Issues
- New Live Engagement Tools
- New H5P tools Released
- 2023_January Release including New content type - Info Wall
- 2023_February Release Inc Image Choice on Question Sets and Randomise on Flashcards
- H5P Reporting for Students
Padlet
Zoom
FeedbackFruits
Other MyLO Tools
- User Progress
- VideoNote & Media Library
- Intelligent Agents
- Using Checklists to Manage Students Studies
- Creating an Attendance Register
- Rubrics: How to Set up a Rubric
- Using an Attendance Register
- Using Announcements in MyLO
- Discover Course Catalog
- MyCert Reporting
- ClickView - Inserting videos in MyLO Web Pages
- Quick Eval
- Awards and Badges in MyLO
- Creating a Custom Certificate in MyLO
- How to add your Reading List to your Unit
- Using Classlist
- Work to Do Widget for Students
- LinkedIn Learning within MyLO
- Email within MyLO
- Studiosity
- Using the Mobile App to access MyLO
- Akari Unit Outlines within MyLO
Hints & Tips & Known Issues/ Workarounds
- Common Turnitin Issues
- Allowing Re-Submissions on Assignments
- Trialling a Unit as a Student
- Allowing Re-Submissions on Quizzes
- Students able to see Percentage of Grade when this has not been selected
- Viewing a Withdrawn students Grades & Assessments
- Hiding your assignment from students View
- Finding Support and Help with using MyLO
- Special Restrictions for Assessments
- Reporting access within the MyLO Ecosystem