You can add your colleagues as "Non-editing teacher" to your course. Non-editing teachers can only visit your course page but cannot editing anything. 

ODTÜClass serves as the learning management system for ODTÜ. You can login to ODTÜClass with your METU user-id (exp: abcd or e123456) and password.

During a quiz, course blocks are hidden by default. To make block visible, you can follow these steps:

1. At the course page, click the quiz.
   
2. Click "Edit settings" menu from "Quiz Administration" block.
   
3. Click “Appearance” in the opening page.
   
4. Click “Show more” in the opening section.
   
5. Select “Yes” from “Show blocks during quiz attempts” drop-down menu.
   
6. Click “Save and return to course” or “Save and display”.
   

In order to reach the contents of a course that you have backed up, you need to "Restore" it.

To restore a course, you may follow these steps:

1. Go to course page.
2. Click "Restore" option from the Course Administration.
3. Drag the .mbz file that you have downloaded and drop it to Import a backup file area.
4. Click Restore button.
5. Click "Continue" button.
6. Select Merge the backup course into this course option from Restore into this course section.
7. Click "Continue" button.
8. Click "Next" buttons to proceed.
9. Click "Perform restore" button on the last page.
10. When the system completes the process click "Continue" button and return to course page.

Badges are a way of celebrating success.Badges are awarded according to various criteria.To create badges you may follow these steps:

1. Go to your course.
2. Click "Settings" from "Course Administration"
3. Click "Manage badges".
4. Click "Add a badges"
5. Fill the mandatory fields marked by *.
6. You will be taken to the "Criteria" tab.
7. From the drop-down menu choose to "Add badge criteria":
   • • Manual issue by role: all enrolled users on the course with a certain role 
     • Course completion: the student will need to have been marked as completing the course to get the badge.
     • Activity completion: based on the student completing an activity.
8. You must define which criteria must be completed to receive the badge.
9. Click "Save".
10. Click "Enable access" at the top of the page.
    

There are two ways advised to show the deadlines of the activities to your students.

• Students can see the deadline of the activities in "Upcoming Events' block on your course page. The names and the deadlines of the activities are automatically transferred to this block. Moreover, it is possible to view all the activities and their deadlines by simply clicking "Go to calendar" button on the same block.
• If you want the deadlines to be shown under the assignment itself, you can see "Description" section you face while adding the activity. On the other hand, if the activity has already been added to the system, and you want to add a deadline after, you need to click "Edit"  and  "Edit settings" in sequence. Then, enter the deadline in "Description" section and select " Display description on course page" option. Finally, click "Save and return to course" button. The deadline of the activity will appear below the activity itself.

In order to take attendance online, you may use "Attendance" activity. 

To add "Attendance" activity to your course, please follow these steps:

1. Go to course page.
2. Click "Turn editing on".
3. Click "Add an activity or resource" link on a week/topic you want to add Attendance activity.
4. Select "Attendance" from the list and click "Add" button.
5. General settings of activity will be displayed. Type a name for the activity which will be displayed on course page. The default value is "Attendance".
6. Using "Grade" section you may determine the grading policy for attendance. If you do not want to grade attendance from "Type" dropdown menu, please choose "None".
7. Using "Extra restrictions" section you may limit network addresses. If you know the subnetwork addresses, please type them separated with commas.
8. After completion of settings, click "Save and display" button.

To add sessions to "Attendance" activity, please follow these steps:

1. Click on "Add Session" tab.
2. Using "Add Session" section, set session timing.
3. Using "Multiple Sessions" section, you may add repeating sessions.
4. Using "Student Recording" section, you may let students to record their own attendance.
   1. Enable student recording by clicking "Allow students to record own attendance" box.
   2. Select appropriate option from "Automatic marking" dropdown menu. "Automatic marking" dropdown menu options are:
   • Disabled: Students need to click on the activity and type the password.
   • Yes: Students will be automatically marked depending on their first access to the course. 
   • Set unmarked at end of session: Any students who have not marked their attendance will be set to the unmarked status selected. 
5. "Student password" option determines if a password will be required for students to record attendance. Select appropriate option. The options are:
   • Type a password in the text box. This password will be same for all sessions created.
   • Leave the text box empty, if you do not require any passwords.
   • Click on "random password" box. After saving the session click "Sessions" tab. You will see the sessions and on the "Actions" coloumn you will see a key icon (). Click on the key to display random password. You need to give this password to students in order them to record attendance.
   • "Include QR code" option is not recommended since it is not working properly.

To list the sessions, please click on "Sessions" tab. To display the attendance of students, please click "Report" tab.

You can enter your grades in a file in your computer, and then upload it to ODTUClass. For that, you can follow the next steps:

1. Save your grades document as a "CSV file".
   
   • This file should include a column such as id number or email to identify students.
2. To be sure, open .csv file with a text editor (such as Notepad):
   • Check the separator. In most cases separator is either comma or semicolon.
   • Check the decimal separator: It should be "dot (.)".
3. Go to ODTÜClass and open course page.
4. Click "Grades" option from Course Administration.
5. Click "Import" tab. "CSV file" tab will also be chosen.
6. Drag and drop your .csv file to "File" box.
7. Select the separator (step 2) of your file.
8. Click "Upload Grades" button.
9. Check "Import Preview".
10. ODTÜClass will be matching the students in your file with the list of enrolled students according to your selection at the "Identify user by" section:
    • Select the column title of the student idenfier from "Map from" dropdown menu.
    • Select the matching data from "Map to" dropdown menu.
11. From "Grade item mappings" section find the grade item you want to import and select the column title of the grades in your file using the dropdown menu.
12. Click "Upload grades" button.

Before adding a Group Choice activity, empty groups should be created. To create groups you may follow these steps:

This plugin will automatically send reminders for calendar events. You will add a new event to calendar. You can follow here for this step:https://odtuclass.metu.edu.tr/mod/glossary/showentry.php?courseid=1&eid=45&displayformat=dictionary

For more information: https://moodle.org/plugins/local_reminders