The assignment activity allows instructors to collect work from students, review it and provide feedback including grades. The work students submit is visible only to the instructor and not to the other students unless a a group assignment is selected.

Students can submit any digital content (files) and/or instructors can ask students to type directly into a text field. An assignment activity can also be set up to not accept any student submissions and serve as a reminder to students of a 'real-world' assignment they need to complete and to record grades in ODTUClass.

To add an “Assignment”, you may follow these steps:

1. Go to course page.
2. Click "Turn editing on" button.
3. Click “Add an activity or resource” link on the week/topic you want to add the assignment.
4. Select “Assignment” and click “Add” button.
5. Fill the mandatory fields marked by *.
6. Configure other options if you need. 
7. Click either “Save and return to course” or “Save and display”.

Instructors can define Outcomes for their courses. To add Outcomes, you may follow these steps:

1. Navigate to course page.
2. Click Outcomes from Course Administration block.
3. Click the 'Add a new outcome' button.
4. Fill the required fields. 
5. Select a scale.
   1. There are 2 predefined scales:
      1. Separate and Connected ways of knowing: Mostly separate knowing, Separate and connected, Mostly connected knowing
      2. Default competence scale: Not yet competent, Competent
   2. Instructors can also define new scales. To add new scales click on "Add a new scale" link while adding a new outcome
6. Click 'Save changes' button.
   

To add a file as a resource:

1. Go to course page and click "Turn editing on" button.
2. Drag the file you want to add and drop on the related week.  

If the students are registered to your course, when they login to ODTU-Class, they will automatically be users of the course. If you want to add a student who is not officially registered to the course, you may follow these steps:

1. Go to course page.
2. Click "Users" from the Course Administration.
3. Click "Enrolled users" from the menu.
4. Click "Enroll users" button on the top right of the list.
5. A pop-up window will appear. Type username or id number of the student in Search area. 
6. Find the corresponding person from the presented list and click to select.
7. Select "Student"  from Assign Roles dropdown menu.
8. Click "Enrol Users" button.

You can backup the course structure and materials, download as a compressed file and restore to another course.

To backup a course, you may follow these steps:

1. Go to course page.
2. Click "Backup" option from the Course Administration.
3. Click "Next" buttons to proceed.
4. Click "Perform Backup" button on the last page. 
5. When the system completes the process, click "Continue" button.
6. Find the compressed file from "User private backup area" and click "Download" to download the file. 

Users are only allowed to log in to ODTÜClass once. With this setting, after logging into ODTÜClass from a device or browser, if the user logs in on a second device or browser, the session on the first device is terminated. However, in order to terminate the session on the first device, students must click a button or link on the first device. 

In addition you can "Block concurrent connections" to a quiz activity. This add-on prevents a student from starting an attempt in the quiz activity with more than one device and/or browser. If the student needs to change the device, closes the internet browser accidentally or internet connection is lost, the instructors must let the student to continue the exam via a different connection. Therefore, if you will enable this option, please inform your students and provide a communication option (email, chat, etc.) during the exam for students to inform you when they need to change connection.

Concurrent login limitation does not prevent login from Moodle mobile app. Logins from Moodle mobile application are also blocked with Block concurrent connections extension.

In order to block concurrent connections:

• Open the quiz settings page.
• Click Extra restrictions on attempts title.
• Click "Show more" link.
• Check Block concurrent connections box.
• Click on one of the Save buttons.

• Click on the quiz activity.
  
• Click "Attempts: N" link on quiz information page or click Results on Quiz Administration block.
• Find the student you want to permit connection change from attempts table.
• Click "Review Attempt" link under the name of the student.
• Click "Allow student to continue this attempt using other device" link on Block concurrent connections block. 

To calculate course total grade using weights, you need to use "Weighted Mean of Grades" aggregation option. To select/change the aggregation option you can follow these steps:

1. Go to the course page.
2. Click on "Grades" link from the Course Administration.
3. On the top of the page, click "Setup" tab.
4. "Categories and Items" table will be opened of which in the first row of this table the name of your course is written. From the first row click "Edit" link in the Actions column.
5. Click "Edit settings" option on the pop-up menu.
6. Under the "Grade category" section there exists an "Aggregation" option. From "Aggregation" dropdown menu select "Weighted Mean of Grades" option.
7. Click "Save changes" button. 
8. A new column for weights will be added to "Categories and Items" table. Enter the weight for each grade item.
9. Click "Save changes" button. 

Please note that, total of weigths should be equal to Max Grade of Course Total for correct calculation.

To change the language of your course to Turkish you may follow these steps:

1. Go to the course page.
2. Click "Edit Settings" from the Course Administration.
3. Click "Appearance" title to expand the section.
4. Click "Türkçe" option from "Force language" dropdown menu.
5. Click "Save changes" and the interface for your course will change to Turkish.

Within the scope of the Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (KVKK), a consent will be needed to use video-conferance tools. A consent form template is prepared. 

In order to create a questionnaire activity using the template please follow these steps:

• Go to course page.
• Click Turn editing on.
• Click "Add an activity or resource" link on the section where you want to add the questionnaire.
• Select "Questionnaire" from the list.
• Type a name for the Questionnaire.
• Add a description if needed.
• From Availability section, set available dates if needed.
• Click "Response Options".
• Set "Type" option as "Response Once".
• Set "Students can view ALL responses" option as "Never" to prevent students seeing each other's answers.
• Click "Content Options".
• Click "KVKK Açık Rıza Formu/Consent Form For Turkish Personal Data Protection [TEST Course]" from list of templates.
• Click either "Save and return to course" or "Save and display".