Managing Units
A unit is a group of assignments. Every assignment must be associated with a unit when it is created. For this reason it’s a good idea to set up your units before you begin creating assignments.
How To
Navigate to the appropriate Coursework feature instance.
Click Manage Units & Types.
The system displays a screen used to manage both units and types.
Click Add a Unit.
The system displays a pop-up form.
Fill out the fields as appropriate.
Click Add unit to save the new unit.
Note
You can also create a unit while you are adding or modifying an assignment—to get started, just click the plus sign next to the Unit field.
After you create a unit, you may want to go back and change the unit’s name, date range or description.
Navigate to the appropriate Coursework feature instance.
Click Manage Units & Types.
The system displays a screen used to manage both units and types.
Locate the unit you want to modify and click the corresponding edit icon.
The system displays the Edit a Unit pop-up form.
Make any changes as appropriate.
Click Edit unit to save your changes.
Due to eLearning’s selective-release capabilities, it is possible for some students in a class to see a particular assignment while it remains hidden from others in the class. In some cases, you may not want a student to be able to see a unit unless he or she is able to see any assignments in the unit. One of the attributes of a unit—the checkbox labeled Don’t show this unit to students who can’t see any assignments in the unit—allows you to achieve this.
When this option is selected, the unit, as well as its resources, will be invisible to students who are not included in the audience for any of the unit’s assignments or are otherwise unable to see any of the assignments in the unit for any reason. The unit will be hidden from the student on the main Coursework page, the Gradebook, the Course Organizer, and in the Resources feature.
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Note
This setting will be copied over whenever a course is copied via the Copy Courses feature or rich-template mapping.
By default, units are presented in chronological order based on their date ranges.
Tip
Even if you are sticking with the default method of chronological ordering, if you have multiple units with the same date range, you may want to manually order those units.
You might want to manually arrange all of the units and not have the placement be determined by their date ranges.
You can use this procedure to do either of those things. Also, if you have been manually ordering units, and you want to go back to having the sequence determined by date, you can use these steps.
To reorder units:
Navigate to the appropriate Coursework feature instance.
Click Manage Units & Types.
The system displays a screen used to manage both units and types.
Click Unit ordering.
The system displays a screen titled Ordering Your Units.
Select one of the following ordering types as appropriate:
By Date
Manually
If you selected Manually, the screen updates to let you drag and drop the units. In this case, drag the units into the appropriate order. (To select any unit, click the corresponding black arrows.)
When finished, click Done reordering.
Use this procedure to delete a unit. Note that if you delete a unit that contains assignments, you will be given the option of deleting the assignments or moving them to another unit.
Navigate to the appropriate Coursework feature instance.
Click Manage Units & Types.
The system displays a screen used to manage both units and types.
Locate the unit that you want to delete and click the corresponding trash-barrel icon.
One of the following occurs:
If the unit contains assignments, the pop-up asks if you want to move the items to another unit.
If you have no assignments in the unit, the pop-up simply asks if you are sure you want to delete the unit.
If the unit contains assignments, choose the appropriate option for dealing with them.
Click Delete unit.
FAQ
When a Coursework feature instance is set up so that assignments are grouped by unit, the default view may show some units expanded and some collapsed.
A unit is automatically expanded if:
The current date is within the date range defined for the unit.
There are no items within the unit that require the user’s attention.
Notice
For you as a faculty member, this would include an assignment that needs to be graded. For a student, this would include an assignment that needs to be completed.
Note
This part of the equation is made on a user-by-user basis—in other words, the same units will not necessarily be expanded for the same people.