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Dynamic Learning Tutorial 12: Assign Lesson or Test from

the Manage DL area – coming soon

Entering the Manage DL area

To get access to Manage DL,

you’ll need to log in as a

teacher or teacher admin, then

click the Manage icon at the

top right of the My Dynamic

Learning screen.

Please note that if your

institution is trialling Dynamic

Learning, and has not yet

identified a User Manager, you

will not be able to access

Manage DL or create

individualised logins. Tutorial 9

will tell you more about the

User Manager process.

The instructions page

Use this page to choose what

you want to do next.

Each tab’s icon changes to

orange when you mouse over

or select it.

This tutorial shows the process

of assigning lesson and tests

from the teacher admin point

of view. It assumes that your

institution already has some

users in its database. If it does

not, please view Tutorial 10

about creating users.

The Manage

DL icon

The Assign

lesson button,

greyed until this

functionality is

present

(coming soon)

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Assign a lesson from the Manage DL area

Assigning or sharing lessons is

central to the way Dynamic

Learning works. You can do

this in several ways:

1. directly from the Lessons

panel on Course Home;

2. From within the Lesson

Builder itself (see Tutorials

6 and 7);

3. From the Manage DL area.

This functionality is coming

soon.

Click the Assign lesson button

at the top of the Manage

screen, and fill in the form that

appears, selecting the lesson

you want from the dropdowns.

First choose the lesson you

want to assign. You can do this

by using the folder dropdown,

top left, to narrow your search,

and then the second, lesson

dropdown to select a lesson

from that folder.

Alternatively, you can go

straight to the second drop

down to select your lesson.

Folders containing no lessons

are not listed.

Choosing recipients

Now use the title and group

dropdowns and the users

listing to select students and /

or teachers to whom to send

your lesson. As in other

listings, you can sort this list on

any column, although the

default is alphabetically by last

name.

Use the

alphabet filters

to further

narrow your

choice of

students

Choose a title

and/or group

to narrow

your choice

The Assign lesson screen from Manage

DL will look something like this, but will

allow you to select a lesson from any

title, and assign it to any student

(coming soon – for the present, use

this function from the Lesson Builder)

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Then confirm or adjust the

start and end dates for the

period during which your

lesson should be available, and

enter a notification message, if

you like.

If you have created a special

group during this process and

want to save it for future use,

click the Assign/share and

make group button.

Otherwise, simply click

Assign/share.

Show/hide assignment history

The Show assignment history

button is useful if you forget

who you have sent a lesson to

– it will provide you with a list

of the recipients of the lesson

you’ve selected, with the dates

when it was assigned.

Receiving a shared or assigned lesson

When you assign or share a

lesson, your recipients receive

a message from you within a

few moments. If they are

online at the time, the

message will arrive next time

they press ‘refresh’ or perform

a task that involves connecting

with our servers.

Messages that have been

clicked appear white.

Forwarding a lesson

When you click the incoming message, the lesson will open from your DL Inbox, ready for you to

play or edit it. At this point, the lesson’s author is still the original sender, and if you forward it

straight from the DL Inbox without editing it, it will continue to carry that name. If you choose to

edit it, however, you’ll be prompted to move it out of the DL inbox and it will take your name

instead.

Confirm the

start and end

dates and

enter a

notification

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Assign a test from Manage DL – coming soon

Just as you can assign a

test from a particular

course using the Assign

Test method from each

Package home page,

you can assign any test

straight from Manage

DL, too.

(Coming soon.)

First choose a course, and then a test

You can also preview the test you are about to assign.

Now filter your users

Tick the students to whom you want to assign the test

Use the alphabet filters to identify the students

you want.

Check ‘Show assignment history’ if you want to

find out who has been assigned this test, and

when.

Choose a group and/or title to

narrow your choice

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Set the length of time for which you want the test to be available

You may now set a time span for the test, and

optionally, a notification or message for the

recipients.

When a student is assigned a test, the message

will come in to their message list, and the test

will become visible in their ‘To do’ list. They can

click the listing from either place to launch the

test.