Appsembler: Taguig City University

Republic of the Philippines
City of Taguig
Gen. Santos Avenue, Central Bicutan, Taguig City
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Tahoe by Appsembler
is a SaaS platform that lets you
easily build a branded training site
and deliver course content to your
learners at scale. Tahoe is powered
by Open edX.
About Appsembler
The Open edX platform provides a
Appsembler makes it
massively scalable learning software
simple to deliver Open edX courses
technology
and virtual labs, so you can focus on
what truly matters: your learners. It is also the learning
platform of choice for global
Tahoe, Appsembler’s
organizations such as Microsoft and
easy-to-use Open edX-powered IBM.
platform, empowers anyone to
launch their own branded Open edX The Open edX project
site within minutes — no coding or is run by The Center for Reimagining
expertise required. Learning (TCRIL), a nonprofit
organization (the “NP”) that was formerly
Virtual Labs by known as edX Inc. The NP is led by
Appsembler lets you deliver hands- Harvard and MIT and will focus on
on, browser-based virtual IT training inclusive learning and education. The
labs on your software. NP will collaborate with educational
institutions, governments, and other
organizations to develop and evaluate
new approaches to learning and
What is Appsembler Tahoe? pedagogy; invest in new learning
models that combine the best of online
and in-person; and promote the
adoption of best practices across the
education continuum. The NP plans to
support innovation in lifelong learning
and advance next generation learning
experience platforms.
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The Open edX Learning Management

System (LMS)
Learners, course teams, and instructors

use the LMS throughout the duration of
a course.
Features
 Available for desktop, iOS and

Android versions, the LMS
provides access to course
content and supporting
infrastructure (schedules,
discussion boards, collaboration
tools, student administration,
Instructor View certificate generation,
messaging, and more).
Instructors can publish courses, post
 Equally supports online courses,
discussion boards, manage teams and
online campuses, and online
cohorts, edit grades, and communicate
degree programs.
with learners.
 Customizable learner experience
Learner View reflects your unique brand
identity and preferences.
Learners can access their profile, check
their enrollment status, and browse
courses via their learner dashboard.
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Table of Content
Introduction………………………………………………..2
Registering Users……………………………………………………6
Creating an Open edX course……………………………………..6
3 important things to know about new Open edX courses………………..7
Changing the name of your Open edX course………………………………...…8
Enrolling learners in your Open edX courses……………………………………..9
Unenrolling students from your Open edX course……………………………10
Adding additional instructors to your Open edX course……………………10
Viewing student profile information and reports in Open edX…………11
Creating and downloading grade reports in Open edX….…………………12
Setting up grading and assignment types
for your Open edX course……………………………………………………………….13
Changing a learner's score on an Open edX problem…..…………………..14
Adding files to your Open edX course………………………………………………15
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Registering Users: Step 2. The user clicks the activation

link in the activation email that is sent
The registration process for Open directly after filling out the
edX is fairly straightforward, but if information on the registration page.
you're unsure of what is going on, it
can be confusing. There are
basically two steps for registering on
Open ed
Creating an Open edX course
Step 1. The user fills out the Creating a course is really easy. Just
information on the registration page. follow these few quick steps and
you'll be up and running in no time.
First, sign in to edX Studio. This is where

you'll author all your course content.
Next, click New Course in the upper right

corner.
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You now have an Open edX course to call

your own.
Then just fill out the information fields on

the next page.
3 important things to know about new

Open edX courses
When you first create a course in Open edX,

there are a few important things you'll have
to be aware of. These are some default
configurations that you might miss if you're
going full steam ahead on creating content.
1. The Course About Page (AKA Summary

The bottom three fields are going to be part
Page) is full of placeholder text
of your course URL, so make sure you don't
use any space or special characters. These When you first create a course, the About
also can't be changed later, so make sure Page will have placeholder text and no
you decide what you want them to be course image, see what this looks like
before hand. below.
Finally, click the Create button at the

bottom.
2. The default course start date is for the

year 2030
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This is likely a failsafe to preven course Changing your course name

authors from prematurely publishing
courses. However, if you're not aware of it, First, open up the course you wish to
modify in Studio. I'll be using this
it can be confusing as to why students can't
access your course even after they've Appsembler Sample Course.
enrolled.
To change the start date, navigate to

Schedule & Details in Open edX Studio.
Navigate to Advanced Settings in the

3. New course don't have any Xblocks Settings dropdown menu.
enabled OR files uploaded
Every new course in Open edX is like an

identical blank slate. This means that even if
you have an XBlock that you use in all of
your courses or if you have certain image
files you use over and over again, you will
still have to re-enable or re-install these to Scroll down to the section titled Course
use in your new course. Display Name.
Changing the name of your Open edX

course
In this article, we're going to explore

changing the name of a course you've
already created.
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First, ensure you're in the LMS (Learning

Management System) and navigate within
your course to the Instructor dashboard.
Between the quotes, enter your new course

name. Don't forget to hit Save Changes
after.
2.Select the Membership tab within the

Instructor Dashboard.
Your course will now appear in the course

list with the new name!
3.In the text box below Batch Enrollment,

simply enter the email addresses of the
learners you wish to enroll, either one at a
time or in a batch separated by new lines or
commas.
Enrolling learners in your Open edX
courses
In this article, we'll take a look at how to

enroll and invite learners to study your
Open edX course.
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4.The checkboxes below the textbox allow That's it! You now have the power to invite
you to select whether you want to Auto learners to your Open edX course! Hooray!
enroll your learners directly into the course Your learners will now be invited to join
(recommended), and whether you want to their course, and it'll show up on their
automatically Notify users by email about dashboard once they have registered
10 this invitation. If you want to send out your (providing they use the same email address
own fully custom emails, you may want to that you used to invite them).
leave the email box unselected and send
the invitation emails yourself manually
through your normal CRM tool.
Unenrolling students from your Open
edX course
At some point you may want to remove or

unenroll a student from your course. Here's
how it's done:
Student management is something that

happens on the LMS side. So make sure
Make sure you click Enroll after you've
entered all the learners you wish to enroll
to confirm your choices.
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you're there, then click Instructor Adding additional instructors to your

Open edX course
Unless you're planning on teaching all of

your courses yourself, it's necessary to
know how to add instructors to your
course.
First, log in to your LMS. It looks like this:
From your instructor dashboard, click on Go to the Instructor Dashboard and click
the Membership sub menu Membership.
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Scroll down to the Course Team

Management section, click the drop down
Finally, all you have to do is enter the menu under Select a course team role:
student or students email address(es) into dropdown menu.
the field under Batch Enrollment. Uncheck
the Auto Enroll checkbox. Then click
Unenroll.
From this menu, make sure Staff is selected.
Note: This is also where you would add any

other course team members such as
Discussion Admins, Beta Testers, TA's, and
CCX Coaches.
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rights (or higher) to access all of this data,

which should be protected once
downloaded.
In the LMS, go to the Instructor dashboard,

and then select the Data Download tab.
Next, type in the email address of the user

you wish to make an Instructor. Remember:
This user must first be registered!
From this page, you can download a CSV
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well as other data. To access the most
useful of these reports, scroll down to
If edX returns an error that says the user Reports.
couldn't be found, you'll have to register
them first.
Click Add Staff, and there you go. A new

Instructor is born.
For the majority of these reports, you will

need to scroll down to Reports Available for
Viewing student profile information
Download in order to download these
and reports in Open edX reports once you have pressed the button.
If you need to find out information about They may take some time to generate,
students in your course, such as email depending on the amount of data that is
addresses, simply follow these steps. Note required.
that not all of these reports are available to
all staff, and you may require course admin
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Creating and downloading grade

reports in Open edX
Grading is often one of the most important Click on the Data Download page
aspects of teaching and running an online
course. As a teacher or course team This is a page where you will see many
member, you might want to track buttons allowing you to download a variety
completion, know how students are doing of reports on a wide range of data. You can
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for the class as a whole. One of the easiest
look at student profile information,
certificates issued, reports on responses to
ways to do this is a built-in functionality on a particular problem, and of course, grade
Open edX that allows you to download reports.
a .csv file of all students' grades. Here's how
Scroll down and click on the button labeled
it's done.
"Generate Grade Report"
Start from the LMS side of Open edX, and

click on the Instructor dashboard
This sometimes can be confusing because

many people think that anything related to
managing the course happens in Studio.
NOTE: There are a few features on the Data
This is not so. Grading is considered an
Download and Student Admin pages that
Instructor related task, and is therefore
are only available to courses with less than
built into the LMS side, so teachers don't
200 students or so. These are labeled to
necessarily have to also be Course Authors.
avoid confusion. You can generate a csv
grade report for any size course.
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Wait for Open edX to generate the report.

This can take anywhere from a few seconds
to a several hours depending on the size of
your course.
NOTE: Do not click the button multiple

times. This can slow down the process. Setting up grading and assignment
These reports are generated in the types for your Open edX course
background, so it's okay to navigate away
There's a good chance you're going to want
from the page and do other things while
to grade the students who take your course.
Open edX is working.
Here's a quick explanation on how grading
works:
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start by selecting Grading from the Settings
bottom of the Data Download page and
drop-down menu in edX Studio.
click the file name of the most recent
report, which appears at the top of the list.
From here, you can see the grading range,

which you can easily change by clicking &
Now open the data in any spreadsheet dragging, or by clicking the + on the left to
application of your choosing to see the add grade levels.
report.
The Grade Report comes with a column for

each assignment in the course, and
calculates the current grade based off of
your grading configuration. For more on
how to configure grades and assignment
types, check out this article. Each student is
sorted into their own row.
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Pro tip: Set the grading range one number

lower than your actual pass/fail cutoff. For
example, if you want 71 to be your passing
grade, set the pass/fail threshold to 70, as
seen in the screenshot above.
You'll notice that if I haven't changed the

From this page, you can also change the
weights of "Homework" or "Exam," I'm left
grace periods on assignment deadlines.
with 125% grade weights, which I can't
Note that this grace period is universal for
have. To make sure I'm at 100%, I"ll just
all assignments for the entire class.
change Homework from 75 to 50%.
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Be sure to click Save, and you're good to go.
Changing a learner's score on an Open

edX problem
Sometimes, learners deserve a little slack.

Say you want to add "Quiz" as an Maybe your question was wrong, maybe
assignment type. Start by clicking New they need just that one extra point to pass
Assignment Type. Then, just fill out the the course and you're feeling generous.
fields accordingly. Whatever the reason, you can now update
scores on a per-question basis. Let's take a
quick look at the easiest method for doing
that. This method is available from the
Hawthorn version of Open edX and later,
and as such will work for Appsembler Tahoe
customers.
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First, locate your problem in the course.

Here's mine, a basic checkbox problem.
The learner will see their new score

immediately on loading or reloading the
page containing the problem, or their
progress chart, and the platform will behave
as if they were the one who entered that
grade all along.
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found below and to the right of your
problem, you'll pull up a window which has Adding files to your Open edX course
a number of fun tools in it. All you need to
do from here is enter the username of the While creating your course you will likely
learner you'd like to update the score for need to upload files for your students to
and enter the score you'd like to give them access, be it images you want to include in
for that question. Once entered, you need your lessons, or handouts you want to make
to hit Override Score to submit their new available for students to download, you
score. need to upload them to your course first.
Add a file to your course
Important note: The score as entered is as a First, make sure you're in Studio. Then,
percentage of the total available points. In from the Content drop-down menu, select
this case, the question is worth 2 points, so Files & Uploads.
entering 1.0 in the override box would give
the learner both points. If you wanted to
give the learner 1 out of 2 points, you'd
need to enter 0.5.
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This is your Files & Uploads page, where

you can manage all the files you add to your
course.
To the right of a file upload there are four

buttons, Studio URL, Web URL, the Delete
button and the Lock/Unlock button. Next, you'll see an Upload Completed
window. From here you can either choose
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upload, two URLs are generated. The Studio
to upload more content, or simply click the
little x at the top right hand corner to exit
URL is for adding links to the file in course
the window.
components. The Web URL is for linking to
the file outside edX, such as in email.
Students can only see a file if you create a
link to it.
Note: You will want to use the Studio URL

most of the time.
To upload a new file, simply click the button

in the Drag and Drop section that says
Browse your computer.
From here, simply select the file you wish to

upload, and click open.
That's all there is to it! You're now free to
use your file however you like!
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The Open edX Learning Management

Learners, course teams, and instructors

 Available for desktop, iOS and

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Creating an Open edX course……………………………………..6

3 important things to know about new Open edX courses………………..7

Changing the name of your Open edX course………………………………...…8

Enrolling learners in your Open edX courses……………………………………..9

Unenrolling students from your Open edX course……………………………10

Adding additional instructors to your Open edX course……………………10

Viewing student profile information and reports in Open edX…………11

Creating and downloading grade reports in Open edX….…………………12

Setting up grading and assignment types

for your Open edX course……………………………………………………………….13

Changing a learner's score on an Open edX problem…..…………………..14

Adding files to your Open edX course………………………………………………15

Taguig City University 1

Registering Users: Step 2. The user clicks the activation

Creating an Open edX course

First, sign in to edX Studio. This is where

Next, click New Course in the upper right

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You now have an Open edX course to call

Then just fill out the information fields on

3 important things to know about new

When you first create a course in Open edX,

1. The Course About Page (AKA Summary

Finally, click the Create button at the

2. The default course start date is for the

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This is likely a failsafe to preven course Changing your course name

To change the start date, navigate to

Navigate to Advanced Settings in the

Every new course in Open edX is like an

Changing the name of your Open edX

In this article, we're going to explore

Taguig City University 1

First, ensure you're in the LMS (Learning

Between the quotes, enter your new course

2.Select the Membership tab within the

Your course will now appear in the course

3.In the text box below Batch Enrollment,

In this article, we'll take a look at how to

Taguig City University 1

At some point you may want to remove or

Student management is something that

Taguig City University 1

you're there, then click Instructor Adding additional instructors to your

Unless you're planning on teaching all of

First, log in to your LMS. It looks like this:

Scroll down to the Course Team

From this menu, make sure Staff is selected.

Note: This is also where you would add any

Taguig City University 1

rights (or higher) to access all of this data,

In the LMS, go to the Instructor dashboard,

Next, type in the email address of the user