General Panopto Information
For more information on Panopto, including recommended equipment and a list of video-equipped classrooms, visit the ITRS Panopto website.
Where can I find more information on Panopto?
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Sakai 21 Instructor Guide
Accessibility
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- Sakai and Accessibility
- Accessible and inaccessible content: An overview
- Some guidelines for making content accessible
- Making images more accessible
- Making tables more accessible
- Making video and audio files more accessible
- Making links accessible
- Making lists of items accessible
- How background and text color affect accessibility
- Structuring documents to be more accessible
- How paragraph breaks affect accessibility
- Checking content accessibility
Assignments
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- What is the Assignments tool?
- How do I add an assignment?
- How do I edit an existing assignment?
- How do I enable student peer review for an assignment?
- How do I enable group submissions for an assignment?
- How do I delete an assignment?
- How do students submit an assignment?
- How do I submit an assignment on behalf of a student?
- How do I grade an assignment?
- How do I grade an assignment using the legacy grading interface?
- How do students complete a peer assessment assignment?
- How do I grade a peer review assignment?
- How do I download assignments for grading offline?
- How do I upload graded assignment submissions and feedback?
- How do I release assignment grades?
- How do students view their assignment feedback?
- How do I change the Assignments tool permissions?
- How do I allow a resubmission on an assignment for a specific student or groups of students?
Attendance
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- What is the Attendance tool?
- How do I add a new attendance item?
- How do I take attendance?
- How do I edit attendance items?
- How do I delete attendance items?
- How do I set up attendance grading?
- How do I grade attendance items?
- How do I edit attendance comment visibility?
- How do I edit a student's attendance status?
- How do I comment on student attendance records?
- How do I change the attendance statuses for my course?
- How do I print sign-in or attendance sheets?
Calendar
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- What is the Calendar tool?
- How do I customize my Calendar display?
- How do I view calendar item details?
- How do I change the Calendar view?
- How do I add items to the Calendar?
- How do I edit a calendar item?
- How do I delete a calendar item?
- How do I print the Calendar?
- How do I merge the Calendar with another site?
- How do I import Calendar entries from a file?
- How do I modify Calendar permissions?
- How do I merge external calendars?
Discussions
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- What is the Discussions tool?
- How do I create a new forum?
- How do I add a new topic?
- How do I organize forums and topics?
- How do I post to a forum topic?
- How do I reply to a forum post (i.e., conversation)?
- How do I email a forum post author?
- How do I delete a discussion post (i.e., conversation)?
- How do I moderate a topic?
- How do I grade discussion forums?
- How do I move a thread to a different topic?
- How do I delete a topic?
- How do I delete a forum?
- How do I modify forum template settings?
- How do I watch or subscribe to forums?
Gradebook
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- What is Gradebook?
- How do I set up my Gradebook?
- How are grades calculated in Gradebook?
- How do I add items to the Gradebook?
- How do I enter and/or edit grades in Gradebook?
- How can instructors customize their Gradebook display?
- What actions can instructors perform on individual Gradebook items?
- How do instructors view and print individual student grades?
- How do I export grades from Gradebook?
- How do I exclude a grade for a specific student?
- How do I format my file for importing grades into Gradebook?
- How do I import grades into Gradebook?
- How do I override a course grade in Gradebook?
- How do I view the course grade override log in Gradebook?
- How do I set all ungraded items to zero in Gradebook?
- How does extra credit work in Gradebook?
- How do students view their grades in the Gradebook?
- What are the different gradebook scenarios and which one is right for me?
- How do I set up a simple points-based Gradebook?
- How do I set up a Gradebook with categories for organization and/or dropping grades?
- How do I set up a Gradebook with categories and weighting?
- How do I set empty cells to zero for a single grade item?
Home
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- What is Home?
- What is Site Navigation?
- What is the Home Tool Menu?
- What is the Home Message of the Day?
- What is the Home Calendar?
- What is the Home Information Display?
- What are the Home Recent Announcements?
- What are the Home Message Center Notifications?
- What is Membership?
- How do I view my account details?
- What is Worksite Setup?
- What is the Preferences tool?
- What are the Resources in Home?
- How do I switch from Light to Dark Theme?
Lessons
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- What is the Lessons tool?
- How do I create a new Lessons page?
- How do I add text to a Lessons page?
- How do I embed an image on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed a video from my computer on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed a YouTube video on a Lessons Page?
- How do I embed an audio file on a Lessons page?
- How do I add a website link to a Lessons page?
- How do I add a file from Resources to a Lessons page?
- How do I add assignments to a Lessons page?
- How do I add forums or topics to a Lessons page?
- How do I add tests and quizzes to a Lessons page?
- How do I add an in-line question to a Lessons page?
- How do I allow comments to be posted on a Lessons page?
- How do I allow students to add content to Lessons?
- How do I reorder items on a Lessons page?
- How do I delete items on a Lessons page?
- How do I add subpages to a Lessons page?
- How do I allow comments to be posted on a Lessons page?
- How do I allow students to add content to Lessons?
- How do I reorder items on a Lessons page?
- How do I limit access to Lessons page items to groups?
- How do I add subpages to a Lessons page?
- How do I view the Index of Pages?
- How do I require completion of a Lessons item?
- How do I require completion of a Lessons page?
- How do I rename a Lessons page?
- How do I delete a top-level Lessons page?
- How do I delete a Lessons subpage?
- How do I export Lessons content?
- How do I import Lessons content?
- How do students add content to Student Pages in Lessons?
- How do I create multiple sections on a Lessons page?
- How do I create two columns on a Lessons page?
- How do I create two columns inside a block on a Lessons page?
- How do I merge columns and sections to one block on a Lessons page?
- How do I change the background color of a block?
- How do I create collapsible sections?
- How do I add a resources folder on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed the Calendar on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed announcements on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed forums conversations on a Lessons page?
- How do I add a checklist on a Lessons page?
- How do I upload content in a zip file on a Lessons page?
- How do I add an external tool on a Lessons page?
- How do I enable Lessons subpage navigation in the Tool Menu?
- How do I assign an "owner" to a Lessons page?
- How do I copy content from an existing Lessons page?
- How do I duplicate a Lessons page?
Messages
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- What is the Messages tool?
- How do I view my messages?
- How do I send a message?
- How do I reply to a message?
- How do I create a Messages folder?
- How do I move a message?
- How do I delete a message?
- How do I modify the settings for Messages?
- How do I determine who site participants can send a message to?
Panopto
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- Panopto
- What is Panopto?
- How do I add the Panopto tool to my course?
- How do I download and install the Panopto Recorder?
- How do I record a session using the Panopto Recorder?
- How do I upload an audio or video file to Panopto?
- How do I change the name of a Panopto session?
- How do I share a Panopto session with students in my course?
- How do I change share settings for a Panopto folder or session?
- How do I embed a Panopto video on a Lessons page?
- How do I link a Panopto video to a Lessons page?
- How do I link a Panopto video to the Resources tool?
- How do I edit a Panopto session?
- How do I caption a Panopto session?
- How do I download the caption file from a Panopto session?
- How do I view statistics in Panopto?
- How do I copy or move a Panopto session to another Panopto folder?
- How do I allow students to upload sessions to my course folder?
- How do I allow viewers to download my Panopto session?
- How do I create and delete sub-folders?
- How do I download my Panopto session?
- How can I use Panopto with my mobile device?
- How do I access a Panopto video through Sakai?
- How do I authenticate my Panopto account with a Sakai site?
- Where can I find more information on Panopto?
- How do I create a Playlist in Panopto?
- How do I add a video to my session?
- How do I use the different settings in the Panopto Recorder?
- How do I record a session using Panopto Capture?
Profile
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- What is the Profile tool?
- How do I set up my profile?
- How do I post a status message to my profile?
- How do I add pictures to my profile picture gallery?
- How do I search for and add connections?
- How do I accept a connection request?
- How do I send a message to a connection in Profile?
- How do I change my Profile privacy settings?
- How do I set my notification and other profile preferences?
Resources
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- What is the Resources tool?
- How do I navigate the Resources tool?
- How do I create folders?
- How do I upload files to Resources?
- How do I upload and unpack a zip file to a Resources folder?
- How do I create a zip archive file in Resources?
- How do I add a web link or URL?
- How do I create a text document?
- How do I create an HTML page?
- How do I create a citation list?
- How do I move a file or folder within Resources in the same site?
- How do I copy a file or folder within Resources in the same site?
- How do I copy a Resources file or folder from one site to another site?
- How do I reorder files or folders within Resources?
- How do I upload a new version of a file in Resources?
- How do I hide files and folders?
- How do I unhide files or folders?
- How do I set the display of a Resources item to a specific time period?
- How do I remove a file or folder in Resources?
- How do I restore a removed file or folder in Resources?
- How do I add and display contextual information about a file or folder?
- How do I notify site participants that content has been added to Resources?
- How do I obtain the URL for a file or folder in Resources?
- How do I make a link to a Resources folder appear in the Tool Menu?
- How do I create a group folder in Resources?
- How do I allow group members to upload content to a group Resources folder?
- How do I allow all students to upload content to a selected folder?
- How do I make a file or folder publicly viewable?
- What is the Resources quota?
- How do I transfer files to Resources using WebDAV?
- How do I attach files from my Home Resources to submissions in my other sites?
- How do I modify Resources permissions?
Rich Text Editor
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- What is the Rich Text Editor?
- What actions can I perform using the Rich Text Editor icons?
- What are some keyboard shortcuts for the Rich Text Editor?
- How do I create a link to a web site in a text box?
- What is the Rich Text Editor?
- What actions can I perform using the Rich Text Editor icons?
- What are some keyboard shortcuts for the Rich Text Editor?
- How do I create a link to a web site in a text box?
- How do I create a link to a Resources item in a text box?
- How do I create a link to an activity in a text box?
- Embedding an image in a text box
- How do I embed a linked web image in a text box?
- How do I embed a YouTube video in a text box?
- How do I add special characters to a text box?
- How do I add/edit a table in a text box?
- How do I add a content template to a text box?
- How do I paste text from a Microsoft Word document to a text box?
- How do I embed an mp4 video in a text box?
- How do I embed an mp3 audio in a text box?
- How do I set my preference for the Rich Text Editor mode?
- How do I change the left to right language direction?
Rubrics
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- What are Rubrics?
- How do I add a rubric to my site?
- How do I create a weighted rubric?
- How do I edit a rubric?
- How do I copy a rubric?
- How do I delete a rubric?
- How do I share a rubric?
- How do I stop sharing a rubric?
- How do I associate a rubric with an assignment?
- How do I associate a rubric with a forum topic?
- How do I associate a rubric with an assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?
- How do I add a rubric to a Gradebook item?
- How do I grade an assignment using a rubric?
- How do I grade an assignment using a rubric in the legacy grading interface?
- How do I grade a forum topic using a rubric?
- How do I grade an assessment (i.e. test or quiz) using a rubric?
- How do I grade a gradebook item using a rubric?
- How do students view rubric feedback?
Section Info
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- What is the Section Info tool?
- How are sections different than groups?
- How do I create a section?
- How do I edit a section?
- How do I delete a section?
- How do I add site members to a section?
- How do I add teaching assistants to a section?
- How do I view student memberships?
- How do I manage section options?
Sign-Up
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- What is the Sign-up tool?
- What are Sign-up meeting types?
- How do I view meetings in Sign-up?
- How do I create a meeting?
- How do I edit a meeting?
- How do I lock or cancel a time slot?
- How do I copy a meeting?
- How do students or participants sign-up for meetings?
- How do I export meeting data?
- How can I use the Sign-up tool in my site?
- How do I manually add users to meetings?
- How do I add meetings to the site Calendar?
- How do I modify Sign-up tool permissions?
Site Info
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- What is the Site Info tool?
- How do I edit the site information?
- How do I add tools to my site?
- How do I rearrange or rename the items in the Tool Menu?
- How do I add users to my course site or project site?
- How do I remove users from my course or project?
- How do I link to a parent site?
- How do I create groups?
- How do I use groups?
- How do I control site access?
- How do I make my site publicly available?
- How do I duplicate a site?
- How do I copy content from one site to another (i.e., import from site)?
- How do I import content from an archive file?
- What is the User Audit Log?
- How do I add LaTeX language to my course site?
- How do I remove a tool from my site?
- How do I hide or show items in the Tool Menu?
- How do I change participant roles within a site?
- How do I use the Date Manager to adjust dates for all items in my site?
Statistics
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- What is the Statistics tool?
- How do I view summary reports in the Statistics tool?
- How do I create and run a report?
- How do I duplicate a report?
- How do I edit a report?
- How do I delete a report?
- How do I print a report?
- How do I export a report?
- How do I view detailed user activity reports?
- How do I modify preferences in the Statistics tool?
Syllabus
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- What is the Syllabus tool?
- How do I add my syllabus as a file attachment?
- How do I create a syllabus using cut and paste from a document?
- How do I edit syllabus items?
- How do I create a multi-part syllabus based on number of items needed?
- How do I create a multi-part syllabus by dates?
- How do I print the syllabus?
- How do I point my syllabus to a webpage?
- How do I rearrange syllabus items?
- How do I publish/unpublish a syllabus item?
- How do I add a syllabus item to the calendar?
- How do I change syllabus item access?
- How do I delete a syllabus item?
Tests and Quizzes
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- What is Tests & Quizzes?
- How do I create an assessment in Tests and Quizzes?
- How do I create a new assessment using markup text or cut and paste?
- How do I create a new question (with the assessment builder)?
- How do I create a Multiple Choice question?
- How do I create a Matching question?
- How do I create a True False question?
- How do I create a Short Answer/Essay question?
- How do I create a fill in the blank question?
- How do I create a numeric response question?
- How do I create a calculated question?
- How do I create a hot spot question?
- How do I create a survey?
- How do I create a student audio response question?
- How do I create a file upload question?
- How do I add multiple parts to an assessment?
- How do I use assessment parts?
- What is a question pool?
- How do I add, copy, move, or delete a question pool?
- How do I add a question to a question pool?
- How do I copy questions from the question pool into an assessment?
- How do I set up a random question set?
- How do I import and export assessments?
- How do I import a question pool?
- How do I share a question pool?
- How do I revoke access to a question pool?
- How do I transfer ownership of a question pool?
- How do I view and modify the settings of an assessment?
- How do I edit my assessment title or description?
- What are the Availability and Submissions options for an assessment?
- How do I give specific students different time or date settings for an assessment?
- What are the Grading and Feedback options for an assessment?
- How do I adjust the layout and appearance of an assessment?
- How do I publish an assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?
- How do I duplicate an assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?
- How do I preview an assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?
- How do I print an assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?
- How do I grade Tests & Quizzes?
- How do I grade assessment submissions by student?
- How do I grade assessment submissions by question?
- How do I download Tests & Quizzes submissions for grading offline?
- How do I give the same score (e.g., 0) to students with no submission for an assessment?
- How do I view statistics about a completed assessment?
- What is the Event Log in Tests & Quizzes?
- What is the Tests & Quizzes User Activity Report?
- How do I allow a student to retake a test or quiz?
- How do students submit an assessment (i.e., test or quiz)?
- What information is in a Tests & Quizzes email notification?
- How do students view assessment (i.e., test or quiz) feedback?
- How can an instructor retrieve assessments that were saved but not submitted?
Wiki
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Generate Manual PDF
Generate Article PDF
- What is the Wiki tool?
- How do I view wiki pages?
- How do I search wiki pages?
- How do I edit wiki pages?
- How do I create a new wiki page?
- How do I add images to a wiki page?
- How do I add attachments to a wiki page?
- How do I view wiki page info?
- How do I watch or subscribe to a wiki?
- How do I view wiki page history?
- How do I set wiki permissions?