Loyola Support Documentation

How do students complete a peer assessment assignment?

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Select Assignments from the site's Tool Menu.

How do students view announcements?

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Announcements are displayed in several locations. You can view them from Home, from an individual course or project site, or from the Announcements tool.

How do I change Announcements tool permissions?

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By default, students may only read announcements that have been posted by instructors and other instructor-type roles (e.g., Teaching Assistant). Permissions can be changed so that students may create, edit, delete, and even access draft versions of the announcements not yet published.

How do I merge announcements?

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The function to merge announcements allows for a central course to push out announcements to other courses. For example, a Nursing Program includes twenty different courses. But a single Nursing Program Master course or project site could be used to push announcements out to all twenty of the Nursing Program courses. Announcements that are merged from the Master course cannot be edited or deleted in the individual Nursing Program courses. Those courses could create additional announcements that would apply to their specific course only. Those would appear in addition to the announcements merged from the Master Course.

How do I reorder announcements?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I delete an announcement?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I edit an announcement?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I add an announcement?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site. 

What is the Announcements tool?

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The Announcements tool allows for the delivery of messages to the entire class, to groups, or to specific sections within the class.  Participants will see the Announcement message displayed in the Announcements widget of their Home area, as well as within the course itself.  Announcements can be set to show immediately or to show during specific dates.  Email notifications can be sent to alert participants of the Announcement message.

How do I set wiki permissions?

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Wiki has two levels of permissions: site level and page level. Site level permissions are the default permissions for all wiki pages. However, permissions can be also changed for individual pages at the page level. For example, you can alter permissions so that the wiki is editable by everyone, except for one page which can only be edited by instructors.

There are 5 types of permissions within Wiki:

• Read (read pages)
• Create (create new pages; update must be enabled to allow this)
• Update (edit pages)
• Admin (alter site permissions)
• Super-admin (typically reserved for system administrators)

Note: Wiki permissions cascade downwards. For example, you cannot update a page if you cannot read it, so it makes no sense to enable "update" but dis-enable "read". If you enabled "create" or "update", Wiki will assume that you want "read" permission enabled as well.