These video tutorials explore concepts and skills useful for instructors beginning to use Carmen. They cover the same material included in face-to-face workshops and in the written online Help documents.
Most tutorials include a Table of Contents, allowing you to jump to a particular segment of the presentation if desired. View at full screen for the best effect.
Classlist and Enrollment (13 minutes)
Content and File Manager (18 minutes)
Work-Around: Content Links to YouTube (9 minutes)
Copy Course Components (7 minutes)
Editing the Navigation Bars (9 minutes)
Gradebook (63 minutes)
Groups (12 minutes)
News and the HTML Editor (13 minutes)
Quizzes (45 minutes)
Rubrics (68 minutes - this is a recording, using Adobe Connect, from a workshop on October 14, 2011)
| In-Person Workshop | Description | Related Tutorials |
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| QuickStart | These videos cover the concepts usually included in the Carmen QuickStart workshop. The skills presented here should be enough to help an instructor set up a basic Carmen course. This information provides a foundation for using other Carmen workshops and for independent exploration of tools. Allow at least 60 minutes to watch the whole series. |
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| Assignments and Activities | These videos cover concepts usually included in the Carmen Assignments and Activities workshop. The skills presented here should help an instructor set up the Discussions and Dropbox tools for course activities and assignments, including how to grade assignments. The Groups tool can be used in conjunction with Discussion and Dropbox or with other tools throughout Carmen. Allow at least 45 minutes to watch the whole series. |
Discussions (coming soon) Dropbox (coming soon) |
| Quizzes | This video covers the concepts usually included in the Carmen Quizzes workshop. The skills presented here should help an instructor set up quizzes and evaluate the results. Topics covered include the student experience, writing questions in the Question Library, setting up quizzes and working with the various options, and grading quizzes. Allow at least 45 minutes to watch the whole video. | Quizzes |
| Gradebook | This video covers the concepts usually included in the Carmen Gradebook workshop. The skills presented here should help an instructor set up a gradebook that will meet most course structures. Topics include setting up your gradebook structure, using grade schemes, entering grades, and working with final grades. Allow at least 65 minutes to watch the whole video. |
Gradebook |
| Rubrics | This video is a recording of a face-to-face workshop, held on October 14, 2011. In this workshop, you will learn to build two types of rubrics within Carmen and apply them in the Dropbox. Allow at least 68 minutes to watch the whole video. Because this is a screencast recording of a live workshop, there is some conversation and activity that did not get recorded. When you click on the recording link, you may be asked to install a Flash plug-in or allow some action. Go ahead and do that to view the recording. |
Rubrics |
Current as of August 2011 (D2L 9.1)