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Hello and welcome to PolyLearn 2.5, Cal Poly's 
very own, branded version of the Moodle learning 
management system software! The goal of
PolyLearn is to make managing your course
online as efficient and convenient as possible.
So lets get into it. This is what a basic course
will look like. I mean your's probably won't be in
Latin, but that's okay, unless you teach Latin. 
This is just a sample. Your content will be 
organized by default into topics, starting with 
a summary of your course at the top of the 
screen, and then going down to Topic 1, Topic 2,
Topic 3, and so on. These topics will be 
surrounded by blocks, and these are used to
access the various functions offered by
PolyLearn. First we have the navigation block, 
which you can use to quickly reach other
sections, or even sections of sections, in your
PolyLearn. Next, we have the most important 
block, which is your administration block. And 
this is going to be the editing and settings hub 
for your course. Here you can turn editing on
and off. You could edit settings of your entire
course, in which you can change your
description, appearance, uploads, and more.
Note that you cannot change anything in the
general tab, and that all tabs are expandable
and collapsable by either clicking on the tab 
name or the "Expand all" button. Notice that
wherever I go, the breadcrumb bar at the top will
always show what pages I went through to get
to the one I'm currently on. In the administration 
block you could also manage the grades of your 
course; you could backup, restore, or import 
files from your other courses; and you can also 
switch roles, which lets you see your course 
from the view of a TA, a student, and so on.
Once you're in this, it will show you just how a 
student would view your course.
Once finished, you can find the "Return to my
role" option either in the top right corner of the 
screen or back in your admin block.
The calendar block is fairly basic. If you have
any events planned on your calendar, they will 
be color coded into global, course, group, and 
user events. Note that any deadlines you have 
set for assignments will already automatically 
appear on your calendar. If you want to create a 
new event, simply click on your month in the 
calendar block, and it will bring you to an 
expanded view of your calendar. There, in the 
top right corner of that screen, you can find the
"New event" button.
The Activities block can get you to all of your 
activities in one subsection. For example, if you
want to find one of your quizzes without having 
to look through your entire course, just click 
"Quizzes" and it will show you all that you have
posted.
The quickmail block allows you to easily send 
mass messages to all of your students. It will 
bring up a screen that lists all of their emails, in
which you can quickly add or remove recipients.
The rest of the blocks are pretty self explanatory
but they do have a couple more features. 
You can hide or dock your blocks. To hide a
block, simply click on the minimize button in
your block's top right corner. Clicking on the 
button next to that, however, will dock your 
block to the left side of the screen, like so.
This won't change the function of your block, but 
just offers a different way to organize your 
course.
After the blocks, the next important feature is
the edit button. You can turn editing on in either
the top right corner of your screen, or your
Admin block.
With editing on, you can rename, move, edit, 
duplicate, hide, or add roles to your
assignments.
Selecting "Add an activity or resource" will show 
you all of your options of additions to your 
course, each with their own descriptions.
You can also configure any of your blocks,
add assignments or resources to any of your
topics, edit or move your current assignments, 
or even edit your topics.
If you uncheck the default section names, you 
can change your topic's name, say if you 
wanted to make a homework section, for 
example.
You can use the HTML editor to add pictures,
links, and embedded videos, like those from 
YouTube.
And that's all for the basics of your PolyLearn
course. If you have anymore questions, don't 
hesitate to go to the PolyLearn Support link 
in the top right corner of the page.
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