Wattle User Manual

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The Wattle User Manual was created in order to provide a One-Stop-Shop for all Wattle User Guide Content. Should you require any support, always contact your Local College Support Staff

Overview

• What is Wattle
• Wattle course lifecycle
• Accessibility Guidelines

Support

• Local College Support - Staff
• Service Desk – Staff and Students
• Related links

1. Access and Navigate Wattle

• Access overview
• Log in and navigate the dashboard
  • Star your favourite courses
  • Add the dashboard to your Bookmarks Toolbar
  • Add an image to your course title
• Course site navigation

2. Edit and Organise

• Site design
• Turn editing on
• Edit
  • Edit course settings
  • Edit text (Atto) text editor
  • Create automatic text links
  • Fix broken images
• Add and manage
  • Add and manage activities and resources
  • Add and manage sections
  • Blocks
  • Label tool

3. Tools to present content

• Page
• Book
• H5P (Interactivity)
  • Create H5P content
  • Add H5P as an activity
  • Embed H5P content
• Echo360 lecture recordings
• URL (link)
• File
  • Add a File via activity chooser
  • Add a File via dragging and dropping
  • Replace a File on your site
  • Display media in course
• Cloudstor

4. Manage participants

• View participants
  • Add lecturers and senior tutors to a course
• Groups and groupings
  • Create groups and groupings
  • Manually add students to groups
  • Auto-create groups
  • Set up group self-selection
  • Export groups with CSV
  • Import empty groups from CSV
  • Import groups with students from CSV
• Attendance tool
  • Add tool and tweak settings
  • Set how you will mark attendance
  • Add sessions
  • Mark and view attendance
  • Other options
• View course reports

5. Communication

• Message settings and preference
• Update your profile and picture
• Add contact block
• Forum
  • Announcements
• Scheduler
• Zoom: Create tute recording folder in Cloudstor
• Feedback: Wattle Survey
• Choice: Wattle Polling
• Send direct message to your students
• Dialogue

6. Collaboration on Wattle

• Wiki: Team writing
• Workshop: Peer assessment tool

7. Turnitin and Assignments

• Turnitin
  • Setting up a rubric
  • Grading form
• Assignments
  • Create assignments
  • How to set up
  • User and group overrides
  • Mark and give feedback

8. Quizzes

• Overview and warnings
• Categories and questions
• Create quizes
• Review and mark
• Wattle Quiz for exams
• Proctorio

9. Hide and show items

• Hide activities and resources
• View course as a student

10. Gradebook

• What is Gradebook?
• Set up Gradebook for your course
  • View gradebook setup
  • Check aggregation of Gradebook and categories
  • Ensure all assessment items appear
  • Organise your Gradebook
  • Adjust Maximum grade (optional)
  • Adjust item weights and hide totals
  • Advanced Gradebook seup for more than one cohort
• Enter and manage grades in Gradebook
  • View the grader report
  • Grade preferences and settings
  • Enter grades (basic)
  • Enter grades (advanced)
  • Grade by students
  • Excludes grades
  • Gradebook FAQs
• Prepare final Grades for SAS
  • Export grades from Wattle
  • Check CSV(s) from your school administration
  • Copy results into CSV(s)

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