Schoolbook User Guide for Students

USER GUIDE FOR STUDENTS

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DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-DASMARINAS
OFFICE OF THE VICE CHANCELLOR FOR ACADEMICS and SCHOLARSHIP
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY CENTER

Schoolbook User Guide for Student

Title: Schoolbook user guide for students

Version: 1
Creator: ETC
Document Code: SB-USERGUIDE-STUDENT
Creation Date: June 27, 2014
Approving Body: OAVCAS
Effectivity Date: July 2014
Expiration Date: July 2015
Number of Pages: 27

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Table of Contents
What is Schoolbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Account Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Homepage and Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Top Right Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Left Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Right Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Newsfeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
E-class enrollment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
E-class Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Top Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Left Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Newsfeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Right Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Other Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Communicating with Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Adding Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Help Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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Schoolbook, commonly called “SB”, is DLSUD’s virtual learning environment tool that
enriches learning experience and strengthens student-teacher and student-student
exchanges beyond the classroom. It functions as a course management system where
faculty create electronic classes to share learning materials and design online learning
activities. You can access your lessons, receive assignment reminders and
communicate with teachers and classmates through messaging, discussion forums and
chatrooms. Through Schoolbook, the University intends to build and nurture an online
community of lifelong learners.

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Account Creation
You can create your account in five easy steps:
1. Go to www.dlsud.edu20.org
2. Click the SIGN-UP button
3. Click STUDENT ACCOUNT
4. Fill out the necessary information then click SUBMIT
5. Wait for the confirmation email for your USERNAME and PASSWORD

Homepage and Navigation

Once your account is created, the home page is the first page you see when you log
into your account. To jump to your home page from any page in the site, click the site
name in the top left.

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Depending on your site configuration, you might see a welcome box pop-up when you
first log-in. To minimize it and prevent it from popping up again, unselect its “Pop up
this box everytime I log in” option before closing it.

Top Right Bar

The top right bar displays icons which you can click to access your messages,
notifications, calendar, help center, search, and profile.

Left Bar
The left bar displays tabs for the current area of the site that
you’re in. For example, the left bar on the home page shows tabs
for the courses, groups, dashboard, news, welcome, people and
resources.

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If you hover over a tab on the left side, a menu will appear with the most important
options for that area.

Right bar

In the right bar you can find listed the

following: to-do list, announcements for the
last 7 days, upcoming items in the next 7
days, and a list of any minimized windows.
To see more details, just click on an item.

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News feed

The home page news feed aggregates news items from your friends, classes, groups,
and school. By default, a news feed only shows the latest items. If you scroll the page
down, it automatically shows more news items. When the end of the feed is reached,
the message “no more news” is displayed.

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Drag the mouse to COURSES menu and click ENROLL on the lower corner.

Once a pop up window appears, type the ACCESS CODE given by your teacher on the
blank box and then click ENROLL.

Check your messages to confirm that you are enrolled in the subject.

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The default landing page of a class is its “News” area, which provides a convenient
overview of many aspects of the class, including its news feed, a left bar with tabs that
give you direct access to the most important class areas, and a right bar with to do
items, announcements, and more. Now we will go over each section.

Top bar
The top bar shows the class name at the top.

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Left Bar

The left bar displays tabs with direct access to the following areas:

˜ News - shows the latest news items from your class;

˜ Lessons - displays all the lessons from a class;
˜ Assessments - shows the class assignments;
˜ Calendar - shows the current and upcoming events of the class;
˜ People - lists all the students and teachers that are in the class;
˜ Portfolio - the area where all your works are stored;

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If you hover over a tab on the left side, a menu will appear with the most important
options for that area.

News feed

The news feed shows class announcements, posts from teachers and students, new
assignments, new lessons, new events, and more.

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Right bar

In the right bar you can find listed the following: to-do list, announcements for the last
7 days, upcoming items in the next 7 days, and your enrollment status. To see more
details, just click on an item.

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The “Lessons” area of a class is where its primary education content is located. To see
the lessons in a class, click the Lessons tab from the left bar. To see a particular
lesson, click on its name.

You can see the sections of lessons by clicking the “Show sections” button in the top
right.

 
 
 
 
 

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Lessons can be comprised of content pages and assignments. Here is how a content
page looks:

Each page can also have its own resources area, where teachers can add resources
for the students to see.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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To see a list of the assessments for a class, click the Assessments tab. An assessment
can be a section in a lesson or a standalone task.

These are the types of assessments that you may encounter:

˜ Quiz - presents you with a set of questions that you can answer online;
˜ Essay – you can submit your response using the HTML editor, and
include an unlimited number of attachments;
˜ Offline - represents a traditional assignment such as a paper-based test
or reading a book. There is no online submission for this kind of
assignment, and your teacher is expected to enter your grades based on
the results of the offline work;
˜ Survey - presents you with a set of questions that you can answer online;
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˜ Discussion - allows you to earn points by participating in a single thread

of discussion that is started by your teacher;
˜ Debate - allows you to add arguments for or against a proposition that is
supplied by your teacher;
˜ Team - allows you to group with your classmates to work on joint
submissions. Your teacher organizes the you into teams, each of which
get a private group;
˜ Dropbox - requires you to upload one or more files as your submission;
˜ SCORM - captures the results of a SCORM item (SCO);
˜ Attendance - awards points based on your attendance record.

To see the details for a particular assignment, click on its name. Here is how an essay
assessment looks:

On the assignment page you will find information regarding its max score, duration,
your submission, your grade, and more.

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Note that when you visit your home page or a class landing page, assignments that are
due will appear in the to-do list, and you can click on the item in the to-do list to see
more details.

 
 
 

You can also see the assignments that are due by clicking the Assignments tab in your
class. Note that the assignments that have not been submitted yet do not have a check
mark. The red flag icon indicates the assignments that are almost due. The red triangle
icon indicates assignments that are past due.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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The submission method can depend on the type of assignment that you want to
submit, and the options are:

Dropbox – you have to first prepare an answer by clicking “Prepare Answer”

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These types of assignments also give you the option to submit your answer right away
or save it for a later time.

Quiz, SCORM quiz, or Survey - in order to submit the assignment you have to answer
the questions of the quiz/survey by clicking “Take quiz”, and then click “Finished” once
the quiz/survey is completed.

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Discussion - participating in the discussions is considered a submission. Click “Reply”

and compose your answer. Once you are done, click “Send”.

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Grades for individual assignments are displayed in the assignments list. Here you can
see the score obtained, the final grade, and the percent of the overall assignment.

If you go at the bottom of the assignments list, you can also see your grades by
category.

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The grade of an assignment is also displayed on its overview page.

Communicating with Users

You can communicate with teachers and friends, using the private messaging system.
To see your inbox, click on the message icon in the top right bar or click
Home/Messages. If you click on the top right message icon, a drop down menu will
appear that lists your most recent messages.

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To read a message, click on it. To reply to a message, click Reply, enter your response
and click Send. To delete a message, click Delete.

To send a message to someone, hover over their name (links to users appear in most
places in the site such as a list of students, teachers, profile pages, and in the forums),
click Send Message, then enter your message and click Send.

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To send a message to multiple users at once, select the users from a list and click
Message.

Notifications

To see all your notifications, click the notifications icon in the top right bar or click
Home/ Notifications. If you click on the top right message icon, a drop down menu will
appear that lists your most recent notifications. Notifications include posts from forums
you are subscribed to, enrollments, invitations, and more.

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Profile

To access your profile, click the profile icon in the top right.

Here you can find your account information, login credentials, photos, and certificates.

To change your settings click the edit icon in the top right. Here you can change your
picture, description, password, and info

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Adding friends
Students can connect with other users as friends in order to message and exchange
resources. They can also see which friends are online and chat with them to
collaborate on projects.
To add a friend, go to a user’s profile and click the Add friend button. You will receive a
message when the user has accepted your friend request.

We don’t want you to encounter difficulty when you are first using the site, so to access
our Help Center, click the question mark icon in the top right bar.

A pop-up box opens with options for choosing the searchable online help, getting
started guides, and if the page that you're on has help content, a "Help for this page"
option will also appear.

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The searchable online help has topics organized by account type, and includes detailed
instructions with screenshots for most of them.

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