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Using eBooks with Runestone Academy
The PreTeXt Interactive Edition
Brad Miller, PhD. Professor Emeritus Luther College
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Front Matter
1
Introduction
1.1
The Runestone Philosophy
1.2
Courses Versus Books
1.3
Privacy
1.4
Why am I seeing Ads
1.5
A Word about Scale
1.6
A Brief History of Runestone
2
Register for a Course
2.1
Introduction
2.2
First-time Registration
2.3
Add an Additional Course
3
Creating a Course
3.1
What is a course?
3.2
How to Create a course
4
Managing Your Course
4.1
Managing Students in your Course
4.1.1
Student Self Registration
4.1.2
Pre-register your students
4.1.3
Removing Students
4.1.4
Resetting Passwords
4.2
Privacy and Runestone
4.2.1
Setting up a class with no PII
4.2.2
What other Data Does Runestone Collect
4.3
Integrating with your LMS Using LTI 1.1
4.3.1
Introduction
4.3.2
Phase 1 (All LMS platforms)
4.3.3
Phase 2 (LMS-specific Steps)
Canvas
Moodle
Brightspace D2L
4.4
Integrating with your LMS Using LTI 1.3
4.4.1
Introduction
4.4.2
LTI1.3 Integration Basic Information
4.4.3
LTI1.3 Setup - LMS Administrator
LTI 1.3 Admin Setup - Canvas
LTI 1.3 Admin Setup - Moodle
LTI 1.3 Admin Setup - D2L
4.4.4
LTI1.3 Setup - Instructor
LTI 1.3 Instructor Setup - Canvas
LTI 1.3 Instructor Setup - Moodle
LTI 1.3 Instructor Setup - D2L
4.4.5
LTI1.3 Instructional Use
Content Linking
Grade Reporting
Date Syncing
Copying an LTI1.3 Course
Canvas Notes for LTI 1.3
Moodle Notes for LTI 1.3
LTI 1.3 D2L Notes
4.5
Add and Instructor or TA
4.6
Course Settings
5
Monitoring your Student’s Learning
5.1
The Instructor Interface
5.2
View Student Activity
5.2.1
Introduction
5.2.2
Chapter Progress
5.2.3
Student Progress Tab
6
Working with Assignments
6.1
Understanding Assignments
6.2
Create an Assignment
6.2.1
Introduction
6.2.2
Creating a Reading Assignment
6.2.3
Creating a Problem Assignment
6.2.4
Accommodations
Extra Exam Time
Extended Due Date
Visibility
6.3
Copying Assignments
6.3.1
Copying from your previous courses
6.3.2
Copying from a different Instructor
6.3.3
Copying a Course Pack from the Author
6.4
Exams and Quizzes in Runestone
6.4.1
Introduction
6.4.2
Resetting an Exam
6.5
Grading
6.5.1
Introduction
6.5.2
Autograde
6.5.3
Calculate Totals
6.5.4
Release Grades
6.5.5
How a Student Sees Grades and Comments
6.6
The Practice Interface
6.7
Exercises
7
Peer Instruction
7.1
Peer instruction in Runestone
7.2
Creating Peer instruction Assignments
7.3
Virtual Peer Instruction Workshop
8
Writing your own Exercises
8.1
Adding an Exercise to the Exercise Bank
8.1.1
Introduction
8.1.2
Unit Testing exercises
8.1.3
Advanced activecode Options
8.1.4
For languages outside the browser
8.2
Multiple Choice Questions
8.3
Mixed-Up Code (Parsons)
8.3.1
Parsons Options
8.3.2
Parsons Distractor Types
8.3.3
Example with Paired Distractors
8.3.4
Example with Unpaired Distractor
8.4
Pro Tip – Test Your Exercises Locally
8.5
Add your own Question
8.6
Exercises
Back Matter
Index
A
Welcome to the Runestone Community
A.1
Help and Support
A.2
Weekly Drop-Ins
A.3
Feature Requests and Reporting Problems
A.4
Contributing
B
Frequently Asked Questions
B.1
Frequently Asked Questions
B.1.1
Why Can’t I access the Instructor Page?
B.1.2
How do I become an instructor?
B.1.3
How do I learn more about the instructor interface
B.1.4
Help! I cannot log in. Every time I try to log in, I have to reset my password!
B.1.5
I’m not getting the password reset email, can you reset my password?
B.1.6
I can’t log in to my Coursera course, what do I do?
B.1.7
How do I add students to my course?
B.1.8
What do those green checkmarks and orange circles mean?
B.1.9
How come there is no Green Checkmark for the Exercises pages?
B.1.10
Where do I find answers to all the homework questions?
B.1.11
Can I build my own course and host it here?
B.1.12
How do I build my own course?
B.1.13
Is this site reliable enough to use in class?
B.1.14
Why did you change domain names?
B.1.15
I want to reuse my course from last year, what should I do?
B.1.16
How do I update my course to get the latest bug fixes?
B.1.17
I was just experimenting and I want to delete my course
B.1.18
What if I want to add a new section or chapter?
B.1.19
What if I want to add my own exercises?
B.1.20
My students are completing work but it is not showing up. Help!
B.1.21
How do I change courses or register for an additional course?
B.1.22
What course name should I use when I register?
B.1.23
What version of Python does your book use?
B.1.24
I think there is a bug in your book what should I do?
B.1.25
I have a question that is not covered here!
B.1.26
My Internet is slow, I want to use Runestone offline
B.1.27
Why can’t I just get a PDF?
B.1.28
How does Runestone handle timezones?
Section
7.3
Virtual Peer Instruction Workshop
In the Spring of 2022 we hosted a virtual workshop on using the peer instruction interface. You may find the video useful in seeing peer instruction in action from both the instructor as well as the student perspective.
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