Blocks (alphabetical order)

This block allows you to quickly access previous blog entries and start new entries. Blog entries are kept within this block and are not found on the main course page.

Instructors and students can do the following with the block:

• View all blog entries for this course
• View my blog entries about this course
• Add a blog entry about this course

Click the hyperlinked month ("September 2019") to add events to the calendar. The links below the calendar, under "Event Key" to either "hide" or "show" specific categories of events. Course events are populated by "due dates" of assignments/activities. The You can set the due dates in the "Availability" section of each activity. If you click on the date in the Calendar block, the date is linked to the assignment that is due.

While instructors can both view and edit the calendar, students have viewing privileges only. 

You can post a comment in the "Add a comment" text box. You must click the "Save Comment" link below for your comment to post. Your comment will have your name and timestamp associated with it. The comments stay in the comment panel on the right. The most recent comments are placed at the bottom.

Both instructors and students can post and delete their own comments. Only instructors can delete both their own or students' comments.

To enable Course Completion, follow these steps. In the Administration block, select "Edit Settings". This will bring you to the "Edit course settings" page. Scroll down to "Completion Tracking". Under "Enable completion tracking", select "Yes".

Once completion tracking is activated, configure course completion requirements by going to the Administration block and clicking "Course Completion". There you have the option to select conditions that must be met for course completion (such as Activity completion, Enrollment, or Completion of another course).

For more information, visit this help article:

GauchoSpace Course Completion Block

Instructor view

Student View

To enable Completion Progress, follow these steps. In the Administration block, select "Edit Settings". This will bring you to the "Edit course settings" page. Scroll down to "Completion Tracking". Under "Enable completion tracking", select "Yes".

Once completion tracking is activated, each assignment and most resources would have settings that allow the Instructor to determine what actions are required for the activity to be considered complete. Some examples are: the student submits an assignment, responds or replies to a forum post, checks a box next to the item in the coursepage.

Each item is represented by a segment in the progress bar. The bar showing on the main coursepage shows how your class is progressing as a whole. To view individual students, click the Overview of students button. 

In the progress bar, red signifies overdue, green signifies complete, yellow signifies and upcoming deadline, and blue signifies an item whose deadline has not past.

For more information, visit this help article:

Track Student Progress - Activity Completion & Course Completion

This block allows faculty, staff, or TAs to submit a request to Instructional Design for:

• Department Project site 
• Sandbox Site
• Extension Course site
• Preserve and already archived site
• "Other", this can be a "New Module Creation" request.

After submitting a request, you can manage your request and check on its status by clicking "Manage Request". Requests that are completed will be in the "My Archived Requests".

In the lower menu, you can click the "Request Queue" link to see what others have requested for UCSB GauchoSpace. 

The "Configuration" link gives the option to edit admin, email, and request for settings.

In the "All Archived Request" link, you will see all completed requests for UCSB GauchoSpace.

This block allows you to write a course summary (description) that is visible to the students. You can also upload a file for the course summary.

 As an instructor you can also configure some blanket course settings in this block  (Course Format, Appearance, File upload size for the course, Completion tracking of students, Groups if you have set up groups in your course, and Role Renaming if you would like to change the name roles such as "student" to "undergraduate").

When you configure settings, you can choose one forum of your choice that you wish to appear in the block. Your course forums will appear in a drop down menu in the settings of the block.

You may also edit the name of the block. The name is set to "Forumtips" as default.

Use this block to organize frequently referenced links for your class. Go to the block settings to:

• Type text, insert links, etc in the block description.
• Rename to block anything you like!  

Save time organizing by adding the mass actions block to your course page. This block allows you to select one or multiple activities, assignments, and/or resources to complete the following:

• Outdent / Indent
• Hide from student view or Make visible to students
• Move selected items to a week/section of your choice
• Duplicate selected item/s into a week/section of your choice

This block links to the McGraw Hill Campus webpage where the educational materials for your course's textbook will be displayed. 

This is an external tool. The settings for your educational materials will be in McGraw Hill webpage.

This block provides a single link to users enrolled in your course. Another way to get there is to select "Users" is in the Navigation bar or Administration block.

Configure settings

Allow students to decide for themselves when they have completed a course. You may want to add this block if you tracking course completion of multiple courses and want the students to mark the course as complete for themselves.

First, you must go to the Administration block and Edit course settings. Under Completion tracking, select "Yes".

Back in the Administration block, click Course completion and the setting "Condition: Manual Self Completion" must have the "Enable" box checked.