Other Features in the LMS
These features are not currently enabled by default. If you have an interest in using any of them or questions about what they can accomplish, please contact Academic Computing for instructions and/or a tutorial.
- Attendance: Start with a list of your students and class meeting times, and mark them present, absent, excused, tardy, etc.
- Auditing students and research assistants: These students can be manually added to your course with any level of permissions.
- Calendar: Add class meetings, field trips, and due dates in a calendar format.
- Chat: Chat online and send messages instantly with your class.
- Coursework: Create online assignments and tests, have students turn in papers by uploading them to MySLC.
- Custom roles and subsections: Students in the class may be assigned special roles that you determine and according to these subgroups, be given access to certain functions in subsections of the course.
- Gradebook: Set weights for attendance, offline content, and the Coursework assignments, and keep track of students' grades.
- Readings portlet: Add your course's reading list or a list of books students should purchase.
- Reference services: Reference staff can work with you to provide your students with quick access to course-specific library resources directly from the LMS, including links to the most relevant electronic databases, librarian-designed pathfinders, and RefWorks. Reference staff can be reached at reference@slc.edu or at x2225.
- Task Manager: Assign students tasks to complete that they must check off the status of and keep your own to do list.
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