 So, we wanted the TAS to be familiar with it because I think as far as we have seen once the videos are done with the props most of the work is going to be handled by the TAS. You know hosting the thing there is a lot of interaction with the students which again probably the TAS will be handling itself. And we will also require some kind of interaction with you at some point which we will be bringing out later on. So, the workshop we expected to be like max of 2 hours. So, we have two parts to the workshop. So, the first part is going to be the Google course builder platform. So, that is a platform on which the MOOC courses are being hosted. So, it's an online portal on which all the courses, the videos, the assignments, everything gets hosted. Andrew, would you like to take over? Okay. So, the first part of it will be that we have Ms. Chitra here who has been Professor Nagendra's TA. Professor Nagendra had a basic electrical circuits course which ran from August to December. We are having the exams for that course now. So, she will be explaining what are the processes involved in that. And we have the next part of the workshop today will be handled by the people from TCS. TCS is an exam partner with whom we actually coordinate opening up the registration forms for the exams and the final conduct of the certification exam. So, they will tell you in what ways they will have to interact with the faculty, what is the data required from the faculty and so on. So, essentially the workshop is of two parts today. So, we've had three courses so far. One, we completed the whole process which was programming data structures and algorithms. That was a course run by our computer science department faculty, Prof. Hemamurthy, Prof. Narayan Swamy and Prof. Shankar Bala Chandran. That ran from March to July. And currently we have two courses which is one is basic electrical circuits by Prof. Nagendra of IIT Madras. And Prof. Satyadeva of IIT Kanpur has been offering an introduction to programming in C. So, this the coming Sunday we are having the certification exam for the two courses which is one date. And the other exam is going to run on December 14th. So, by end of December we hope to close these two processes. So, the next run of courses we are having starts from January 5th and it goes on up to February 28th. That is a course run date wherein the students will actually have the lessons coming out to them as assignments and so on. We'll share all the dates with you I'm just telling you. And we have ten confirmed courses lined up for the January-February term. So, amongst that we have like I think six courses from IIT Madras, three are from IIT Kanpur and we have one from Chennai Mathematical Institute Madras. So, total of ten courses. Maybe one or two may get added we are not sure. So, ten are confirmed as of now. And the exam dates for that will be on March 22nd and 29th. So, that is what we are looking at as exam dates. And the course starts from this. So, we have some pre-processes wherein December 1st, the major thing that we'll start of before I give it off to Ms. Chitra. December 1st we plan to start the enrolment for the courses. There are two paths to a course. The course is entirely free. Anybody can enrol, there is no criteria or whatever for anybody to enrol to a course. Anybody can enrol, they can view the videos, they can submit the assignments and everything. So, that happens, there is only a fee collected for if somebody wants to write the certification exam. So, at that point of time we tell them that there is a fee you have to pay to register for that. So, the enrolment we are starting on December 1st. So, we are opening up the ten courses. We'll have to have a one page ready for them. We'll show you a sample of that. Wherein we'll require a two minute video from we'll require a two minute video from each of the faculty introducing the course. And then we'll require some details about the course, about the course instructor, about anything else you think. You know who the intended audience might be. Any basic requirements you have for somebody who would want to follow the course or something like that. That page we would want it to be ready by November 28th. This Friday we would require a sign off from all the faculty which we would like you all to follow up with the faculty saying that, yes that page is ready and we are opening it up for enrolment on December 1st. So, December 1st we will show it live and it goes that day. Yeah, this is the page that I think Ms. Chitra will handle. So, this is one immediate requirement that we will have from you by the end of this week that we will require. So, firstly the page will be created for them by you or the admin, right? Okay. Okay. So, one part is, I mean, for me the course, the first page was already set up. That is the, in the Google course builder. Okay. So, that part, I can, I mean, if you are able to log in to Google course builder I can show what to do. How to create that login, I am not sure. Maybe creating this. Okay. So, once you log in, this is the, and if you go to your course, you will see a page like this and to edit it, I mean, all of the editing is done from what is known as this course dashboard. Okay. I think it's already here. I don't need to go there. So, this is where you edit all of the settings. Okay. So, there is a tab called settings, which is where, which is where the front page of the course is controlled. Okay. So, for instance, I mean, you can't read this by right here. Let's see. Okay. So, this is the, this is the front page that anyone will see. Okay. Before logging in. Okay. So, this is sort of just an introductory portion for this one, for the course, and you can have the course abstract here and so on and all kinds of information about the course. Okay. This is the biography of the teacher. This is the list of topics and so on. And there will also be an introductory video, whose YouTube ID has to be entered here. So, that, so first let me show you the view of somebody who is not logged in. Let me log out of here. Yeah, first let me. Okay. So, this is the preview page. I think it is showing first. I think this has changed now, right? The way the things look has changed a little bit, but so you can see the course and so on. All of this information is basically what was in here. Okay. Whether bio, the list of topics, I showed you earlier, for instance, the list of topics is here and that is what appears here. Okay. And also, if you click on this, they will see a 2 minute or, okay, in my case, 7 minute introductory video on what the course is all about. Okay. So, I mentioned the course video. The idea of this YouTube video, the introductory portion will be in here. Okay. So, that is how you set it up. But once the login is set up, it is automatically, they have a course builder account here, is it? Yeah. Okay. So, maybe I will log into one of those. Yeah. What is that? HS. So, this, I think my course data has been copied to this. No. Oh. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I think this is not in the, I think let me. Okay. I have to do HS. Oh, this is underscore. Yeah. So, this information, the URL information will be given to you. So, then, okay. So, right now, there is nothing here other than the title. So, if I go to the... Instructor is here. That is good. Okay. So, then, I mean, whatever goes on the front page, you can include in this. Okay. By going to settings. So, that is about what you see on the front page. I mean, by clicking Edit here, you can edit everything in this one. So, right now, you see that only the course name is entered. Everything else is blank. Okay. Welcome email. Yeah. So, that, what happens is, whatever email you enter here, so anytime student registers for the course, this email will go to them. So, in my, I mean, it usually has some, the same preliminary information as you have in the rest of the, I mean, on the webpage itself. It says, yeah, welcome to this course and this course will have this many weeks of content, the usual stuff, some preliminary information about the course. So, that is what it is going to be. Yeah. That is right. That is the other thing. So, it is, otherwise you have to do the HTML formatting by adding those tags. So, if you click on the text, you can enter it and use these things for your formatting and so on. Okay. Yeah. So, all of this has to be entered by... Yeah. So, I think this is already there. It is already done for this and enable registrations, this will, I think, they will do it on December 1st yourself. Yeah. Yeah. So, I guess, obviously, by the time we enable registrations, all of this has to be filled so that people who want to come in and look at and find the details of the course, they have to be, I mean, they have to be able to see them. Okay. So, this is, I mean, the fields are self-explanatory and you can always go back to one of the existing courses to see what goes where. Okay. So, now, this outline is where you will have all the content, that is, lessons and units and so on. So, by the way, the settings is something that you do once and then leave it there. This outline is what you will be playing, outside and assets are what you will be playing with constantly because every week, you will have to update the lessons and units and assignments and so on. Okay. So, now, I will go back to my course and she will show how to how to handle, how to add content into this outline page and how it appears in your, in the course view. Okay. Use an idea in the password that requires to be used here along with the URL and everything. So, you can check with the faculty method that you mentioned. So, it is all been created for everybody. So, now, I will go to the outline of this course. You can see a number of things listed here, units and lessons under them. So, in this, in the Google course builders terminology, so, each hour or hour and half lecture that is what is called a unit and that will be split up into small segments and each segment is called a lesson. So, where that appears, I mean, where that is relevant is if you want to add one of these things, it says unit 1, preliminary, current and voltage and so on. This I created by adding a unit and these by adding lessons within that unit. She will show the details. Now, of these things, basically we have used the first four up to analytics is something where you see the data of who has, how many people have solved assignments and so on. This mentors and peer review, we have not used for our courses. Peer review is kind of straightforward. You can have some assignments which will be peer graded, but we have not used them. I do not know if it is a relevant thing and an important thing for your course, you can use that. This mentors, I think that facility was there, but I guess we, I mean nobody was. This is actually not for us. It is more for we have to set who the mentors are and the mentors can track the progress of the students. For instance, if your course is being seen by let us say a group of students in a college, there could be a mentor in that college who could also be tracking their progress and so on. She will show these things, adding the units and lessons and assignments and all of that stuff. One thing is, I mean, you can go on editing this and during editing, of course, you can keep things private. For instance, some of these things it shows it as being private. It means that it will not be visible to others, but in your own course view, it will be visible. So you can go on editing until the look and feel satisfactory and then make it public. Okay. I am Chitra, an MS student working under Professor Nagyantra Krishnamura and I was an TA for this online course. So we will begin with the first page. As you can see, on the left side, there is an outline. The lessons and units have been listed out. The lessons and units have been listed out there. And towards the top right, you can see the options, announcements, forum and progress. The announcements will take you to the announcement page. Forum is a discussion forum and progress will show you the progress of a student. In the sense, it will show you how many quizzes a particular student have attempted. Similarly, the average score for each quiz. And all this has been set up from what is known as a course dashboard. This is the course dashboard page. In outline, we can see all the lessons and units listed out. The assets page consists of all the supporting materials, like the images required for questions, some questions, etc. Settings, this has been covered already. Analytics will show the number of students who have enrolled for this course and the performance of, number of students who have attempted and the average score of all the students in the quiz. I will skip the other three topics and help. It has an area of materials that you can use whenever you run into trouble with Google course builder. Coming to outline, I have created a small demo unit. I will first show you the demo unit and then we can recreate it once again here. This is the unit name, demo one. It is followed by the lesson name. A video has been embedded in it and then this is the context related to the video. Now to create this, we go to the course dashboard in the outline page and we click on add unit. We give a title, we retain it as private for the time being, then click on save. Once the unit is created, we have to start adding lessons to it. Therefore, we click on add lesson, give a lesson name, select the parent unit. So in our case it is demo two. Now for video ID, we have to give the URL of the YouTube video. So, suppose we want this particular video, whatever you see here, after the v equal to sign. Let us say you set this. So, I will show this separately. So, if this is a YouTube video, URL, whatever you see after the question mark v equal to, this is a YouTube ID. So, you select this, select the material to the lesson body. We go to the rich text mode and enter the text. It is easier to edit in rich text mode and it is easier to enter stuff also. In the sense, it is easier to insert images and other components. But suppose you want superscripts or subscripts, then it is easier to use it as an HTML tag. You can use the SUP or SUB tag. So, this is done. The lessons, individual lessons can either be made private or public. You can make much of a difference as long as the unit is made private. So, if the unit is private, you can create lessons as public. And at the end, once all the lessons are finalized, you can make the unit private. So, for the time being, I will create this as a public lesson. Let us see how this looks like. We have created the unit demo to the lesson. So, this is what we have created now. Moving on to the next lesson to be created, this consists of some questions. Now, this question has three parts, the text related to the question and image and finally, an interface. So, the student can enter an answer and check if the answer is right or wrong. So, there is a box to enter the answer and a box to give you the feedback. Now, in case the student is not able to find the answer by himself, he can click on skip and show answer and the final answer will be shown. Now, let us see the first step in creating an activity question like this is to upload the image related to it. So, for this we go to the SH page, scroll down till you reach the images section, click on this and you can browse the image from your system and upload it. For the time being I will use the images that has been uploaded already. Let us create one more lesson for this. I will put the same video in a particular format inside this box. I will show you the format first. So, where activity equal to question type it can either be free text or multiple choice. So, in this case it is free text then question HTML we give the question in HTML format. So, if you want to enter something in the next line you have to use the HTML tag hx this shows the answer the correct answer hx it shows the answer to which the students answer will be matched. Now, suppose you give just minus 160 within two forward slashes the system will search for minus 160 in the string that has been entered by the student. So, even if the student enters minus 1600 it will show a correct match. Now, if you want an exact match please add a hat at the beginning which will make check for string matching from the beginning and dollar will check for the string matching from the end. Therefore, this gives a complete string match. Then correct answer output gives you the feedback if the answer is correct incorrect answer output gives you a feedback when the answer entered by the student is wrong and show answer output is what you get when the student clicks on skip and show answer. Now, if you have any question getting out the answer do you have to technically know those details or is there anything You just have to know the script once meaning once you have the format you can reuse it again and again. That's the only way to do it. For a person who is not familiar with those tags and those You don't have to touch anything else like she pointed out. You just have to use within Now, activity title can be given but in case you are not giving a title it will get saved with the lesson idea and lesson title. So we leave that for the time being activity is listed when you want this activity to appear as a separate lesson but currently we want it under the video so we uncheck that box so once this is done we save it and now we have to include this red tool kit the component to be inserted is an activity and the activity id is this that's the same as a lesson id and lesson title so we save this let's make the lesson public and save below the lesson that's an important part of the MOOC meaning the whole idea is to have short segments and make the students work something out to organize the lessons in a way I mean it's up to the instructor I know but it is good to organize it in a way that the segments are short and after every segment there is some activity related to the segment. So this is what we have done right let's check the next lesson so again this has a video followed by a multiple choice question the procedure is the same don't get graded right no you can't is there a default option or is there an option to be graded no if you choose it as an activity it is not it can be inserted as a question and then it can be graded I have it as an assignment I will add the same video id for the time being and for a multiple choice question this is the format question type is multiple choice question html you enter the random choices in single quotes you first give what has to appear on screen then you give whether this is the correct answer or the wrong answer and then some feedback to the student so I'll copy paste it and we'll insert this into the lesson body get the activity into the system and then second time to be able to insert it so this is also I think an example of a way to create activity question if you don't want to type any text or anything the entire question has an image to include that image in the place of the script you only need to have that image you create the thing in any word processing software and then you can save it you still have the choices choices have to be in the question it's only the choices you have to the images can be easily inserted in the lesson body for example say I want to insert an image here we click on this and you can give the image URL to get the image URL all that you have to do is go to and in the images section once you click on an image you can copy the URL from here next we will see how to set up a quiz so in an assessment questions are there along with images if required followed by boxes where the student can enter the answers and then finally a submit answers option so once they enter all the answers and click on this it will be graded and they will be able to see their percentage so to create this to the outline so this has four steps in the first step you have to upload the images second step we have to create the questions third you combine these questions into a question group and in the fourth step you actually create the assessment so let's assume that the images are already there then we have to create questions so for that in assets click on add short answer so you can type your question here description is like a question title for us to identify which question it is and then for score you can give some score for the question grading if the it's some number that you are going to check select numeric and we give the response here finally save it there are more types of answers run in the activity in activity it is limited to either text matching there is string matching or multiple choice here you have those two as well as numerical answers and there was one more multiple lines of range range range and in that string matching now I think this answering a matrix is also included of course it is relevant mostly to technology type of courses but you can enter a matrix as an answer when there is multiple choice question click on add multiple choice you can enter the question here some description and whatever you want on screen the options at the student should be able to see that has to be entered here it emphasize the reason for the description naming it in that name description that is all this is done as you can see in the outline here by the end of the course you will have several questions with you it is going to be a whole lot and you will find it very difficult to identify which question is which so if you have some naming convention with respect to the lessons or the topic it will become easier towards the end to identify them right now I have named them like this so that it comes up at the top good way of numbering is to have good way of naming is to initially have the numbers but the first unit questions appear at the top but not only numbers but then you have some textual part also which tells you what question is and whatever is the correct option the radio button corresponding to that should be selected once I allow multiple selections I can do that so I will save this the number of choices I mean we can go on adding that so feedback is for if he chooses that option you give him a response we do not give them a direct response right now I do not know find out nobody seems to similar to yeah I guess it is similar to the feedback and activity where if you enter a correct answer whatever answer you enter it can come back with a feedback it can say this is the wrong answer or this is the wrong answer because I mean you could say things like that oh you have forgotten something or whatever sir I try that for this and show it I think it has not been properly maybe they have not of course we did not have any use for it sir intention for the feature but it is not fully conduct once we have created sufficient questions like this we create a question group so click on add question group and then we select the questions that have to be added we can add more questions or we can delete existing questions and each question can be given some weightage so I will give equal weightage some weirdness some bug I guess that when you create the question you can also set some weight for the question number of marks I would say that you always use one mark for every question and the actual weight you want to have in the assignment you enter it here let's say the first question carries two the second one three and the other two one you put two three one one here whereas the main question should be created with just one mark because if you do two there the final so this business of creating question group and using it in the assignment it's sort of optional you could create the assignment directly from the questions but we found this to be very convenient to group all the questions for an assignment into a question group and pull only that question group into the assignment and finally we create the assignment so click on add assignment give a title select the parent unit and in rich text mode click on this the component type is a question group and select the question group click on save the submission new date should be entered in your month date format followed by the time now the deadline the time is given in universal coordinated time so this is five and a half hours earlier than IST so suppose I wanted to be at 10.30 in the morning I have to enter 4.30 here oh sorry 10 in the morning I have to enter 4.30 there is a to enable that what it will do is I think it works it gives a check answer option and they will just show the score that's it final score oh that's it it doesn't it says individually does it not say correct or no it doesn't seem to show it shows the final score it shows the final score on the same page it shows that one out of two is correct on the same page on the same page after you submit it will show it and you can submit any number of I think that there is also a lot of multiple submissions normally we always enable this that is they can go on submitting any number of times the last submission is what is going to be counted before the submission deadline but if you want to disable it it's possible only once is to two scary I think you should allow multiple submissions one more thing once you create the quiz if you retain it as public within a unit that is private the quiz will still be visible the student will not be able to access the quiz but it will appear in the progress page so they get confused with it so it's always better to keep this as private the assessment in a separate unit below the main unit if you make it part of the unit that will not be easily visible and it can create some confusion that's what we found like this these two are units and this is an assignment unit so this should cover the basics of uploading video lectures and creating assignments any doubts here many doubts and people start doing it so what I would suggest is we create an email group of course admins and you can add so on so that people have any questions they can post it there and hopefully somebody will answer that should be easy enough to do created from the main unit so once the unit is created then you can make it public so that is fairly easy direct to select the unit make this public so it's a live course actually that she's editing it's dangerous to do these things so and once that is done we usually send out an announcement to the students so for that go to the announcements page and you can add a new announcement or you can edit an existing one so to publish it the status has to be changed to published and then if you check this option an email gets sent to all the people control to this course so this option you'll be used with some care if people don't enjoy too many emails coming and then if you make one mistake you can't keep sending emails again and again so it's good to have a way in which there is you know double checking of the email one person types the announcement another person checks and then you send it over at least double check make sure you put all the information in there correctly and then send one email it's very important to do that and for this course related to each topic we made one announcement with the heading and then we kept on editing it and each time we edited it we send out an email to all the students so suppose it's about the weekly lectures we'll have an announcement section like this and every week we edited it what she's saying is we did we had only one announcement listed here so that when you go to announcements you don't see 100 announcements for every week's lessons so you will see only one lecture for the week and every week there are so many solutions this is a discussion forum so this is where students post all their questions and we can answer it and sometimes they discuss the activity assignment questions even before the deadline so then we have the options of deleting it but I think all that is clear it's easy to figure them out yeah it's a standard Google groups if you've used any Google group interface this is exactly like any other Google groups which is just embedded here but since your course admin you'll have slightly more authority you can pin the posting on the top you can do all those kind of things anyway I think all of you most have used enough discussion groups still one somewhat useful feature is that many times people keep asking the same kind of questions so then what you can do is instead of answering it you can set a post to be duplicate of some other post okay so that's useful so that anybody who clicks on like 100 similar questions will go to the same thing and possibly your answer to that so we click on the set as duplicate option and then and then it will show then we can search for the post that we are looking for and set this as a duplicate of that quite active particularly just before the end of assignments the deadline is very active and people probably expect some answer so manning this is important so this one I mean she was checking every morning I used to do it in the evening she and the other tears everything okay besides uploading the courses this could be there every day and no I guess the asking questions with the example yeah that covers the basics about handling this any doubts there's no dissemination no material like readings as such it's just the lecture which gets no there's no dissemination of actual attachments you can so in each lesson you could have links to PDFs and so on we didn't do that in our case we had everything and the questions but if you want to first of all that below the lecture below the lecture video you can have text as well I mean you could kind of type your lesson whatever textual part of your lesson right there or you can provide a link to you can also have a lecture lesson without a video yeah yeah for instance they've created things like that they've created units which are only questions and also create units which are only text anything you want so in fact that can be separate for every lesson so for every lesson I mean let's chapter this to I mean chapter X of book Y you can have it right below that can you go to one of the lessons just go to one of the lessons and click on edit lesson there yeah first go to the lesson itself yeah so the lesson shows up like this so you have a video below that there is something yeah in our case we have only links to downloadable versions also because sometimes the live internet may not be accessible in google drive and you can see that links to downloadable videos so they can download and watch it offline and then so that's just some you can have any text in place of that one you can have links to let's say pdf file or anything and you can also have a lot more text you can have suggested reading you can have these questions anything can you go to edit lesson on top the pdf file there is no provision to upload it here it has to be you can put it in the assets and call it yeah I think I would suggest drive drive is the better way put it in google drive and call it okay is there a possibility I think there is one is there a possibility of a student submitting some hand written assignment or whatever scanning it and uploading it as a pdf or an image somewhere is that option available already or do we need to request them don't think so don't think you could kind of do it in some crazy way you have to go outside of the course middle of platform you don't have it so they could put it on there google drive get the link and then put that link as part of the answer and then this essay type question where they put that link and the TAS will have to go look at that link why would you do that I think some courses are now requesting for that for that uploading images with an image if they want a descriptive answer how do they do it we can upload images in the forum without any issues in the forum it can be done but everybody would assign each person can you go to the so instead of that two lines of text you can have anything you want this is a rich text window where you can put word like typing so can they give an access like this to the student actually where he can probably put in an image and put in some text in principle I am sure it's possible but google course builder will have to be rebuilt for rebuilt it's also complicated with storage how much you do etc but because they are login with google id easiest thing they don't drive they don't drive they don't give the link