text=black designates black to be the text color for
all Mallard
pages.
Mallard by default will have black print on white pages, but you could
have yellow print on pink pages if you prefer.
Course Director and Instructor
Please provide a bit of information about yourself - and an additional
course director or instructor if you wish.
Course Staff for Mail Staff Page
You may provide email links so that students can easily send email
from netscape. While typically used for staff listings, you can in fact
provide email addresses for anyone.
Mallard Homepage Link Parameters
You can configure two student links on the course homepage: the second
from the top in both the left and right columns. Commonly, the right
column link is used to access a course newsgroup or conferencing system.
(Note that the icon specified here will also appear in the left icon bar
and hence be immediately available to students.) The left column link is
most commonly used for Course Information, Syllabus, etc. (This link will
not appear in the left icon bar.)
If you have a particular icon you wish to use, you will need to ask your
Mallard Administrator to upload it to the server. And only your
Administrator can tell you what icons exist on the server. (Hence, first
time users are advised to use the links that are supplied with Mallard and
appear by default.)
Grading Display Parameters
If no other values are specified, the values will default as follows:
| Correct answer color: | 008576 |
| Partially correct answer color: | f1b500 |
| Incorrect answer color: | red |
| Correct answer icon: | correct_check.gif |
| Partially correct answer icon: | partial.gif |
| Incorrect answer icon: | incorrect.gof |
Students have the ability to not display the grading icons if they so
choose. They will eventually - but not yet - have the ability to select
which colors they
wish to use for display of correct and incorrect responses.
Lessons Page Grade Display Parameters
You may wish to have grading feedback appear on the Lessons Page in order
to inform students of their progress. Most instructors choose to display
gold stars next to quizzes with grades of 100%, and green checkmarks next
to quizzes which are not completely correct, but have "passed". Suggested
settings are:
pass,green_check.gif for the score and icon
representing "passed"
100,gold_star.gof for the score and icon representing
"perfect"
Other Grading Parameters
Every quiz must have an associated grade policy. When a new quiz is
created, one of the available grade policies is chosen by default. Unless
you specifically select a different policy, your default grade policy is
used. It is here that you choose which policy to have as your default
(typically whatever policy you will be using the majority of the time).
Note: changing this default will not affect existing quizzes.
Copyright Information
A Mallard copyright statement (and link) prints automatically at the
bottom of every Mallard page. You are encouraged to provide your own
copyright information to appear at the bottom of your course material and
quiz Mallard pages. This ensures that any printouts will include
appropriate attribution, and can lessen possible confusion between
Mallard-generated pages and your own course content. (Since this footer
will appear on all your pages, you need to be careful to explicitly
provide any additional credits that may become necessary.) Your copyright
string may itself be you full copyright statement, or it may be a link to
a more detailed copyright information page.
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