Teacher's Manual - UOC

Teacher's Manual

Langblog

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Creating a Langblog 2

Editing a Langblog 6

Adding a multimedia file to an entry or a comment 14

Teacher's Manual Langblog Creating a Langblog 1. Go to Classroom Design.

Image. Screenshot of the UOC classroom. 2. You can add the tool to one or more activities or make it one of the general classroom

tools. a. If you are looking to add the tool to a specific activity, click on Add tool to activity

and choose the Langblog option.

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Image. Screenshot of the Edició de l'aula area, in the Activitats (Activities) tab.

b. If you want to make Langblog a general classroom tool, go to Classroom

tools (1), click Add tool to classroom (2) and select the Langblog option.

Image. Screenshot of the Edició de l'aula area, in the Eines de l'aula tab.


In either case, the Langblog tool will be available to you as soon as you have added it and saved your changes.

Image. Screenshot of the Edició de l'aula area's Activitats tab, showing how it appears when Langblog has been added.


Image. Screenshot of a UOC classroom to which Langblog has been added.

PLEASE NOTE: Certain internal processes need to take place to add the tool, so several minutes may go by before you can access it. Click on Langblog to access the tool.


Image. Home page of a newly created Langblog.

Editing a Langblog

1. Access the Langblog tool from the classroom. Once you are in, click on the Administration link.

Image. Home page of a newly created Langblog.

2. This will open a WordPress dashboard, which is the technology used to create Langblogs.

There's a chance that you will be asked to sign in to the Campus again.


Image. WordPress dashboard. Once there, scan the left sidebar for Posts and choose the option All posts. This will bring up the list of posts.

Image. WordPress dashboard showing the Entries drop-down menu.

3. You will only see one entry in the list. It shows up by default any time a new Langblog is created. It's automatically given the title Hello world! and is accompanied by a comment. We suggest deleting this default entry. Otherwise, you can edit it into your first real Langblog entry. From this screen, you can create a new entry (1) or edit an existing one (2). Both options will bring you to the entry creation/editing screen.


Image. List of entries in WordPress.


4. From the entry creation/editing screen, you can:

Image. Creating an entry in WordPress.

a. Give the entry a title. b. Prepare the entry's content. By clicking on Add Media in the upper left-hand corner,

you can upload previously created multimedia files or record new audio or video files using your computer's microphone or webcam. For further information on how to do this, visit the next section.

c. Move the entry you are creating/editing into an existing category or include it in a new one you need to create.

d. Choose a cover photo for the entry you are creating/editing. Bear in mind that if you add a multimedia file, a thumbnail will be used as the cover photo, regardless of whether you choose another image.

e. Save the entry as a draft to continue editing it later or preview it to see how it is coming along. If you save only, your students will not be able to see it.

f. Post the entry so that your students can access it. If you are editing an entry, the button will read Update.


5. When you click on Publish or Update, your changes will be saved and become visible to your students. You will also see the links you can follow to check out the entry:

Image. Recently edited entry in WordPress showing the corresponding links.


The newly posted entry will now show up on the Langblog home page.

Image. Home page of a Langblog with a newly added entry. As explained above, if your entry has an embedded video, a thumbnail from it will be used as the cover photo even if you added a different image.


6. Clicking on the entry title will take you to the detail page:


Image. Detail page of a Langblog entry.


If the entry contains a video, it will show up at the top as pictured, rather than where you have put it inside the text. PLEASE NOTE: The links to edit or perform admin duties on the Langblog only work for those users with proper authorization.

Adding a multimedia file to an entry or a comment Whether you are editing an entry in WordPress or putting together a comment in Langblog, the window that opens when you click Add Media will always be the same.

Image. Window for uploading multimedia files.

From this window, you can:

Image. Window for uploading multimedia files.


1. Upload a video file you have saved on your hard drive. - Click Select a file, choose the video file you want and wait for it to upload

completely. The upload may last a few minutes depending on the size of the file. - When the file has finished uploading, you need to accept the legal terms by

checking the little box at the bottom of the screen. - Once you've done this, the Next button will activate so that you can finalize the

upload process.

2. Record a new video using your computer (you must have a working webcam). - To start recording, click Start recording:

Image. Window for recording a video on your computer's webcam.


- When you want to stop recording, click Stop recording.

Image. Recording of a video on a computer webcam.

- The video you've recorded will automatically start to play on a loop.

Image. Video recorded on a computer webcam.

- If you're happy with the take, click Upload video. The upload may last a few minutes

depending on the size of the file. - When the file has uploaded, accept the legal terms by checking the little box at the

bottom of the screen. This will activate the Next button, which you need to click to finalize the upload process.


3. Upload an audio file you have saved on your hard drive or record a new one (you must

have a working microphone). - The process is virtually identical to the one described in point 2, the only difference

being that you will record an audio file using your computer's microphone.

4. Upload an image you have saved on your hard drive. - The process is virtually identical to the one described in point 1, the only difference

being that you will select an image file rather than a video.


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