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How to hide the course?

In order to hide the course, click on the icon “Course Management” (top left of the page), then on “Edit course settings”: Select "Hide" under “Course visibility”:   (last update: 10.08.2021)

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How to check the Assignment settings?

The teacher can check the Assignment settings by clicking on “Edit”, then on “Settings” in the Assignment menu (please, note that in order to do this operation, you must be in the editing mode).   The teacher publishes on iCorsi3

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How can I record a meeting on Teams?

To record a meeting, click on the three dots, then on “Start recording”. To stop recording, click on the three dots, then on “Stop recording”. The recording will be automatically uploaded on your Stream account (integrated in Office 365 –

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How can students upload an audio/video file?

To allow students to record an audio or video file and submit it as an attachment through the “Assignment” activity, it is necessary to select the “Online text option” within the section “Types of submission” in the “Assignment” settings. If

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How to create a team?

To use Microsoft Teams with your class, you need first to create a team. Click on “Teams” (1) in the left menu. Then, on the top right, click on “Join or create team” (2). Click on “Create a team”. Select

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How to share a video? (for students)

To share videos with their teachers, students can upload them on their OneDrive account and share the link (e.g., through iCorsi3). To access OneDrive, go to: USI students: https://www.mail.usi.ch/, then select “Usi Cloud” and log in with your USI credentials

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How to create a category of questions?

To create a category of questions, enter the Quiz, click on the Settings icon of the Quiz (engine icon on the top right of the page), then on “Categories”: You can also click on the "Course management" button (top corner

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How to merge two video on Panopto?

Panopto allows to join two video/sessions taking all the contents of a sessions and adding them to another session. This can be very useful if you recorded your primary and secondary streams as separated sessions. In your library you have

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How can I upload a video in Panopto?

Teachers can upload their videos on Panopto and share them with students. Click on “Create”, then on “Upload media”. Select the folder where you want to save the video (1) and upload the video (2) by dragging it into the

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What is the Question Bank?

The Question Bank brings together all the questions of your course, that is, every single course has its own question bank. From there, you can manage the questions (add new questions, edit or delete the existing ones) and also manage

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What is Hot Potatoes?

Hot Potatoes is a freeware for creating quizzes. HotPot includes different applications for creating multiple-choice and short-answer questions (JQuiz), matching exercices (JMatch), ordering exercices (JMix), crossword (JCross) and gap-fill exercices (JCloze). Quizzes created with HotPot can be imported into the

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How does Explain Everything work?

Explain Everything is an app for tablets which allows you to create short educational videos using the handwriting. To create a new presentation, click on the "+" icon in the app hompage and choose the template's color. You can decide

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What is Explain Everything?

Explain Everything is an app for tablet, available both for iPad and for Android (30-day free trail). This app allows to create presentations and educational videos integrating the handwriting (in a Khan Academy style). Starting from a whiteboard or from

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What is the Book on iCorsi3?

The Book allows teachers to create multi-page resources dividing them into chapters and sub-chapters, like in a book. Every book chapter or sub-chapter can contain text, but also multimedia files, like pictures or videos. To add a Book into your

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Can I force the language within a course?

Yes, you can force the language of your course so that all enrolled users visualize the course interface in the same language. The teacher can choose the language clicking on Edit settings under the Course administration menu. At the Force

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How can I modify the start date of my course?

Setting the correct start date for your course is especially important when you choose the weekly format: in this kind of course format, sections correspond to weeks and start according to the start date. For setting the correct start date,

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Can I change the title of my course?

Yes, you can! Enter the course for which you want to change the title, then click on Edit Settings, under the Course Adminstration menu. You fill find a field called Course full name: cancel the actual name and add the

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How can I edit my personal profile?

To edit your personal profile click on the User Profile Menu on the upper right. Under Preferences click on Edit Profile here you can change all your data like name, e-mail address, city, timezone, etc. You can also add a picture

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What kind of file can I upload on Turnitin?

You can upload any kind of file (articles, papers, thesis, assignments, etc.) in the following formats: MS Word, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT) and plain text. Please, note that the file must not exceed 40 MB and its

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How can I add a Turnitin assignment?

If you want to add a Turnitin assignment to your course, you have to click on Add an activity or resource in the desired section, then choose the Turnitin assignment. You will be asked to choose the type of assignment,

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How can I enrol a new user in my course?

If you want to add a new student, teacher or teaching assistant, click on Participants in the left column. Clicking on Enrol Users, a window will be opened  from which you can do a search among all the platform's users

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What is Prezi?

Prezi is a nice alternative to the dominating PowerPoint to make presentations. It basically employs a big canvas and makes use of zooming in and out, this way helping to show overviews and "the big picture". It is easy to

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What is MindMeister?

MindMeister is a tool that allows to collaboratively create mind maps and share them online. It can be used for real-time collaboration and brainstorming sessions. Users can create, manage and share mind maps online and access them anytime, from anywhere.

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What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is an anti-plagiarism software adopted by USI. Turnitin checks for possible plagiarism by comparing submitted papers to several databases containing public web pages, student papers, library databases and publications. Turnitin compares the student's work with the textes contained in

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What is Dropbox?

Dropbox is a software that provides a file hosting service and an automatic synchronization of files through the web. In other words, thanks to Dropbox, it is possible to load a large amount of files (up to 10GB!) in a

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How can I visualize the course as a student?

To visualize the course as a student, you have to click on Switch role to... (left block) and choose Student. Besides the student visualization, you can also choose to display the Auditor and the Non-editing Teacher visualizations. To go back

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What is the Announcements Forum?

The Announcements Forum allows a one-way communication between the teacher and their students. It is very useful, because it allows the teacher to reach all the students enroled in the course (on the platform) with a single message. The students

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What is the Glossary and how can I use it?

The glossary is an activity that allows to create and manage a list of terms and of their definitions, like a dictionary. Automatically, every time a specific term appears in a course (on a page, label, quiz, choice, forum, feedback,

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How can I create a survey?

To create a survey on iCorsi3 you can use the Feedback activity. When adding a feedback you can decide if you want to keep the answers anonymous or not, set the timing for opening and closing of the feedback, decide

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