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1. Getting started
1.1 Logging in to Fronter
1.2 Changing your password
1.3 Entering your Today page
2. Customising your Today page
2.1 Customising the Today page
2.2 Choosing a display mode
2.3 Adding tools
2.4 Modifying tools
3. Updating your personal details
4. Your Course room and Welcome page
4.1 Entering your Course room
4.2 Welcome page settings and information
4.3 Welcome page icons
5. Using resource folders
5.1 Uploading documents to a resource folder
5.2 Creating resource folders
5.3 Customising resource folder access
5.4 Deleting, moving and copying resource folders
6. Using the Activity log
7. Using the Assignment Hand-in folder
7.1 Creating a Hand-in folder
7.2 Customising a Hand-in folder
7.3 Uploading tasks to a Hand-in folder
7.4 Participants submitting an assignment to a Hand-in folder
7.5 Tutors marking assignments in a Hand-in folder
7.6 Participants viewing marked assignments in a Hand-in folder
7.7 Folder opening period
8. Messages
8.1 Adding a message
8.2 Editing or deleting a message
9. Forums
9.1 Starting a forum
9.2 Reading forum posts
9.3 Contributing to a forum
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1. Getting started
Get started by logging in to Fronter.
1.1 Logging in to Fronter
• Go to https://fronter.com/cambridge
• Enter your username and password.
• Click on Log in.
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2. Customising your Today page
You may like to modify your Today page to set it up so that you can display and access
useful information such as your Fronter calendar, messages and notifications.
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2.3 Adding tools
Add the tools you would like to appear in each area on the Today page. Tools help
you to access information from your course on the Today page. Here are some
recommendations:
• Messages – shows messages left in your Course room.
• Notifications – shows deadlines for submitting work.
• Calendar – shows your Fronter calendar with your appointments.
• Discussion contributions – shows the latest posts from course forums.
• News – shows news posted in Course rooms.
To add tools use the Customise today page.
• Click on New tool at the right of the area you are adding to.
• A list of available tools will appear. Put a tick in the box next to the tool or
tools you want to add.
• Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save.
• Repeat these stages to add tools to your other areas.
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• Click Save to save your changes.
• Click on Today to return to your Today page.
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• You can fill in the User info section or change your password in the Log in
info section further down the page.
• You are recommended to add your email address so that you can use
Fronter’s Forgotten Password option in future.
• Note: it is not possible to change your first and last name in the system.
• Click Save.
• Click on Today to return to your Today page.
• Select your course from the list of rooms displayed by clicking on the link
(there will probably only be one course listed).
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When you select your Course room you will see the Welcome page for your course.
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Icons common to most courses:
• Start course / Course Units – shows a list of the course units. Click on a
unit to start the course or view a course unit.
• Forum – shows the discussion forums on the course.
• Room / Calendar & messages – shows messages and the course
calendar.
• Contact members – shows a list of people with access to the course and
the details they entered in their profiles.
• Assignment hand-in – stores assignments created by tutors and work
submitted by course participants.
• Activity log / Progress Tracker – provides details of participants’ activity
on the course and statistics relating to the work they have completed.
• Resources – these folders may be called Student resources, Shared
resources or Additional resources and are for tutors to share documents with
participants. The Classroom resources folder is for tutors to store documents.
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• Click on Browse to choose a file from your computer.
• The file name and the title of the document will be copied from your
computer. You can add a description of the attached document.
• Make sure that the box next to Open in a new window is ticked.
• Scroll down and click on Save to save the file to the resource folder.
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Give the folder a title. You can add a description of the folder, but this is optional.
• Scroll down and click on Save.
Your sub-folder will now be added to the list in the main resource folder you chose.
• Click on Browse and choose the file you want to upload from your
computer. The file name and title will be filled in automatically. You can add a
description, but this is optional.
• Click on Save and your documents will be added.
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5.3 Customising resource folder access
You can customise your folders so that they can only be seen by specific participants.
• Choose the resource folder you want to customise. Don’t open the folder.
• Click on the arrow to the left of the name of the folder you want to
customise.
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After you open the Customise access menu, you can choose to allocate access to a
resource folder by selecting either the Select by room access option or the Select
from participant list option. The Select by room access option allows you to choose
whether only teachers can have access or whether teachers, guests and students can
have access. The Select from participant list option allows you to choose from a list
of all course participants, groups and individual users. See below for instructions on
how to use both options.
• Click on Save. Customised will appear in brackets next to the name of the
folder in the list on the resource folder page.
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• Select which participants should have access to the resource folder by
clicking on the box next to the group or individual name.
• Click on Save. Customised will appear in brackets next to the name of the
resource folder in the list on the resource folder page.
• When you select Delete, a text box appears asking you to confirm that you
want to delete the folder or document.
• When you select Copy or Move, a new page appears asking you to choose
access rights and to decide which location you want to move or copy the folder
or document to. (You will need to have created another folder to move the
resources into.) Note: documents can only be moved between sub-folders.
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• Click on View.
• The default settings allow you to view tasks participants have completed –
listed under Tests/Courses – and the work participants have submitted – listed
under Assignment Hand-in.
• To increase the amount of information you see, tick the relevant boxes next
to the options listed next to View statistics then click on View.
You can now view all of the participants’ activity including documents they have read,
forums they have read and contributed to – listed under Activity.
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To view a demonstration, go to the following:
View statistics of files
http://fronter.com/courses/video/07_activity/070_020_activity.htm
View statistics of activity in rooms
http://fronter.com/courses/video/07_activity/070_030_activity.htm
• In the Hand-in – Create Folder page that appears, add a title for your
folder. You can also add a description, but this is optional.
• Before saving, customise your folder by adding opening hours,
notifications and customising access (see section 7.2).
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To view a demonstration, go to:
http://fronter.com/courses/video/02_hand-in/020_020_hand-in.htm
• Fill in a time and select a date in the Notification boxes. When you do this,
participants will receive a notification on their Today page when they log into
the course (this only applies if they have opted to receive notifications on their
Today page).
• Click on Save to move into the new Hand-in folder or continue to the next
point to customise access.
You can select which participants have access to your new folder by using the
customise access feature. You may like to do this if you have certain students
resubmitting their assignment, for example.
• In the Hand-in – Create Folder page click on the arrow next to Customise
access.
• Click on Select by room access or Select from participant list.
• Select which participants should have access to the folder by choosing a
group from the drop-down box on Select by room access or by clicking on the
box next to the group or individual name in the Select from participant list.
• Click on Save to move into the new Hand-in folder
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7.3 Uploading tasks to a Hand-in folder
From your new hand-in folder you can upload tasks for students to complete. You can
also see a list of participants who can view the folder and details of tasks participants
have completed.
• Click on Upload task to upload the task(s) you want participants to do.
• In the Hand-in – Upload task page that appears click on Browse and
choose the document(s) from your computer that you want to add to your new
Hand-in folder. The file name and the title of the document will be copied
automatically into the File name and Title sections of the Hand-in folder. You can
add a description of the attached document, but this is optional.
• Scroll down and click on Save.
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When participants open the folder they will not be able to see the details of any other
users.
• To upload work, participants choose Upload file from the options on the top
right of the screen.
• Choose Single file upload.
When participants click on Save they see the submitted assignment in the folder and
they can see the status of the assignment (marked or not marked).
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• To read and make comments click on the down arrow next to the student’s
assignment title. Select Comment from the drop-down box and you will move on
to the Hand-in – Comment page.
• On the Hand-in – Comment page click on the assignment title to open the
assignment and make comments directly onto the assignment. Fronter will
prompt you to download OES software in order for you to use this feature. Follow
the instructions provided to open up the document.
• When you have finished commenting, Save the document. The
assignment with your comments will appear on the Hand-in – Comment page.
• You can add comments in the Comment box, give the participants a Grade
(optional) for the assignment and an Evaluation. The Evaluation will show as a
symbol next to the student’s assignment in the Hand-in folder.
• Click on Save to save your comments.
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On the Hand-in – Comment page that appears participants can open and read the
commented version of the assignment and look at the tutor’s comments and the grade
awarded.
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8. Messages
8.1 Adding a message
It is possible for the tutor to send a message to all the participants on the course.
Messages you write will appear on the Calendar & messages page and on
participants’ Today page. To add a message:
• Click on the Calendar & messages icon.
• Click on New message.
Your message will appear in the messages section in Calendar & messages and on
the Today page of course participants. N.B. Students will need to have customised
their Today page to have Messages visible.
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To view a demonstration, go to:
http://fronter.com/courses/video/04_communicate/040_040_communicate.htm
9. Forums
9.1 Starting a forum
• Click on the Forum icon to enter the Forum page.
• Choose Forum from the options on the top right of the screen.
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9.2 Reading forum posts
• On the Welcome page click on the Forum icon to enter the Forum page.
Click on the Forum you want to read. You will move to the page with the forum posts.
• The first forum post for this discussion thread will appear and below it the
forum title will be listed. To read other contributions to this discussion click on the
cross next to the forum title and other contributions will appear.
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9.3 Contributing to a forum
• On the Welcome page click on the Forum icon to enter the Forum page.
• Click on the Forum you want to contribute to.
• Click on Reply on the right below the message to respond to this message
or you can click on New contribution.
• When you have written your post, scroll down and click on Save.
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