Personal Trainer 3.0

Getting Started Guide

Below are steps for performing the most common functions in Personal Trainer 3.0.

Add a New Course (Step 1)

  1. Click on “Manage Course” and Continue
  2. Click on “Add New Course” button
  3. Complete information
  4. Click “Submit”
  5. On the next screen, you will see a unique “Course Key” has been generated for the students in that section. Please provide that number to the students in that section. They will need this number during their registration process. It will automatically register them into your gradebook.
  6. Repeat steps 2-5 for additional sections.

Assigning Homework (Step 2)

  1. From the “Course List” page within “Manage Course”…
  2. Click the “ASGN” icon for the section you wish to assign homework
  3. Click the “EDIT” icon for the chapter you wish to assign homework.
  4. Set the status for each activity from the text: Required, Optional, or Excluded.
  5. Click on “hint” to add your own hint to the activity (Optional)
  6. At the top, set the date and time for recording grades on these activities (Optional)

Recording Grades

  1. From the “Course List” page within “Manage Courses”…
  2. Click on “ASGN” icon
  3. Click on “CAMERA” icon to the right of the chapter you wish to record grades
  4. Complete information: either record now or set a future time to record grades

Viewing What Students Will See

  1. From the “Course List” page within “Manage Courses”…
  2. Click on the “Student Head” icon to the right of the course you wish to view the student view

Viewing Grades

  1. From the “Course List” page within “Manage Courses”…
  2. Click “GBK” icon to the left of the course you wish to view grades…
  3. You will see the whole course level grades
  4. You can either: Select a chapter (pull down menu) to view chapter grades or click on a student to view individual student work
  5. Within chapter grades, you can select a student to view individual student work
  6. Next you will see all grades on each chapter for that individual student
  7. Click on any chapter
  8. Next you will see grades for each attempt on each activity within that chapter
  9. Click on any graded attempt to view the student’s individual answer on that attempt.

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