Basic Guide to e-Learning Platform (Student)

Basic guide in managing course for student in e-Learning platform

Introduction

Introduction

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Our e-learning platform has been designed responsively so you can access our e-Learning platform through https://epembelajaran.umt.edu.my on your phone or tablet as well as laptop or desktop

Introduction

Update your preference

has a number of features and functions to keep you up-to-date with activity on your modules. You can manage these notifications from your Preferences page.

  1. You access the User menu from the top right of any Moodle page by selecting the drop-down arrow next to your Profile picture

 

 user menu opened and Preferences highlighted

2. Select Preferences.

Now you can set the following:

  • Preferred language: Set a language for the Moodle interface. Changing your preferred language will only affect the Moodle interface and not the actual module content.
  • Calendar preferences: Set how the Moodle Calendar displays.
  • Message preferences: Stop non-contacts from messaging you and manage your notifications for Moodle messages.
  • Notification preferences: Manage notifications from activities and updates across your Moodle modules. Some options are locked, e.g. assignment notifications.
  • Forum preferences: Set up an email digest from the Moodle forums, more on this below.
Forum

Forums are used on Moodle to enable online discussion and collaboration and to keep you to date with changes and key updates to your modules. When users are subscribed to a Forum they receive an email copy of posts to their City email.

While this is great feature to keep you up-to-date with module discussions, some students can be overwhelmed by receiving lots of email posts.

Students can set-up a daily digest for forum posts. This means that Forum posts will be collated into one email that is received at the end of each day.

Set up Forum digest
  1. You access the User menu from the top right of any Moodle page by selecting the drop-down arrow next to your Profile picture
  2. Select Preferences.
  3. On the page that opens, select Forum preferences.
  4. Open the Email digest type menu, select Complete (daily email with full posts) or Subjects (daily email with subjects only)
  5. Scroll to end of page and Save changes.

Forum digest preferences

Online Quiz Proctoring and Safe Exam Browser

Online Quiz Proctoring and Safe Exam Browser

Online Quiz Proctoring and Safe Exam Browser Requirement

General device requirements for online assessment

Types of supervised online quizzes that can be conducted in UMT

1.    Using Safe Exam Browser (SEB) – UMT in-house system

Hardware Type

Laptop or Desktop

Operating System

Windows and MacOS

RAM

4GB

Internet Connection

1MBps

2.    Online Quiz Proctoring – UMT in-house system 

Online Quiz Proctoring recommended minimum requirement.

Hardware Type

Laptop or Desktop

Operating System

Windows and MacOS

RAM

4GB

Internet Connection

1MBps

Webcam

External or Integrated webcam

Browser

Google Chrome 

Microphone

External or Integrated microphone

3.    ULearn Proctoring – External vendor system

Ulearn Proctoring recommended minimum requirement.

Hardware Type

Laptop or Desktop

Operating System

Windows and MacOS

RAM

4GB

Internet Connection

1MBps

Webcam

External or Integrated webcam

Browser

Google Chrome 

Microphone

External or Integrated microphone

 

4.    Computer Lab / In-Class Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Supervised Online Quiz

In the Computer Lab, students can use the computer provided in the computer lab. For the student who is using their laptop devices, please ensure the device power is connected to the power source or has a minimum recommended device battery life and a stable internet connection before starting the online quiz.

Hardware Type

Laptop, Desktop, Chromebook, iPad, Tablet

Operating System

Windows, MacOS, Apple, Android

RAM

4GB

Internet Connection

1MBps

Browser

Google Chrome

Device battery life

8 hours under normal use

Online Quiz Proctoring and Safe Exam Browser

Prepare your device for Safe Exam Browser

To avoid problems during your quiz online using a safe exam browser, you may need to change the sleep and region settings

Windows

Sleep settings

  1. Click the Start menu, then search for Power & sleep settings.
  2. Under On battery power, turn off after, select 1 hour.

Region settings

If you have a Windows laptop, set your region to the location where you’ll be sitting your online quiz

  1. Click the Start menu, then search for Region settings.
  2. Under Country or region, select the location.

 

macOS
  1. Click the Apple icon > System Preferences > Energy Saver > Battery.
  2. Turn off Enable Power Nap while on battery power.
  3. Under Turn display off after, select 1 hour.
Online Quiz Proctoring and Safe Exam Browser

Install Safe Exam Browser (Once for each devices)

Devices you can't use with Safe Exam Browser

Safe Exam Browser can’t be installed on the following devices:

Antivirus software

Some antivirus software may not allow Safe Exam Browser to lock down the computer.

Incompatible software

The following antivirus software will need to be temporarily disabled or uninstalled when using Safe Exam Browser:

Compatible software

For a list of compatible antivirus software, see the Safe Exam Browser FAQ.

You only need to download and install the latest version of Safe Exam Browser for your device once for each device:

Online Quiz Proctoring and Safe Exam Browser

Starting the Quiz using Safe Exam Browser (Each time want to start the quiz)

You only need to install Safe Exam Browser once, but you also need to follow the instruction below each time you are going to sit for online quiz that uses Safe Exam Browser

Step 1:

Open the quiz web page in Google Chrome and close down any other open applications on your device.

Step 2:

Click on the download configuration

Step 3:

Once you download configuration file, double-click the configuration file to open

Step 4:

Safe Exam Browser will be automatically launched.

Step 5:

Click at login using MyNemo ID, insert username and password

Step 6:

Safe exam browser will automatically open your exam according to the configuration file setting that you have downloaded.