e-class
User Manualv11 (Sep. 2024)

Table of contents

Welcome to e-class!
Before using e-class
Login to e-class
Logout from e-class

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Joining in courses

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About Course selection

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Changing account information

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Taking Lessons
About Material List
Checking Notices
Communicating by Message

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Sending message

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Sending attendance data

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Doing study assignments
About Communication Tools
Post to BBS
Creating pages in Wiki
Chat conversation
About Textbook
About Exercise/Report/Question

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Doing Test
Submitting report

Students evaluate paper mutually

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Recording your learning
About Study Card
Editing Study Card

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Checking course scores

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About Course scores

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Analyzing scores for every category of questions

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Checking detailed Test result

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Checking your essays

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Task Viewer

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Section: Welcome to e-class!

Checking all scores, access count and time2

Welcome to e-class!

e-class is designed to be easy to operate even those unfamiliar with PC’s. Therefore,
users can focus on the lecture. You can learn with e-class in home through OS, such as
Windows, Macintosh, Linux and also through smartphones and tablets.

Before using e-class
In e-class, latest browsers and displays of resolution 1280 x 768 or higher are supported.
Please check whether environment required in order to use e-class first of all is ready. If
environment is ready, let's actually begin e-class.
Back, forward and close button of Browsers might break your session data,
answers and grade. You should move a page with e-class navigation.

Login to e-classThis section explains how to log in to e-class and display “Course selection” screen.
1 Log in with your user ID and password at Web Single Sign-on.
2 Click icon “e-class” to open “Course selection” screen.

Logout from e-class
Log out to end e-class. Click "Logout" link in “Course selection” screen or “Material List”
screen upper right side.
If you end by [close] button on the browser, the answers and course scores datain the assessment will not be saved correctly. Make sure to log off after saving
data or ending the session.

Section: Welcome to e-class!

If you have an e-class-specific user ID, please log in to e-class using the “login
URL” provided in the user ID notification.

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Joining in courses

To take e-class sessions, you must be registered as a member. In this section, check thecourse which can join in and explain how to register as a course member.

About Course selection
When you log in to e-class, “Course selection” screen is displayed as shown in the figure
below. In this screen, you can view information such as available courses and notification.

Notice / Message
Account Menu
Logout
Notices from administrator

CourseManuals

Class Schedule Table

Other Courses

If you click the "Notice / Message" icon located at the upper right part of the screen, the“Notice / Message” screen will open. The number of unread notices / messages will beshown on the icon.

Table can change a display by specifying a year and a term with a pull-down menu. If
you have not answered an assessment material which have 1 week left before thedeadline, you will see "You have assignments due soon." of the course.

Section: Joining in courses

The course submitted by the Author will appear in the timetable. The Class Schedule4

This message appears only for LTI Tool Exercise/Report/Survey materials andnot displayed in documents or communication tools.
Courses that you are taking but do not appear in the timetable are displayed below thetimetable as “Other Courses”. You can use the course name to narrow down the search
for the listed courses
For any course indicated by (Locked Course), users can view the course scores
but cannot perform the materials.
To change your e-mail address, theme color, and character size, click "Account Menu" >"Setting Alteration".
By selecting either “Japanese” or “English” in the Account Menu, you can change thelanguage to use. You can also download manuals by selecting “Manuals” in the Account
Menu.

Changing account information
Click “Account Menu” > "Setting Alteration" to set the e-mail address to receive notices
or to change font size.
Setting
Student ID
Permission
User Name
Password
email address
Screen display

Description
You cannot change your Student ID.
You cannot change your Permission.
You cannot change your Username
You cannot change Student ID’s password. (Exclude e-class ID user)
You can receive notification to your e-mail address.
You can change theme color and font size.

Click [Update] button and re-login to apply the changed setting.

Change your mail address
When the feature is activated by the system administrator, notice mail is sent in following
cases.


When message is received

To confirm the report is submittedWhen your essay is asked resubmit

When Study Card’s message is updated

To refuse notice mail, leave the entry form of “email address” blank.
1 Input a mail address. When you specify more than one mail addresses, divide by a
2 It can be checked by "Send test mail to this address" whether it is an effective mailaddress.
3 Click the [Update] button.

Section: Joining in courses

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Taking Lessons

In e-class, lessons are carried out using the course material created for the course. Thissection explains information required by the user to take the lessons of the e-class.

About Material List
First, move to the course you wish to take. Click the course name in the “Course selection”
screen. To return to the “Course selection” screen, click either the “e-class” link locatedat the upper left of the screen, or select “Account Menu” > “Course selection”.
When you move to the course, the “Material List” screen will be displayed as shown
below. During lessons, the user will mainly use this screen to start various operations.

Course Material
My Reports
Course scores
Attendance
Other tools
CourseMaterial List

“My Reports” will display the list of the report submitted during the lessons. “Coursescores” will allow you to check the result of Exercise/Report/Question that have been
carried out during the lessons.
“Attendance” will allow you to send the attendance data at the beginning of the lesson orcheck the previous attendance data.

will allow you to keep your learning record and view it in the list. In “FAQ / Glossary”, you
can check frequently asked questions and meanings of keywords. However, it will not be
displayed when the course manager has not set the feature effective. In “Notebook”, you
can use about 50 KB of text data to keep memos.

Section: Taking Lessons

In “Other tools”, there are “Study Card”, “FAQ / Glossary”, and “Notebook”. “Study Card”

6Materials used in the session is displayed in “Material List”. In Communication Tools,
there is “Wiki” where everyone can create and edit web pages, “Chat” for online
conversation, and “BBS” to post question, an opinion, etc. By a Textbook, the slide for asession used by session and the inspection of a reference can be performed, and it canuse as a text at the time of preparation and review, or a session. LTI tools can be usedwith the use of educational materials and learning tools from other systems linked to thee-class.
In Exercise/Report/Question, you can submit a report, answer a quiz / questionnaire, andtake a periodic exam. A Class Number combines Communication Tools, Textbook, andExercise/Report/Question materials and you can work on it step by step. When you clicka material’s “Details”, you can check your history in details screen.
In Material List, the material which ended the attendance period or it had notreached at available time has a black material name, and cannot start material.
However, if the course name link at the upper left of screen is clicked when alecture cannot be taken, even if start time comes, the refresh of the page can be
carried out and material can be started.
In Assessment, following operations causes problems such as answer and scoredata not being recorded properly.
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Using [Back Space] key to return to the previous page / using [F5] key to reload/ directly closing the browser: Warning such as “Do you wish to move out of thispage? The data entered will not be saved” will appear.

Opening multiple materials at the same time; Warning such as “The system’s
session information is lost. Please do not start the course material while othermaterial is open, since it may cause an error” will appear.

JavaScript execution and cookies must be allowed. If the Lockdown Modefunction of Apple OS is enabled as a security measure, web technologies suchas communication related to web browsing are restricted. Therefore, operationof Webclass (e-class) with this function enabled cannot be guaranteed.

Section: Taking Lessons

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Checking Notices
Notice and message sent from the system manager and the Author regarding
administration or school affairs can be checked from the login screen, “Course selection”
screen or “Material List” screen.
Place your mouse pointer over the “Notice / Message” icon to show the list of unread
notice / message. Click the title of the unread notice / message to open it. Click the“Notice / Message” icon to open the “Notice / Message” screen.
To close the “Notice / Message” screen, click "Close this window" link in the upper rightof the screen.

Close this window.
prevback to list
next
Notice List

back to list

Section: Taking Lessons

8Communicating by Message
You can communicate messages with other users just as easily as doing so by using email software. Messages are downloadable.
You can also click the "Notice / Message" icon from the Course selection screen, butwhen sending a message, click the "Notice / Message" icon after entering the course toopen the new message creation screen or send / receive screen. It shows. To close themessage screen, click the "Close this window" link at the top right of the screen.

Close this window.
Create New
Inbox
Outbox
Trash[Delete] button[Mark as read] button[Download] button

To change the message status to read, click the “Notice / Message” icon and open thenotice / message from the list, or put a check mark in Inbox and click [Mark as read]. To
delete a message, put a check in the checkbox and click [Delete] button.

Section: Taking Lessons

9Sending message

Close this window
Create New[Send] button

Attachment
To
Subject
Message

1 Click “Create New” or “Reply” of the received message.
2 Fill in “To”, “Subject” and “Message”. When you don’t know the student ID to specify
the address, use “Select from User List” and you can specify the address easily.
Any student ID other than the course member cannot be specified as the address.
According to the options set up by the Author, the User List doesn’t display course
members have user permission.
Since the message is sent as text data, HTML tags cannot be used.
When a transmission error occurs by transferring mail to multiple destinations,mail transmission is interrupted.
3 You can also attach files.
File attachment capacity can be forwarded by email: up to 10MB. On the message:
Up to 300MB.
4 Finally click [Send] button.

Section: Taking Lessons

10Sending attendance data
Click “Attendance” in the menu, and the “Attendance” screen will be displayed. In thisscreen, you can send the attendance data and check the attendance situation. However,it will not be displayed if the Author has not enabled the function.
Class Meetings can be started and attendance data can be sent only during thetime of Attend and Late.

Attendance materials

1 Open a material and click [Start] button.
2 Select "Attend" and click [Send attendance data] button. When the result screen isdisplayed, confirm whether attendance data has been sent safely and click [Quit
Results] button to complete the attendance check.
3 To check your past attendance, look at the status column of the “Attendance” screen.
As you take sessions, check if your total attendance is more than the required
attendance.

Section: Taking Lessons

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Doing study assignments

In e-class, you will use Material such as Communication Tools, reference,
Exercise/Report/Question and Class Number. Among these, the material used during thesession will be listed in the “Material List” screen. The blue-highlighted material is readyto-use link. Please click the link and start your session.

About Communication Tools
Using Communication Tools such as BBS, Wiki or chat, you can exchange and share
information or discuss the lessons learned with another user to deepen yourunderstanding.
To end Communication Tools and return to the “Material List” screen, click [QuitCommunication Tools] button in the navigation of the upper left part of the screen.

Post to BBS
On BBS, you can post an article on a certain subject and reply can be made to the article.
BBS is suitable for discussion, exchanging opinion or asking question as well as sending
Notices concerning the course.

[Quit Communication Tools]
buttonTop[Post] button[Switch to Tree View] button

Search messages

You can post new theme by clicking the [Post] button. Be sure to input "Title" and"Message". Click "Edit / Delete" to edit and delete the item you have posted.

Section: Doing study assignments

Click a BBS material in the “Material List” screen, and the BBS Theme List will be shown.

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The e-mail address and URL in a message are displayed as a link. In addition, aHTML tag cannot be used.
You can use LaTeX. Please check "Open How to write the mathematicalexpression as LaTeX" on the post screen.
It may be garbled if languages other than special fonts, such as pictogram andsingle-byte katakana , Japanese, or English are used.
In parts of the Android and iOS 5-, you can’t upload files. In iOS 6+ you can upload
only image files. Also, you can upload some files on iCloud Drive, DropBox,
Google Drive and OneDrive etc. in iOS 9+.

Viewing articles[Mark as read] button is displayed on the unread items. After reading an article, click the
button so that you can distinguish unread articles from read articles. If you wish to attach
a comment to any posted article, click “Reply to Message”.

Searching articles
As the number of posted articles increases, finding the article you wish to read will
become difficult. “Search Messages” can help you to find the article easily.

Creating pages in Wiki
In Wiki, course members jointly create a web page. You can easily edit the page without
knowledge of HTML.

[Quit Communication Tools] button

ReloadAttachPage list

The status of a page
Preview

Text area[Reset editing] button[Preview] button[Save] button[Cancel] button

Show Wiki Writing Help

2 Click [Edit] button and edit the page by referring to the description on how to write
Wiki page.

Section: Doing study assignments

1 Click a Wiki material in the “Material List” screen to start the Wiki material.

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If you use platform-dependent characters such as pictogram and single-bytekatakana or language other than Japanese and English, characters may turngarbled.
To create a new page, enclose the page name in brackets as “[[page name]]”.
Save the page, then you will be asked “Page name?”. Click “?” link and start
editing the newly created page.
3 Click [Preview] button to check whether the text was fixed as you intended. If there is
no problem, click [Save] button.
You can reset the change with [Reset editing] button before saving or previewing
it. Click [Cancel] button to go back to where the change was saved last time.
4 To attach a file to a page, click “Attach”. Pictures or link can be displayed in theattachment file page by using "#ref (file name).
With certain Android and iOS 5-, you can’t upload files. With iOS 6+, only image
files can be uploaded. With iOS 9+, you can upload files on iCloud Drive, DropBox,
Google Drive and OneDrive etc.

Chat conversation
In Chat, a short text can be exchanged in real time at two or more users so that it may
talk.

[Quit Communication Tools]
buttonGet more previous records

Update[Send] button[+] button

you enter message into the text box and click [Send] button, the sent message will be
displayed on the screen. Also, by clicking [+] button, you can open the posting box toattach files.

Section: Doing study assignments

Click a Chat material in the “Material List” screen and the Chat screen will open. When

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About Textbook
The course materials such as slide, text or reference material distributed in the session
can be viewed in the reference material.
When PDF file cannot be displayed correctly or cannot be printed using [Print]
button, click the link and reopen the file in another window, then try again.

[Quit Textbook] button[Bookmark] button[Print] button[Previous page] button[Next page] button[Bookmark] button[Print] button[Hide Contents] button
Table of contents
Attached materials

To move to another page, click [Previous page] button or [Next page] button or any button
assigned to each subheading in the Table of Material. When the Table of Material ishidden, please click [Show Materials] button.
If printing out the material is permitted, the page on display can be printed by clicking[Print] button. When the file is attached, it is displayed on a table of contents as "Material".
Click the link to download.
When you finish reading the reference material, please click [Quit Textbook] button. If
you end it half way, click [Bookmark] button so that you can view from the bookmarked
page when the “Material List” screen is reopened.
A bookmark can be saved for each course. When you start the course, you will be
asked whether to remove the bookmark. If you wish to continue, click [Remove
bookmark and continue] button.

Please take Exercise/Report/Question including multiple choice questions anddescription type questions, Test material and submit report and questionnaire. The
results will be marked and analyzed so that you can use it for your further study.
When PDF file cannot be displayed correctly or cannot be printed using [Print]
button, click the link and reopen the file in another window, then try again.

Section: Doing study assignments

About Exercise/Report/Question

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Doing Test
Information such as the maximum number of trials, the time limit or passing score will be
displayed in the start screen if applicable. Check these that before you start the test.
Answers are saved when you click each button and link including page movement.
In addition, reports and description type’s answers will be submitted
If you use platform-dependent characters such as pictogram and single-bytekatakana, or language other than Japanese and English, characters may turngarbled.
On Description style answer, space, tab characters and line feeds are counted ascharacters.
If the Author sets the character limit, you will not be able to answer, submit andclose in the case of not enough characters and too many.
Your answers or uploaded report file will be answered when clicking the page
move button, [Quit] / [Grade] button, or [Save answer] button. In addition, on thebrowser window is active, the session is automatically updated every minute.
In Hot Potatoes materials, please quit it after clicking [Check] button.

[Quit]/[Grade] button

Remaining time

Question

Question
numberAnswer[Previous page] button[Next page] button[Quit]/[Grade] button

1 Answer according to question form. Residual time is displayed when the time limit is
set up.
If both Available Period (Date & Time Restrictions) and Time Limit are set, users
will be forced to close at the time setting that reaches the deadline first.

3 After completing the answer, click [Quit] button.

Checking your score
In Test material, there is [Grade] button instead of [Quit] button on the answer screen.
After completing the answer, please click [Grade] button. Your course score, scoreallotted to each question, correct answer rate and interpretations will be displayed. For
details of test results, please refer to “Checking detailed Test result”P27.

Section: Doing study assignments

2 After answering each question, click [Next page] button and move to the next question.

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Checking results of the public survey
When the setting of the survey is public, you can check the results. Click "Details" link of
the survey material in the Material List, then click “show survey results” link of the “Menu”
tab .
If there is more than one answer;⚫

When “Revise answer” option is enabled: The last answer is counted.

⚫

When “Revise answer” option is disabled: All the answers are counted

Bar chart
Pie chart

Submitting report
Please submit your report file in the format (and the size) specified by the course
manager.
You can upload files by drag and drop.
If you are directed to re-submit your report file, you need to answer all thequestions again. Please check your answers and the teacher’s comments before
you start to rework your file
There is no limitation to the number of times you can submit the report unless theauthor has specified it.

[Quit] button

1 Check the notes about format, size etc. for the file to be submitted.
2 Select the file to submit and click [Submit file] button.
3 After you submit the file and complete the questions, click [Quit] button.

Section: Doing study assignments[Submit file] button

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Listing submitted reports by you
Click “My Reports”. Comments on your report, your course scores and the date ofsubmission will be listed according to the subject.

Students evaluate paper mutually
e-class has a feature called “Peer Review” in which students can evaluate reports andanswers of description-type questions submitted by other students. Author or TA canevaluate the reports. Since the user does not know whose report he/she is evaluating or
who is evaluating his/her report, evaluation can be done objectively.

After finishing the material, you can start “Peer Review”. After the deadline, youwill see “Evaluate other student’s essay” on the material list screen and “Evaluate
the member’s essay” on the material details screen. Both screens shows the samecontents.

Detailed answers
Question[Grade] button

The submitted file
Comment

A rubric/point

1 Select the material to carry out peer review. In the Details screen, there will be a linksaying "review other member's report". Click the link.
2 When the user clicks on the "Grade" button for an evaluation target, the scoring
screen appears..
3 Download the submitted file and check its material.
4 Input the comment and point to the report and click [Save] button.
Section: Doing study assignments

5 Evaluate reports of the rest of the members.

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Checking the result of “Peer Review” evaluation
To check how your report was evaluated, click the “My report comments” link in the
Details screen of the peer review material.

Review detail

Review comments

Review Date
Score

Score graph“Peer Review Summary (Average score: Summary Mode)” screen displays evaluatedscores, evaluated scores by each reviewer and evaluated scores in graph. You can click
the evaluated score to view the comment by the reviewer.

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Recording your learning
e-class has a feature called "Study Card" that can keep your activity records and notesor comments from teachers. Study card can be used to plan your study and future course
or to create your entry sheet and resume.

About Study Card
Click "Other tools" > "Study Card" to open the “Card list” screen. If there are Study Cardmaterials that have been created, it will be listed in the screen. Click the name of theStudy Card to view or edit.

Editing Study Card
As shown in the figure below, user’s profile, comment and course-score data aredisplayed in the list. After editing required items, click [Save] button to save in the Study
Card.
Close this window.
Study Card Name

The input column
which can beedited[Show all message] button[Save] button

The items marked as "Personal data" can be viewed and edited only by the person
who entered the data.
If there is a mail server, whenever there is an update in descriptive item such as“Question” of students or “Message” of the administrator, a notice of update will
be automatically sent to the e-mail address registered by the user of theinformation”.
If you use platform-dependent characters such as pictogram and single-bytekatakana or language other than Japanese and English, characters may turngarbled.
With certain Android and iOS 5-, you can’t upload files. With iOS 6+, only image
files can be uploaded. With iOS 9+, you can upload files on iCloud Drive, DropBox,
Google Drive and OneDrive etc.

Section: Recording your learning

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Checking course scores

You can check the Exercise/Report/Question result at any time, provided the result is
open to users. You can view your scores in a list or view detailed score and description
according to the course material, which will be useful in understanding your strength andweakness. You can also check the progress of your course study.

About Course scores
Menu “Couse scores” has "Summary", "Grades by Category Table" and "Test Results”.
Click items in the menu to open each screen.

Checking all scores, access count and time
You can view your all assessment scores, access count and total time listed according
to each material. Click "Course scores" > "Summary" in the “Material List” and open theSummary screen.

[Average Score] button[Max Score] button[Min Score] button[Sum Score] button[Number of Access] button[Total Time] button
Period[Reload] button

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If you want to check Score, click [Avg. Score] button, [Max Score] button, [Min Score]button or [Sum Score] button. If you want to check Progress, click [Number of Access]button or [Total Time] button. In addition, you can set Period as search condition.
When a score is lower than the border, it is displayed in the red.
Ungraded a report and a description type reply are also calculated as zero point.
Therefore, with the material containing the question style graded automatically,
the score except un-grading is displayed as "* 0" with the material of only a reportquestion and a description type question. A score is updated after rating.

Analyzing scores for every category of questions
If there are categories set for questions in Assessment materials, you can check yourstrong and weak categories in the “Grades by Category Table” screen. Click "Coursescores" > "Grades by Category Table" in the menu to show the “Grades by Category
Table” screen.

Target Period[Refresh] button

shown as a radar chart. Average score, lowers score, highest score, total score, andpercentage of correct answers of each category will be displayed as a table. You cannarrow down the period to show by specifying the target period.

Section: Checking course scores

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Checking detailed Test result
To check your results of Examination or Test materials including score, score allotment
and percentage score or to read description to each question, click "Course scores" >"Test Results" and open “Test Results” screen.

Enlarge explanation frame
Show bar graph
Score
The average, maximum,
minimum score
Allotted points
Percentage
Results and the score for every
question[Check] button

QuestionYour answer /correct answer
Answerexplanation

1 Check your results including score, score allotment, average score, highest/lowest
score and percentage score.
When PDF file cannot be displayed correctly or cannot be printed using [Print]
button, click the link and reopen the file in another window, then try again.

Close this window.

Your score

Number of
students

Score range

2 To check the score distribution, click “View bar graph”. A score graph takes thenumber along a vertical axis, and takes the score range along a horizontal axis, and"Close this window".
3 Correct answer is indicated by “Correct” and incorrect answer is indicated by“Incorrect”. Click [Check] button to check detailed description on the question. If you
need to enlarge the description box, click “Enlarge description box”.
4 After checking course score, click the Course’s name link located at the upper leftpart of the screen to return to the “Material List” screen.

Section: Checking course scoresa user's own score exists on a blue bar graph. In order to close a score graph, click

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Checking your essays
Click “My Reports” to view “My Reports” screen. In this screen, you can check youressays, your teacher's correction files and comments, and your grading results.

For report assignments whose grades are published, if “Results” is 1 or more points, itwill be displayed as “Correct”, and if “Results” is 0 point, it will be displayed as “Incorrect”.
If the answer is ungraded, "Point" is displayed as "--".
For report assignments whose grades are not published, “Results” and “Point” aredisplayed as “-”.

Task Viewer
You can see at a glance the status of tests, reports, and surveys for all courses you havetaken, as well as the scores you have obtained.
Scores will only be displayed for materials that are set to make their grades public.

You can download the list from “Download CSV”.
Click on the course name to move the list of teaching materials screen.
You can sort by clicking on the item name.

Section: Checking course scores

The display year can be changed.

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(c) 2012 DATA PACIFIC (JAPAN) LTD.
Forbid reprinting and reproducing some or all of the text, without obtaining permission inadvance.
The product names and corporate names which are written in the text are the trademarks
or registered trademarks of each company.
We received cooperation from Professor Kikuo TANAKA of Graduate School of Law and
Politics, Osaka University in development of the "peer review feature" which is a reportpeer assessment feature.
Improvement over the whole system, such as revision of terms used in the system andcorrespondence to SCORM1.2, LOM, etc., has been guided by The Center for Developing
e-Learning of The University of Electro-Communications.
We received cooperation from Information Media Center and FD / ICT Education Promotion
Room of Kanazawa University in the process of changing WebClass into a portal site, suchas the message feature, timetable display feature, etc.
Data storage and year management method enabling students to look back on their study
history has been guided by Tokyo Gakugei University.
We changed and used ELECOA Player (http://elecoa.ouj.ac.jp) which is a product of thejoint research by the Open University of Japan and the Faculty of Information ande-class screens may differ from the actual product because e-class is under development.
This manual is translated by machine translation system.

Section: Checking course scores

Computer Science of Chiba Institute of Technology in order to correspond to SCORM 2004.

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