K-State Online
Overview
K-State Online is the course management system for Kansas State University and serves faculty, staff, advisors, researchers, and students. It's generic version titled Axio Learning was released in 2005 at the request of several institutions wanting a system similar to K-State Online.
K-State Online is popular with both distance education and traditional face-to-face teaching and learning.
Features
- Course Statistics (coming August 2007)
- Attendance (coming August 2007)
- Assignment and Content Gating (coming August 07)
- Advising Tools - real-time Degree Auditing Report System (DARS) connection and a reformatted DARS report specified by the Advising Users Group. Student ID photos and selected SIS data is also available to advisors with this system.
- Gradebook
- Student Groups
- Announcements
- File Drop Box
- File Management
- E-mail Instructor
- Profiles
- Calendar
- Message Board
- Archives
- Chat Room & Whiteboard
- Online Assignments
- Horizon Wimba
- Tegrity
Access
Visit https://online.ksu.edu. If you have not been an instructor in K-State Online before, you will need to contact the IT Help Desk and request access. To sign in, use your eID and password.
Training
- Video tutorials
- Online courses
- Instructor-lead courses available through iTAC
- Request training
- Course Tour
- Quick Ref Guides
- Creating a Course (pdf)
- Creating an Advising Space (pdf)
- Creating Manual Assignments (pdf)
- Creating Online Assignments (pdf)
- Creating Scantron Assignments (pdf)
- Using the Scantron Scanner (pdf)
- Using the Gradebook (pdf)
- Managing Your Files (pdf)
- Managing Attendance (pdf)
- Reusing Your Course Each Semester (pdf)
- User Roles (pdf)
- Defining a Grading Scale (pdf)
- FAQs
- Readiness test
Axio Survey
Overview
Axio Survey is an easy-to-use, flexible web-based survey creation tool, which is designed to poll, assess, report and analyze participant's thoughts, feelings and opinions.
Features
- Import and survey your K-State Online course roster
- Many questions types: scale, multiple choice, ranking, semantic differential and short answer
- Distribute surveys by e-mail or website address
- Anonymous responses
- Comprehensive and exportable reports
- Conditional branching
- Share your surveys with other users
- Include images with questions
- HTML editor for all text boxes
- Dedicated secure web server to host surveys
Access
click the Axio Survey link on the Course Tools page within K-State Online, or go to https://online.ksu.edu/Survey/. If you have not accessed Axio Survey before, you may need to contact the IT Help Desk and request access. To sign in, use your eID and password.
Training
See the Axio Survey Get Started Guide. To request training, complete the registration form.
Online TEVAL
Overview
The TEVAL Student Rating System and Reports are facilitated by the Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning Kansas State University. The TEVAL System is available in paper and electronic format.
The TEVAL System is unique to K-State and is intended to provide an indicator of students' impressions of instructor effectiveness in teaching a given class. It may also provide some clues as to your students views of specific teaching practices. TEVAL Reports are confidential. To facilitate a more accurate interpretation of the results, the TEVAL Report also summarizes some information that you may have provided about your students and your teaching context when you complete the TEVAL Faculty Information Form.
When using the electronic version, the individual faculty member is solely responsible for creating the Online TEVAL. This system is fully integrated with K-State Online, and only those listed as a primary instructor can survey their course. The system will generate an e-mail to each student in the course with a link to the actual evaluation.
Source: Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning
Training
An online tutorial is available to the public and will introduce you to the Online TEVAL. Using the tutorial may help you decide whether to use the electronic version or the paper version.
Access
Click the Online TEVAL link on the Course Tools page within K-State Online, or go to https://teval.ksu.edu/Teval/.
Electronic Grade Submission system resources
Overview
Requested by faculty, the Electronic Grade Submission system easily imports grades from K-State Online that can then be submitted directly to the Registrar's Office at Kansas State University. Instructors also can manually enter grades.
The Electronic Grade Submission was designed to mimic and streamline the existing paper grade submission process. Electronic Grade Submission was pilot tested with a group of selected faculty in Fall 2005 and made available as an option to all university faculty in Spring 2006.
Electronic Grade Submission is a joint project of the Registrar's Office, Information System's Office (ISO), Computing and Telecommunication Services (CTS), Information Technology Assistance Center (iTAC), and the Office of Mediated Education.
Training
To access the Electronic Grade Submission system, faculty are required to complete training. The training is offered each semester by iTAC about a month before the Electronic Grade Submission system becomes available. Faculty are only required to complete training once, and not every semester.
Access
Click the Electronic Grade Submission link on the Course Tools page within K-State Online, or go to https://online.ksu.edu/EGS/.