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Class List
The Classlist provides you and your students with a list of students currently enrolled in your course. Names and roles of participants are listed here, and various tools available in the class list allow interactions with class members. Instructors can easily email and/or page course participants.

Discussions
The Discussions tool is an asynchronous online forum where students can participate in discussions that you have made available. Students compose and and reply to postings in a threaded format. They can also attach files to their postings, making the Discussions tool an excellent place for students to collaborate on group projects or complete peer reviews.

Examples of how the Discussions tool can be used are listed below:


 * Answer commonly asked questions
 * Share and/or comment on files
 * Post questions, problem sets and/or answers
 * Group communication

To access Discussions from your course home page, click the Discussions link in the course navigation bar located near the top of the screen. The Forums and Topics List will open and has six icons that run along the top of the screen: Forums and Topics List, New Forum, New Topic, Copy, Re-Order, and Delete.

Dropbox
The Dropbox provides a convenient way for students to electronically submit individual and group assignments and is a great way to have a paperless or nearly paperless course. You can provide feedback, assign grades, and return submissions with track changes all from a single location.

To access the Dropbox tool from your Course Home page, click the Dropbox link on the course navigation bar located near the top of the screen. The Dropbox Folder List will open and has five icons that run along the top of the screen: Folder List, New Folder, Re-Order, Delete, and Preview.

Quiz
The Quizzes tool allows you to create a variety of assessments for your students. While labeled Quizzes, this tool can be used for exams, surveys, self assessments, and/or homework assignments. The Quizzes tool can be used to create the following types of questions: multiple-choice, true/false, arithmetic (including specifying ranges of numbers with significant figures), fill-in-the-blank, multi-select, matching, ordering, and long and short answers. Many of these questions can be graded automatically and then automatically entered into the Grades tool. Quizzes can be released conditionally based on date and time.