Popular Tips Miscellaneous

View Your Class Roll
Set the Number of Items You See on a Page
Add/Remove a Tool on the Toolbar
Edit a File in File Manager
Upload a Large File into Your Course

View Your Class Roll

1. TEACH tab
2. Grade Book

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Set the Number of Items You See on a Page

If you put all items on a single page (your Grade Book, for example), you won't have to move from one page to another to view the entire list.

• Click on EDIT PAGING
• an Edit Paging options window will open
• Type 99 and click SAVE

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Add/Remove a Tool on the Toolbar

1. BUILD Tab
2. You can see two headings near the top left of your screen
   Add to Course Toolbar (shows tools you can add)
   Course Toolbar (shows tools already in toolbar)
3. To add a tool: beside heading Add to Course Toolbar just click on the tool you want to add.
4. To remove a tool: beside heading Course Toolbar just click on the tool you want to remove.

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Edit a File in File Manager

1. BUILD tab
2. File Manager (at top right of your screen)
3. All of your course files are in a folder titled COURSE___xxxxxxxxx.
   Click on this.
4. Click on the folder titled my_files
5. Find the file you want to edit
6. Under the ACTIONS column, click on the pencil icon (if you don't see the pencil icon click on the break link icon beside the X (delete icon). A window will ask if you are sure you want to break the link. Click OK.
   NOTE: if you are working in a template and break the link, the changes you make in the file will not be duplicated in any section the template is associated with.
7. You will now see the pencil icon. Click on this and your file will be displayed for editing.

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Upload a Large File into Your Course

Vista has a 5MB limit on the file size you can upload into your course. Files with a lot of images or PowerPoint slides might be larger than this. Here are two ways you can bypass this 5MB limit.

Option 1:
In the Choose Files dialog box below (Image 1), click on the Upload File button in the lower right corner.

Image 1

This will bring you to the screen below (Image 2). Here, you can browse for the large file on your computer and upload it into the course.

Image 2

Option 2:
You can also bypass the file size limitation by using a process called WebDAV. This process allows you to easily move files from your computer to your Vista course. Please click here for complete instructions:

Using WebDav

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