Center for Online Learning
Vista - Tutorials (Faculty)
Basic functional tutorials on using Vista - grouped by component to maximize the level of navigation and to perfectly suite your needs.
Tutorial legend:
- PDF: This means that you will be able to view the static tutorial using Adobe Reader. You can print the document for future reference.
- Flash: This means that you will be able to view the interactive tutorial using Adobe Flash Player. You will be prompted to participate in these no-audio walkthroughs.
- HTML: This means that the tutorial is simply another webpage on our site.
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Instructor Reference Manual | The official (and very comprehensive) Vista Instructor/Designer Manual (.pdf) | |
| Vista Best Practices | A holistic, pedagogical look at using the tool effectively | HTML |
Discussions
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Building Discussions | This tutorial will simply show you how to create and manage discussion topics. | PDF | Flash |
| Manage Discussions | This tutorial will show you how to move, delete and manage topics. | Flash |
| Grade Discussions | This tutorial will show you how to grade discussions. | Flash |
| View and create discussions | This will show you how to use the discussion tool to view and post messages. (Students can view this too!) | Flash |
| Discussions Best Practices | Explore the pedagogical standards for implementing discussions in your course | HTML |
Assignments
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Building Assignments | This tutorial will simply show you how to create assignments. | PDF | Flash |
| Assign Assignments | This specific tutorial will show you how to actually assign assignments once they are created. | Flash |
| Assignment Dropbox | This tutorial will show you how to view assignment submissions and manage them via the dropbox. | |
| Assignment Best Practices | Explore the pedagogical standards for implementing discussions in your course | HTML |
Assessments
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Building Assessments | This tutorial will simply show you how to create assessments. | PDF | Flash |
| Creating Assessment Questions | This specific tutorial will show you how to create questions. | Flash |
| Edit Assessment Settings | This tutorial will show you how to change release dates, duration and more. | Flash |
| Assessment Manager | This tutorial will show you how to manage submissions, grade and view attempts. | |
| Grade Quiz Questions | This tutorial will show you how to manually grade quiz questions. | Flash |
| Questions Database | This specfic tutorial will show you how to manipulate questions with the questions database. | Flash |
| E-Cheating Guide | This guide lists some specific tips for deterring (nor preventing) cheating. | HTML |
| Assessment Best Practices | Explore the pedagogical standards for implementing discussions in your course | HTML |
| Preventing Quiz Printing | Although not fool-proof, this tutorial does describe how to disable the right-click mouse button during a quiz. | HTML |
| Moving Assessments | This tutorial will show you how to move an assessment from one section to another. |
Learning Module
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Building Learning Modules | This tutorial will simply show you how to create learning modules. | PDF | Flash |
| Customizing the Action Menu | This specific tutorial will show you how to modify the Learning Module Action menu. | Flash |
| Learning Module Best Practices | Explore the pedagogical standards for implementing learning modules in your course. | HTML |
Grade Book
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Managing the Grade Book | This tutorial will simply show you how to manage the Grade Book. | PDF | Flash |
| Create Grade Book Columns | This tutorial will show you how to create Grade Book columns, and present a description of each. | Flash |
| Edit Grade Book Columns | This tutorial will show you how to edit Grade Book columns, including why you cannot always delete a column. | Flash |
| Enter Grades | This tutorial will show you how to manually enter grades into a column. | Flash |
| Dropping the lowest Quiz grade | This tutorial will show you how to create a column that drops the lowest quiz grade. | HTML |
| Adding students manually | This tutorial will show you how to add individual students to your course. | |
Group Manager
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Creating Groups | This tutorial will show you how to manage groups. | PDF | Flash |
"Look 'N' Feel"
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Modify Icon Themes | This tutorial will show you how to implement a new icon theme specifically designed by GSU students. | HTML |
| Customizing the Look | This tutorial will show you several ways to modify the look of your course to meet your needs. | Flash |
| Modify Course Toolbar | This tutorial will show you how to modify the course toolbar for students. | Flash |
| Add/Edit headers and footers | This tutorial will show you how to create and modify headers and footers in your course. | Flash |
Other / Misc.
| Tutorial | Description | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Adding News Feeds (RSS) to your Course | This tutorial will show you how to add a dynamic news feed from the web to your course. (Advanced) | HTML |
| Attendance Verification with Vista | This tutorial will show you how to verify attendance of students in your course. | |
| Modify Course Toolbar | This tutorial will show you how to modify the course toolbar for students. | Flash |
| Using Selective Release | This tutorial will show you how to use selective release to hide/show content dynamically. | |
| Breaking Links | If you are using the Online Course Design Template, you'll need to follow this tutorial in order to edit content files |
Third Party Tools
Online Course Software - Please visit our online course software page for additional tools.
Vista and Galileo - These library provided tutorials will aid you in integrating Vista with Galileo. (this link will open a new window)