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Welcome to the Ecto Help starting point!

First some basics:

Ecto is a hosted networked Personal Learning Environment (nPLE) that is focused on the student and is fully collaborative, where the learning content can be user-created, user-rated, shared and open.

What does this mean? Perhaps the links below will provide some answers:

Ecto 101

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Now for some actual functional help!

We are assuming that you have signed up and created your account. If you have not, don't be shy, it's free and it takes about 1 minute to complete the setup process. Just click on the big green button below:

Ecto Navigation Basics

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Three steps to Getting Started

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Ecto Glossary

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General Ecto help Links

Ecto Navigation Basics

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Three steps to Getting Started

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Ecto Glossary

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Creating an Account

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Creating your Ecto Identity

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Here are some links that will help you create - share - learn

Setting up a Course (Group)

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What are Content Pages?

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Types of Learning Items (Content Types)

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The Ecto Clipboard

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Creating Content Pages and Assignments

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Collaborate by Making Subgroups

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Collaborate by Making Joint Groups

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Teacher Administrative Features

Ecto allows you to automatically grade multichoice questions and flashcards. Grading of other types of learning items must be done by the group owner but doing it in Ecto can make it easier. If you are organizing and administering your entire course in Ecto, you will also want to take advantage of Ecto’s gradebook, attendance, visit tracking, and roster management features.

How to use the Gradebook

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Gradebook Navigation

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How to use Attendance Tracking

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Below is a Quick Start Guide and three links that we think will help in getting you familiar with Ecto and on your way to teach, learn or both.

Ecto Quick Start Guide.doc (32KB)

Simple steps to get started!

Ecto Help Home

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Welcome to the Ecto Help starting point!