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ISTU on the Digital Campus (ISTU/DC) (ISTU)

ISTU/DC System is an e-learning LMS (Learning Management System) that supports all courses offered at Tohoku University (university-wide education courses, specialized undergraduate courses, and graduate courses). ISTU is an e-learning LMS (Learning Management System) that supports all courses offered at Tohoku University (general education courses, specialized undergraduate courses, and graduate courses). It is also the platform for Tohoku University Internet School. ISTU is designed not only to support face-to-face classes but also to be used for online education. ISTU is designed not only to support face-to-face classes, but also to be used for online education, so it is equipped with various functions such as viewing various digital learning materials and sending/receiving report assignments. In this section, only some of the operations are explained, focusing on how to register learning materials.

Login to the ISTU System

Access the ISTU System page

Have a Tohoku University ID

Have an ISTU ID

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My Page

My Page Screen

① Common menu

②Announcements

③List of Classes/Courses

④Login Information

1	The logged in user will be displayed. Clicking on the icon will show you where you can change your language and personal information.
2	You can view a list of courses you are enrolled in.
3	You will receive notifications when new files, Quiz, assignments, etc. are added to the course you are participating in, and the number of unread items will be displayed in the upper right corner of the icon. The number of unread messages is displayed in the upper right corner of the icon.
4	When you receive a message, the number of messages you have read will be displayed in the upper right corner of the icon. You can view unread messages by clicking on them.
5	Log out from ISTU.

⑤Upcoming Events

⑥Overall notifications

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Additional Information: About "Courses" and "Materials"

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Preparing for the course

Course Home

1. The screen on which announcements and course materials are displayed for each course is called "Course Home.
   It is usually created automatically after the semester starts, based on data from the Student Affairs Information System.


2. Click on any course from the list of classes and courses.

   

3. You will be taken to the Course Home screen, where you can view announcements, course materials, etc. for the selected class.



1. Course name and instructor information and announcements
2. Course Home Menu

Course Info	Displays a list of participants.
Grades/Attendance	Management Displays the current learning history/offline attendance/grade book.
Messages	ou can send messages and emails to course participants.
Others	You can view course settings/group management/group members/question bank/course records/management of course criteria.

4. Learning Activities
   You can register assignments, Quiz, questionnaires, etc. and view registered learning materials by type.
5. Administration
   You can view the administration items of the screen you are viewing.
6. Course Outline
   Displays an overview of the course. Notices are automatically generated. You can register a variety of teaching materials.
7. Plenary Session
   Displays arbitrarily registered teaching materials.
8. Edit Mode Button
   To edit a course or add materials, click Turn editing on（編集モードの開始） button. When you are finished editing, click "Turn editing off（編集モードの終了）".

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   When in edit mode, an add button will appear in each section.

   

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Confirmation of Participant List

1. From the course home page, click "Participation List" under "Course Information.



2. You can check the list of participants. You can also get the participant list from the Excel download.

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Course Outline Registration

1. Click Turn editing on(編集モードの開始), then click the gear symbol.



2. Enter a summary; you can use the web editor to modify text, add images, etc. When you are done editing, click Save Changes（変更を保存す）.

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Register for notifications

1. Click on the announcement(お知らせ)



2. Click the Write button(書く).



3. Enter the title, content, etc., and click Save(保存).



Check "Yes(はい）" if you want to set the start and end date and time of the publication of the announcement.



• Please keep in mind that 「Send e-mail to all users（全ユーザーにメール送信）」 will send an email when you click on "Save", regardless of whether you have set Announcement start date or not.



4. The following is where the notifications are displayed.

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Teaching Materials

New Registration

1. To register learning materials, click Turn editing on (編集モードの開始) to enter edit mode.



2. Click the Add Learning Activity(学習活動を追加) button in the section where you want to add learning materials, and select the icon of the material you want to register.

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You can also add them from the "Learning Activities" block in the Course Home.

It can only be added to a created section of the whole lecture.

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To re-edit registered materials

1. Click Turn editing on (編集モードの開始)to enter edit mode.



2. Click the Edit (編集)button for the material or activity you want to edit, and select Edit Settings(設定を編集する).



3. When the editing screen of the selected material or activity is displayed, it can also be operated from the administration menu in the lower left corner.

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Delete registered materials

1. To register learning materials, click Turn editing on (編集モードの開始) to enter edit mode.



2. Click on the edit mark of the material you want to delete, and select Delete.



3. Click Yes.

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Hide it.

1. Click Turen editing on (編集モードの開始).



2. Click on the edit mark of the material you want to hide. Select Hide（非表示））.



3. The hidden materials will be grayed out.



4. The hidden materials will not be visible to others.

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 Default Board(掲示板)

1. Click Turn editing on (編集モードの開始) to enter edit mode.



2. Click the Add Learning Activity (学習活動を追加)button for any section.
3. Click on Default Board(掲示板).



4. Fill in the required information and click Save and Display(保存して表示する).

Example

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 File(ファイル)

1. General(一般)
   Enter a title and description for the file to be uploaded. If you want the description to appear on the course page, check the checkbox below the description field.
2. content(コンテンツ)
   Drag and drop files or click on the icon in the upper left corner and select the appropriate file.
   

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   Upload files from the top left icon

   

   

   Select the file.

   

   

   Click Upload this file(このファイルをアップロードする).

   

   After uploading, the icon in the upper left corner will change to Download.

   

3. Display settings(表示設定)
   
If you select "In popup" in the display settings, only the following extensions can be displayed in the browser. You can register other files, but they will be downloaded.
hwp, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, pdf

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 Folder(フォルダ)

Create a new folder and put the files in it.

1. Select a folder.



2. Fill in the required information, and when you are done, click "Save and return to course(保存してコースに戻る)".

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 URL URL Link Registration(リンク登録)

Register uploaded videos to Google Drive.

1. Go to Google Drive and get the link to the uploaded video, which will take you to Google Drive.
   
＜My page＞



＜Course Home＞



2. The link will give you access to GoogleDrive. Then get the link for the video.
   Tohoku University Online Class Guide
3. Enter the URL you retrieved and click "Save and return to course（保存してコースに戻る)".

For video files, you can use Panopto, a video platform.
Videos that have already been uploaded to "Panopto" can be called up from .
See the Panopto guide on using "External Tools".

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Setting Access Restrictions(アクセス制限の設定)

Decide the date of publication in the "Advanced settings for publication conditions(公開条件の詳細)" section.

1. Set up the students for the conditions.



2. Click the "Add more conditions...(条件を追加する…)" button to add more conditions and set the start/end dates of publication.

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Learning Activities

  Assignment（課題）

Assignments

1. Click on the assignment(課題）.



2. Set the name and submission period of the assignment.



■Do not set a "start date and time（開始日時)"

Assignments can be submitted as soon as they are created.

■Do not set the "end date and time(終了日時)"

No deadline for submission

■Do not set a "cutoff date(遮断日時)"

You can submit after the end date and time, but it will show that you submitted late.

■Set the shutdown date and time.

After the end date and time, submissions will be considered late, and at the cutoff date and time, no submissions will be allowed at all.

3. Set the grades.



4. Set the submission method.



5. Click on "Save and Display（保存して表示する）". The content of the assignment will be displayed.

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Assessments

1. To assess an assignment, select the corresponding assignment.





2. Check the status of your assignment submissions and click "View All Submissions(すべての提出を表示する)".



3. >Click on the Assess(評価) button to see the submitted work.



4. Make your grades, feedback comments, etc., and then click "Save Changes(変更を保存する)".



• If the "Notify students" is checked, a message will be sent to the students.
• Grades must be entered in half-width characters.
• You can also assign a "no grade" grade to students who have not yet submitted their assignment.
• If you want the grading method to be a scale, you need to do the grading scale in advance.

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Register feedback in bulk(フィードバック一括登録)

1. Select "Download all submissions(すべての提出をダウンロードする)" from "evaluation(評定操作)".



2. It will be downloaded in Zip format.



In the downloaded zip folder, you will find a folder for each student.
In addition, each folder contains files for submissions.



・　assignsubmission_file_（File submissions）
・　assignsubmission_onlinetext_（Online text/HTML file）



3. You can comment directly on the downloaded submission files, or put the separately prepared files for feedback, etc. into each student's "assignsubmission_file_" folder.
4. After the feedback process is complete, compress the file in Zip format.
5. In "評定操作", select "Upload multiple feedback files in a ZIP (複数フィードバックファイルをZIPでアップロードする)".



6. Drag and drop the Zip file you created. Click Import Feedback File(フィードバックファイルをインポートする)



7. A list of files will be displayed. If there are no problems, click Confirm(確認).



Once you upload a file with the same name, it will be overwritten.



8. Click "Continue(続ける)" when the results are displayed.
9. The uploaded files will be displayed in the "Feedback files(フィードバックファイル)" column for each student.

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1. Select "Download Report Return Folder（レポート返却用フォルダをダウンロードする）" from the evaluation(評定操作) menu.



2. Unzip the Zip folder for feedback. The rest of the steps are the same.

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 Quiz(小テスト)

1. Click on Quiz(小テスト).



2. All fields except "Name" are optional.Configure the necessary sections and click "Save and Display(保存して表示する)".



3. Click on the "Edit Quiz(小テストを編集する)" button.



4. Click "Show more(さらに表示する)" in the layout and choose a navigation method if necessary.







• Free(フリー)
You can do the quiz questions in any order you want. You can go back or skip a question.


• Do it in order(順次)
Solve the problems in order. Once you move on to the next problem, you cannot go back to the previous problem.



5. Click Add(追加) and select "New Problem(新しい問題)". If you want to add a problem that has already been created, select "From Problem Bank(問題バンクから）".



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The questions created by the new question will be saved in the question bank.。


6. Select the questions you want to create and click "Add(追加)".





7. When you create a new question, it will be saved in the question bank.

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The question bank (問題バンク)allows you to accumulate questions that you have created. If a faculty member has more than one course, they can also be reused across course boundaries.



Caution

Please note that if you switch to the student's screen in the student screen display and answer the questions, the results will be reflected in the student's screen.

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Editing after creation

Grading of Quiz

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 Questionnaire(アンケート)

1. Select a questionnaire.



2. Enter a name for the questionnaire. Enter a description, etc. if necessary, and click Save and Display(保存して表示する).



3. Click Add a questionnaire(アンケート項目の追加).



4. Select any question type from the pull-down menu and click Add selected question type(選択した質問タイプの追加).



5. Fill out the form, including the required fields, and click Save Changes(変更を保存する）.



6. If you want to add more questionnaire items, select the question type, add them, and repeat this process.

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Creating Branching Questions

1. Display the "Answer Options(回答オプション)" in the Questionnaire Creation screen. Select "Yes" for "Allow questions to branch(質問の分岐を許可する)". Click "Save and Display(保存して表示する)".



2. Create a "yes/no" question.



To create a branching question, enter any string in the "項目名" field. This will be selected in the second and subsequent questions, so make sure it is easy to understand.


3. Create a second question.



As in the first step, enter the "項目名" as desired. The name of the item that will be the source of the branch will be displayed, so select the part you want to branch to. Enter the other necessary information and click "Save changes(変更を保存する)".



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As you create more questions and branch out, the number of item names displayed in the "Top Questions(上位の質問）" section will increase, and you can select any item you want.

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Editing after creation

Type of questions

• Page Break [ページ区切り]
  Use as a page break
• Yes/No [はい・いいえ]
  Questions to be answered with yes or no
• Check Boxes [チェックボックス]
  Multiple answers can be selected.
• Dropedown Box[ドロップダウン式]
  Select an answer from the drop-down list.
• Radio Buttons[ラジオボタン式]
  Create a question with radio buttons.
• Label [ラベル]
  Descriptions and images can be added as labels.
• Numeric [数値形式]
  Make the answer a specific range of numbers.
• Date [日付]
  Have the user enter the year, month, and date.
• Rate (scale 1..5) [測定尺度（尺度1..5）]
  Format for assigning numbers to measurement targets
• Text Box[短文回答]/Essey Box[長文回答]
  It can be written freely within a range.

For checkboxes, dropdowns, etc.,
one line is one choice.
You can create multiple choices by making a new line.

Results of the questionnaire

1. Click on the questionnaire you want to analyze.



2. Click on View All Responses[全回答の閲覧].（If there is at least one respondent, the View All Responses link will appear.）



3. Click on View All Responses[全回答の閲覧] to view the results of the survey questionnaire.



4. Click Download in Text Format[テキストフォーマットでダウンロードする]Click to download the survey results in CSV or Excel format.

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 Choice(投票)

1. Select "Choice".



2. Enter the "Choice name".



3. Create a target for voting.



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Limit the number of responses allowed

If you set "Limit the number of connections allowed" to "Yes", you will be able to enter each option.



4. You can decide whether to release the voting results to the students. When you are done with the other necessary settings, click Save and display (保存して表示する).



5. The voting screen you have created will be displayed. If you want to edit it again, click "Edit settings (設定を編集する)" in the left menu.

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Contact Us

 Please call or email me if you need help with ISTU.

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