Absalon | Online og Blended Learning

Getting Started

Building a course in modules

Modules is a way to structure the content of your course in Absalon. With modules you can give your students an overview and easily organize all relevant content.

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Overview of Absalon: Video

Take a tour of Absalon and learn more about structuring your course, finding help and see some of the highlights.

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Absalon course start ‘Good to know and remember’

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How to find your old courses and add users to a completed course in Absalon

If you can no longer add people to your completed courses, it's because of Terms, which is Absalon's mechanism for time and access management. Read more about how Terms work, what the benefits are and how to reopen a completed course room.

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Online Collaboration tool in Absalon

Use the intergrated collaboration tools in Absalon

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Communication

Absalon has communication tools to promote conversations between you and the students or students to students. You can communicate to some or all of the participants in the room.

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Conferences

A video conference is a real time meeting or a lecture between people in different locations, supported by video and audio signals and possibly shared resources like a shared screen.

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Quizzes and surveys

Students can use quizzes to test their knowledge before lectures and exams. Teachers can use quizzes to uncover students level of knowledge and understanding at a certain point in time.

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Assignments

Assignments can be many things. Absalon supports written or multimedia assignments, different types of quizzes as well as online discussions and surveys.

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Files

How to manage files in Absalon

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Pages

Pages can be used to organize and display content - or you and your students can collaborate in pages like in a wiki.

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Large classes in Absalon

How to handle large classes with several teachers or instructors teaching smaller groups of students.

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Copying content in Absalon

How to copy/import content in your course(s)

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Groups

Learn about Groups in Absalon and how to create different groups throughout your course.

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Commons

Find content through the Commons function and get inspiration for your own course; and share your own courses with colleagues.

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Course Navigation Menu

You can re-organize the course menu and hide menu items to guide the students through the course.

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App for Canvas

Absalon is based on the learning platform Canvas. Canvas has two apps for Android and iOS where you can access your courses in Absalon, the apps are 'Canvas Student' and 'Canvas Teacher'.

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How students can share content

There are several ways that students can share content such as assignments, articles, media files or other relevant material in Absalon. Based on your preferences you can choose from below list.

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Discussions in Absalon

In an asynchronous online discussion forum, the students can discuss, collaborate and solve academic problems together. It is suitable for student participation and reflection and for creating and maintaining a good learning environment in the course.

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Syllabus

The Syllabus makes it easy to communicate with your students precisely what will be required of them throughout the course.

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Course examples

There are different ways to structure your course in Absalon. Here is a collection of KU examples (DK/EN)

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Make data exports from Absalon readable in Excel

A temporary solution for exporting data from grades is available now while we wait for the Canvas developers to fix the CSV files completely - here's a guide to untangling the "broken" looking files from Absalon when exporting quiz results.

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Plagiarism Checker (Ouriginal)

Use the plagiarism checker (Ouriginal) on your students assignments

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Add library content to your Absalon course

A short guide on how to integrate library content into your Absalon course.

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Peer Feedback(Feedback Fruits)

Peer feedback involves students giving and receiving feedback on assignments. This way students get more feedback and the act of reading work of others, reflecting about its qualities and formulating useful feedback is an excellent learning activity.

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Settings in Absalon

With the Settings button in Absalon you can manage a number of Course details, choose how visible and accessible the course is, which left-menu item are visible and how you can add students with self-enrollment.

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Make a Screen Capture in Absalon

My media in Absalon has a desktop app for screen capture for quick and simple captures. The capture will be uploaded to My media (Kaltura Video Platform), where you can share is across Absalon.

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How to upload a media in Absalon and share with your students

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My Study group

My Study Group is a tool in Absalon which you can use to divide the student into study groups automatically.

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Group Agreement

Support group work by formalizing agreements and roles in students groups.

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All about using Kaltura Media in Absalon

This page aims to help teachers use the media feature on Absalon. The service behind is called KALTURA.

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Create a Roll Call Attendance

If you have e.g. mandatory exercises in Absalon you can make a roll call in the course where teachers can registrar presence and absence and both teachers and students can follow the attendance.

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Sensus Access – convert your document to an alternative, accessible format

Sensus Access allows students and teachers to automatically convert documents into a range of alternate media.

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Adding pronouns in Absalon

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is part of UCPH’s Strategy 2030. Making your pronouns visible can help make Absalon a more gender-inclusive space.

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Getting Started

Building a course in modules

Overview of Absalon: Video

Absalon course start ‘Good to know and remember’

More Absalon

How to find your old courses and add users to a completed course in Absalon

Online Collaboration tool in Absalon

Communication

Conferences

Quizzes and surveys

Assignments

Files

Pages

Large classes in Absalon

Copying content in Absalon

Groups

Commons

Course Navigation Menu

App for Canvas

How students can share content

Discussions in Absalon

Syllabus

Course examples

Make data exports from Absalon readable in Excel

Plagiarism Checker (Ouriginal)

Add library content to your Absalon course

Peer Feedback(Feedback Fruits)

Settings in Absalon

Make a Screen Capture in Absalon

How to upload a media in Absalon and share with your students

My Study group

Group Agreement

All about using Kaltura Media in Absalon

Create a Roll Call Attendance

Sensus Access – convert your document to an alternative, accessible format

Adding pronouns in Absalon