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Vocareum

Before you can use Vocareum in a Brightspace course, you have to e-mail Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl for access. Even if you have used Vocareum in the previous academic year.

Vocareum offers a cloud-based platform for hosting and deploying Jupyter Notebooks in an educational context. Vocareum is the best way to serve Jupyter notebook for multiple users. It is basically a platform for Python programming. Key capabilities of the platform include grading automation, plagiarism detection, providing code feedback, team projects, and peer reviews.

Students will go to an assignment through Brightspace, so there is no need to install an application.

Vocareum is meant for educational purposes only.
You may notice that Vocareum offers more lab types than Jupyter Notebook, such as Rstudio, Vocareum Standard and MySQL. The TU Delft only has a licence for Jupyter Notebooks, it is not allowed to use the other lab types.

Summative testing

  • There is no live support for our time zone.
  • Vocareum cannot be used in a secured environment in the exam halls at the TU Delft.

Setting up Vocareum for exercises

How to add Vocareum to your course

Contact Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl to activate Vocareum. Once Vocareum has been made active in your course:

  1. Go to Content in the Course in Brightspace and click on the module Instructor Area.
  2. Click on the Vocareum link to access your course in Vocareum.
  3. Once in Vocareum, you can create your assignments.

In case your students cannot access their assignments, please confirm they are accessing it through the Brightspace course as described here.

Creating assignments

To create an assignment in Vocareum, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the course where you want to create your assignment.
  2. Go to the tab Edit Assignments.
  3. Here you can either copy or create a new assignment.

In case you would like to create a new assignment, click New Assignment:

  1. Fill in the Title for your new assignment.
  2. Choose the appropriate group (optional).
    You can create new Groups by clicking on the New Group-tab
  3. Click on Save and continue.
  4. You have now created an assignment. An assignment can have one or more parts, which corresponds to different notebooks within the same assignment.
  5. Click in the + beneath Parts.
  6. Fill in a Part Name, it can be the same as the assignment name.
  7. Underneath the name, there is a drop-down to determine which lab type you want to use. Pick Jupyter Notebook, the other lab types are not allowed.
  8. Click on Save Part to save the part.

In case you would like to copy an old assignment, click Copy Assignment.

  1. Select the course that contains the existing assignment that you want to copy.
  2. Select the assignment you want to copy or select All Assignments to copy all assignments from the course.
  3. Click on Copy.

Check the Links to relevant help articles about Vocareum to read more about how to setup your assignment.

Link assignments to Brightspace

If students only access the JupyterHub notebook through a direct (shared) link and not through Brightspace, they may be unable to access all assignments. Please make sure to follow the instructions described below to link your notebook to the course content in Brightspace. This will place a copy of your Vocareum site in the course content and allow students to access the notebook through Brightspace.

To link your assignments to your Brightspace course:

  1. In Vocareum, go to the assignment you want to publish and press Publish. Note that students will now be able to access the assignment.
  2. In Brightspace, go to the Content tab, click on Existing Activities and then choose Vocareum from the list of tools available.
  3. A pop-up will appear, where you can choose which assignment you want to add to your course.
  4. There are two options for each assignment: new tab and iframe. Select new tab.
  5. The assignment will appear in your course.
  6. Click on the arrow-down next to the assignments name, and choose Edit Properties in-place.
  7. Check the Open as External Resource-box.

Class settings

You can set attributes associated with the course by selecting Settings on the top navigation bar.

Basic Settings

Basic settings of a course in Vocareum are:

  • Title
    Name of the course that all the users will use to select a course.
  • Course Image (Optional)
    If you upload an image, this will be used in the “Card View” when listing the course.
  • Timezone
    This will be used for all the settings when time is needed like due date for submissions.
  • End Date
    Date when the course ends. As a teacher you cannot change this date. After this date students will no longer be able to work on their projects. As a teacher or admin, you will continue to have access to the platform.
  • Access End Date
    Students can no longer work on their projects after the “End Date”, they can continue to access their data until this date. As a teacher, you are able to change the Access End Date.

LTI/LMS Settings

Vocareum is integrated with your Brightspace course through LTI 1.3. Do not toggle the LTI button off.

  • LTI version
    Vocareum supports LTI versions 1.1 and 1.3. Do not change this setting, Brightspace only supports LTI 1.3.
  • Show all assignments
    Should be OFF if you want Vocareum to only show the assignment that the student clicked on in their LMS. If ON student can navigate to other published assignments from their Vocareum window.
  • Auto Create Sections
    If enabled, sections are create based on the id of your course in Brightspace. Manual created sections in Vocareum are automatically overwritten.
Groups created in Brightspace will not be synchronized with Vocareum at the moment. This setting is useful when multiple courses in Brightspace use the same course in Vocareum.

Skilljar Settings

Skilljar is not used at TU Delft, thus this is not relevant.

Course Parameters

  • No Submission
    When this setting is enabled students can run their notebook but cannot submit their work.
  • Mastery Levels
    This feature allows you to specify an order in which assignments must be completed by students. This is accomplished by assigning a “level” (integer) to each part of an assignment. Assignments with lower levels must be successfully completed before assignments with higher levels may be attempted.
The level numbers do not need to be contiguous.

https://help.vocareum.com/en/articles/3659011-mastery-learning

 

Container Resources

If you have any questions about container resources, please contact Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl.

Code Editor Settings

If you have any questions about code editor settings, please contact Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl.

Links to relevant help articles about Vocareum

Support

For support, please contact Teaching-Support@tudelft.nl, we will forward your question to the correct place.

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