Students
Courses can contain any number of students. To see the students in a course, first select the course from the main admin navigation bar, or click the View link if you're on the Courses menu. Then pick the Students option from the course's sub-menu.
Adding new students
To add new students to a course, click the Add New Students button at the top-right of the list. The form that opens up will allow you to add many students at once. It asks for the following details:
Name: The name of the student.
Email: The email address that the student will use to log into your school.
Title: The title of the student. Feel free to leave this blank - it'll default to Student.
Affiliation: The organization to which the student belongs. This field is also optional.
The title and affiliation fields are used across the platform to better identify students.
Tags: Tags are keywords or strings to associate with the list of students that you're adding, and can be used to quickly filter the list of students in a course. You can start typing and pick from the suggested list of tags or create new ones.
Notify students: Use this checkbox to enable or disable onboarding email notification for the newly added students.
Add multiple students at once
- Fill in the details of the first student, and click the Add to List button.
- This will add the first student to a list that is unsaved, and preserve the Title, Affiliation, and Tags, so that you can add more students to the list.
- Once you're okay with the list of students to be added, click the Save List button. It'll add everyone you've listed as students in the course, together.
Editing student details
To edit a student's details, click on the student's name. You'll see all of the fields you entered in the creation form, and a few others:
Team Name: If the student is in a team (details below), then you'll be able to edit the team's name here.
Personal Coaches: This list allows you to directly assign coaches to a student (or team), which will allow those coaches to review submission from that student (or team).
Access Ends On: If set, the course will be marked as ended for the student (or team) on this date. Students will retain access to the course, and their own submissions, but they will not be able to complete new targets.
Student actions
In addition to editing a student's details, you can switch to the Actions tab which lists the actions that you can take on a student:
Has this student dropped out?
If you click the Dropout Student button, the student will lose all access to the course. Unlike students whose access to a course ended on a certain date, students who are marked as dropped out will not be able to access course content, or their own work within a course. The course will still be displayed on their dashboard page (marked as Dropped Out), but they will not be able to access its curriculum.
Inactive students
Students whose access to a course has ended, or who were marked as dropped out will be hidden from the main list of (active) students. To see these inactive students, click the Inactive Students button at the top-right of the students page. Inactive students can be reactivated by selecting one or more students or teams, and then choosing the Reactivate Students option.
Teaming up students
Students don't have to go through a course alone. Dalasa allows you to create teams of students who progress through a course together.
- Teams have a name that identifies the group.
- Students in a team level up together.
- Students can work on certain targets together.
To group two or more students as a team, select them using the checkboxes next to their name, and click the Group as Team option. This is only visible when all selected students are in the same level.
When you first team up a group of students, the platform will give them a randomly generated name. To edit the team's name, you can click on any of the students to edit their details. There'll be a new field in the form called Team Name, which you can edit to change their team's name. When students are displayed anywhere in the interface, they'll always be grouped together with their team.
How do I set it up so that students in a team submit work on a target together?
Removing a student from a team
You can move individual students out of a team by selecting just one and using the Move out from Team option.
Importing students in bulk
To add new students in bulk to a course, click the Bulk Import button at the top right of the list. The form that opens up allows you to a select a CSV file with list of students to be onboarded to the course. You can use the template file available in the form to list the students with required details. Refer to add new students form for details on each field. Here are a few ground rules for the data that you populate in the import sheet:
- Name and email are mandatory columns and should have valid data. Name can have a maximum of 250 characters.
- Title, affiliation and tags are optional similar to the the add new students form. A maximum of five tags are allowed per student and should have a character limit of 50. Title and affiliation, each has a character limit of 250.
- Team name is optional and should be only used if you need to club students as a team. If more that one students are assigned the same team name in the sheet, they will be teamed up together. Team name has a character limit of 50.
- A maximum of 1000 students are allowed to be imported at once using the bulk uploader.
The errors in the sheet will appear in the form once you upload a CSV file, which will guide you to easily fix them. Once you have a totally error free sheet, use the Import Students button to initiate the bulk onboarding process. On successful completion, you will receive an email confirming the same.
Similar to add new students form, use the notification checkbox above the Import Students button to enable/disable onboarding email notification for newly added students.