This document provides an overview of the various settings that can be tweaked within Coursemology to enhance its usage. It describes the preference settings page where various tabs allow configuration of items displayed in the sidebar, buttons for students, and columns and grading options for missions and training pages. Notifications and paging settings are also covered, along with other aesthetic options to customize the user experience.

1. 6
tweaking
the
settings
coursemology guide

2. what will be covered?
Now that you’re familiar with the basics of
Coursemology, here’s a peek into the settings you
can tweak to enhance your usage of
Coursemology.

3. Getting to settings…
Click on “Preference Settings” in your left navigation

4. This is the
preference settings
page.

5. These are the items
on your left side bar

6. You can choose
what buttons are
available to your
students…

7. You can rename the
buttons to improve
game immersion.

8. This tab is to
change the
preferences for
the “Mission” page.

9. Like the sidebar tab, you can choose what
to be displayed for the columns in your
mission page. You can also rename the
columns…

10. Like the sidebar tab, you can choose what
to be displayed for the columns in your
mission page. You can also rename the
columns…
..and the changes will be reflected
here in the Mission Page.

11. The “Training” Tab is
similar to the “Mission”
Tab.

12. Except for the re-attempt feature.
If you want to motivate your students
to do the trainings again and again as
part of their revision, you can enable
this feature for them to earn a fraction
of the EXPs for each attempt.

13. The MCQ tab allows
you to change how
you want the MCQ
questions in trainings
will be graded.

14. Default grader!
award full marks to
students when they
choose the right
options, regardless
of number of wrong
attempts.

15. TOZ grader!
Awards less points if
student made wrong
attempts before
arriving at the right
one. This is to
discourage students
from picking answers
randomly.

16. Which grader you
choose depends on
what you want to
achieve.

17. The “Notifications”
tab allows you to
decide under what
circumstances will
emails be sent out as
notices and
reminders.

18. Paging means that
the system will break
up lists into different
pages.
!
This tab allows you
to decide how many
items would be
displayed in each
page.

19. For example, at the current setting,
every 50 announcements will be put
into 1 page.
!
If I have 70 announcements, it
means the system will compile the
announcements into 2 separate
pages.

20. Lastly, the “Others” Tab allows you
to deal with other aesthetic matters.

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