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TRACS Documentation

These written help and how-to guides are arranged by topic and tool and include links to short training videos.  Click on the topic to view the documentation and troubleshooting guides associated with it. 

Alphabetical List of Tools


Getting Started

These documents will help you gain a basic understanding of what TRACS is, how to log in, and best practices instructors should use when working in TRACS.

About TRACS

Instructor Best Practices

Logging into TRACS

•Logging in: Troubleshooting

My Workspace

•My Workspace Troubleshooting

Profile

•Profile Troubleshooting

Recommended Browsers

TRACS Guest Users Information


Setting Up Your Site

These documents will teach you how to create a course or project site in TRACS.

Create Course

•Create Course Site: Troubleshooting

Create Project Site

•Create Project Site: Troubleshooting


Grading Tools

These documents will teach you how to use the Postem and Gradebook tools in TRACS to post grades for your site participants to view, how to submit your final course grades to the Registrar, and how the gradebook calculates grades.

Postem

•Postem Troubleshooting


Gradebook 2

•Gradebook 2 Troubleshooting

Submit Final Course Grades

•Submit Final Grades Troubleshooting

Gradebook 2 Grade Calculation 

Import Scores from TREC


Assignments and Dropbox

These documents will help you understand the Assignments and Dropbox tools in TRACS.  The Assignments and Dropbox tools allow site participants to turn in homework and other documents for reveiw and grading.

Assignments

•Assignments Troubleshooting

Dropbox

•Dropbox Troubleshooting


Administrative Tools

These documents will help site administrators gain a better undersanding of what tools they can use to track student usage of the site and other tools that cannot be used by site participants.

Site Info

•Site Info Troubleshooting

Section Info

•Section Info Troubleshooting

Site Stats

Roster

•Roster Troubleshooting

Permissions and Roles

Page Order

•Page Order Troubleshooting


Student Guides

These guides will help students navigate TRACS and use the various tools that may be used in TRACS sites.  

Student Guide

Student Assessment Best Practices

Create TRACS Profile

Student Do's and Dont's

Student Troubleshooting