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Trunk Help 1
- Trunk Help
Trunk Instructor Quick Start Guide 1
- Trunk Instructor Quick Start Guide
Trunk Student Guide 1
- Trunk Student Guide
What's new in Trunk? 5
- What's new in Trunk version 1.6.1 (August 2015 release)?
- What's new in Trunk version 1.6 (May 2015 release)
- What's new in Trunk version 1.5.2 (January 2015 release)?
- What's new in Trunk version 1.5.1 (August 2014 release)?
- What's new in Trunk version 1.5 (May, 2014 release)?
Approved Browsers 1
- Which Internet browsers are supported by Trunk?
Copyright and Fair Use 1
- What is Tufts University policy on copyright and fair use of posted materials on Trunk?
Trunk Accounts 8
- What is my Tufts username and password?
- What is my Trunk "Guest" username and password?
- How do I change my Trunk "Guest" password?
- Where is my course site? (Student)
- Where is my course site? (Instructor)
- What site user roles exist in the Trunk Learning Management System?
- What content can "Course Builders" access in a Trunk course site?
- How do I download the email adresses of my students?
Trunk Sites 14
- What is My Workspace?
- What are Trunk Course sites?
- How do I publish a Course site?
- How do I make my Syllabus available to all students before they register for the course?
- How do I add a banner image to a Site Information Panel?
- How do I add a video to a Site Information Panel?
- What are Trunk Project sites?
- How do I create a Project site?
- How do I publish a Project site?
- How do I add user accounts to a Project site?
- How do I add non-Tufts University accounts to a Project site?
- How do I join a Project site?
- How do I un-join a Project site?
- How do I link a project site Resource folder to a course site?
Announcements 7
- What is the Announcements tool?
- How do I add an Announcement?
- How do I edit an Announcement?
- How do I delete an announcement?
- How do I merge the Announcements on one site into another site?
- How do I Reorder the Announcements on a site?
- How do I specify a set of dates for an Announcement to be displayed?
Assignments 21
- What is the Assignments tool?
- How do I create an Assignment?
- How do I create a Group Assignment?
- How do I manage a Peer Assessment assignment?
- Peer Review Assignment - Student
- How do I grade a single submission group assignment?
- How do I use the Turnitin plagiarism service to check the originality of papers?
- How do I view a Turnitin Originality Report?
- How do I submit a document to Turnitin outside of Trunk?
- How do I edit an existing Assignment?
- How do I preview an Assignment?
- How does a student submit an Assignment? (Student)
- How is a student's submitted Assignment confirmed?
- How do I view submitted Assignments?
- How do I bulk download assignments?
- How do I bulk upload graded assignment and feedback?
- How do I allow an individual student to resubmit an Assignment?
- How do I grade an Assignment?
- How do I link grades in the Assignment tool to the Gradebook tool?
- How do I release Assignment grades and feedback?
- How do I delete an Assignment?
Calendar 9
- What is the Calendar tool?
- How do I add an event to the Calendar?
- How do I add reoccurring events to a Calendar?
- How do I edit a Calendar event?
- How do I delete a Calendar event?
- How do I customize My Workspace Calendar display?
- How do I print the Calendar?
- How do I subscribe a site Calendar to a Google Calendar?
- How do I modify Calendar permissions?
Chat 5
- What is the Chat Room tool?
- How do I add a Chat Room?
- How do I chat with another user in a Chat Room?
- How do I clear a Chat Room history?
- How do I delete a Chat Room?
Course Evaluations (My Workspace) 2
- How do I access my course evaluation forms? (Student)
- How do I access my course evaluation reports? (Instructor)
Delegated Access 1
- How do I access a site using Delegated Access?
Drop Box 3
- What is the Drop Box tool?
- How do students upload files to their dropbox folders?
- How do instructors upload files to multiple dropboxes?
Email Archive 5
- What is the Email Archive tool?
- How do I set up an Email Archive for a site?
- How do I send messages to the Email Archive?
- How do I view Email Archive messages?
- How do I modify the Email Archive options?
Feedback 2
- What is the Feedback tool?
- How do I post student feedback?
Forums 23
- What is the Forums tool?
- How do I create a Forum with discussion Topics?
- How do I respond to a Forum Topic (How do I create a conversation)? - (Student)
- How do I record an audio response to a Forum Topic? - (Student)
- How do I navigate the Forums tool?
- How do I re-order forums or topics?
- How do I add a new Topic to an existing Forum?
- How do I create Group Forums and Topics?
- How do I moderate a Topic?
- How do I require a student to post a Conversation before being able to read other student's Conversations?
- How do I lock a Topic?
- How do I delete a Topic?
- How do I delete a Forum?
- How do I move a conversation (thread) to a different Topic?
- How do I edit a student Conversation or a Reply?
- How do I delete a student Conversation or Reply?
- How do students mark forum responses as "Read"?
- How do I view Forum statistics?
- How do I set Ranking and Badges for Forum users?
- How do I grade discussion Forums or Topics?
- How do I email a Forum post author?
- How do I watch or subscribe to Forums?
- How do I print the contents of a Topic?
Glossary 3
- What is the Glossary tool?
- How do I create a Glossary item?
- How do I allow students to create Glossary terms?
Gradebook2 28
- What is the Gradebook2 tool?
- How do I navigate the Gradebook2 tool?
- How do I create a non-weighted Gradebook?
- How do I create a non-weighted Categories Gradebook?
- How do I create a Weighted Categories Gradebook?
- How do I grant TAs permission to grade students in the Gradebook2 tool?
- How do I add grades and comments to the Gradebook2 spreadsheet?
- How do I view/grade/comment Groups?
- How do I add Extra Credit to a Non-weighted Gradebook?
- How do I add Extra Credit to a Non-weighted Categories Gradebook?
- How do I add Extra Credit to a Weighted Categories Gradebook?
- How do I drop the lowest grade(s) from a category?
- How do I connect the the Gradebook2 tool to the Test & Quizzes tool?
- How do I connect the Gradebook2 to the Assignments tool?
- How do I connect the Gradebook2 tool to the Forums tool?
- How do I download a Gradebook2 Template?
- How do I Import grades from an Excel (.csv) file into the Gradebook2?
- How do I Export the Gradebook2 grades?
- How do I View/Grade/Comment by student?
- How do I view the Gradebook2 as a student?
- How do I edit the Letter Grade Scale?
- How do I override the Course Grade?
- How do I view Grade Statistics?
- How do I view the Gradebook2 History?
- How do I reorder items or categories?
- How do I exclude an individual student from a graded item?
- Why are some item scores displayed in red with a strikethrough?
- Why are students not seeing released grades?
i>clicker 3
- What is the i>clicker tool?
- How do I register my i>clicker on a Trunk course site? (Student)
- How do I check my students’ i>clicker registration status?
Journals 4
- What is the Journals tool?
- How do I create a new Journal post (Students or Instructors)?
- How do I add a comment to a journal post?
- How do I set-up a single "class journal" that all students can edit?
Known Trunk Issues 13
- Known Announcements Tool issues:
- Known Assignments Tool Issues:
- Known Forums Tool Issues:
- Known Gradebook2 Issues
- Known Lessons Builder Tool Issues:
- Known Mailtool Issues:
- Known Media Gallery (Pilot) Issues:
- Known Resources Tool Issues:
- Known Rich Text Editor Issues:
- Known Site Editor Issues:
- Known Syllabus Tool Issues:
- Known Test & Quizzes Tool Issues:
- Known Web Content Tool Issues:
Lessons Builder 25
- What is the Lessons Builder tool?
- How do I create a new Lessons page?
- How do I add text to a Lessons page?
- How do I embed an image on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed a video from my computer on a Lessons page?
- How do I embed a YouTube video on a Lessons Page?
- How do I embed an audio file on a Lessons page?
- How do I add a website link to a Lessons page?
- How do I add a file from Resources to a Lessons page?
- How do I add activities (i.e. Assignments, Forums, Test & Quizzes) to a Lessons page?
- How do I add a question to a Lesson page?
- How do I allow comments to be posted on a Lessons page?
- How do I allow students to add content to Lessons?
- How do I reorder items on a Lessons page?
- How do I delete items on a Lessons page?
- How do I limit access to Lessons page items to groups?
- How do I require one Lesson item to be completed before another item becomes available?
- How do I require completion of one Lessons page before another page becomes available?
- How do I add subpages to a Lessons page?
- How do I add additional top-level pages to a Lesson?
- How do I rename a Lessons page?
- How do I delete a top-level Lessons page?
- How do I delete a Lessons subpage?
- How do I export Lessons content?
- How do I import Lessons content?
Media Gallery 21
- Video Introduction to the Media Gallery Tool
- What is the Media Gallery tool?
- How do I upload a video to the Media Gallery tool?
- How do I upload audio to the Media Gallery tool?
- How do I upload images to the Media Gallery tool?
- How do I hide media in the Site Library or in a Collection?
- How do I edit Metadata (Name, Tags, Description) of media in the Media Gallery?
- How do I delete (remove) media from the Site Library or from a Collection?
- How do I make a "private" media, "public"?
- How do I create a Media Gallery Collection?
- How do I add media to a Collection?
- How do I add media from my personal My Media space to a Site Library or a Collection?
- How do I allow students to upload media to the Site Library?
- How do I allow students to upload media to a Collection collaboration space (group media space)?
- How do I allow students to upload media to a Collection as part of an Assignment?
- How do I make a web-cam video in the Media Gallery?
- How do I embed Media Gallery media in a Trunk text box?
- How do I edit (Clip) a video in the Media Gallery tool?
- Student: How do I upload media to the Site Library?
- Student: How do I upload media to a Collection collaboration space (group media space)?
- Student: How do I upload media to a Collection as part of an assignment?
Mailtool 3
- What is the Mailtool?
- How do I compose and send an email using the Mailtool?
- How to I modify the Mailtool options?
Messages 3
- What is the Messages tool?
- How do I compose and send an email using the Messages tool?
- How do I view my Messages folders?
News 3
- What is the News tool?
- How do I add a News tool to my site?
- How do I delete a News tool?
Piazza 27
- What is the Piazza tool?
- How do I set up a Piazza discussion board for my site?
- How do I manage Piazza discussion board enrollments?
- How do I add an Announcement to my Piazza site?
- How does an instructor post a question in Piazza?
- How do students respond to a question posted by the instructor?
- How do students post a question in Piazza?
- How do students respond to other student's questions in Piazza?
- How do Instructors respond to student questions in Piazza?
- How do students ask a private question to the instructor in Piazza?
- How do instructors respond to a student's private question in Piazza?
- How do instructors and students post a poll?
- How do I edit the student anonymity settings for my Piazza site?
- How do I edit my Piazza email notifications?
- How do I create Piazza groups?
- How do I manage Piazza folders?
- How do I add an image to my Piazza profile?
- How do I add Course Information/Description to my Piazza site?
- How do I add a Syllabus file to my Piazza site?
- How do I upload files and post link in the Piazza Resources?
- How do I embed an image in a Piazza post?
- How do I embed a video in a Piazza post?
- How do I insert code in a Piazza post?
- How do I insert equations (LaTeX) in a Piazza post?
- How do I view Piazza posting statistics?
- How do I deactivate a Piazza site?
- How do I un-enroll (drop) from a Piazza discussion site?
Polls 5
- What is the Polls tool?
- How do add a new poll?
- How do I take a poll?
- How do I view poll results?
- How do I modify Polls tool permissions?
Portal Chat 2
- What is Portal Chat?
- How do I chat with others using Portal Chat?
Preferences (My Workspace) 7
- What is the Preferences tool?
- How do I customize my Quicklinks, More Sites button or hide sites?
- How do I hide sites from my More Sites list?
- How do I modify Trunk email notification settings?
- How do I adjust my Trunk Time Zone settings?
- How do I adjust my Trunk site language settings?
- How do I adjust my Trunk Privacy settings?
Preview Public Content (My Workspace) 1
- How do I access "Public Content" in Trunk?
Profile2 (My Workspace) 9
- What is the Profile tool?
- How do I post my Profile2 image?
- How do I edit my Profile2 information?
- How do I add (and remove) pictures to my Profile2 picture gallery?
- How do I use a picture gallery image as my Profile2 image?
- How do I search for and add Profile2 connections?
- How do I send a message to a connection in Profile2?
- How do I adjust my Profile2 privacy settings?
- How do I adjust my Profile2 preferences?
Qualtrics 1
- How do I view and export the results of a Qualtrics survey?
Resources 34
- What is the Resources tool?
- How do I navigate the Resources tool?
- How do I create folders?
- How do I upload files?
- How do I drag-and-drop files from my computer to a Resource folder?
- How do I add and display contextual information about a file or folder?
- How do I add a web link or URL?
- How do I link to a Google document?
- How do I link to a Tisch Library streaming video?
- How do I link to a library database article?
- How do I link to a Tufts.Box.Com folder?
- How do I create a text document?
- How do I create an HTML page?
- How do I create a citation list?
- How do I upload and unpack a zip file to a Resource folder?
- How do I create a zip archive file in Resources?
- How do I move a file or folder from one Resource folder to another Resource folder within the same site?
- How do I copy a file or folder from one Resource folder to another Resource folder within the same site?
- How do I copy a Resource file or folder from one site to another site?
- How do I reorder files in a folder or reorder folders on a site in Resources?
- How do I upload a new version of a file in Resources?
- How do I hide files and folders?
- How do I unhide files or folders?
- How do I set the display of a Resource file or folder to a specific time period?
- How do I remove a file or folder in Resources?
- How do I notify site participants that a content item has been added to Resources?
- How do I obtain the URL for a file or folder in Resources?
- How do I make a link to a Resource folder appear in the Tool Menu?
- How do I create a group folder in Resources?
- How do I allow group members to upload content to a group Resource folder?
- How do I allow all students to upload content to a selected folder?
- How do I make a file or folder publicly viewable?
- How do I check a site's Resources quota?
- How do I upload/download multiple resources?
Rich Text Editor 15
- What is the Rich Text Editor?
- How do I create a link to a web site in a text box?
- How do I create a link to a Resources folder or file in a text box?
- How do I create a link to an activity (Forums, Assignments, Test/Quizzes) in a text box?
- How do I embed an image in a text box?
- How do I embed a linked web image in a text box?
- How do I embed a YouTube video in a text box?
- How do I add special characters / diacritical marks to a text box?
- How do I add/edit a table in a text box?
- How do I add a content template to a text box?
- How do I paste text from a Microsoft Word document to a text box?
- How do I embed an mp4 video in a text box?
- How do I embed an mp3 audio in a text box?
- How do I record a web cam video and stream it to the site participants?
- How do I record audio in a Trunk text box?
Roster 4
- What is the Roster tool?
- How do I view a site Roster?
- How do I view group membership in the Roster?
- How do I view student photos in the Roster tool?
Screen Recording 3
- How do I record my screen using Tufts WebEx?
- How do I make a screen recording using QuickTime on a MAC?
- How do I edit or trim a QuickTime video on a Mac?
Sections 5
- What is the Sections tool?
- How do I create a Section?
- How do I add students to a Section?
- How do I add Teaching Assistants to a Section?
- How do I view Section membership?
Sign-up 6
- What is the Sign-up tool?
- How do I create a single Sign-up meeting?
- How do I create a reoccurring Sign-up meeting schedule?
- How do students sign-up for a meeting?
- How do I view the list of students that have signed up for a meeting?
- How do I manually add participants to a Sign-up meeting?
Site Editor 19
- What is the Site Editor tool?
- How do I un-publish a course or project site?
- How do I change the site language?
- How do I post an image on my site's Home page? (banner)
- How do I add or remove tools on my Course/Project site?
- How do I reorder the Tools Menu?
- How do I change the name of a tool button?
- How do I add user accounts to a course site?
- How do I add a non-Tufts University account to a course site?
- How do I add user accounts to a Project site?
- How do I add a non-Tufts University account to a project site?
- How do I remove user accounts from a course site?
- How do I remove user accounts from a project site?
- How do I track users manually added or removed from a site?
- How do I copy content from one course site to another course site?
- How do I create Groups?
- How do I automatically create groups (Autogroups)?
- How do I create joinable / un-joinable groups?
- How do I join / unjoin a group? (Student)
Site Statistics 3
- What is the Site Statistics tool?
- How do I view Site Statistics?
- How do I generate custom statistical reports?
Syllabus 15
- What is the Syllabus tool?
- How do I use the Rich Text editor to create a Syllabus?
- How do I create a Syllabus that consists of an attachment to an uploaded file?
- How do I create a Syllabus that consists of a link to an existing web page?
- How do I create a multi-part Syllabus?
- How do I reorder a multi-part syllabus?
- How do I edit the details of a multi-part syllabus?
- How do I set opening and closing dates for a syllabus?
- How do I make my Syllabus publicly viewable?
- How do I view a publicly viewable syllabus (Students)?
- How do I print a Syllabus?
- How do I unpublish a syllabus?
- How do I delete a syllabus?
- How do I add a syllabus to the Calendar?
- How do I set up syllabus parts in bulk?
Tests & Quizzes 49
- What is the Tests & Quizzes tool?
- How do I create an assessment using the Tests & Quizzes Assessment Builder?
- How do I create an assessment using the Tests & Quizzes Markup Text?
- How do I create an assessment using the Tests & Quizzes Import File?
- How do I create and manage assessment Parts?
- How do I configure the Settings for an assessment?
- How do I configure the Settings so students can take a quiz multiple times and receive feedback on which questions were incorrect without letting them see the correct answers?
- How do I Publish an assessment?
- How do I add a Multiple Choice question to an assessment?
- How do I add a Short Answer / Essay question to an assessment?
- How do I add a Fill in the Blank question to an assessment?
- How do I add a Numeric Response question to an assessment?
- How do I add a Matching question to an assessment?
- How do I add a True/False question to an assessment?
- How do I add an Audio Recording question to an assessment?
- How do I add a File Upload question to an assessment?
- How do I add a Calculated question to an assessment?
- How do I change the order of assessment questions?
- How do I Preview an assessment or survey?
- How do I Print or Download an assessment?
- How do I Delete an assessment or survey?
- How do I export an assessment?
- How do I make changes to a published assessment?
- How do I create a Survey?
- How do I add a Survey question to a Survey?
- How do I add a Survey Matrix question to a Survey?
- How do I create a "Public" Survey?
- How do I create a Teaching Assistant Evaluation survey?
- How do I view the results of a Survey?
- What is a Question Pool?
- How do I create a Question Pool?
- How do I create a Question Pool using Markup Text?
- How do I add questions to a Question Pool?
- How do I pull questions from a Question Pool into an assessment?
- How do I pull random questions from a Question Pool into an assessment?
- How do I import a question pool?
- How do I share a question pool with another instructor?
- How do I view the student assessment submissions?
- How do I allow a student to retake an assessment?
- How do I grade Short Answer/Essay questions?
- How do I bulk download and grade “File Upload" question files?
- How do I connect a Test & Quizzes assessment to the Gradebook?
- How do I view assessment statistics?
- How do I export student responses for an assessment?
- How do I take an assessment? (Student)
- How do I answer an Audio Recording question in an assessment? (Student)
- How do I view assessment feedback? (Student)
- Student - Tips on taking a Test/Quiz in Trunk
- Instructors - Tips on delivering a Test/Quiz in Trunk
Web Content 8
- What is the Web Content tool?
- How do I create a Web Content link to a web site?
- How do I create a Web Content link to a folder in Resources?
- How do I edit a Web Content link?
- How do I delete a Web Content link?
- Trunk Learning Management System
- Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Service
- Piazza Discussion Board

Other Resources

Trunk User Guide
Trunk User Guide
Trunk Tips Newsletters
Online Course Evaluations Guide
Delegated Access
Quick Start Guide for Instructors
Online Course Evaluations Guide (Blue by eXplorance)
Tisch Library MediaSpace