Processes, Communication, and Customization

Questionnaires

Generally speaking, Questionnaires gather info from students. You can gather information in the following ways:

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  Single Selection gives the students a list of options to choose from and they choose only one of those options.
  
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  Multiple Selection gives the students a list of options to choose from and they may choose any number of those options.
  
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  Yes or No is a question where the student only has two selections, 'yes' or 'no'.
  
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  Yes or No with Explanation for Yes is a question where when the student selects 'yes', a new field opens up for them to offer an explanation. If the student answers 'no', then no further actions are required.
  
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  Yes or No with Explanation for No is a question where when the student selects 'no', a new field opens up for them to offer an explanation. If the student answers 'yes', then no further actions are required.
  
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  Field is the shortest of the answer types. It gives the students a small box in which to submit text. Usually this is something short like an email address, name, or phone number.
  
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  Short Description gives the students a small text box for them to enter information. Usually this information is one or two sentences from the student.
  
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  Essay is the longest answer choice. It provides students with a WYSIWYG editor where they can type and format a response to the question. Students can also upload attachments to the essay form. For this reason, many times the essay question type is used in order to allow students to upload a document. Currently, the passport questionnaire for all students uses this option to collect a photo or scanned copy of each student's passport.
  
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  Date is a question where the student is offered a smart calendar to select a single date. If a date range is required, you will need two separate questions for start and end dates.
  
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  Rating is a question where the student is asked to rate a given thing from 1-5 stars (1 being low rating and 5 being a high rating).
  

Materials

In general, the material category covers information that you want to give out to students to read or sign. There are two categories of materials: Material Submissions, and Signature Documents.

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  Material Submissions are generally a set of text with instructions for the student to complete some process. Most of the material submissions that are applied across all programs (including faculty led) are processes that need to be completed with other departments or systems at ETSU. For example, all students have to pay a once a year $35.00 fee to submit applications on Terra Dotta. There is a material submission that instructs the student to follow a link to a payment portal. Once the payment is received, our office checks off that material submission as complete.
  
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  Signature Documents are usually something that you are asking the students to agree to. The students are provided a body of text and asked to digitally sign (by clicking a button) their agreement to the body of text. Once the document is signed, the material is checked off on that student's profile to indicate that the requirement has been completed. For example, the Student Financial Authorization and Release form is a signature document that is applied to all faculty led programs. Once the student signs that document, the student's profile is updated and the faculty member can see that they have completed this requirement.
  

If you would like for a custom material to be created for your course, please provide the study abroad office with the material along with a description of what type of material it is, what it is for, and at what stage in the application process you would like it applied.

Learning Content

Learning Content is a type of process element that is simply an informational page the applicant can read and check off as having been read. The informational page can include text, images and/or video. Usually this information is something to do with traveling, culture shock, or could even be course related material if the professor wished to upload their own learning content. Generally speaking, learning content is less urgent than a material submission and usually doesn't pertain to processing an application. However, it could be something the faculty requires their students to read before they can be accepted to the course. It just depends on the preference of the faculty member.

Faculty can create their own custom learning content, or they can browse a data base of learning content provided by Terra Dotta. If you do decide to create your own learning content, please contact our office so we can add it to the site.

To browse the data base for existing learning content, follow these steps:

ETSU Faculty only have the normal 'view' permission for each of the process elements (Questionnaires, Materials, Learning Content, and Assessments). To Browse the TDCL Click Process -> Learning Content, then click Browse TDCL.

You will be taken to a search page. Enter your different search criteria and click Search.

After browsing through the titles of interest, scroll all the way to the right and click the

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honors -> Law in American Society Black History Month Essay Contest
honors -> The Rapid Intensification of Hurricane Gustav (2008)
honors -> Analysis of prominent decay modes for the Higgs boson at the lhc mathew Parenti Introduction
honors -> Name: Honors Humanities
honors -> Chapter I: John Donne’s Ovidian Influence

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