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Create a new Database
1. On the MOLE course home page, click Turn editing on at the upper right of the page.
2. In the relevant page section, click Add an activity and in the resulting pop-up, under activities, select Database. Click Add.
3. On the Adding a new Choice page, in the General section enter a Name for the database and some text in the Description field explaining how the database will be used.
4. Under Entries, select:
whether the supervisor's Approval is required before the entry will display to other students in the database, and
whether you will Allow comments on entries
the number of Entries required before viewing other students’ entries. If you are requiring students to make entries before viewing, contact the system administrator to have the database’s auto-linking filter disabled.
the Maximum number of entries any student can contribute to the database.
10. If necessary, under Availability, Enable the date fields and define the periods for which the database will be Available (i.e. open to contributions) and available in Read-only form.
6. Under Grade, select the Grading category in the Gradebook where you want the database to be listed.
7. Set up the Ratings system, if you want students to be able to rate entries. (You must save the activity before the Roles with permission to rate will display.) You can:
decide on a final rating (Aggregate type)
indicate whether to apply a Scale to the ratings
Restrict ratings to items with dates in the given date range.
8. Complete the remainder of the page and click Save and display
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