Managing Class Models

The Class Model Management window is responsible for displaying the created Class Models. A Class Model is defined as a list of students and you can activate only one Class Model at a time. When you activate a Class Model, the students list will be displayed in the Main window, where the connected or disconnected students can be viewed.

Besides the creation of a Class Model, this window allows the edition, removal, copy of Class Models, activation of an existing Class Model, exportation of a Class Model to a file and the importation of a Class Model from a file, to v-Class Teacher.

Fields and Commands

Name

This field displays the name of the Class Model that you have created.

This field is read-only and it cannot be modified.

Active

This field indicates which Class Model is active and which ones are inactive. Only one Class Model can be active at a time. If the Class Model is active, this field will display the “Yes” value. If the Class Model is inactive, this field will display the “No” value.

This field is read-only and it cannot be modified.

Owner

This field displays the teacher's login that created the Class Model, which means the teacher that owns the Class Model. Only the owner can modify or remove the Class Model. A Class Model created by another teacher can be activated, copied or exported.

New

This button allows the creation of a new Class Model.

When this button is pressed, the Class Model Name window is displayed, as illustrated by the following picture:

In this window, you must enter the name of the new Class Model in the Class Model Name field and then press the OK button. If the Cancel button is pressed, the Class Model will not be created, and the previous window, Class Model Management window, will be displayed.

If the Help button is pressed, a window will be displayed with the help topics of v-Class Teacher.

Edit

This button allows the edition of an existing Class Model. You must select a Class Model before using this button.

When this button is pressed, the Edit Class Model window is displayed, as illustrated by the following picture:

In this window, you can enter a new name for the Class Model that is being modified in the Class Model Name field. It's also possible to remove any student included in the Class Model. To do this, select one or more students in the list and then press the Remove Students button. Another way is to check the Select All field and then press the Remove Students button.

When the OK button is pressed, the changes made to the Class Model will be saved. If the Cancel button is pressed, the changes made to the Class Model will be discarded and the previous window, Class Model Management window, will be displayed.

If the Help button is pressed, a window will be displayed with the help topics of v-Class Teacher.

Copy

This button allows copying an existing Class Model to create a new one. This function copies all students included in the Class Model selected to be copied. To use this button you must first select a Class Model.

When this button is pressed, the Class Model Name window is displayed, as illustrated by the following picture:

In this window, a new name for the Class Model must be entered in the Class Model Name field and the OK button must be pressed to copy the Class Model. If the Cancel button is pressed, the Class Model will not be copied and the previous window, Class Model Management window, will be displayed.

If the Help button is pressed, a window will be displayed with the help topics of v-Class Teacher.

Remove

Allows the removal of a Class Model. If the Class Model is active (the Active field is indicating the “Yes” value), the Class Model cannot be removed and the Remove button will be disabled.

If you try to remove a Class Model that is not owned by you, another alert message will be displayed, indicating that the Class Model cannot be removed.

If a student is connected to this Class Model, it cannot be removed. An alert message will be displayed indicating that the students must be disconnected before the removal of the Class Model.

After disconnecting the students and deactivating the Class Model, the removal can be done. A confirmation message will be displayed for you to indicate if the Class Model should or should not be removed. This confirmation message is illustrated by the following picture:

If the Yes button is pressed, the Class Model will be removed. If the No button is pressed, the Class Model will not be removed and the previous window, Class Model Management window, will be displayed.

Activate

This button allows you to activate and deactivate Class Models. If the Active field is indicating the “Yes” value, the Class Model is already active. If the Active field is indicating the “No” value, the Class Model is inactive. In this case, when you activate this Class Model, if there is another active Class Model, it will be automatically deactivated.

Before activating a new Class Model, an alert message will be displayed for you to confirm if you really want to activate another Class Model.

In this message, press the Yes button to activate the new Class Model or press the No button to maintain the current Class Model as active.

When a Class Model is activated, the students list will be loaded in the Main window.

When you try to activate a new Class Model, if the active Class Model already has connected students, an alert message will be displayed, indicating that the students, of the Class Model that is active, must be disconnected before the activation of a new Class Model.

If a Class Model is already active and the Activate button is pressed, an alert message will indicate that this Class Model is already active and it will not be activated:

Export

This button allows exporting a Class Model, that contains information about all the students included in it. To access this function, select the Class Model that you want to export and then press the Export button.

When this button is pressed, the Export Class Model window will be displayed for you to indicate in which folder the file must be saved:

After exporting the Class Model, the following window will be displayed:

Import

This button allows importing a Class Model, previously exported. To access this function, press the Import button.

When this button is pressed, the Import Class Model window will be displayed for you to choose the file that corresponds to the Class Model that must be imported:

If there is already a Class Model with the same name of the Class Model that is being imported, the following alert message will be displayed, indicating that a new name must be informed, because a Class Model already exists with the name of the Class Model being imported.

To cancel the operation, you can press the No button. To import the Class Model, renaming it, you can press the Yes button and the following window will be displayed:

The new name must be informed and then the OK button must be pressed. If the Cancel button is pressed, the Class Model will not be imported.

If the Help button is pressed, a window will be displayed with the help topics of v-Class Teacher.

Search

Using the Search field, you can search for a specific Class Model. To do this, you can enter the Class Model's name in the field and the Class Models that have their names initiating with the typed text will be automatically displayed. This is illustrated by the example in the following picture:

Help

This button displays a Help window where you can navigate through the v-Class Teacher help topics.

Close

Closes the Class Model Management window and returns to the v-Class Teacher Main window.