Timeline
Learn more about navigating a journal via the timeline.
A timeline provides an overview of the completed activities, upcoming deadlines, and received feedback. This timeline is visible on the left side of your screen or collapsed behind the Show timeline button on smaller screens.
A simple overview of a timeline
This example contains a timeline of the following activities (in order):
- The start of the assignment. This containing information like the description, due date, and possible points
- A graded entry, which can be identified by the checkmark.
- Three ungraded entries, of which the first one is selected, hence the black background.
- An unfilled deadline. The student did not provide any content for this entry. The due date is also passed, but not yet the lock date, hence the orange clock.
- An upcoming deadline. The student did not provide any content for this entry, but the due date is also not passed which can be identified by the "in 7 days" and the calender icon.
- New entry button. The student is allowed to add an entry to their journal. This is done via this button. This is not visible for teachers.
- A progress goal. The teacher expects students to have acquired 10 points in 12 months.
- A peer feedback moment. After the goal has been achieved, the teacher expects students to provide peer feedback over their journal.
- The end of the assignment. This contains the due- or lock date of the assignment. This also contains the overall assessment if the teacher created one.
This guide goes into further detail about each activity type and how to navigate the timeline.
Activity types
Various types of activities exist, each indicated with a different icon and/or label.
Assignment details
Each timeline always starts with an overview of the journal/assignment. This is indicated by .
The overview contains the following information:
- Description: an overall description of the assignment, optionally combined with attachments;
- Points possible: the number of points that represents a perfect score;
- Unlock date: the moment from which students can work on the assignment;
- Due date: the moment when students are expected to finish the assignment;
- Lock date: the moment from which students can not work on the assignment anymore;
Entry
Entries are the most common activities. These contain the content that a student provided and are easily identified by their white background. The icon inside the circle represents the state of an entry, which is discussed below.
Status
This section explains each of the statuses an entry might have and how it can be identified (in order of progression):
- Unfilled: A deadline that the student still has to fill in.
- Drafts: (students): Students can work on their entries within eJournal.
Until the entry is submitted, they are not visible to the teacher. The draft icon is used for students to identify their work in progress.
This is also accompanied by a blue banner below the icon for visibility.
- Overdue: Unfilled deadlines past their due date are represented with a clock.
- Locked: Unfilled deadlines past their lock date are represented with a lock.
- Needs grading: (teachers): A submitted entry which a teacher needs to grade.
- Needs publishing: (teachers): This is displayed when a teacher graded the entry but did not yet publish it for the student to see.
- Awaiting grade: (students): After a student submits their entry, they are awaiting their grade.
- Graded: Graded entries appear with a green checkmark.
Adding new entries
Students can add entries by filling in preconfigured intermediate deadlines, or by adding a freely usable template to their timeline using the button in the timeline (see below).
Progress goal
The yellow activities are progress goals. These are configured by the teacher, and represent a goal for students to achieve. In the timeline, you can see the number of points that need to be reached by the number inside.
More about configuring progress goals
End of assignment
The end of the timeline contains the due and lock date of the assignment. If a teacher publishes an overall assessment, this can be also found here.
More about adding overall assessments
Navigating the timeline
Above the activities in the timeline, there is a menu to filter the timeline.
Which can be opened by clicking on the filter icon.
This can be useful for larger timelines.
The options include:
- Hide past deadlines: This hides any deadline without an entry that has passed. This allows you to exclude activities that are no longer useable.
- Filter by category: Select only the categories that you would like to see. Click here for more information on what categories are.