The Gradebook is the hub for all graded activities and points earned in your site. There are several settings you can set up for your site, such as Grade Entry in points/percentages, Grade Release Rules, Categories and Weighting, and Grading Schema.

The first time a site owner or administrator manually adds someone to a UVaCollab site using a non-UVa email address, a new participant password notification is automatically generated by the system and sent to the specified non-UVa email address.

Note: Password notifications to some non-UVa email services may be filtered to the Junk Mail or Spam folder. Non-UVa participants may need to check these folders for their password notification message if they don't find the notice in their Inbox.

Users have the option to add a photo to their profile. If a profile photo is added, it is displayed as part of the user's profile in the Profile tool, and also appears in other locations such as the Forums tool (where it is included alongside the user's name whenever the user posts comments or responses). Adding a profile photo brings an additional, personal element to discussions and other activities, which is particularly helpful in courses that meet exclusively online.

Profile photos are also visible to instructors as an alternative to official photos in the Roster tool. Access to profile photos may be restricted in the privacy settings.

You can embed a YouTube video in the Rich-Text Editor using YouTube's embed code.  If possible, you should select a video with captions for accessibility.

Tip: If you are adding content in the Lessons tool, you may also insert videos directly as individual items on the page, rather than within the Rich-Text Editor. See the articles on Lessons for more information on embedding and linking items on a lesson page.