Course Administration and Customization

Welcome/Overview

Stay consistent

Helps your students

Keeps navigation consistent

Think about your audience

Reduces confusion for students taking multiple courses

Be creative in presenting your content

Be engaged

Be aware of the load on the system

Consistent items

Maintain default widgets

News

Updates

Events

Maintain location of default NavBar links

Zone UL

Course Home

My Home

Classlist

Zone UR

Welcome

Date

Zone LL

Content

Dropbox

Grades

Discussions

Quizzes

Schedule

Zone LR

Help

Logout

Keeps the community aspect

Studetns need a uniform and consistent link

Wants tools to be consistent and comfortable

Best practices emphasize consistency

Best practice emphasize simplicity

Edit Course

The tools taught in this module are found on the Course Administration page

Reach that page by using the NavBar link called "Edit Course"

On that page, tools are grouped under General, Tools or Administration

When any of the tools is openend, a menu of all the tools appears in the pane at the left side of the screen

General

Course Offering Information

Read only, for review

Homepages

Show samples of what a Course Homepage can be

Create or Copy

Cannot change the Default

Must Copy or Create new page to make changes

Edit Homepage

Properties

Name

Description

Homepage as a Tool/URL

Do not use!

Throws students off

Content/Layout

Header

Panels

Left

Center

Right

Footer

Set Active

Choose homepage to be active

May use series of homepages as course progresses

NavBars

Make Tool Active

Make Tool Inactive

Arrange Active Links on NavBar

Do not get creative

Be consistent with defaults

Add design elements

Carefully

Custom links

New

Display name

Link URL

Image URL

Do not use

Too much space on NavBar

Too much load on system

Target of the Link

Bottom Frame

Entire Window

New Window

Edit

Delete

Widgets

Select Widgets

Custom

System

Create Custom Widgets

Images

Always use Alt Text

Where to insert picture of self

Sized for web

Be aware of loads on system

Tools

Import / Export / Copy Components

Supports reuse of course material

Get original correct before copying

Can use your practice course as template

Copy to other courses as needed

If original was not correct, corrections must be made in every copy

Usually copy whole course

Partial copies are likely to overlook something

Easily leads ot broken links

Remember to change all dates

Remove unwanted items after copying

Be patient as it processes

Caution about copying Discussions

Feedback will be copied

Even when the messages are not copied

Export

Recommend exporting Grades from the Grade tool

Import

Of exported content

Of downloaded modules

Publisher content

Manage Files

Same as Manage Files tool

View User Progress

Same as View Progress in Classlist

Administration

Groups

Covered in Communication and Community