How to Create a New WebStudy Course - Admin

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1 How to Create a New WebStudy Course - Admin Hover your mouse over and click Course on the line below. New Course Click the button to the left of Create course to create an individual course. This opens the Create a New Course page. Administrative Data Create a New Course!Instructor: Required. Click the down arrow on the Instructor list box and choose the name of an existing instructor from the list of active instructors. Co-instructors: Optional. You can select one or more from the list of active instructors. Co-instructors have the same permissions in the course as the Instructor except to edit the materials. Assistant instructors Optional. If there are any active Assistant instructors on file, choose one or more from the list. Assistant instructors have limited permissions in the course. They are basically graders and can be assigned certain tests, assignments and or forums to grade for the Instructor. Enrolled students: Clicking on the Manage students button produces a list of all students at your institution with an active WebStudy account. They can be added to a course by clicking the check box by their name. Note: There is an Institutional Setting allowing or preventing Administrators at the Institution from manually adding students to a course in this way. Most students are added to or removed from courses by CSV or XML file upload. Click on the Red X in upper right corner to close student list once opened. Speed-Dater is disabled for Administrators on this page.!activate On (mm/dd/yy hh.mm AM): Required. This is the date/time the Course will be available for students to log in. Note: This option can be disabled for Instructors. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 1 of 7

2 Deactivate On (mm/dd/yy hh.mm PM): Optional. If set, this is the date/time the Course will no longer be available for students to log in. The Instructor can always access the course. Note: This option can be disabled for Instructors. Guest password, if applicable. Optional. If you would like a Guest to be able to view the course, you can enter a guest password here. Note: This is editable by the Instructor. A login name is automatically created with the course. (Login name: will be determined after you create the course : Guest access permission (highlight acceptable actions) : Optional. Default access allows guests to Submit forum posts, Submit assignments, Submit new links or link comments, Submit new private or public note. Actions that are highlighted are allowed. To remove one or more of the permissions, ctrl-click those that you want to disallow. In the image below, Submit new links or link comments has been disallowed: Course Name (options in this category are usually entered/edited by the Administrator)!Full name of the course : Required. Enter the name of the course, English Compositon I, Financial Accounting, etc. Some Institutions add the Instructor s name: Art Appreciation (Jones) for example. Note: It is not recommended to allow Instructors to change the course name.!course Code : Required. Enter the course code (section code/number), ENG-101-OL, ACC-104-OL, etc. This code must match the actual code in the Institution s Registration system. Note: It is not recommended to allow Instructors to change the course code. Comma delimited list of alternate name codes: Optional. A list separated by commas of other course codes (sections) to be added to this course shell can be entered here. This allows multiple sections of the same course to be added to one course shell. Course Frontpage (options in this category are usually entered/edited by the Instructor) Show : Has no effect on the current Event Summary Pages. Show instructor s name and contact information: Selecting YES from the drop-down list will display the name, and any contact information ( address, phone #), to be displayed to students. Selecting NO will keep it hidden from students. The default is NO and it is usually up to the Instructor to edit this option. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 2 of 7

3 Show instructor s photo : Selecting YES from the drop-down list will enable display an uploaded picture of the Instructor on the Event Summary pages and the About Tab. Seting this option to NO removes it from both places. It is usually up to the Instructor to edit this option. Optional Frontpage Text : Optional. Click the default text shown below: write icon to enter text that will replace the This opens the RTF Editor. It is IMPORTANT not to Paste directly from a Word document using ctrl-v or right-click and Paste. If pasting from Word (or another word processor) use the Paste from word icon on the RTF Editor toolbar. This strips out unnecessary printer codes from the copied text that can cause problems later, editing the text, and/or displaying it properly to students. Please see How to Properly Use the RTF Editor Course Description - (options in this category are usually entered/edited by the Instructor) Course Summary : Optional. Click the write icon to enter text that describes what the course covers. *Please do not copy & paste directly from your word processor. Prerequisites Description : Optional. Click the write icon to enter text that describes any prerequisites for this course. *Please do not copy & paste directly from your word processor. Any Other Information: Optional. Click the write icon to enter text that describes any other information you wish to display to students. *Please do not copy & paste directly from your word processor. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 3 of 7

4 Evaluation - (options in this category are usually entered/edited by the Instructor) Evaluation Description: Optional. Click the write icon to enter text that describes your evaluation (grading) policy. Please do not copy & paste directly from your word processor.! Grading System: Required. A Grading System is a table with point ranges which equate to Letter grades. The Administrator can create Institutional Grading System(s), and at some Institutions Instructors can also create their own Grading Systems. If allowed for Instructors they see the Administration/GRD SYS option on their Shared Toolbar (with Mail, Personal, etc.)! Allow multiplication factor: Required. This option allows weighting of all gradable items by item. If the Institution enables Category Grading, this option must be set to NO. Entering text in the Final Grades Items and a % in Weight of items above is informational only. It does not affect grade calculation. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 4 of 7

5 Additional Information - (some options in this category are usually entered/edited by the Instructor. Those usually set by the Administrator are indicated.) Allow students to post links: This option is usually entered by the Instructor. Setting this option to YES will allow students to add hyperlinks to the Links tab. Students can see expanded syllabus : This option is usually entered by the Instructor. Setting this option to YES will allow students to access the Expanded Syllabus through the See Expanded Syllabus link at the top of the Timeline. Note: Instructors will see the link regardless of the setting. Course Level: This option is usually entered by the Administrator when creating the course. Choose the appropriate level from the drop-down list.. Department: This option is usually entered by the Administrator. Choose the appropriate department from the drop-down list. Academic Calendar This option is usually entered by the Administrator. Choose the appropriate Semester name/code from the drop-down list. It is not recommended that the Instructor change this option because it could move the course out of an active semester! Timezone of the course: This option is usually entered by the Administrator. The default setting is WebStudy Default (Eastern Time) (GMT-5:00) -US Eastern Standard Time which equates to Greenwich Mean Time minus 5 hours. If you select Specific time zone two more options appear: Specific time zone: Select the appropriate time zone from the drop-down list. Observe Daylight Saving Time Select YES or NO from the drop-down list. Grading items sorting: This option is usually entered by the Instructor. Choices are Timeline Sequence where the gradable items are listed alphabetically by Timeline session, or Type Sequence where the items are grouped by type Assignments, Tests, Forums, etc. Allow students to see all additional mywebstudy Tutor: This option is usually entered by the Instructor. If YES is selected, the students will be able to see mywebstudytutor items if the criteria set for them is met. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 5 of 7

6 The following options are usually set by the Instructor. Enable mywebstudytutor: If YES is selected mywebstudy Tutor can be used to supply additional items to specific students based on Rules and Criteria set. Note: The mytutor Tab needs to be included in the course to be able to create and edit mytutor Rules and Criteria. Enable Turnitin: Selecting YES allows Essay Assignments to be automatically submitted to Turnitin for plagiarism check. Note: The Instructor will also need to enter your Turnitin login and Turnitin Password information in your Personal/About settings. This is the login and password the Instructor has set up in Turnitin for this course, which allows automatic login for automatic submission to Turnitin. Show totals in gradebook: Selecting YES displays Totals at the bottom of the Students grade book. The Top line STUDENT TOTAL indicates how many points the student has earned out of how many she/he has attempted (or have become activated as of a particular date). The Bottom line TOTAL indicates how many points the student has earned out of the Maximum points for the course. Suppress session numbering: By default each Timeline session has a sequence number. The Instructor can choose to hide those numbers if they might be confusing for students. For example if your first session is a Welcome or Course Introduction session, and the second session is titled Chapter 1, the sequence number of the Chapter 1 session would be #2. Show Syllabus Files on Timeline: Selecting YES displays a Syllabus file that has been uploaded by the Instructor using the Manage Syllabus files button. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 6 of 7

7 Click the Manage Syllabus files button to browse for and attach the syllabus file for this course/semester. The currently uploaded Syllabus file (if any) will be displayed as a link. Uploading the Syllabus file through Manage Syllabus files will cause a link to appear at the top of the Timeline that students can click on to open the Syllabus. Click the Submit button to Save changes to the Course Information. How Create a New Course - Administrator Page 7 of 7