Administering a Course

Course Administration is a series of documentation that helps you to understand  some of the administration tasks of your course.  This includes course colors and course offering information. Note: Some of the elements described are not available at this time. This same information is included in Getting the Semester Started.

Managing Course Components is a series of documents that focuses on copying course materials as well as importing and exporting material. Tips for importing course components are included. 

The video Import/Export/Copy Components Tool gives details on how to use this tool. This tool is used for importing course content from one course to the next.  It is recommended to use either the D2L Brightspace or Blackboard format for testbanks you get from the publisher. Respondus can also be used to create D2L course packages for instructor created questions.

The Intelligent Agents tool finds activity that matches criteria that you set. The criteria that the agents search for are login activity, course activity, and release conditions in D2L Brightspace. This documentation will help instructors create and use intelligent agents.

Replace strings are variable names enclosed in curly braces {} that are automatically replaced by the corresponding configuration variable values. Replace strings are commonly used in e-mail templates for Intelligent Agents. Instructors can find out more about using replacements by creating an ihelp ticket and requesting assistance.

SCORM stands for Sharable Content Object Reference Model. It is a collection of standards that outlines how online learning materials and learning management systems should interact with one another. These documents will help instructors understand what SCORM is, how to add them to D2L Brightsapce, and Publish SCORM packages as SWF or HTML files for auto grading.

Courses can only be closed to student access by the instructor. If the instructor does not close old courses, students see and access courses from previous semesters.

Closing a D2L Brightspace course

1. Log in to D2L Brightspace and access the course you want to close.
2.  Click on Course Admin from the navbar. Next, select the Course Offering Information link in the Site Setup area. On the Course Offering Information page, uncheck the box next to µCourse is active.” Click on the Save button. The course is closed, and students will no longer see the course on their My Courses widget

Setting an End Date for a D2L Brightspace course

You can set your course to close on a specific date and time. 

1. To set an end date for a course, click Course Admin from the navbar once you are in your course. Next, you select the Course Offering Information link in the Site Setup area. Click on the check box next to “Course is active.” A check mark must appear in this box.
2. Click on the check box next to “End Date,” then select the date and time you want the course to close using the drop-down-menus next to the date and time area. Click Save.
3. On the course homepage, you will see a note next to the course title indicating when the course will close. No one will see that date and time listed until after the specified end date and time.
4. Once the end date and time is reached, the students will see no longer see course title on their My Courses widget on the My Home page when they log in to D2L Brightspace.