Basics of Course Settings

1. From your homepage, you can access the Course Settings screen by clicking on the gear icon to the right of the course name, then selecting Settings:

2. Or, from your course homepage (which is the first screen you see when you click on the name of your course), click on Course Settings which is located on the left-hand side:

3. You can change the name of your course to whatever you would like in the Course name field.  For example, if I wanted to change the name of this course from OpenStax Calculus Volume 1 2024 to MATH 1120 Fall 2024, I would simply enter MATH 1120 Fall 2024, then click Submit to save:

4. After clicking Submit in the Course Settings screen, you will be taken back to your homepage (the first screen when you login). To re-enter the course, click on the course name. You can also get back into the Course Settings from this screen by clicking on the gear icon next to the name of the course, and selecting Settings:

5. In the Availability and Access folder, the Available? box is checked by default. This means the students can access this course. If you uncheck this box, students will not be able to access the course:

6. Lock for assessment, by default, is on No lock. This means the entire course is available, and it is not locked on anything.  If you wanted to lock the course on a particular assessment, which means during this lock, students would ONLY be able to access the selected assessment, use the dropdown menu to select the assessment for which you want the course to be locked. For example, if I wanted all of my students ONLY working on 1.2 during our next class, I would choose 1.2 in the dropdown:

…ensuring that students only have access to 1.2:

7. Course start & end dates allow you to set dates when you want the course available. For example, if I put in a start date of 09/6/24, and an end date of 12/5/24, students would only be able to access the course in between these dates.

8. Default start/end time for new items allows you to set your preferred start time, and end time, for any new assessments you create in your course:

9. By default, the Self-enrollment box is checked. This should always be checked, per the fact that students will enroll in your course by entering the course ID. If you decide to integrate your course into a Learning Management System (for more information reference this guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITVlOevAS-5rLfn7SJJTKHBF0JXzdkGFg0o2XRmyIfM/edit), you may want to uncheck this box:

10. The, Allow other instructors to copy course items, section lets you control how much access you want other instructors to have to your course. If you don’t want anybody copying items from your course, you would choose, No. If you only want instructors from your school to have access, select Yes: No key required for group members, require key from others:

11. The LMS Integration (LTI) folder in the Course Settings should not be used. If you want to integrate your course into any Learning Management System, you follow the instructions listed here under, View integration setup instructions, or reference this guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ITVlOevAS-5rLfn7SJJTKHBF0JXzdkGFg0o2XRmyIfM/edit :

...but - more appropriately - these same instructions are listed on the Export screen, and the Export screen is where you should go if you want to Integrate. The Export screen can be found on the left hand-side from the course homepage:

12. If you want to assign LatePasses to students when they enroll in the course, you would do this in the Additional Options folder.  For example, if I wanted every student to get 10 LatePasses upon enrollment, I would put the number 10 in the, Auto-assign LatePasses on course enroll field, and if I wanted each LatePass to extend the due date by 48 hours, I would enter 48 in the, LatePasses extend the due date by field. More information on LatePasses can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12cU0ylbDM8T7-2u3yDt7uopF0Cpm1KgE_a71O4b34lQ/edit 

13. If you want to receive an email each time a student enrolls, check the, Send teachers a message when students enroll box:

14. The options next to the Message System are self-explanatory. Choose the appropriate field that meets your needs:

15. The Navigation Links for Students boxes, by default, are checked. If you uncheck these boxes, then the students will not have a Forums navigation button, or a Calendar button, respectively, when they view the course:

16. Lastly, the Show remaining LatePasses on the student gradebook page box is checked by default - this shows how many LatePasses a student has in the gradebook. If you uncheck this box, you would not be able to see how many LatePasses a student has left in the gradebook (however, with or without this box checked, you can always see how many LatePasses a student has left in the Roster). Clicking Submit saves any changes you made in the Course Settings: