Getting Started

• Access Courses (powered by Sakai).
• Navigate your site tabs and tools inside Courses.
• Publish your class site so students can see and access it.
• Add your syllabus to inform students of the class learning objectives.
• Add a file, folder, or web link to Resources to share class materials with participants.
• Add or remove tools to engage students in learning activities.
• Reorder your site tabs to list your most current class sites first and hide older sites.

View the full Getting Started guide.

Course Management

• Add class rosters to combine multiple course sections into one site.
• Add or remove tools to engage students in learning activities.
• Add participants such as a teaching assistant or librarian.
• Create groups to grant or restrict access to tools or materials.
• Import course materials from another course.
• Picture Roster to view student photos.
• Publish your class site so students can see and access it.
• Reorder, rename, or hide your tools to focus student attention.

Content Sharing

• Add a calendar event to keep students informed of tasks and due dates.
• Add a file, folder, or web link to Resources to share documents.
• Add a news feed (RSS) to your tool menu.
• Add a podcast.
• Add a syllabus to inform students of the class learning objectives.
• Add a web link to your tool menu (video).
• Customize the Home page to direct students on how to use the site.

Communications

• Adobe Connect to meet online with shared whiteboard, audio, video, and more.
• Announcements to keep participants informed of important notices (video).
• Blogs to promote student reflection and journaling.
• Chat Room to facilitate synchronous text messaging.
• Email Archive to create an email distribution list for your site.
• Forums to encourage asynchronous discussion (video).
• Messages to send emails to participants.

Collaboration

• Adobe Connect to meet online with shared whiteboard, audio, video, and more.
• Dropbox to securely share documents student-to-professor.
• Forums to encourage asynchronous discussion.
• G Suite for live document editing, document sharing, and much more.
• Project Site to create a shared space for a research or group team.
• Wiki for collaborative knowledge-building and collaboration. (coming soon)

Assessments

• Assignments to collect and grade paper submissions online.
• Gradebook to securely share academic progress with students (video).
• Polls to anonymously get the pulse on class attitudes and beliefs.
• Statistics to review participant activity with your class tools and materials (video).
• Tests & Quizzes to administer online assessments (video).
• Turnitin Assignments to help students maintain academic integrity (video).