Courses Documentation and Support for Faculty

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.
• Utilize the CKEditor's Accessibility Checker to inspect accessibility issues on your site.

View the full Getting Started guide.

Content Sharing

• Add an image to engage students in your course site.
• 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.
• Customize the Home page to direct students on how to use the site.

Collaboration

• Zoom 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.

Advanced Topics

• Use the Lessons tool to structure and organize your content.
• Issue certificates of completion to students for achieving milestones.
• Embed content into the Lessons tool to streamline student learning.
• Question types available for assessments in the Tests & Quizzes tool.
• Ask audio-based questions on exams within the Tests & Quizzes tool. 
• Calibrate Assessment Settings for assessments in the Tests & Quizzes tool.