Course Administration is a central area for accessing tools related to setting up and managing your course. From here you can access many tools to help you run your course smoothly, including:
- Enable and disable course tools
- Rename course tools
- Manage course offering information
- Import course components
- Import learning outcomes
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Note: Course Administration is now the central location to manage learning outcomes. Learning Outcomes continue to appear in New Content Experience (Lessons), and any learning outcome you import in one location is reflected in the other. |
About course locale
If your organization supports multiple locales, you can change the default locale used for your course offering. Normally users can specify their own locale within their preferences. You can also override locale preferences so that all users see the same locale in your course. You might use this if you are teaching a language immersion course and want all the cultural formatting and text in the course offering to reflect the language you are teaching.
Course Admin offering information
You can edit the properties of your course offering on the Course Offering Information page.
- On the navbar, click Course Admin.
- Click Course Offering Information.
- Make your changes.
- Click Save.
Change the status of a tool
Course tools, such as Quizzes, Content, Discussions, and Grades, are course components that you add to your course offering to share learning content, foster interaction, and evaluate performance. You can enable and disable course tools to specifically tailor your course to your pedagogy and course materials.
Before enabling a tool, be aware of the following:
- Some activated tools can only be accessed from the navbar or home page widgets.
Before disabling a tool, be aware of the following:
- Release conditions based on the tool are not enforced as long as the tool remains disabled.
- Competency activities associated with the tool are hidden but are still associated with any learning objectives to which they are attached. Users cannot complete these learning objectives while the tool is disabled. You should detach or delete any activities associated with a tool before disabling the tool.
- Grade items associated with the tool remain, but you must manually update them in the grade book.
- Quicklinks to the tool’s items persist but a “No Resource Found” message displays when they are followed. You should remove any related quicklinks when you deactivate a tool.
- Deactivating a tool does not delete any items or user data inside the tool; it simply hides the tool from your course offering.
To enable or disable a tool
- On the navbar, click Course Admin.
- Click Tools.
- Do one of the following:
- To enable a tool, toggle its status to On.
- To disable a tool, toggle its status to Off.
Rename a tool
You may want to rename a tool if your organization or geographic area is more familiar with different terminology. For example, you could rename Assignments to Assignment.
Changing the custom navbar name for a tool does not replace all uses of the original term throughout the system. It only changes the display name for the tool on the navbar. To replace all references to a specific term, a site administrator can update your organization’s language pack using the Manage Languages tool.
- On the navbar, click Course Admin.
- Click Tools.
- In the Custom Navbar Name field for the tool that you want to rename, enter the new tool name.
- Press Enter or click outside the field. Your changes save automatically.