You can create a blank source course or a new source course from an existing course in the Source Courses tab in the Courses tool.
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Important: A source course must always have a course template attached to it as a direct parent. If a source course is not a child of a course template, then the Re-offer source course function does not work.
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Create a source course
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Courses.
- Select the Source Courses tab and click Create Source Course.
- Select whether you want to start with a blank course or select an existing course to copy the course settings to the source course.
To create a blank source course:
- From the Create Source Course dialog, select Start with a blank source course.
- Click Continue.
- Enter a Name and Code for your source course.
- Do one of the following:
- Click Change Template to select an existing template for your source course.
- Click Create Course Template then enter a Name and Code. Click Save.
- Optionally, select a Department.
- Click Save or Save and Manage.
To create a source course from an existing course:
- From the Create Source Course dialog, select Start from an existing course.
- Search Courses or select an existing course that you want to copy.
- Click Create Source Course.
- Observe the Source Course Creation in Progress dialog. Click Close.
Once the content and settings from the existing course are copied, a notification reading Source Course [course name] creation completeappears in Update Alerts on the navbar.
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Notes:
- You can optionally enroll learner roles based on the settings of the d2l.System.Enrollment.LearnerRole (OrgUnit) configuration variable. If users are enrolled into a source course with a role that matches the one set in this configuration variable, their enrollments are automatically pushed to the latest re-offered course for that source course. However, D2L recommends enrolling learners directly into re-offered courses instead.
- Administrator roles can be directly enrolled into a Source Course org unit using regular enrollment methods. The enrolled Administrator role is copied from the source course into its re-offered courses.
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Adding content and dates to a source course
You can create content in a source course using the same workflows as a course offering.
When creating content like assignments, quizzes, and discussions with Due Dates, Start Dates, and End Dates, ensure that these dates are updated to the latest dates before re-offering your course. Any dates you add to your source course content will be the same dates that are used when you re-offer that source course. Date setting do not update automatically when re-offering a source course and must be done in either the source course before re-offering, or in the re-offered course itself.
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Note: D2L recommends enabling Completion Tracking in your source course so you can track completion for all course re-offerings. |
Tool limitations in source courses
A source course serves as a content model for course offerings only. Because learners are not intended to be enrolled in source courses or interact with the content and tools enabled within the source course, D2L recommends avoiding or disabling tools that rely on learner engagement. While all tools are technically available for enablement in a source course, without learning engagement, some may not function as expected. These tools can be set up for use in the active course offering after re-offering the source course.
The following tools are not recommended for use in a source course:
- Accommodations
- Attendance
- Brightspace Parent & Guardian
- Class Progress
- Classlist
- ePortfolio
- Locations
- Seating Chart
- SIS Course Merge
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Warning: D2L strongly recommends against using SIS Course Merge with a source course org unit. If SIS Course Merge is used with a source course, a parent course offering is created and creates functionality errors in the merged course. Consequently, the SIS Course Merge permissions are not available at the Source Course level when editing permissions in the Roles and Permissions tool .
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Delete a source course
You can delete a source course with no associated course offerings. In cases where you want to delete a source course with associated courses, you must first delete those course offerings. Deleting a re-offered course offering does not affect its source course.
To delete a source course:
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Courses.
- Select the Source Courses tab and click Delete from the context menu of the source course you want to delete.
- Click Delete.
Deleted source courses are listed in the Org Unit Editor > Recycle Bin. You can Restore source course org units any time, or delete it permanently from the Recycle Bin.
Manage source courses from Source Course Information
The Source Course Information page is available on the Course Administration page in source courses and course offerings that were re-offered from source courses.
To manage source courses:
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Courses.
- In the Source Courses tab, click the name of the source course you want to manage.
- On the Course Administration page in the source course, click Source Course Information.
- On the Source Course Information page, perform any of the following actions:
- Under Course Image, click Browse to select an image for the course. After uploading your file, click Add.
- For your Homepage Banner, select the Display the image in a banner on the course homepage check box to ensure your image appears on the course homepage.
- Enter a Name for your source course. You can also select Translate Name, which opens the Translate Name dialog where you can add the source course name in other supported languages.
- Enter a Code for your source course.
- Under Locale, select a locale for your source course. You can Force Locale for all users of the source course by selecting the Override local preferences check box.
- Under Path, click Choose Destination to select the root folder where your course's content related files are stored in Brightspace. Click Select a Path after you select the destination file path.
- For Address Book, select the Show course address book check box if you want the address book to appear for your source course.
- In the Description field, enter a description for your source course.
- In Associated Course Offerings, view the re-offered courses for this source course. Click the name of a course offering in the list to navigate to the re-offered course's homepage.
- Click Save.
