Note: If you change default Content settings from the Content tool at the org level, changes you make apply to all course offerings in the organization. A course offering is not affected by org level Content setting changes if its default course Content settings have been modified.
Manually create a course offering or template
To manually create a course offering or template
You can create a new template by itself, but not a new course offering. All course offerings in Brightspace must be associated with a course template.
Once you have set up your new course offering or template, you can begin adding course components to it using the various course tools or by copying course components from another offering or template.
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Course Management.
- Click Create a New Course Offering or Template.
- Select one of the following options:
- Create a new template
- Create a new course template and a new course offering that has never been offered before
- To copy components from an existing template into the new offering, Create a new course offering based on an existing template. Select a template from the drop-down list or click Search For Template.
- To automatically copy the homepage and navbar settings from an existing course offering into the new one, click Re-offer a course offering by choosing a previous version of that course offering. Select a course offering from the drop-down list or click Search For Offering.
- Click Next.
- Enter information about the new template, then click Next.
- If you chose to create a course offering, add information about the new course offering, then click Next.
- Click Create.
- If you created a course offering and selected the Registration check box, complete the following steps on the appropriate pages:
- On the Registration Info page, enter registration information.
- Set the registration restriction.
- Choose your registration form.
- Continue making changes to your course offering or template on the Summary page, or click Done.
Video: Create a Course Offering
Activate a course offering
Activating a course makes the course appear in the registered learner's My Courses widget. Activating a course also makes it available to learners if you have not set a Start Date or End Date for your course.
If you set a Start Date for your course that is later than the day you activate your course, the course appears in the My Courses widget, but is not available to learners until the date specified.
If you set an End Date for your course and do not deactivate your course, after that specified date passes, the course remains visible in the My Courses widget, but is not available to learners.
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Course Management.
- Search for the course offering name.
- Click the course offering you want to deactivate.
- On the navbar, click Course Admin > Course Offering Information.
- Select the Course is active check box.
Tip: You can deactivate a course offering to hide it from learners without actually deleting it. This way the content (including user data) can be kept for future use.
- Click Save.
Deactivate a course offering
You can deactivate a course offering to hide it from users without actually deleting it. This way the content (including user data) can be kept for future use.
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Course Management.
- Search for the course offering's name.
- Click the course offering you want to deactivate.
- On the navbar, click Course Admin > Course Offering Information.
- Clear the Course is active check box.
- Click Save.
Re-offering a course
Once you have the master copy of a course set up inside a course template, there are two options you can choose when creating new course offerings for that course:
- Create a new course offering based on an existing template
- Re-offer a course offering by choosing a previous version of that course offering
The advantage to re-offering a previous offering is that the course homepage and navbar from the selected offering are automatically copied into the new offering and activated. This saves you from having to copy them from the template. The disadvantage to re-offering a course offering is that any customizations from the template that were made in the offering will be copied. If you choose to re-offer a previous offering, the new course offering’s Name, Code, Language and Path fields are filled by default with the properties from the previous offering. However, we recommend that you modify the Name, Code, and Path fields so they are unique for each offering.
Delete course offerings
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Course Management.
- To find the course offering you want to delete, in the Offerings tab, enter a course name in the Search For field.
- Select the check boxes beside the course offerings you want deleted.
- Click Delete Selected.