Setting up courses>>Creating & upgrading courses
CourseCompass provides a wealth of premium course material.
To create a course by browsing publisher-provided content:
Click Create/Copy Course in the Courses area on the My CourseCompass page. (If this is your first course, click Create Your First Course instead.)
Do either of the following:
Click Search Course Materials; type an author’s name, textbook title, or ISBN in the box; then click Go. Course materials that match the criteria you typed appear.
Click Browse by Discipline, select a discipline for your course in the first drop-down box, select a publisher in the second drop-down box, then click Go. Course materials that match the discipline and publisher(s) you selected appear.
Locate the textbook of interest and click Contents to see the types of accompanying materials available in CourseCompass.
Click Select Course Materials next to the course materials you want to use.
Type a course name and, optionally, a course description.
Note: Fields marked with an asterisk (*) require an entry—you must type an entry or make a selection to continue. If you skip one of these boxes and click Create Course Now, you will be prompted in red to insert the missing entry.
Next to Enrollment Start Date, select the month, day, and year when you want students to start enrolling in your course, or click the calendar icon and select a date. The default is the current date.
Next to Enrollment End Date, select the month, day, and year when you want students to stop enrolling in your course, or click the calendar icon and select a date. The default is the date nine months from the current date.
Next to Course Start Date, select the month, day, and year when you plan to begin teaching the course, or click the calendar icon and select a date. The default is the current date.
Next to Course End Date, select the month, day, and year when you want to close student access to your course, or click the calendar icon and select a date. The default is the date nine months from the current date.
Note: Students will be unable to access this course beyond the course end date. As an instructor, you will be able to access the course beyond this date, until the course is deleted.
Click Create Course Now.
On the Confirmation - Request Received page, note the course ID. You need to give this course ID to students so they can enroll in the course. After the course is created, the course ID appears in the Courses area on the My CourseCompass page.
Tip: Make a note of your course ID. You will need to give it to your students so they can enroll in the course. CourseCompass automatically assigns a course ID number. This number is not related to the course number assigned by your institution.
Note: Depending on the number of course creation requests in the CourseCompass queue and the size of the course material you selected, creating the course may take as little as an hour up to one day. While you are waiting, you do not need to stay connected to the Internet.
Click Create or Copy Another Course to create another course, click Log Out to exit CourseCompass, or click My CourseCompass to continue working in CourseCompass while you wait for the just created course to appear.
When CourseCompass finishes adding your course material, you will receive an e-mail message. When you log in to CourseCompass, your course appears in the Courses area on the My CourseCompass page.
Note: You can review publisher-provided course materials in any course at any time.