Setting up courses>>Creating & upgrading courses
You can reuse a course that you created in CourseCompass. You can then modify the copied material as needed for your new course. When you copy a course, the new course has a different course ID and an empty gradebook.
To copy a course that you created:
Click Create/Copy Course in the Courses area on the My CourseCompass page. The Create or Copy a Course page displays.
Select Copy a Course, and then select Copy One of Your Existing Courses.
Select the course you want to copy in the drop-down list, then click Go.
A list of course components for the original course appears, with all components selected.
Deselect any course component you do not want to copy, then click Continue. The Enter Course Information page displays.
Type a course name and, optionally, a course description.
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 cannot access this course after the course end date you set, even if you change the course end date at a later time.
Click Create Course Now.
On the Confirmation - Request Received page, note the course ID. You need to communicate the course ID to students so they can enroll in your course. After the course is created, the course ID appears in the Courses area on the My CourseCompass page.
Note: CourseCompass automatically assigns a course ID number. This number is not related to the course number assigned by your institution.
Click Create or Copy Another Course to create another course, click Log Out to exit CourseCompass, or click Back to My CourseCompass to continue working in CourseCompass.
When CourseCompass finishes adding your course material, you receive an e-mail message. When you log in to CourseCompass, your new course appears in the Courses area on the My CourseCompass page.
Notes:
Assessments that you copy from another course retain the same availability setting as in the original course.
For information on integrating customized materials from the old course into the new one, see Integrating customized materials into an upgraded course.
If you created a course from scratch (a Personal Edition) before the course materials for your textbook were published and now you want to add these materials to your course, you can upgrade your Personal Edition by following this procedure.
If you copy another instructor's course or one of your own, the copy history appears on the Course Details page:
Tip: When you copy an existing course that you created, the original course remains. You may want to delete the original course to avoid confusion.