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Setting up multisemester courses

Multisemester courses typically use the same textbook over two or more semesters. CourseCompass makes it easy for students to sign up for a follow-on semester of a multisemester course without getting another student access code.

Here is how the process works:

1. The instructor for the first semester creates a course and gives students the course ID.

2. Students register for and complete the course.

3. The instructor for the follow-on semester creates a course using the same textbook and gives students the course ID.

4. Students sign up for the follow-on course by clicking:

• Enroll in Another Course in the Courses area.

• Details next to any course in the Courses area, then clicking Enroll in Another Course.

• Account Summary in the top-right corner, then clicking Enroll in Another Course.

Notes:

• No performance data from the gradebook carries over to the follow-on semester because the follow-on semester course is a new course.

• It does not matter if the instructors are different in the different semesters of the course.

• To use materials from the completed semester in the follow-on semester, create the follow-on semester's course by copying your own course or the course of the instructor who taught the completed semester.

• The course materials must be exactly the same. For example, if the instructor of the follow-on course selects a different edition of the textbook or course materials with an eBook whereas the completed course did not use an eBook, CourseCompass would not recognize the materials as matching.