Besides uploading resources and arranging activities, it is also important on how to present them to your students. In the Administration block on the left, click Edit settings under Course administration.

Course Administration Block

Course settings are arranged in sections. Click on each section title to expand them. Click “Expand all” on the upper right to show all sections at once.

Edit course settings

Not all settings are useful to your courses. Here we introduce certain commonly used settings:

General

Course full name and Course short name
The names of the course are displayed in various pages and also in the course email messages. The CUSCS term-course-class naming convention is used. Please do not edit these two names; otherwise some server-side functions will not be able to locate your courses.

Course start date
This setting determines the start of the first week for a course in weekly format. By default the course start dates will be the same as the term start dates, which may not be applicable to your courses. You should update the course start dates before organizing your course contents.

Course format

Format
The course format determines the layout of the course page. By default the format will be set to Weekly format. You can switch to Topics format if necessary. Formats other than Weekly and Topics are rarely used.

Number of sections
This is the formatting options for Weekly / Topics format.

Files and uploads

Maximum upload size
This setting determines the largest size of file that can be uploaded to the course, limited by the site-wide setting set by an administrator. Activity modules also include their own maximum upload size settings for further restricting the file size.

Group

Group mode
This setting has 3 options:

  • No groups ─ There are no sub groups, everyone is part of one big community
  • Separate groups ─ Each group member can only see their own group, others are invisible
  • Visible groups ─ Each group member works in their own group, but can also see other groups

Click Save changes to save the new settings and return to the course page.

Last modified: Thursday, 14 August 2014, 12:07 PM