In this session, you'll learn how to assign the basic settings for the course you created this morni

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• In this session, you'll learn how to assign the
  basic settings for the course you created this
  morning.
• To start, please log in as an instructor at
  www.coursecompass.com using the instructor name
  and password you created this morning.

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Adjust Course Settings

• This is done via the Details button on the
  MyCourseCompass page (the first page you reach
  after you log in).

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Select the Course Settings menu button for
your new course.
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Allowing your course to be copied
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Allowing your course to be copied
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Now return to the MyCourseCompass page
Then click on your new course, and open the
control panel.
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Should you designate your course as a Standard or
a Coordinator course?

• The default setting is Standard, which is what
  you want if you are teaching just one section of
  the course.
• If youll be teaching multiple sections, or
  designing a template course to be used by
  multiple instructors, change the designation to
  Coordinator.

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Characteristics of a Coordinator Course

• Courses that are copied from the coordinator
  course automatically become member courses.
• With a coordinator course, anything you change
  within the MyMathLab box in Control Panel in that
  course will also be changed in any member
  courses.
• Changes made in any area outside the MML box
  after a member course is copied from it will NOT
  show up in that member course (e.g.
  Announcements, Course Menu). Therefore you should
  try to have all your non-MML customization
  finished before you allow member courses to be
  copied from it.
• Students cannot enroll in a Coordinator course.

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Characteristics of a Coordinator Course (ctd)

• The Coordinator has access to all MML functions
  of member courses (gradebook, HW/Test Manager,
  passwords, etc.)
• Timing of changes made in Coordinator course is
  important.
• Changes you make as Coordinator will overwrite
  changes made by member course instructors
  (passwords, dates/times), so try to have all
  settings properly set before you make an
  assignment available for instructors to change
  times/dates/passwords for their sections.
• Once a student in ANY member course has started
  an assignment, quiz or test, no further editing
  of that assignment can be done in the coordinator
  course or any member course.

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How to change your course to a Coordinator
course

• In Control Panel, within the MyMathLab box, click
  on Settings and Group Administration.

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How to change your course to a Coordinator
course
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Group Admin settings box
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Setting Section Coverage Parameters

• In this section, you'll learn how to set up your
  course web site to access only those sections of
  the online textbook that you are planning to
  cover in your syllabus.

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In Content Areas Box of Control Panel

• Select Chapter Contents

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Use modify to make unneeded chapters and/or
sections unavailable to students.
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Note If you remove a chapter or section, you
cant add it back in later (or in a future copy
of the course.)
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To make a chapter unavailable to students
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To make a section unavailable to students

Click on the Chapter containing the sections you
want to make unavailable, then use Modify to make
the desired sections unavailable.
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• Take a few minutes to get started on customizing
  your content coverage.
• Also explore the additional aids available in the
  Chapter Contents list and decide which ones you
  want to keep available to your students.

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Examples of some of the additional items
available in Chapter Contents (Most will be
available to students unless you modify the
availability status.)
More items available scroll down to view them.
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Examples of some of items for which the default
status is NOT AVAILABLE. (You must modify these
in order to make them available for student in
your course.)
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Setting up the Course Menu Headings and Contents

• In this section, you'll be choosing which menu
  headings to display on your course web site and
  customizing the headings and contents.

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In Course Options Box of the Control Panel

• Select Manage Course Menu

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Making selected buttons unavailable
Select Modify
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Making selected buttons visible (available) or
hidden (unavailable)
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Changing the name of a button
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Adding a new menu button
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Suggestions on customizing your menu
Default menu
Our customized menu for Intermediate Algebra
Our customized menu for Beginning Algebra

• Keep it simple! Eliminate buttons you wont be
  using.

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Suggestions on Customizing Your Menu

• Change name of Announcements button to Course
  Home (Avoids confusion with MML announcements
  feature, especially if you are using this feature
  in a Coordinator course. More on this in Session
  VIII tomorrow).
• Add a Calendar/Syllabus button
• Add a Grading/Course Info or Course Policies
  button
• Consider whether you want to keep the
  Communication and Multimedia Library buttons (We
  hide them).

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Suggestions on Customizing Your Menu

• Make the Staff Information button available
  (Default status is Unavailable)
• Customize this area via the Staff Information
  button in the Course Tools are of Control Panel

(You can spend some time exploring this now, or
come back to it in a later Course Customization
session or in an evening open lab session.)
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Suggestions on Customizing Your Menu

• Look at the items available in the Tools menu and
  see which you want to be available to students.

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Default Tools Menu (with no changes made in
Tool Availability)
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Suggestions on Customizing Your Menu

• Consider hiding the Do Homework and Take a Test
  buttons.
• Students can get to these areas from the Chapter
  Contents area, with the advantage of seeing all
  of the study aids available for the section
  theyre working on rather than just going
  directly to the homework assignment.

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Standard Items Available in Each Section of
Chapter Contents
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Suggestions for Really Ambitious Customizers

• Customize the Chapter Contents area into an
  Assignments menu button to allow direct
  navigation to homework, quizzes and tests via
  each section heading.
• You can also add a link to your customized
  lecture slides within each section folder.
• If interested in exploring this, we can help you
  with this feature during later small group Course
  Customization sessions.
• You can view this type of setup in the Math 010
  and 110 guest sites via the Visit Course Web
  Sites button on our Math TLC web site at
  http//mathtlc.uwstout.edu/ or at the demo
  courses we have set up in your StoutGuestInstructo
  r login (the one with password Workshop08).

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Reminders

• No night session tonight.
• Tomorrows first session will be at 900 a.m.
• There will be more guided Course Customization
  sessions tomorrow, plus additional small-group
  Course Customization sessions on Wednesday and
  Thursday, plus extra optional open lab sessions
  Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Friday
  afternoon.
• See you in the morning!

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