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Viewing Your Courses
My Courses automatically shows all the courses you teach along with the coursecode, section, duration and year. To view the details of a course, click on the course name.

When you view your course details the course outline, key images, downloads, notes and links are shown on the course outline. Students see the same information, but cannot edit any content.

Here you can easily view your course outline, key images, downloads, and summary views for the key images, downloads, links and weekly overview. Clicking on a link always provides more detailed or specific information about that item.

Editing, Adding and Deleting

Each section of My Courses allows you to add, edit and delete objects. Controls below each header allow you to control each section as you see fit. If you want to add an image, simply click the add button below the Key Images header.

Adding a Course Outline
If you have not already created a course outline, the system will ask whether you want to create one. There are two layouts for the course outline, default and custom. The default layout has predefined fields including the course meeting time, grading scheme and required readings. The custom layout allows you to put whatever you want in, adding bold, italic and underlined text, as well as hyperlinks.

Simply cut and paste information from Microsoft Word or other application into the text fields, or type directly into the fields. There is no spell checking provided, so we recommend you do so through Word prior to pasting the text. All 200 level design courses have default syllabus information filled in.

Once you’re happy with the material, click submit.

When finished with the course outline, add images, downloads, or provide more information about your weekly overview.

Posting Files to your Course Page
Files posted for your students are called Downloads, referring to any PDF, Word, Powerpoint files that you might post to the site in order to distribute to your students.

1. Select Downloads and Add
2. Insert a Title and Description for your file
3. Click Choose File… to select a file to upload. Navigate to the file on your hard drive using the standard Windows or Macintosh file browser.
4. Select Upload and wait. Uploading files can take up to 30 seconds or more.
You are currently allowed a maximum upload of 25 MB per file. Files take time to download, and longer to upload.

You are currently allowed a maximum of 150 MB of downloads per course. If you have additional needs beyond this, please contact IT Help Desk at 416-977-6000 x277.

Adding Key Images

My Courses allows you to post images to your course page. Scan or select a JPEG or GIF image that is less than 2 MB, and My Courses automatically creates good quality thumbnails, medium sized and full screen views of your images.

1. Select Key Images and Add
2. Insert a Title and Description for your file
3. Click Choose File… to select a file to upload. Navigate to the file on your hard drive using the standard Windows or Macintosh file browser.
4. Select Upload and wait. Uploading files can take up to 30 seconds or more.
Maximum upload of 5 MB per image
and a maximum of 100 MB of key images per course.

Please convert your files into JPEG or GIF format in order to post the images.

Emailing Your Classes
My Courses allows you to send broadcast messages to your individual classes, and sends you a confirmation email to your Faculty Email Inbox, including all the recipients and the message content.

1. From the “Course Outline” page select Email Entire Class
2. Enter a subject line and message
3. Click Submit

You should receive an email to your Faculty Email account confirming that an email has been sent.

To view a class list, select Students. My Courses returns a class list of your students, with full names and email addresses. To download your class list in Excel, click Download My Class List in Excel.

Allowing your Students to Submit Files Through the Web
Students need a simple way of submitting files to you for review or presentation that doesn’t clog your email box. Your students can submit files to you through the web. My Courses records the student name and time of files uploaded. Files up to 2.5 MB can be uploaded with a maximum of 30 MB of student files.

NOTE: IT Services does not recommend using this tool for submitting assignments. File Submission is turned off by default. Enable file submission by selecting Submitted Files, and click Enable. Student files appear as a list (like the Downloads list) on the same page.

How Do Students Access My Course Materials?

By browsing to http://mycourses.ocad.ca students can access the course material you have posted to them. Students can only view the courses they are enrolled in. Students who are not in your class cannot see your course materials. Student data is derived from the Registrar’s office, so if a student is not registered in your course, or drops the course, they immediately lose access to the course.

1. Browse to http://mycourses.ocad.ca
2. Login with your Student Email username and password
3. Select a course from the list of courses. If you are posted in a course, but are not taking it, please contact IT Help Desk, ITHelp@ocad.ca

If you don’t fill out a specific section on the My Courses like a note or assignment, it simply does not show that particular section to the students.

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Last Modified:1/24/2012 12:57:31 PM

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