Getting Ready For the Term Start
Before you start building and filling your course with content, we recommend to plan your course development by using following checklists:
Instructor Term Start Checklist: Use this printable checklist to help ensure your LEARN course is ready to go for the start of the term.
Secure Quiz Settings for LEARN Checklist: Use this printable checklist to help ensure you have the settings you need applied to your LEARN quiz.
Content:
- Introduction to LEARN
- Getting Ready to Develop Your Course
- Getting a Development MASTER Course
- Getting Your Courses in LEARN
- Developing Your Course
- Copying Components Into Your Course
- Adding New Course Content
- Creating a Gradebook
- Using the Class List
- Visit the LEARN Support for Instructors page for even more LEARN tutorials.
Introduction to LEARN
If you are new to LEARN, you may want to visit the Getting Started with LEARN guide.
Getting Ready to Develop Your Course
Getting a Development MASTER Course
A MASTER Course does not have students or a start and end date, making it the ideal place to build content and try out new ideas. Once the course is ready it can be copied into the delivery course. It’s not a good idea to edit your live courses heavily in case something goes wrong and you accidentally erase student data or important content. That’s why a MASTER course exists.
It can be useful to have a demo student to help you test things from a student’s perspective. More information on Demo Students can be found here.
To get a Development MASTER and/or a demo student please email LEARN Support.
Getting Your Courses into LEARN
Courses appear in LEARN when they have been flagged as a LEARN course in Colleague, the College’s Student Information System (SIS). If your course has the “D2L” flag applied it will appear in LEARN automatically. If you are listed as the course’s instructor, you will also be enrolled as an instructor automatically.
If you check your courses in LEARN and don’t see the course you expect to see, first check with your program’s coordinator and confirm that:
- The course has the “D2L” flag applied to it
- You are listed as the course’s instructor
If either of these things are not done, your program’s coordinator needs to contact Enrollment Services to have these changes made.
Changes will occur automatically when LEARN is synchronized with Colleague daily at 7am and noon.
Developing Your Course
Importing the Course Introduction Package
Follow the Importing the Course Introduction Package instructions to import this module into your LEARN course.
How to Copy Components into a Course
You can easily copy course components from a Master, or any other course you are enrolled in as a Developer, into an empty course shell.
More information and instructions on copying content you can find here.
How to Add Course Content
Learn how to add course content to your LEARN shell.
More information and instructions on uploading content you can find here.
Creating a Gradebook
The gradebook in LEARN is one of the most requested features from students. The gradebook is an easy way to manage student grades, as well as disseminate these grades to students. Your able to set your gradebook up to do a variety of automated tasks such as dropping a number of lowest scored items in a category, auto transferring of grades, etc.
For more information about the Gradebook, visit the Gradebook page.
Video 1 – Introduction to Gradebook
Video 2 – Gradebook Setup Wizard
Video 3 – Creating The Gradebook
Using The Classlist
The Classlist provides you and your students with a list of people currently enrolled in your course. The classlist also lets you view student progress. Groups can be created to organize students in your class and grant special access to course tools such as quizzes.
Visit the LEARN Support for Instructors page for even more LEARN tutorials.
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- Click the menu item represented by three dashes
- If captions are available, click “Show Subtitles”
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