In addition to the Introduction workshop, User Services offers several optional workshop sessions. These workshops cover topics such as interactive student activities (e.g., discussions, assignment dropbox); grading; quizzes and surveys; and other special topics during the summer and winter faculty institutes. [View upcoming workshops]

Campus experts can be an active partner in your instructional design process. Contact us for consultation in the planning stages. Our specialists can help you identify your educational goals and how to achieve them using appropriate tools. [Request consultation]

Courses are created based on course number and semester, and students are given access to a course for the semester in which they are enrolled. If a course is offered for a second time using MyCourses, you must request a new course before the beginning of each semester. If you will be using some of the same tools and links from an existing course in your new course, for the question on the form "Should this course be blank, or based on a previous course?" select "Previous" and indicate the previous course in the next box (e.g., "ARTH150 Spring 2002"). You also can ask for a new course to be based on your practice course by typing "INTRO" in that box.

Your course(s) will be created within two weeks from the date we receive the request. When the course has been created, it will appear in the MyCourses listing after you logon. If your request is received after the pre-semester deadline, it will be processed on a first-come basis, and we cannot guarantee that it will be ready for the start of fall term. Be sure to include all sections and cross-listed course numbers on the form. [Submit Official Course Request]

You can check the status of your course requests by logging into the Course Request Form.

You can request the addition of one or more co-designers at any time. Only the primary designer's name will be displayed on the myCourses listing and in certain features such as Mail and Discussions; however, co-designers have full access to course content and design. Student assistants may be granted designer access, but responsibilty for the course remains with the faculty member. [Additional User Request]

When your course is created, it is available from within MyCourses. Once students are added to your course roster, your course will be added to the active MyCourses list. Each course is shown with available sections and the primary Designer. [View active MyCourses list]

A guest student account allows you to log into your course as a fictional student to see the course exactly as a student sees it. This enables you to make sure your grades are released correctly, to see that content modules have been updated, and to monitor other student-centric features. If your course contains copyrighted digital material, allowable under Fair Use Guidelines, you should not share your guest account username and password with others. This could be a violation of the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act. Please note that guest requests must come from a course designer's UDelNet e-mail account. [Request guest student access]

In MyCourses, Teaching Assistants can post and edit grades, but they cannot change content. The Manage Teaching Assistants option in your course has been disabled. To add TA's, a course Submit an "Additional User Request" form. You will receive a confirmation that the TA has been added, and the TA will have access the day after you receive this confirmation. [Additional User Request]

Students are added to official MyCourses by the first day of class at the start of the semester. As course designer, it is your responsibility to make sure that your students are listed correctly. Within your course, go to the Control Panel, select "Manage Course," then choose "Manage Students." If the Update Log is displayed, click Continue at the bottom of the screen. [Report course roster problem]

It is important that you inform your students that your course has a MyCourses component, and that you give them information about accessing the system. In particular, you will need to direct them to the MyCourses@UD web site, and the student help pages that are available at this site. Many designers ask that their students access MyCourses prior to the start of the semester; however, students coincides with the start of the semester. Please check the MyCourses@UD web site for announcements regarding student access to courses, and verify your course roster prior to asking students to log into your course.

Often, a new honors section (080) is added after the semester begins, and after MyCourses has already been established. In such a case, the honor students will no longer have access to the course until the new section has been included in MyCourses. [Request addition of an honors section]

Students are added to MyCourses rosters if they have activated their UDelNet accounts and if they are listed on the UD SIS roster for the courses and sections requested.

1. - Up to the Drop/Add date students are only added into WebCT. Students who drop or withdraw before this time are not identified as such in UDSIS and so are not removed from the MyCourses site.
2. - After the Drop/Add date, students who withdraw are identified with a tilde ~ beside their User IDs.

Therefore it is important to compare the UD SIS student roster with the WebCT student list to confirm which students are truly enrolled. After the Drop/Add date, you can remove students from your MyCourses roster.

MyCourses designers have an option to add TAs to their courses, but that MyCourses feature is not compatible with our user account administration. Therefore, if you need to add TAs to your course, please use the Additional User Request Form.

-Student receives "Access Denied" error

In MyCouress, go to the Control Panel, select "Manage Course," then choose "Manage Students." If the Update Log is displayed, click Continue at the bottom of the screen. Under the "Options: Advanced" drop-down menu, select "Allow students access," then click Go. On the Confirmation screen you should see a list of students who were denied access to your course. Click "Allow access" at the bottom of the screen. All students should now reappear in the course roster without an asterisk.

-Student can't view PowerPoint presentation

Faculty and students using Internet Explorer and running Office XP without Service Pack Two will be unable to open PowerPoint files shared through the MyCourses Single Page feature. Those users must upgrade Office XP by installing Service Pack Two, free from the Microsoft Web site.

You can calculate your course grades using the Student Management Table, and adding a calculated column type. These grades are not automatically transferred to the Registrar or UD SIS, therefore you must still submit grades manually. If you have more complex grading formulas, desire detailed statistics, or have large classes, you may wish to save your student grades into MS Excel. It is possible to upload and download data between MyCourses and Excel.

Although courses are all backed up centrally and stored both on the server and CD-ROM's, you can save a local back-up of your course as well. First, you must create the back-up on the MyCourses server in your course, then you should download the zip file to your local computer.

If you plan to re-use MyCourses in the future, there are some things you will want to do in preparation. Be sure to clean out any files you don't plan to re-use, update your syllabus and any presentations that need revising, and check any date-driven items in your course (e.g., assignments and quizzes). It is possible to download your calendar entries to your local computer as a text file, change the dates for the upcoming semester, and upload it to the new version of your course. For help with this, be sure to schedule and appointment with a PRESENT consultant.

Approximately one month into the current main semester (fall or spring), once the deadline for incompletes in the previous semester has passed, instructor and student access to MyCourses up to and including the previous session (winter or summer) is deactivated. Courses are archived and are still available to use as a basis for a new version of MyCourses. If, at a later date, you plan to use the information from one of these courses for new MyCourses, you must complete a MyCourses request form. If you want to keep the course information from previous semesters available to former students, please contact consult@udel.edu.

The MyCourses course archiving schedule can be found at http://www.udel.edu/topics/coursemgmtsys/archive.html