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MyCourses Tutorials

Step-by-step instructional guides on completing faculty tasks in the MyCourses online learning platform.

Accessibility Resources
Universal Design Manual
Accessibility Checklist for Course Development
Accessibility Resources Guide for Faculty and Staff
Adding ALT Tags to PowerPoint
Adding ALT Tags to Images in MyCourses

Intelligent Agents
Intelligent Agent: Copying an Existing Intelligent Agent
Intelligent Agent: Running a Practice Run
Intelligent Agent: Customizing your Settings
Intelligent Agent: Check History of an Intelligent Agent Previously Ran
Intelligent Agent: Sending an SSI Reminder Email
Intelligent Agent Console Overview
See all 9 articles

Calendar
Setting or Editing Dates within the Calendar
Using Offset Dates in the List View
Adding or Deleting Calendars from the Calendar Menu
How the Calendar Feed Works
Printing the Calendar
Calendar Settings
See all 11 articles

Text Editing Tools (HTML Editor)
Textbox Toolbar Overview (HTML Editor)
Insert an Image
How to Create and Insert a Video Note
Insert a Link to Another Piece of Content within a Course IP
Insert a Link to a Course File (New or Existing)
Insert a Link to a Webpage
See all 7 articles

Turnitin
Optional Turnitin Settings and How They Affect Results
Commenting and Grading Turnitin Assignments
Viewing Turnitin Similarity Report as an Instructor
Dates on Turnitin
Enabling Turnitin on a New Dropbox
Enabling Turnitin on an Existing Dropbox

Release Conditions
Release Conditions: Releasing a News Item Based on a Quiz Score
Release Conditions: Students Must Complete Quiz to Unlock Course Content
Release Conditions on Dropboxes

Groups in MyCourses
How to Delete a Group Category or Individual Groups
Creating Self-Enrollment Groups and How Student Self-Enroll
How to Add an Additional Group to a Category of Groups
How to manually Enroll or Unenroll Students from Groups
Creating Group Discussions after Groups have been Created
Creating a Group Dropbox After Groups have been Created
See all 8 articles

Enrollment and Rosters
Registration Reminder Tool
Description of Each Role in MyCourses
Impersonate the SPC Demo Student
Add the SPC Demo Student to Your Course
Adding an Interpreter to Your Course
How to Add Another Faculty Member to your Course
See all 7 articles

Setting Dates and Restrictions
Never Set Dates on Discussion Forums
The Best Place to Set Dates within MyCourses
Using the Manage Dates Tool
Best Practices for Setting Dates on Discussions, Dropboxes, and Quizzes
Do I Need to Set all Three Date Types
What is the Difference between Start, Due, and End Dates
See all 11 articles

Student Course Access
Opening up a Course for a Student with an Incomplete
Inactivate a Course
Entire Student Classlist Access to Course After End Date
Activate a Course for Students Manually (Early Access)

Accommodations and Special Access
Adding Additional Time to All Quizzes for a Student (Accommodations)
Opening Up Discussion Topics for Late Submission
Special Access for Students for Dropboxes
How to Add Quiz Attempts for Individual Students
Grant Special Access & Adding Extra Time or Special Dates on Quizzes

Syllabus
Simple Syllabus FAQ's
Get Started Using Simple Syllabus
Simple Syllabus: Enable or Disable Visibility on the MyCourses Navigation Bar
Reuse and Edit Your Simple Syllabus from Another Section or Term
Edit Your Simple Syllabus from the Navbar
Replace an Existing Syllabus in your Syllabus Area
See all 10 articles

Submitting Final Grades
Submitting Grades Workaround
Incomplete Request Form Guide
Change of Grade Form
Sample Confirmation Email After Submitting Final Grades
Submitting a Final Grade for an Student Auditing Your Course
Checking that your grades are in MySPC
See all 11 articles

Badges and Certificates
Creating Badges
Creating a Certificate

ePortfolio
Resizing Images in ePortfolio
How to Save your ePortfolio Work Before Leaving SPC
Creating Collections in Eportfolio
Adding Components and Sharing a Presentation
Moving Dropbox Submission to ePortfolio
Creating a Presentation
See all 9 articles

Faculty Tools in MyCourses
How to Download Your Course for Archiving
My Courses Faculty Quick Start Guide
Faculty Tools - Grade Check and Grade Check Scale
Faculty Tools (New and Improved Features) Fall 2023
How to Engage Students via the SPARC System and Faculty Tools
Faculty Tool Top Practices
See all 18 articles

Faculty Training Workshops (On-Demand)
Complete List of Available Faculty Certificates
How to Register for Faculty On-Demand Workshops
How to Access your Faculty Certification for MyCourses Practice Course

Rubrics
Writing Effective Rubrics
Rubric Statistics
Copying Rubrics from One Course to Another
Discussions: Incorporate Rubric Results into a Discussion Topic’s Grade
Add a Rubric to a Topic
Setting the Rubric Status
See all 13 articles

The Gradebook
Gradebook Settings: Calculation Options
Gradebook Settings: Student Display Options
Quick Eval (All Courses)
Grade Item Exemptions
Printing/Saving Grades with Excel
Dropping Ungraded Items
See all 33 articles

Grading Student Work
Issuing Midterm Progress to Students
Grade a Dropbox Folder Assignment Using a Rubric
Regrade Fill-in-the-Blank and Short Answer Questions
How to Regrade Quiz Questions
Grade Written Response Quiz Questions
How to Fix Quiz Grades Not Going to the Gradebook
See all 13 articles

Quizzes (Exams)
Quizzes - Bonus Questions
How to Delete a Quiz from Using Honorlock
How to Change Quizzes from Honorlock to Respondus Monitor
Dissociate grades from quizzes, Dropboxes, and Discussion
Quizzes - Additional correct answers POST initial grading of an examination in MyCourses
Manually Publish Grades - Quizzes and Dropbox
See all 42 articles

Dropboxes (Assignments)
What Can I do with the Bulk Edit Feature
Hiding a Dropbox
Previewing Dropbox Folders as a Student
Reordering Dropbox Folders
Restoring Dropbox Folders
Understanding the Dropbox Folder List Page
See all 19 articles

Discussions
New Discussion Creation and Settings Page Update
Delete a Student Discussion Post
How Discussions are Structured in MyCourses
Replying to a Discussion (Instructors and Students)
Sending a Private Message to Students From Discussion Post
How to Unsubscribe to a Discussion Forum, Topic, or Thread
See all 27 articles

Communicating with Students
Announcements – Copy Announcements to Other Courses
Using the Calendar as a Communication Tool
Using the Gradebook to Communicate
Screencasting Products to Use in MyCourses
Encouraging emails
Weekly Announcements
See all 16 articles

Course Content
Broken Topic in a Module
Adding Content from the Learning Object Repository
How Setting Content to Hidden Affects a Students Experience
The Manage Files Area - Creating a New File
Keeping your Manage Files Organized - Uploading a File
Set Completion Tracking Requirements
See all 21 articles

Setting Up Your Course
Adding Links
My Courses Get Started Information
Copy Some Parts of a Course to Another Course (a quiz, module, discussion, etc.)
Request a Course Reset (Clear all Content)
Building Online Content and Learning Activities
Semester Start Checklist
See all 8 articles

Navigating MyCourses as Faculty
How to Find Your Course Name/Course Offering Information
MyCourses Connection Issue Workarounds by Browser
Changing the Font Face and Size for your MyCourses
Create and Update your Profile Photo
Exploring the Areas of a Course
Viewing the Expandable Table of Contents (From a Topic)
See all 22 articles