Oncourse Resources
- Customized How-to Guide: For Students or Instructors (PDF) - Build customized documents that are sent to your email address.
- Oncourse CL Quick Start: For Students (PDF) - Learn to use Oncourse for your course work.
- Oncourse CL Quick Start: For Instructors (PDF) - Learn to support your courses.
- The least you need to know (PDF) - Get simple, basic step-by-step instructions.
- In-depth materials (PDF) - Get more guidance for common teaching tasks and tools through these 40-60 page documents.
Oncourse Feature Demonstrations
2-4 minute videos for student and instructors
- Oncourse Student Quickstart Guide (movie)
- How to Use the Oncourse WIKI (movie)
General
General overview of course and project sites.
- Request a practice course or project site from Oncourse CL (with audio)
- Customize tabs (with audio)
- Reorder tools for a site (with audio)
- View photos of site participants in roster tool
- Add a photo to your profile
Announcements
Inform site participants of current items of interest.
Assignments
Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments.
- Create assignments
- Download multiple student assignments
- Grade an assignment
- Submit an assignment (with audio)
- Communicate to students about assignments
- Check the grade for an assignment
- Download assignment grades to a spreadsheet
Calendar
Post items in calendar format.
Chat Room
Chat online with participants in your site.
Drop Box
Submit documents to be seen only by the instructor.
Email Archive
Keep track of course or project site email correspondence.
ePortfolio
Manage an electronic portfolio of your coursework.
Forums
Communicate through discussion forum topics.
- Create a discussion forum and topic
- Compose a forum message
- Read and reply to a forum message
- Grade a forum message
- Change default forum settings
- Reorder forums and topics
- View forum statistics
Gradebook
Manage grades.
- View scores by group
- Change grade type (with audio)
- View cumulative scores
- Add an item to the Gradebook (with audio)
- Add items in bulk
- Edit a Gradebook item
- Hide course grade
- Remove assignment from calculated grade
- Import grades from a spreadsheet
Messages
Communicate using internal course mail.
News
Use RSS to add dynamic news to your site.
Original Test & Survey
Administer test and gather survey information.
Podcasting
Create, store, and distribute multimedia content to site participants via an RSS feed.
Post 'em
Upload a comma delimited (CSV) spreadsheet to present feedback to site participants. (CSV files can be exported from Excel spreadsheets).
- Upload an Excel spreadsheet of grades
- Upload multiple files to Post'Em
- Check participant access to feedback
- View feedback
Preferences
Control how often you are notified of course or project site activity.
- Edit notification preferences
- Customize tabs (with audio)
Resources
Make any kind of material available online.
- Post a file (with audio)
- Use drag and drop for My Workspace (with audio)
- Use drag and drop for a course site (with audio)
- Reorder Resources
Site Setup
Maintain course or project site settings.
Syllabus
Post and maintain your official course outline.
- Add item to syllabus
- Edit the syllabus
- Redirect the syllabus to a Word file
- Add an attachment to a syllabus
Web Content
Choose external web sites to display within your worksite.
Wiki
Create and update wiki pages
- Add Wiki to a site (with audio)
- Add and edit wiki pages (with audio)
- Add links to a wiki page (with audio)
- Add an image to a wiki page
- View history of a wiki page
