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Bob Samson

Creating and Maintaining Courses in Netspace

Program Director, Cisco Faculty

June 18, 2015Mesa Community College, AZ

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Creating a Course

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Creating a Course in Netspace

From your Netspace home page, select ‘Create a Course’ from the right-hand column.


Creating a Course in Netspace

Fill in the proper information in each category, then select the ‘Save’ button.

Note: In Netspace, if you do not save every page you edit, the changes will be lost.

<< Complete the above fields, then ‘Save’


Initial Course as Created in Netspace


Change Settings / Course Details

Select ‘Settings’ and then ‘Course Details’ to verify the Time Zone and Term.

The ‘grayed’ values may be changed using the ‘gear’ icon from your Netspace home screen.


Change Settings / Navigation

The Navigation settings can be used to designate which items are accessible to students.

‘Files’ are one item that is typically hidden as it can be confusing and may contain sensitive information.

Remember to ‘Save’.


Initial Course Modules

Each chapter only has the curriculum and chapter quizzes/exams.

There are also finals and some support materials.


Importing Content


Importing From an Existing Course

This is how the modules appear when the course was created.

Note: These are associated with URL’s specific to this course.

<< 1275323.netacad [lots of stuff] s/17058587



Select ‘Copy a Canvas Course’

Search for the donor course

‘Select specific content’

Select ‘Import’ (You will then be prompted for the content)



‘Select Content’ will open the donor course. Care must be taken to avoid duplicating items that exist in the current course.



In this example, only the Chapter 1 Module has been selected.

The transfer will start when the ‘Select Content’ button is selected.



There are now two Chapter 1 modules, and the Chapter Quiz selections are associated with different URL’s.

Activating the Quizzes may be for the wrong students.





In this example, the import did not include the Chapter Exam making the proper selection easier to identify.

Note: Duplications may also occur in other areas.

This entry is missing from the imported content

Notice the suffix “-3” added to this entry


Importing an ‘Exported’ Course File


Importing an ‘Exported’ Course File

Select ‘Canvas Course Export Package’ and browse to the stored location.

Select ‘All Content’

Select ‘Uploading’


Module Appearance After Importing

Some of the imported modules will need to be moved to their proper positions.

<<< This belongs at the top

<<< This should come after Chapter 1


Collapse the Modules for Easier Moving

The small arrow next to a module name will collapse or expand it.

The box beside that may be used to reposition the module.

Toggle to Collapse / Expand


Reordered Modules


Expand the Modules


Imported Assignments


Default Assignments (Collapsed)

Note: Pre-assigned percentages


Edit the Assignment Group Percentages

Select the gear icon; then select ‘edit’.

Change the percentage to match your grading criteria.

Remember to ‘Save’.


Imported Assignments (Collapsed)

Note: These already have proper percentages


Reorder Assignments for the Gradebook

Items in the ‘Assignments’ area are placed in the Gradebook – Modules and Files are not.


Expand the Assignments

Expand the assignments so they may be more easily read.

The little cloud on the right side must be green for the assignment to be available.


File Management


Default Course Files

These are the default files that are created with the course.


Additional Files Added From the Import

Many additional folders and files were added with the imported course materials.

These are already associated via hyper-links to the Assignments and Modules that use them.


Importing a Single File

Add Files

Browse

Open


File Upload StatusSelect to open Queue


Uploading a Zip File


Uploading a Zip File

Browse for ZIP file

Select destination folder

Choose ‘Upload File’


Adding a File to a Module

By selecting the ‘+’ symbol at the top-right of a module header, you may add Assignments, Wiki Pages (text), URL’s, and Files


Choose the type and File to Add

Select the type of item to be added – here a ‘File’.

Browse through the files and select the proper one.

Set the indentation level.

Select the ‘Add Item’.


Finished Module After File Addition


Publish the Course


Published!


Adding Students


Adding Students• Email Addresses are very important!

The Academy system tracks students by the current email address in their Netacad ‘Profile’. If the student has an account, verify their email address within that account and use it.

If they do not have an account, whatever address you use when you add the new student is the address that will receive an email ‘inviting’ them to finish the creation of the account and edit any changes to their username and password.


Adding Students• New Students

A student who has never had a Netacad Identity.

A transfer Academy student who is ‘new’ to your Academy.

• Existing StudentsStudents who are already in your Academy.

• Using a Comma Separated Values (CSV) spreadsheetUsed to import groups of new or existing students.


Select the Course Editing Function

Select the ‘Edit Gear’ next to the course name into which you want to add students.

This is also where you may make global course changes.


Adding One New Student at a Time

In the ‘Students’ section, select the ‘Edit Gear’; then

‘Add New’

Add New


Adding One New Student at a Time• Click the photo icon in the middle of the photo placeholder

• Navigate to your image and select

• If you are not happy with how the image looks, resize and crop as needed

• Use the transparent white box behind the image placeholder as a guide for cropping and resizing your image

Be sure to ‘Save’ when done

Email address must match the Student Profile if they already have an account

Add more students


Adding Existing Student(s)


‘Add Existing’

Add Existing



Enter name to search –or-

Select Academy and Course

Select



When finished selecting Students for this course, select the ‘Enroll selected’ tab.


Adding Students Using a CSV File


‘Download CSV’

Download CSV



When you are finished adding new or existing students, save the file where it will be easily accessible.




‘Upload CSV’

Upload CSV



Browse to your saved File

Select this



Select Save


Exporting Course Image


Exporting Content From Your Course



Choose ‘Course’

Select ‘Create Export’

You will be notified via email when the export file is created



After receiving the email, return to the ‘Export Content’ screen and a hyper-link will be there for the download.

Thank you.

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