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This checklist contains information to ensure your course is ready to be offered in Brightspace. If you have any questions or concerns as you complete the tasks, please email Linda Jack at ljack@dal.ca

COPY CONTENT FROM YOUR PREVIOUS SEMESTER COURSE SPACE TO YOUR UPCOMING 2017 FALL ACADEMIC COURSE SPACE

Instructions on how to complete this step can be found at http://edtechtruro.edublogs.org/

ACTIVATE YOUR 2017 FALL COURSE AND SET AVAILABILITY DATES

A Brightspace course space is created for all courses on the academic timetable. To prevent students from seeing unused courses, each course is set to “inactive” by default. Therefore, the course space must be made active before it will appear for students in their list of courses. Also, once activated, every 2017 Fall course has been set to open on September 5 at 9:00 AM and close on January 31 at noon. Instructors can adjust these dates to suit their needs. These settings can be found in Course Admin>Course Offering Information. Detailed instructions can be found at: http://edtechtruro.edublogs.org/

NOTIFY INTECH@DAL.CA IF YOU HAVE CROSSLISTED COURSES OR SECTIONS THAT NEED TO BE COMBINED

Every lecture section or CRN on the academic timetable has been created as a separate individual course space on Brightspace. If you wish to teach multiple groups of students from one single course space, please use the online Brightspace Cross-listing Request form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZMRwKOfDxq-hCRwpmHjYcdXKtfkA9zTJMNqnuJCPl0hR-Eg/viewform?c=0&w=1 or email intech@dal.ca – you will need to include the following information:

·         the CRN and the course title of the course space you wish to use as the teaching space, and

·         the CRN and the title(s) of the course(s) or section(s) that you wish to have added/combined into the single teaching space.

Remember to activate (see the second item on this checklist) only the active teaching space and leave the other course spaces inactive.

CHECK EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & DESIGN EDUBLOG FOR TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHING RESOURCES

Educational Technology & Design, at the Faculty of Agriculture, host a series of resources on Edublogs at: http://edtechtruro.edublogs.org.  Watch the eBulletin for scheduled professional development opportunities.

To arrange a help session, email ljack@dal.ca to arrange a convenient meeting time. Note that individual appointments will be limited during semester start.