Setting up a course in your LMS (Canvas used as example)

Setting up a course in your LMS (Canvas used as example)


This video demonstrates how to add a Canvas link to OLI Torus, use it to configure a new section of OLI course materials for your students, add a schedule, apply assessment settings, prepare your LMS gradebook, and get your students started.
  2. Create your OLI Torus course
    1. LMS: click link you've added. (If using Direct Delivery: "+Create New Section" button on My Courses page.)
    2. Select curriculum, then Course name, Section number, Class Meeting format
    3. Days you meet; Start Date; End Date; preferred time for assignment due dates
  3. Arrange the course content
    1. Manage Course page > Curriculum settings > Customize content
    2. Rearrange via drag and drop
    3. Rearrange via move (for moving between containers)
    4. Remove
    5. Hide individual pages
    6. Add Material -- requires assistance (contact OLI Support)
  4. Set a suggested reading schedule
    1. IMPORTANT: take this step only after you've arranged your content. The schedule doesn't adjust automatically if you rearrange your materials after setting your schedule.
    2. Manage Course page > Curriculum settings > Scheduling and Assessment Settings
    3. Set Schedule button
    4. Choose "Do not set assessment due dates" to avoid affecting the scored assessments. Choose "Set assessment due dates according to the sequence of course content." if you want the system to automatically apply Due Dates to all assessments based on your course's pacing. Be sure to check those dates later, because they may occur during weeks when school isn't in session, such as Thanksgiving or Spring Break.
    5. Drag the date ranges to move them. Click the end of the range to expand or contract it.
    6. Click the Unit container to see the modules and pages inside, and make fine-tuned adjustments to your schedule.
    7. Click SAVE.
  5. Set Assessment Settings
    1. Manage Course page > Curriculum settings > Scheduling and Assessment Settings > Assessment Settings tab
    2. Apply Available and End dates
    3. Change any setting in the grid. 
    4. If you want to apply multiple changes to all the assessments, change one assessment and use it as a template. Select that assessment at the top of the page and click the "Bulk apply" button to apply its settings to all other assessments.
  6. Student Exceptions 
    1. Manage Course page > Curriculum settings > Scheduling and Assessment Settings > Student Exceptions tab
    2. Click Add New button and choose student from roster
    3. ONLY change the settings that you want to differ from the default settings, such as Due Date or # of Attempts.
  7. Advanced Gating
    1. Manage Course page > Curriculum settings > Scheduling and Assessment Settings > Advanced Gating tab
    2. Define dependencies that only permit students to access certain materials during certain date ranges, or after completing the prior resource.
  8. Set up your LMS gradebook
    1. Manage Course page > Scoring settings > Manage LMS Gradebook
    2. Test your LMS gradebook connection with the Test Connection button. Look for the green SUCCESS! notification.
    3. "Update LMS Line Items" sends a record to your LMS gradebook for each scored page in the course, in the order they appear. Use this feature if you need to configure the weights of your Torus scored pages in the LMS gradebook, or to manage them in other ways the LMS makes available. If you don't use this feature, the scores will pass to your LMS gradebook as they're generated by your students, and not until then.
  9. Open registration (Direct Delivery only)
    1. LMS courses are automatically ready. No need to manually open registration.
    2. Manage Course page > Manage settings > Edit Section Details
    3. Check BOTH "Registration open" and "Requires enrollment" and SAVE. Otherwise, students can join as anonymous guests, and their work isn't tracked or saved.
    4. "Omit student email verification" means your students won't need to validate their email addresses during the enrollment process. If the addresses have typos, they'll be unable to use OLI Support. There are no other drawbacks, aside from needing to use a login ID with a typo.
  10. Invite your students (Direct Delivery only)
    1. LMS courses don't require an invitation. Direct students to your REAL CHEM link.
    2. Manage Course page > Manage settings > Invite Students
    3. Click "Section end" button to generate an invitation URL that expires on your course's End Date.
    4. Share this "One-time registration URL" and Login URL for all future access: https://proton.oli.cmu.edu

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