Create or copy a standalone course

1. Choose the type of course:
   • Standard: A single course independent of other courses.
   • Coordinator: A course without students used to manage all the courses in its course group. See Manage course sections for details.
   • Member: A section created by copying a coordinator course.
2. Enter the Course Name.
3. Choose how to create your course:
   • Create a new preloaded course: Create a new course that already contains all activities and assessments.
   • Copy one of my existing courses: Copy a course that you have created. Then select the course from the list.
   • Copy a course from another instructor at my school: Copy a course created by another instructor at your school. Then select the course from the list. The other instructor must allow copying.
   • Copy a course by specifying the Course ID: Copy a course by entering its course ID. You can copy courses from a different school, one of your own courses, or another instructor's course at your school.
   • Join the course group for one of my own coordinator courses: Create a member section by copying a coordinator course that you created. This option appears only when you have selected Member as the course type.
   • Join another instructor's coordinator course group by selecting the coordinator course: Create a member section by copying a coordinator course created by another instructor at your school. This option appears only when you have selected Member as the course type.
   • Join another instructor's coordinator course group by specifying the coordinator Course ID: Join a course group by entering the course ID of the coordinator course. You can join a course group at a different school, your own course group, or another instructor's course group at your school. This option appears only when you have selected Member as the course type.
4. Select your textbook from the list. Make sure the course material is the same edition students will purchase in the bookstore.

When you copy a course or upgrade to a new edition of your textbook, your customizations and assignments are included. However, media assignments and custom questions must be added manually.

1. Choose whether to make the course available to students.

   Do not enroll students in coordinator courses or courses used only for copying.

2. Select start and end dates.

   Courses start at 12:00 AM on the Starting date and end at 11:59 PM on the Ending date.

3. Select your time zone and whether to adjust for Daylight Savings Time.
4. Choose whether to display dates in U.S. format (MM/DD/YY) or international format (DD/MM/YY).
5. Select Update in member courses if you are editing a coordinator course and want to apply the time zone settings to member section.
6. Choose whether to allow other instructors to copy the course.

This step appears only for a coordinator course or member section.

To let the instructors of member sections remove themselves from the group, select Allow member courses to remove themselves from the group. You must be the coordinating instructor or course owner to select this option

For each course, you see the instructor who owns the course, shown as Primary, and the section instructors/TAs, shown as Sec Instr.

Under Course Access you see the level of access for each instructor. The access level is marked with an asterisk if it was set manually from the Edit Roster page after the course was created. See Customize section instructor access for information on how to specify the access granted to section instructors.

The owner of the coordinator course can select Remove from group to detach a member section. Section instructors/TAs with permission can select Leave this group to remove their member sections.

If you are a coordinating instructor or course owner, you can specify what level of access to grant to section instructors and teaching assistants. Section instructors cannot change these settings.

For section instructors and TAs, you can choose:

• Grant full instructor access: Section instructors have the same access level as the coordinating instructor but they can edit course access settings.
• Section instructor: Section instructors can post announcements; manage the gradebook, except for editing the roster; and manage assignments, except for adding their own custom questions. They cannot edit any course settings.
• Read-only: Section instructors can only view student results and send email.
• Custom: Section instructors have access only to the functionality you specify. Select Define to choose the individual tasks section instructors can perform. See Customize section instructor access for details.

Select Edit Ask My instructor email address to allow section instructors/TAs to change the email address used for course communications, such as "Ask My Instructor."

Select Edit course roster to allow section instructors to view or change to the course roster. This option is not available in all courses.

You can override course-wide settings for individual section instructors/TAs after the member sections are set up.

For standards-based courses, select the name of the standards from View by Standards to view student results by standards-based curriculum. To select course coverage based on a selected standard, select Standard View.

To edit course coverage:

1. Make sure your course has no results.
2. Above the table of modules and topics, uncheck any content area you want to exclude.
3. Select a module or topic/lesson name or its plus icon to view its contents.
4. Uncheck any content you want to exclude.

You can update the preloaded activities and assessments with your coverage selections, but any changes you have made to these assignment settings will be overwritten.

When you change course coverage:

• Any assignments you created will be preserved.
• Assessments using competency mappings are not removed, but they are omitted from gradebook results.
• Activities and assessments using direct mastery are removed based on their coverage. For example, if an activity covers two topics or lessons, the activity is not removed unless both topics/lessons are removed.

If you change coverage in a course with results:

• If you expand course coverage, add the modules or topics/lessons using the Course Wizard and then import the activities and assessments.
• If you reduce course coverage, the activities or assessments in your course are not removed, but activities and assessments from the excluded coverage are removed from course navigation.

Select Use a lockdown browser to prevent students from accessing the internet when they take specified assessments. Select More Options to select a classroom or server application to use with the LockDown Browser.

Select Require students to take IP-restricted quizzes and tests to require students to take assessments using proxy servers that control their access to the internet. Select Change to enter one or more IP address ranges.

Select the learning aids available to students when they do activities and practice.

Select Edit Email Address to specify the address used when students email questions and for emails to students. The email address for a coordinator course is not inherited by the member courses.