Courses
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In order to invite students to your institution, you need to have an active course running. This means a course who’s end date has not passed.
Only Instructors and Institution Admins can create courses
Navigate to your Zephyr dashboard
There are two ways to get to the “Create a Course” interface:
Click the “CREATE COURSE” button on your dashboard’s quick-links section
Click “MANAGE” > “COURSES” to drop down the courses table. Then click the “Plus” symbol in the Courses table toolbar
Four fields are required for creating a course:
Name: The title of the course that will appear to users throughout the website
Course Name does not have to be unique, but we encourage you to give it a unique name so it’s easy to recognize in a list of many courses
Teacher: Select an existing Instructor or Institution Admin that will be running the course. They will appear as the primary point of contact to students
Start Date: Date the course will begin
End Date: Date the course will end
Only Instructors and Institution Admins can clone or copy a course
Navigate to your Zephyr dashboard
For the purposes of this example, we’ll call the course that we frequently reuse “Intro to Drones.” If you find yourself reusing the same course and assignments from course to course, it’s helpful to create it and give it a name such as “Intro to Drones [TEMPLATE].”
Now that your have your “TEMPLATE” course created, you can copy a course and all of its assignments by following instructions here: Copy a Course (and Assignments)
During this process you can reassign the instructors, change the start/end dates, and even tweak assignments.
Only Instructors and Institution Admins can edit a course
Navigate to your Zephyr dashboard
Click “MANAGE” > “COURSES” to drop down the courses table
Find the course you need to edit in the table
Click the “Cog” icon on the course, then click Edit
Here you can change the course fields as needed
When you are finished, click “Update”
