Course Settings

From your courses Administration block, click on Settings to access the Edit Course Settings page as illustrated below:

Figure 1. Edit Course Settings Page

1. Summary: In this box, write a very brief description of your course, or its 'natural language' title (e.g., PHY1771: Introduction to Weights & Measures).
2. Format: LTS highly recommends that you use the default setting of Topics format. Contact LTS if you'd like to explore other available AsULearn course formats.
3. Number of weeks/topics: You may increase/decrease this number. This setting changes the number of available topic areas that appears in the central Topic outline pane of your course. As an example, if you plan one module for each week, you would select 15 for a normal semester. Avoid leaving unused topics on your course homepage.
4. Course Start Date: This setting is relevant only if your course is set to Weekly format, in which case you should set the date to the Monday of the first week of classes, not the date of the first class meeting.
5. Hidden Sections: This option controls how the hidden sections in your course are displayed to students. We recommend Hidden items are completely invisible if you are still building your course site and are not ready for students to see it. Teachers will still be able to see hidden items although they will appear "greyed out."
   
   Note: If you hide assignments or activities after they have been graded, they will be hidden (but not deleted) in the Grade Book as well.
6. News Items to Show: This setting is related to the News Forums and an optional Block in AsULearn called Latest News. If you have added the Latest News block to your course, this setting determines the number of available news items it will display.
7. Show Grades: This setting is linked to the Grade Book. If you are not using the grade book in your AsULearn site then set this to No. Otherwise, select the default setting of Yes to allow students to see their grades (and only theirs, of course) for graded activities in the course. Selecting Yes provides the students with a link to Grades in their own Administration block on the course homepage.
8. Show Activity Reports: This setting is linked to the Activity Reports tab on the Participants profile page. It allows students to see the logs of their individual activity (and only theirs, of course) in the course site. You may elect to turn it on or off. If turned off, the students will not see the “Activity Reports” tab on their profile page.
9. Group Mode: Leave this set to No groups. You will have options to set individual assignments and forums to the desired group mode when these activities are created.
10. Force: Leave this set to No.
11. Availability: The two choices are This course is available to students and This course is not available to students. If you choose to make the course unavailable, you will notice that in your MyCourses block, the course name will be greyed-out and preceded by an (H), indicating that it is hidden (unavailable). For your students, the course link their MyCourses block will simply disappear, meaning that they will have no access to the course.