The Create tab

As a course creator the Create tab will be your new home away from home.

This tab shows all the courses that you have been granted ‘builder’ or ‘reviewer’ access to. These will either be courses that you have created yourself or courses that you have been added to as a collaborator.

You use this tab to:

• create a new course
• edit a course
• review a course
• duplicate a course
• archive an old course (and remove an old course from the archive).

Finding the course you need

The list of courses will include not only those that are currently under construction, but also courses that have been published and even activated (live offerings to students).

This can lead to a very cluttered page featuring many old courses. There are ways to navigate to the course you want.

There is a search bar on the left that allows you search a course by its name, and there is also a filter to the right. The search bar is generally all you will need.

Course cards demystified

Each course in the Create tab is represented by a course card that has information regarding its current status and actions that can be performed on it, such as:

• edit (both new and live courses!)
• review
• duplicate
• archive.

The information about each course relates to the three stages courses go through from creation to being offered to students.

The three stages are:

1. Under construction while the course is being built or edited.
2. Published when the course is ready to be offered to students.
3. Activated when the course is offered to students (considered a ‘live’ course).

The image above shows three course cards showing different stages.

The first course, BIT504, has been published and has a current activation (student course offering). It’s also under construction, which may indicate that there are changes yet to be published.

The second course, BIT706, shows what you would typically expect when developing a new course. It’s under construction, has not been published and has no activations.

The third course, BIT593, has been published and has a current activation. No editing has happened since publication so there is no Under construction entry.

For more information on the stages courses go through, visit the Publishing page of this guide.

Editing a course

As an ED or EDR you will typically be creating and editing courses.

Warning: iQualify allows editing of both new (unpublished, unactivated) courses and live courses (published and activated). Published changes to a live course will be be immediately reflected in all current and scheduled (future) course offerings.

The editing environment has two levels.

1. The course level, where information such as the course name, overview, goals and assessments are added.
2. The page level, where the individual pages are constructed from various building blocks such as text, images, and so on.

For further details on editing both new and live courses see Editing an active course.

Duplicating a course

Although iQualify has the ability to edit live courses, there are various course level areas that can’t be updated in this way. These are clearly identified when editing a live course and include the course overview, assignments and quizzes. For these situations, duplicating a course is the only option.

Duplicating a course is very simple. Simply click Duplicate on the course card. We recommend that you add a prefix to the name so you can easily identify your duplicate.

Archiving

When a course no longer needs your attention you can archive it, which will move it into the Archive tab. Archiving a course simply hides it from the main Courses list. There is no effect on student offerings, but this course will also be archived for all other collaborators. Archived courses can be removed from the archive through the Unarchive option under the the Archive tab, as highlighted below.