ARCHIVED: Oncourse features
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Important:
Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.
Oncourse offers many features to help instructors and students collaborate and learn more effectively. You will find a brief description of each available tool below. For a more detailed description of a topic, click the appropriate link under "Tools". You can also view multimedia feature demonstrations related to each tool.
For more training and support resources, see ARCHIVED: Support resources for Oncourse migration.
Tools |
Descriptions |
Feature demonstrations |
ARCHIVED: General | General overview of course, project, and portfolio sites
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ARCHIVED: Announcements | Inform site participants of current items of interest |
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ARCHIVED: Assignments | Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments
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ARCHIVED: Calendar | Post items in calendar format | Posting a Calendar Item |
ARCHIVED: Chat Room | Chat online with participants in your site
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Creating Multiple Chat Rooms |
ARCHIVED: Drop Box | Submit documents to be seen only by your instructor
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ARCHIVED: Email Archive | Keep track of site email correspondence
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Creating an Alias |
ARCHIVED: Forums | Communicate through discussion forum topics
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ARCHIVED: Gradebook | Manage grades | |
ARCHIVED: Lessons (beta) | Organize material to guide students through the learning process |
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ARCHIVED: Matrices | Submit information demonstrating accomplishment of learning objectives |
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ARCHIVED: Messages | Communicate using internal course mail
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ARCHIVED: News | Use RSS to add dynamic news to your site
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ARCHIVED: Podcasts | Create, store, and distribute multimedia content to site
participants via an RSS feed |
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ARCHIVED: PostEm | Upload a comma-delimited (CSV) spreadsheet to present feedback to
site participants
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ARCHIVED: Preferences | Control how often you are notified of site activity
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ARCHIVED: Presentations | Create learning and showcase portfolios
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ARCHIVED: Resources | Make any kind of material available online
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ARCHIVED: Site Setup | Maintain site settings | |
ARCHIVED: Syllabus | Post and maintain your official course outline
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ARCHIVED: Tests & Surveys | Administer tests and gather survey information |
Creating a New Assessment
Creating a Test Using Markup Text Settings Overview Publishing a Test Editing a Published Test Creating a Question Pool Managing Question Pools Viewing Test Results and Grading a Test Using the Activity Report Grading Short Answer and Essay Questions Merging Assessments Taking a Linear Test Taking a Non-Linear Test Using Mark for Review Viewing Grades and Feedback |
ARCHIVED: Web Content | Choose external websites to display within your worksite
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Adding a Web Link |
ARCHIVED: Wiki | Create and update wiki pages |
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 14:28:41.