What Do I Need to Do to Make Sure My Course is Set Up Correctly?

What Do I Need to Do to Make Sure My Course is Set Up Correctly?

Before each of your course sections begin, you should review the course to ensure all due dates, announcements, and live sessions have been set up correctly. We recommend you have your course set up by the end of the day on the Monday before the course starts. 

Please use this eCornell Course Set-up Checklist to help guide your set-up actions, as well as the below chart.

Task Checklist

Steps

Considerations

Review assignment due dates.

  1. In the facilitator menu list, select Assignments.
  2. View dates from this page. If any need editing, click the three dots associated with each assignment and select Edit.
  3. In the Edit Assignment box, click the Calendar icon and select the date and input the time by which the assignment should be submitted.
    *This will update the due date on the Syllabus as well.

All graded assignments must be submitted no later than 11:59PM, Eastern, on the final Tuesday of the course. However, we add assignment due dates to encourage students to engage in the course over its whole span.

The Course Automation script that runs before each course begins should input due dates for you, however, you are required to check these before the course begins to ensure they align with the actual course dates.

Customize and configure initial course announcements.

  1. In the facilitator menu list, select Announcements.
  2. Click on the title of any Announcement to view its' contents. If any need editing, click the three dots in the upper right-hand corner and select Edit.

Similar to Assignment due dates, the Course Automation script that runs before each course begins should input most announcements for you, however, you are still responsible to check them and to be ready to manually replace placeholder text and set delays as needed.

You are required to post a Facilitator introduction, as a Welcome Message to the Student Lounge of each course you facilitate. This message should include a brief introduction of yourself and the course. If the intro includes video, please include a text transcript.

Set up live session dates and times in Zoom.

** Soon, the Facil button on Canvas will have a Live Session setup feature that will replace most Live Session setup steps.

Please check back for updates!

  1. Add Calendar events for each of your two live sessions
    *This process will automatically add them to the course Syllabus
  2. Create at least two announcements reminding students that the Live sessions are about to begin

Please be sure to add Calendar events specific to the course your Live Sessions are for. This article contains a guide on how to add Calendar events to your course.

For help creating announcements, please visit this article.

Conduct quality review of your course.

  1. Read through the syllabus, fill in course beginning/end dates if needed.
  2. Double check assignments and familiarize yourself with course content.
  3. Review the AA Instructor/Facilitator Page

Information on the AA Instructor page can be found in this article.

Please do not change any settings on this or any other hidden page. Please reach out to the FST at ec_facilitation@cornell.edu is you have any questions!

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