Structure of a default course within MySLC’s LMS
This is the hierarchy set up by default for any course in the MySLC LMS.
Course Information
This is the only page of your course that is viewable to any user within MySLC, not just your students. It contains some basic, uneditable information about the course.
Syllabus
This is the page you and your students will land on when they click on your course title. It contains three portlets:
- Syllabus: This is a place where you can enter the text of your syllabus. Entering one chunk, or "element," for each week, unit, or subdivision of the course works best as there is a character limit. Also, this will give you the ability to have a header for each section. The text of the syllabus done this way will appear right in the context of the page.
- Downloadable Syllabus: Use this portlet to upload a Word document or PDF of your syllabus for your students to view or download.
- Academic Announcements: Use this to post announcements to your students like "Reminder: Paper due this Thursday!" It does not email the students, but rather appears for each of your students in MySLC everywhere they are viewing any announcements portlet. In that way, it "follows them around" in MySLC.
Email Class
- Email Class: In this portlet you can see your students’ photos and email one, a few, or the entire class.
Discussion
- Discussion: Much like the old WebBoard, this is an online discussion forum where students can respond to topics you give them and they give each other. The structure of the Forums is as follows:
- Discussion: this contains all of the postings
- Categories: by default, General is the only category. Many people find this to be too much subdivision, and therefore only use Topics, keeping all of the topics in the General category.
- Topics: This is what you will post for your students to respond to. For example, "Week 1: Respond to the Freud reading."
- Threads: This is what students will start in response to your topics. They can then reply to each others’ threads.
- Topics: This is what you will post for your students to respond to. For example, "Week 1: Respond to the Freud reading."
- Categories: by default, General is the only category. Many people find this to be too much subdivision, and therefore only use Topics, keeping all of the topics in the General category.
- Discussion: this contains all of the postings
Readings and Hanouts
This page holds assets you use for class and contains three portlets:
- E-Reserves: The library reserves staff can scan documents for you and place them on electronic reserve in this portlet. Please leave this portlet for reserves staff to configure. More information about E-Reserves is on the Library website.
- Library Resources: Reference staff are available to place links to relevant electronic databases, librarian-designed pathfinders, and RefWorks in this portlet. Contact your reference liaison for more information.
- Handouts: This is where you may upload files of any type (Word or text documents, PDFs, images, even short video or sound clips) to share with students.
Links
Attendance, Online Assignments, Gradebook
Currently we are not using any of these pages and, in fact, your students will not see them unless you specifically set them to be able to. Please contact Academic Computing if you are interested in turning on and learning these features.