For J-Term's large Signature courses, we recommend you use one shared site for all students, to simplify course management.
Learn about using multiple course sites instead: How do I build multiple Collab course sites for my large course?
1. Create your course site.
Use an LDT model site (email us to be added to the sites), OR create a new site via UVACollab's Site Builder.
Add the tools you’ll need, such as Online Meetings, Resources, Discussions, Tests & Quizzes, Gradebook.
Add the main roster (roster of all students, not sections).
If you add your whole-course roster at this point, make your site unpublished. You can also proceed without adding rosters.
2. Add TAs to your course site.
Add all your TAs (or your head TA, if available) to the site as Secondary Instructors.
If your TAs have access to their discussion section rosters, they can add those now. Make the site unpublished, if you do add rosters. Learn how to add rosters to a site.
If you will use Discussions (aka Forums) in your large online course, wait until discussion section rosters have been added to the site, before creating your TOPICS. This makes it much easier to duplicate Discussion Topics for each roster.
At any time, you can create your Forums. In multi-section courses using Discussions extensively, we recommend using a new FORUM for each day, to help stay organized.
Have each TA create the Zoom meeting for their discussion section in Online Meetings.
- Have all TAs follow a meeting title template that includes their name and section number, such as: Section 001 Clark Kent’s Discussion
- Discussion meetings should have the following settings: Recurring meeting -->No Fixed Time. This will create one standing Zoom link per discussion section.
Provide TAs with a list of the Collab tools you plan to use, and ask them to practice navigating each.
Restrict TA grading permissions if needed. Get help adjusting permissions.
3. Add categories (and/or weighting) to Gradebook, if using.
If you will be using categories or categories & weighting, we recommend you set up your gradebook categories before adding your Assignments, Discussions, and other activities/assessments.
Learn more about setting up the Gradebook in Collab
If using Tests & Quizzes, be sure to edit the details of the T/Q in Gradebook to assign it to its proper category. Learn more about Gradebook settings for Tests & Quizzes.
4. Create your content and activities in the relevant Collab tools.
Create your activities in the appropriate Collab tools. Common tools are Discussions, Assignments, and Tests & Quizzes.
Add links to the activities inside your Lessons pages, if needed.
As needed, create additional groups to meet SDAC accommodations requiresments (extra time on tests, for example). Learn more about using groups in Collab.
5. Set up your Zoom meeting link for lecture meetings.
If you will have separate meetings of lectures (all students) and discussion sections (subsets of students), create just one persistent link to a lecture Zoom. Use these settings during meeting scheduling: Recurring meeting --> No Fixed Time (these meeting setup instructions may be helpful).
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