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myCourses
myCourses, Geneseo's Learning Management System (LMS), is used to supplement a traditional classroom course with online content or to deliver courses totally online. myCourses provides a comprehensive set of tools for student-faculty online interactivity including a course materials repository, discussion forums, class announcements, class grades, surveys, assessments, course mail and much more. All Geneseo courses are created in myCourses automatically with enrollment.
Online Learning Resources
Pedagogy of Hybrid Learning (PPoint from SUNY Learning)
Online Teaching Best Practices
Resources and Support for Online Tools
Student Self Help Guides
Getting Started/Student Quick Reference Guide
Best Practices for Students (Browser, Assessments, Dropbox and more)
Compressing Pictures in PowerPoint for Smaller File Sizes
How to Access a High Security Assessment in a Computer Lab on Campus
Instructor self Help Guides:
Course Materials Tab Items
Custom Content Organization (Icons/Display/TimeRelease)
Move an Item within Course Materials
Link to an Internet Page or your Geneseo Outbox
Assessments
How to create an assessment using teams to meet required test access and accomodation needs
Enable Review of an Assessment or Dropbox
How to Regrade an Assessment Question
Discussion Forums
Discussion Forums Best Practices
Embed an Image into a Discussion Forum
Embed a Video into a Discussion Forum
How to Grade a Discussion Forum
How to Grade a Discussion Forum with a Rubric
Dropboxes
Enable Review of an Assessment or Dropbox
Review and Grade Drop Box Submissions
See Who Did Not Submit to a Dropbox
Electronic Reserves
Request to Milne Library to Add E-Reserves to myCourses
When the library publishes your eRes documents to myCourses, your eReserves will appear in a folder called “Electronic Reserves” found in the Course Materials Tab.
Incorporating Outside Resources
Instructor self Help Guides:
Getting Started, Utilities, File Sharing, Gradebook & Reporting
Getting Started
Open a Course to Students before the 1st day of classes
Roster Management (Add or Remove Individuals)
Uploading a File to Course Materials
Collaborative tools
How to Create Teams (Includes how your students can see their team and its members)
Content Utilties
Backup and Restore A Course During the Semester
Combining Sections (Merging Rosters)
Copy Course Materials from One Course to Another and/or Create an Archive
How to Import Content from Your Personal Repository (LOR)
Gradebook
Associating a Course Materials Item with a Gradebook Assignment
Copy Gradebook Setup from One Courses to Another
Grade Labels (Entering Non-Numeric Grade Values)
How to Grade a Discussion Forum
How to Grade a Discussion Forum with a Rubric
How to import Grades from Opscan or PRS files
How to Regrade an Assessment Question
Review and Grade Dropbox Submissions
Update Grades using the Gradebook Export/Import Utilities