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WebCT Vista has been retired as of June 30, 2008.LATTE is now Brandeis University's only online learning environment. |
myCourses is an interface created and maintained by Brandeis Library & Technology Services that serves as the online entryway to WebCT for instructors and students, providing course administration tools not found in WebCT.
Instructors can use myCourses to:
Students use myCourses to access their WebCT courses, verify their enrollment, and see their course schedule.
Students and Instructors log on to myCourses with their UNet name and passwords at http://webct.brandeis.edu
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Instructors can create a class mailing list for a course in order to send email to all registered students (and any guests added inside).
To automatically create a mailing list for your course, login to http://webct.brandeis.edu
and click on the "Create Mailing List" link in the appropriate section of your course listing.
If you have questions about this process, please contact the WebCT Support Desk.
Instructors â€" and only instructors (which includes those designated by the University Registrar to have a legitimate educational interest in viewing FERPA-protected information) â€" can view a table of their students' photos and email addresses in myCourses clicking on the link "View Student Photos" under the appropriate course in the myCourses course listing. For more information, contact the WebCT Support Desk (x64739).
Student ID Photos in the "View Course Photos" area of myCourses will only appear for students who have Brandeis UNet IDs (i.e., email addresses that end in @brandeis.edu). Those listed in the class roster without a Brandeis UNet ID will appear as a silhouette with a grey question mark.
Please note that students can place restrictions on their photos, and it is possible that they may show up as a silhouette with a grey question mark in the "View Course Photos" link in myCourses. For more information, contact the WebCT Support Desk (x64739).
Instructors have the ability to grant Teaching Assistants (TAs), Course Assistants (CAs), and Guests access to to their WebCT courses through the myCourses interface.
A TA will have access to upload and change the WebCT course (e.g., adding content and accessing/grading student submissions/work).
A CA will have access to upload and change the WebCT course (e.g., adding content) but will not be able to access FERPA-protected materials, such as the grade book or student submissions/work.
A guest will have access equal to that of students enrolled in the course.
To add a TA, click on the link "Edit TAs" in the bottom right of the appropriate course options in the myCourses course listing. Add the TA's name and complete email address, then click on the "Add" button.
To add a CA, click on the link "Edit CAs" in the bottom right of the appropriate course options in the myCourses course listing. Add the CA's name and complete email address, then click on the "Add" button.
To add a guest, click on the link "Grant Guest Access" in the bottom right of the appropriate course options in the myCourses course listing. Add the guest's name and complete email address, then click on the "Add" button.
Note: It will take about an hour before the TA, CA, or guest will have access.
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Once in myCourses, students can view the courses in which they are currently enrolled, as well as courses from last semester. Student access is enabled approximately three to five days prior to the first day of classes in any semester. Students can only see the current semester and the previous semester (e.g., in the Spring, they can also access their classes offered in the Fall). Besides seeing the current and the past semester, instructors can also see courses in the semester to come.
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In its current form, myCourses displays all courses associated with instructors and students here at Brandeis. Sometimes instructors are associated with what are known as reading courses, which include, for example:
Because these courses often do not have any students officially enrolled in them, an instructor's view of myCourses can be potentially cluttered with courses that may not be used in the given semester.
In order to allow for instructors to organize their view of myCourses, a button has been added that allows for details to be hidden.
Please note: setting a class as deactivated does not affect any official registration status! It only reduces the amount of space (and where) it displays on screen.
If a class is set as deactivated before students are officially enrolled, these students will notice the class is listed as deactivated. This situation may be confusing to your students!
To hide course details, click on the button that says 
Clicking on this button will change the display state of myCourses from activated:
to deactivated:
Besides reducing the amount of material that is displayed, the deactivated state changes the button so that it reads 
. If the instructor has more than one class, it will also move the class to the bottom of the list, in a group called deactivated classes.
If you have made a mistake, or if you have students enroll into one of these reading classes after you have set the display as deactivated, clicking on will return it to its active state.
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