Navigating the Courseware dashboard

This article is for instructors who are new to Courseware and want to know where to locate core instructor features. Once you've created your course, you can add assignments, access the calendar,  invite participants, add a course logo, and even sharing your course with others!

To start:

1. Log in to your Courseware account at courseware.visiblebody.com
2. Select your course.
3. From here, use the left-hand menu to manage your course, class roster, student grades, and other course resources.

Assignments

In the Assignments tab, you can:

1. Create new assignments that will feed into the Gradebook.
2. Bulk edit assignments to change their due dates and release dates, publish or unpublish many assignments at once.
3. Create folders and reorder folders and assignments to organize your course.
4. Copy whole folders of assignments. Using the dropdown menu on the right, select copy folder, and then select which course to copy the folder into.

Calendar

In the Calendar tab, you can:

1. View the due dates of all published and draft assignments.
2. Search through assignment names and descriptions.
3. Edit/delete published and draft assignments.
4. Publish your draft assignments.
5. Choose to show draft assignments or not using the toggle in the upper right corner.

Manage Class Roster

In the Manage Class Roster tab, you can:

1. View all of the students in your course.
2. Transfer your students from one course to another.
3. Drop students from your course.
4. Set timed accommodations for students who need extra time so that it will automatically apply to their timed quizzes.

In the Invite People tab, you can find a link to invite new students or other course contributors to join your course.

Gradebook

In the Gradebook tab, you can:

1. See your students' grades.
2. Modify student grades.
3. Give individual students extensions and additional quiz attempts.

Course Resources and Announcements

In the Course Resources tab, you can upload resources like a syllabus that your students can go back to throughout the semester. Unlike uploading a file assignment, these won't expire!

In the Announcements tab, you can post and edit announcements to tell students when their exams will be or that some new assignments have been posted and are ready for them to start working on.

Add a Logo

You can add your school's logo to your course. It will appear in the top left corner of your course below the Visible Body logo and on the loading screen when you and your students launch quizzes.

For best results, be sure that the logo is on a transparent background. It must be smaller than 4096x4096 pixels and less than 10 megabytes. Your image can be a jpg, jpeg, png, gif, tiff, or bmp.

For a new course:

1. Go to your My Courses page.
2. Select the "Create Course" button in the top right corner.
3. When you reach step four, add a logo.

For an existing course:

1. Go to your My Courses page.
2. Select the arrow on the right side of the page for the course you want to edit.
3. In the dropdown select "Edit Course Info."
4. In the pop-up, upload your logo image where it says "Course logo" by selecting an image from your computer.
5. Select "Save."

Copy or Share your Course

1. Go to your My Courses page.
2. Select the arrow on the right side of the page for the course you want to copy or share.
3. To copy your course: in the dropdown, choose "Make a copy" to create a new copy of your course. Then, you can customize it for multiple course sections or use an old course again next semester.
4. To share your course with somebody else: in the dropdown, choose "Send a copy" and copy the link in the pop-up. You can send this link to other instructors in your school so that they can customize it for their own course.

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