Course Websites

New in ME 1.20!

• You can now link a discussion forum from a course website with a gradebook assessment for ease of grading. See more detail in the gradebook section.

• If you don't want learners to have the option to leave a course website you can enable a database setting that prevents them from doing so.

• Improvement so that user with event edit permissions for a course can get a link to edit events from the course calendar page.

• Improvement so that a user with access to Admin > Manage Courses can get a link directly to edit the course setup page from a course website.

Whenever you add a course to Elentra, you add basic course information to the database and users will be able to see a simple course page for each course. You can optionally create a more robust online course community for learners and faculty by creating a course website using Elentra's Communities Module. The course website will replace the basic course page accessed from the Courses tab and functions like an online syllabus.

Here is how a course without a website will appear to users:

Course without a website will have limited details

Here is how a course with a website will appear to users:

A course with a website will have templated pages that include more detail

Note that the course website relies on a templated set of pages (e.g., background, calendar, prerequisites, etc.). The template shown and described below comes with stock Elentra but if your organization requires a different template, or you want different templates for different courses (e.g., clinical and nonclinical), that is customization work that can be done.

There is a database setting to control whether or not you display users added as program coordinators on course pages (setting = community_course_outline_hide_pcoordinators). To change this setting please speak to a developer.

Database Setting Options

Database Setting	Use
community_course_outline_hide_pcoordinators	Use this option to hide program coordinators from the course website.
community_share_show_file_versions	Use this option to control whether or not users viewing files on a Documents page can see previous file versions.
course_website_autoenroll_audience	Control whether or not learners enrolled in a course will automatically be added to a course website.
community_display_guest_enrollment	Use this option to disable the ability of non-medtech users to invite guests to a community.
course_website_associated_faculty_admins	Use this option to automatically provision all faculty associated with a course as administrators of the corresponding course website.