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MODULE 2 Summary

Now that you've read and reviewed the materials in MODULE 2: Set Term Dates and List Courses/Sections, remember the following take-aways:

When it comes to Terms and Access Dates...

Terms are start-end dates of all courses that reside under that term.

Terms are used in filtering data

Access dates override term dates, but does not change the term to which a course belongs.

Teachers can override access dates set at the admin level via their course settings.

Teachers can set access dates for their course, as well as, for their sections.

There are 5 things you want to know about Courses...

Courses can only belong to ONE term.

Courses can only belong to ONE sub-account (a.k.a. department)

You can add courses via SIS import

You can add courses via user interface if you are an admin

You can add courses via user interface if you are a teacher, student or user with no enrollments (if these are enabled by admin at the root-account level).

Things you should remember about Sections are...

1. Each course shell comes with a default section

2. You can cross-list sections into other courses

3. Sections can have their own event and assignment due dates and deadlines

4. All users have access to all elements of the course. In other words, you can't hide content or restrict access to parts of a course (i.e., content, assignments, etc.) by section.

When it comes to customizing course interface...

You can probably write a script for it through the CSS.

That's it!

You should be ready for the [MODULE 2] Quiz.