Assigning a Template to a Section

Before you can assign a template, you must first:

1. Have the template associated to the course. See the handout “Creating and Associating Templates” for these instructions.

2. Request a section to be created for you.

Once you have the template associated to the course and you have requested a section and load, you can now assign the template to the section. Log in and view your section link on the My Courses page.

Select your section. You will be asked how you would like to put content into your section. You can:

1. Set up a blank course: This will be an area that doesn’t have any content, but will have your students loaded.

2. Copy content from another course: This will work unless the previous sections have been deleted.

3. Assign a template to this course: This will allow you to take a template that you have created and assign it to the section.

4. Import content from file: This will allow you to import content into a blank section.

Most likely you will be using option 1 or 3. To show you how to use an existing template, the following procedure will show you how to use option 3.

1. Select the radio button for option 3, which is Assign a template to this course, and click Continue. You will select the template you want to use.

2. Once you choose the template you want to assign to the section, click Continue.

When you assign your template you will always get the following screen.

This page describes the three areas on the build tab. If you are not a designer for the section, you will not see the Build tab. If you are not an instructor, you will not see the Teach tab.

You will see this page each time you enter the section unless you click the Do not show this page again checkbox. When you are ready to enter the section, click Done.