Brief User Guide for School Administrators:

Brief User Guide for Department Administrators:

Brief User Guide for Instructors:

Account Setup and Logon: (Note: If you already have an account, go to Faculty Access directly)

1. Sign up yourself as a professor. (You might also want to create a student account for your self to see how students interact with you).
2. Logon. You may need to enter additional data for the first time logon.

Set up your classes

1. Create one or sections. You need to get your Xesscode (see Note 1 below) from your department chair or from support@ecourse.org
2. Set up how you map numerical grades to letter grades
3. Set up how you grade attendance
4. Approve Student Enrollment Request. Then your class is set and ready to go

Manage your classes: You can access any menu-driven functionality under Manage Classes, Class Utilities, and Manage Coordination (see Note 2 below). However, you should know that

1. Create assignments for students to submit and for you to enter grades. Note that on ecourse.org, assignments are the course components that require students to perform and the instructor to evaluate. (Therefore, attendance is not an assignment). Assignments are grouped into categories such as HOMEWORK, EXAM, PROJECT, etc. Inside each category, you can create individual items such as Homework 1, Homework 2, Homework 3, etc for HOMEWORK, and EXAM 1, EXAM2, etc for EXAM, etc. When creating assignment, make sure you leave the points (or percents) assigned to Attendance out if you are going to allocate credits to attendance.  Also, specify the due date. The student submissions will be automatically stamped LATE if they passed the due data.
2. Create a meeting for each class that you want to take attendance. Students can sign up attendance online only during the specified meeting time period. Of course, you can check attendance manually at any time.
3. If you want to grant permission to another instructor so that he or she can manage your class, you need to his or her USERID. After the granting, tell him or her to accept the permission before it becomes effective
4. If you are going to use Student ecourse.org account profiles to generate custom scripts (for UNIX or Database Servers), the password used is the first five letters of their ecourse password.

Brief User Guide for Students:

Account Setup and Logon: (Note: If you already have an account, go to Student Access directly)

1. Sign up yourself as a student.
2. Logon. You may need to enter additional data for the first time logon.

Register and Enrollment:

1. Register with a university to be able to enroll into a class offered by the university.
2. Enroll into any open classes. Note that you do not need to create separate accounts for different classes. You do not need to register with the same university again to enroll into a different class offered by the university.
3. IMPORTANT: Your enrollment has to be approved by your instructor to make it effective (access data and course materials).

Manage your classes: You can access any menu-driven functionality under Manage Classes. However, you should know that

1. Sign up your attendance sheet only during the period specified by your instructor
2. To submit your homework using ecourse.org, you need to do so before the due date. Otherwise, your submission will be marked as LATE and rejected by your professor.
3. Check your performance by using Report Card (see Note 3 below) frequently and inform your instructor as soon as possible if there are errors.

NOTE:

1)   Sign Up is free and unrestricted for all students and instructors. However, to prevent misuses of titles and rights, a hierarchy of controls is implemented. First, university accounts have to be verified and approved by ecourse.org. Then, each university controls its departmental accounts, which in turn controls courses by attaching an access code to each course.

2)   Without active enrollment, she can create or modify grading scales, make assignments, and issue permits to colleagues and other classes. However, to access other functionalities, she must approve enrollment requests first.

3)   Grade is automatically calculated based on the formula selected by the instructor. But before the class is over, actual numerical or letter grade may not be accurate.