To:  All Learning System Instructors and Associates

In this Issue:
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1.  Fall 2011 and Fall/Winter 2011AY Course Requests -- FIRST CALL
3.  Student Number Self-Serve for Summer 2011 courses
5.  learningSystem Workshops and Help?



1.  Fall 2011H and Fall/Winter 2011AY Course Site Requests  - - FIRST CALL
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2011 Fall Course Site Requests -- Please note that this applies  to courses that are starting on in September, 2011.  If you are not yet aware of your teaching duties, please do let us know as soon as that information is relayed to you.  Please do not reply to this email with your course site requests, or request sites for 2012WI at this time.

From www.trentu.ca/mls/instructors please choose 'Course Request' from the left menu
(direct link: http://www.trentu.ca/mls/instructors/course-request.shtml )

All requests send this way will be placed in a request queue in "RequestTracker" for processing in the coming months.   If your course already exists in the learningSystem, please do feel free to update your materials as students can no longer see sites from last year.

After submitting your first course request, use the "BACK' button on your browser to submit the other requests - - it'll save you some keying time.

Student Load:  All students will be loaded into September courses on the Wednesday of Intro Week (Wednesday, September 7th before noon).  This should avoid lots of "last minute" access issues of loading them on the first day of fall classes. 


2.  Student Number Self-Serve for Current Summer Courses
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There's a  web application that instructors can use to request a list of student numbers for their current learningSystem/WebCT gradebooks. 

It's a "Student Number Self-Serve".  Instructors can choose their course from a list of courses and the student number list is sent to a pre-authorized Trent email address.  It appears in the form of an import file for the gradebook.

If you'd like to request and receive a student number list for your summer course(s), you can do so at this address:
http://www.trentu.ca/mls/instructors  -- choose 'StuNumbers Request' from the left menu.   Instructions for the import come along with the email sent.

Note that you cannot use this application until your course has been loaded with students for the first time.
 

3.  learningSystem Workshops and Help?
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If you're having difficulty with a particular learningSystem tool, or would like to talk to one of us about how to take your site to "the next level", please let us know * we'd be happy to help.  Summer is a particularly great time for this.

A full slate of learningSystem workshops will be offered during the last two - three weeks of the summer, potentially beginning on August 15th.  An announcement of these workshops and online registration will be sent prior to these events!

Questions, comments?

mj

MJ Pilgrim/Chris Boothroyd/Lily Chumbley
LearningSystem Team

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