Merging Courses (and course rosters)
Currently WSU administrators are taking responsibility for merging all ANGEL courses to manage potential support issues arising from some of the options with the interface. (Instructors, please use the “Request a Merged Course” link at http://online.wsu.edu/services if you wish to merge rosters or course sections. )
Here is a checklist of the steps required to successfully complete a merge.
- Log into ANGEL using your administrator credentials.
- Click the gear icon to access the Administrator Configuration Page
- Under the Institution tab, click User Accounts, and search for the instructor who's course sections you want to merge.
- Click the user's name, and change the rights to “Manager,” then click “Save.”
- Search for the userid again (if necessary), and click the sunglasses to logon as the user. This will bring you to that user’s Personal Home Page.
- In the Toolbox nugget, click “Merged Roster Manager.”
- Select the courses to be merged, and click continue.
- For the Merged Course title, use the name of the course as it is listed in ANGEL, but without the section notation, replace with _merged, so we know it is a merged course. **Please include the semester in the title**
- Check the boxes for “Disable Source Courses” and “Hide Source Courses from Editors.”
- Change User Rights so that the maximum and cap are both “Course Editor.”
- Modify the team names to correspond with the section, i.e. Section A, Section B, etc.
- Click “Create Course.”
- Check to see that the original courses no longer appear in the Courses nugget, and that the merged course is listed.
- Log out.
- Log back in using your administrator credentials.
- Click the gear icon to access the Administrator Configuration Page.
- Under the Institution tab, click User Accounts, and search for the instructor.
- Click the user's name, and change the rights to “Faculty,” then click “Save.”
Quick Merge Checklist
- Change user rights to “Manager”
- Login as user, use Merged Roster Editor to merge courses
- Be sure to check “disable source courses” and “hide source courses from editors"
- Modify user rights so that max and cap are both Course Editor *
- Set team names to correspond to section * Adjust class start date
- Log out
- Log back in as administrator
- Change user rights back to “Faculty”
You can edit an existing merge.
- Make sure you are in the roster for the sections you want to add
- Go to merged roster manager
- Choose the existing merged course you want to add sections to from the dropdown at the top of the page and select “Edit”
- Find the sections available to add using the dropdown on this page and you’ll get a popup that shows what to call the group a. Notice that by default when you create a merge it uses course id and when you edit it uses course title to name groups…I updated to use course id so that it is consistent in my courses
- Then update the merged course title if you need to
- Click the “Save Changes” button
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