Vendor Documentation
Merged courses make it easier to share content and resources across multiple sections of a course, grad/undergrad courses, and cross-listed courses. Instead of having to maintain materials across multiple course shells, a merged course allows you to do the work once in a single course shell.
A merged course simply directs all enrollments from multiple courses and sections in to one course shell on myCourses.
Because only enrollments are migrated with a merge, we do not recommend merging after the semester has started and student's have had activity in the course.
| Sommaire |
|---|
When you place your request, you indicate which course will be made into the Primary course, and what Secondary courses will be merged in to the Primary course.
The Primary course is renamed to reflect the merge. This is always done in alphabetical and numerical order. They are not ordered to reflect the Primary course of the merge.
Students can only see and access the Primary course of a merge.
The Secondary courses are marked as as Inactive. The Instructor will still see the Inactive Secondary courses, but they will not be visible or accessible by the students. The Secondary courses are also renamed to include the myCourses course code in the title to make it easier for support staff to quickly access the Primary course when supporting users in those courses.
An example of how the merge of the CSEC.461.01 and CSEC.461.01L1 courses will be reflected in the My Courses listing:
...
Merged Courses - Instructor View
...
...
Merged Courses - Student view
...
The Course Merge Request form can be found on this page . The link to the Course Merge Request Form can always be found on the myCourses My Home page, down the right-hand column.
Two business days. On the first day we map the courses in the merge request. Then we must wait for the daily SIS Integration to be run ~5:00AM Eastern to migrate the enrollments. On the second day we confirm the merge has been completed and then rename the courses.
Up to 255 courses may be merged in to a single course shell.
Yes, but please make sure you coordinate with the other instructors before placing your request to make sure they wish to have their courses merged.
An instructor can begin posting materials and developing their course in the Primary course shell right away, they do not have to wait for the merge to be completed.
Students who were enrolled in a Secondary course, not the Primary, will not see the Primary course or have access to it until the merge has completed. This is also per the regular course access for students with the start date of a term, a course merge does not grant any special access to students.
When courses are merged you are still able to work with or view each section individually in the Primary course in many of the tools.
Many course tools are aware of merged course and offer you View By options to work with all users, or choose an individual section to work with.
For example in the Grades tool for a merged course the View By menu is at the top of the page.
After you choose Sections and click the Apply button you will be able to choose the section you want to work with.
After selecting a specific section and click the Apply button you will just see the users in that section listed in the Grades tool.
Most third-party integrations with myCourses do not acknowledge course merges. They handle a course shell as a single course, a single Classlist.
Zoom's integration with mycourses does not allow you to restrict separate meetings to sections in a merged course. All meetings are available to all students in the course shell. You can name them appropriately and inform your students of the scheduling.
You can use Release Conditions in many of the places you can share materials to set up a version restricted to specific sections.
In Discussions you can use Sections as special type of Group when setting up group discussions.
You can use Special Access to have Assignments and Quizzes have different dates for different sections.
Students only see their section on the Classlist. They do not see all students across all sections of a merged course.
In a merged course, the Grades tool will be a single setup for all users in the course.
When grading you can Exempt selected individuals on a grade item. The Grades tool will adjust in most cases to balance out the categories for exempt items. This works best when you exempt individual Items in a Category with other grade items, or items that stand alone outside of a Category to count directly towards the final grade. Exempting a whole category may not balance out properly and this action is not recommended.
This can lead to complications, especially if the user has a Drop on their record for the section you are trying to move them into. They will be removed from the course every time the authoritative SIS Integration runs daily as the Registrar's records states they should be dropped from the course. A course merge will handle these enrollment conflicts properly.
Yes, but the prior work will not move to the Primary course. Only the student enrollments are redirected, any prior grades or submissions stay behind in the original section that students will no longer have access to them. If you wish to migrate grades you will have to enter them again (possible with a manual export and import). Any student work would have to be resubmitted by the student.
Only Instructor and Student enrollments are handled by the feed. Any additional users you added to the course will have to be added again to the Primary course.
Yes. Submit a new course merge request. List the Primary course as the existing merged course number and then provide only the new additional Secondary course numbers you are adding. The new work will still take two business days to complete and the work cannot be expedited.
Yes, but work will not be moved to the other courses. Only the student enrollments are redirected, any prior grades or submissions stay behind in the Primary course that students in other sections will no longer have access to. If you wish to migrate grades you will have to enter them again (possible with a manual export and import). Any student work would have to be resubmitted by the student.
It takes two business days to unmerge courses and the work cannot be expedited.
The course number changes to reflect a merged course are in alphabetical and numerical order. They are not ordered to reflect the Primary course of the merge.
For example if BIOL.770.01 was the Primary course in a merge with BIOL.340.01 the course number on the merged course will be listed as BIOL.340/770.01 NOT BIOL.770/340.01
No, Students only see their section on the Classlist. They do not see all students across all sections of a merged course.has been moved to the new CTL Knowledge Base.
