myCourses is driven by an information feed from the Registrar's office. This feed handles the creation of credit-bearing courses, instructor assignments, and student enrollments (Adds, Drops, and Withdrawals).

Feed Timing

The feed is sent to myCourses once each morning at 4:00am. Any changes made through out the day will not be reflected on myCourses until the next 4:00am information feed is supplied to us.

The feed for a quarter runs from the seventh week of the prior quarter through the last day of final exams. The exception is that both Summer and Fall quarter courses are generated on the seventh week of Spring Quarter to allow faculty to work on their Fall offerings over the summer if desired.

Feed Dates

Following the table, the impact of each milestone is explained.

Courses Generated

Credit-bearing courses are generated on myCourses the seventh week of the preceding quarter. Fall quarter courses are generated one quarter in advance with the Summer offerings for the convenience of the instructors. Courses listings, course titles, and faculty assignments are all dependent on the information entered in to the registrar's records by the scheduling officers of the academic department.

Student Enrollments

Student enrollments are sent to myCourses on the Monday following the generation of the first billing. These billing dates are always available on the Finance and Administration website at: http://finweb.rit.edu/sfs/billing/billingdates.html

Student Access

Students are granted access to courses one week before the start date of the course. If there is a campus holiday and the institute is closed student access may be granted the next available business day after the holiday. This is to give the students time to acquaint themselves with the course, or have access to important information in advance.

Classes Begin

This is the official start date of classes for the academic quarter.

Using dates outside the standard term / Early Access

Student access to courses is governed by the dates in the Registrar's records. If a course needs to work outside the dates of the standard term listed above, the scheduling officer for the academic department will need to adjust the dates on the course in the Registrar's records.

Please note that students will be granted access to the course one week prior to the start date of record as noted above. For example if you set the start date of a course in the Registrar's records to March 8th, the course will open to students on myCourses on March 1st.

As long as the start date falls after the Student Enrollments date for the quarter, the entire process is automated and no further intervention is required. If a course needs to open prior to the Student Enrollments date listed in the Feed Dates above you will need to contact Academic Technology Support for assistance.

Instructors can confirm the date students will have access to their course on myCourses. In a course select "Edit Course" on the navigation bar then select the "Course Offering Information" link. There you will see the Start Date listed for the course.

Ending Course Access

Currently myCourses does not restrict course access based on the end date on courses, courses will remain available to students on myCourses unless the professor manually makes the course inactive. In the My Courses listing students will see a statement of "Course ended" followed by the date, but the course link will remain active and students may enter the course.

The professor may set a course as inactive by entering their course, selecting "Edit Course" on the navigation bar then selecting the "Course Offering Information" link. There they will find a check box entitled "Course is active," uncheck this option and save the change to the course. When a course is inactive students will not be able to access the course and it will not appear on their My Courses listing.

Authority of the feed for user access and roles

The information feed from the Registrar's Office is the authoritative source for course access and it will override access or roles that an instructor manually assigns in a course if it has conflicting information.

This will primarily be reflected in situations where an instructor wishes to add a student to a course and finds they are removed each time the feed runs due to a student having a drop on their record for the course.

If a student needs access to a course:

• For an Incomplete
• Auditing it
• As a Grader
• As a Graduate Assistant
• As a Note Taker
• As a Teaching Assistant

They should not enroll in the course and drop it.

If this situation does occur the user should have a role of Student or Instructor in the course and the instructor, not the user, can contact Academic Technology Support to address the issue.