Editing Course Templates

This article will discuss the steps for editing many settings for your course templates. If you need to add course templates or need to edit courses you have already generated for a term, you may use the below articles for reference. 

NOTE: We want to give you a reminder that course templates are something that you will use every time you generate courses for a term. That means you only want to make edits to your templates IF  those settings stay the same every term. If a setting changes every term, you will not want to add this to the course template; instead, you will later add this after you generate the course for the term. 

Creating Course Templates

1. Go to Courses > Other > Course Templates. 
   
2. Select and Edit the appropriate course.
   
   
3. You will now have a series of options to edit for your course template:
   • Enter the Title of your course (e.g. Music Gr. 1).
     NOTE: Make your course titles specific. If you have 5 courses called "Music," it will be difficult to determine which programs are in that course. "Music (Gr. 1)" would be much more useful).
   • Enter the Description of the course.
     NOTE: We understand that sometimes course descriptions change over time so teachers also have access to descriptions if they would like to write their own once the course is generated.
   • Enter the Order number. This will help shape the order of the course when it appears on a report. For example, make the course you want to appear first a "0." Then make the following courses 5,10, 15, 20, etc. to create the order you want them to appear. 
   • Complete the rest of the form as necessary.
     • Required fields include:
       • Credits: If the course is worth no credits, leave it as 0 or add the appropriate credits.
       • Assessment Entry Type: This allows the school to choose between Letter Grade or Percentage. 
     • Important optional fields include (hover over help bubbles for more information): 
       • Assessment Group: This is a customized group of assessments for teachers to select from in the portal. You may select from existing assessment groups, 
       • Auto Register: When this is checked, every student in the program(s) (grade levels) for which this course is intended for will be registered for this Course whenever the Auto Register tool is used.
       • Department
       • Master Course: If this Course has a Master Course, enter it here.
       • Hide Gradebook
     • Course Registration Options for Transcripts (hover over help bubbles for more information):
       • Count Toward GPA
       • Count Toward College Admission GPA
       • Honors Course
       • Is Weighted
       • Show on Transcript
       • Show on Report
4. Click Save and Continue.
5. At the bottom of the page, there are some Tabs to consider:
   
   • Teachers: If you know the same Teacher always teaches the same course year after year, add them here.
   • Evaluation Matrix: If you use Evaluation Matrixes and this Course always uses the same one(s), add them here.
   • Belongs to Curriculas: Tie the correct Curricula(s) to the Course Template.