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Course, portfolio, and project sites: Overview

What they are

  • Course sites: A course site is the official work site for a particular academic course for an institution and can be linked to a database (such as a registrar's) to automatically populate its roster.
  • Portfolio sites: Portfolio sites offer workflows for a variety of purposes, including assessing and showcasing learning, documenting and sharing skills and accomplishments, and collecting data for programmatic and institutional accreditation.
  • Project sites: Project sites are designed to facilitate collaboration. You can invite anyone you wish to join your project site.

Key concepts

Customization: Using a web browser, you can choose from features and functions to create worksites that meet your needs. Here are some examples:

  • A course web site where students can work on and submit assignments
  • A portfolio web site where students receive guidance in creating portfolios for specific purposes.
  • A worksite where an instructor or project director can make announcements and share resources, such as documents or links to other web sites
  • A web site that serves as an online discussion board or blog

My Workspace: When you log in, you will automatically open a site called My Workspace. All users get their own My Workspace site.

Tabs: When you log in, the course, portfolio, and project sites to which you belong are displayed as tabs across the top of the screen. To enter a site, click its tab. If you belong to more sites than can be displayed as tabs, those sites are accessible from the drop-down list labeled "- more -".

Note: You can choose to hide sites (e.g., course sites from previous semesters) or reorder them (i.e., choose which sites to display in tabs) using the Preferences tool in My Workspace. For instructions, see Showing, hiding, and ordering course, portfolio, and project sites.

Menubar: Course, portfolio, and project sites can have just a few or several functions (including announcements, a schedule, an online discussion area, assignments, electronic resources, a chat area, and more). When you create a site, you choose which tools to include, and they are added to the menubar along the left side of the screen. To access a tool, click its name in the menubar. Sites also have a "home page", which you can access by clicking Home in the menubar.

Things to consider

For best results, use one of the following browsers:

  • Windows:
    • Internet Explorer 7.0 or newer
    • Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3
  • Macintosh:
    • Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3
  • Other platforms:
    • Mozilla Firefox 2 or 3
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