How to Create Sites, Users and Content with Job Scheduler

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Last updated: Apr 01, 2023
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The Job Scheduler creates 5 sites at a time, populated with users and Gradebook items.

Note:

If you want to add your own users to the sites created, make sure to create those users on the server before taking these steps.

Accessing the Job Scheduler

  1. Log in as an admin

  2. Click on Job Scheduler in the navigation

  3. The Job Scheduler Event Log page opens

  4. Click the Jobs tab

  5. Continue with the instructions under “Running the Job”, below. If the job is not available, continue with the instructions below for adding the job.

Create sites, users, and content job hasn’t been added 

If the Create Sites, Users and Content hasn’t been added yet (in the “Jobs” tab), you will need to add it first.

Repeat steps 1-4 from above.

5. Click the New Job tab

6. The Create Job page displays

7. Enter the following for the Job Name: Create sites, users and content for testing

8. From the Type drop-down, select Create sites, users and content for testing

9. Click Post

10. The Job Scheduler page displays with available jobs

Running the Job

  1. Click Triggers(0) beside the Create sites, users and content for testing job

  2. Editing triggers page displays

  3. Click the Run Job Now tab

  4. Confirmation page displays

  5. Click Run Now

  6. The Job Scheduler page displays again

  7. The Running Jobs tab will display the any running jobs

8. The Event Log will display the status of the job

Accessing the Newly Created Sites

Once the site have been completed, you may want to add your own instructor user to the sites

  1. Click on Worksite Setup in the navigation

  2. Sites are listed in alphabetical order, so you need to order them by Creation Date, newest at the top, to see the 5 sites you created with the job scheduler

  3. The easiest way to prepare these sites for your use now is to right-click and open the site in a new tab.

  4. Currently, the only tools added to these sites are Resources, Gradebook, Site Info, Search and Help

  5. For each new site, Click on Site Info > Add Participants if you have your own instructor user that you want to work with and add that user as an instructor. Otherwise, click on Manage Participants and look for the instructor roles and make a note of the instructor’s ID so you can log in as that instructor.

  6. Click on Site Info > Manage Tools and add any tools you need for testing.