Welcome Back for Spring 2015!

By Paul Falvo · Comments (0)
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015

Your Spring 2015 CourseWorks course site is ready for you to use. To begin working on your site, log in with your UNI and password at: http://courseworks.columbia.edu/.

OVERALL FEATURES

For those who are new to CourseWorks, your site makes it easy to post information and collaborate with students on:

  • Syllabi
  • Course objectives
  • Textbooks
  • Assignments
  • Document files
  • Group email tools

For help getting started, download the QuickStart guide and find other documentation on the CCNMTL website. There are also several workshops offered by CCNMTL.

NEW CHANGES

We have added several new features this term.  These include:

  • Adviser information, email address and the primary school information of most students are now available in Site Settings
  • Primary school information shows on mouseover of student names (if info is available for student)
  • Course title will be automatically updated from directory of classes unless the instructor changes it
  • Easy way to extend guest access expiration dates
  • Confirmation emails to students upon submission of Test & Quiz
  • Students now share their pictures with other fellow students. They will be prompted to opt out of sharing their photos as well. Instructors will see the photos regardless of student selection
  • Piazza tool is available for all courses via the Edit Tools list
  • Advisor information, email address and the primary school information of all students are now available in Site Settings
    • Primary school information shows on mouseover of student names (if info is available for student)

RETIRING OLD COURSEWORKS

Old CourseWorks has been retired as of Dec. 31, 2014. We have archived all old CourseWorks course sites that contain content. These archives are available to instructors and departmental administrators within CourseWorks. To access these course archives, log into CourseWorks and click the Archive Courses button on your list of tools on the left-hand side.

ASSISTANCE

If you need any help with…

We look forward to helping you make the most of your CourseWorks this year. Have a great term!

Teaching & Learning Group, CUIT &

Center for New Media Teaching and Learning

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Oct. 25th Upgrade

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014

We are taking this opportunity to do maintenance on the CourseWorks system.  We brought the system down for maintenance Saturday, October 25th, 2014 5:00 PM –11:00 PM.  During this maintenance period, we will be upgrading CourseWorks and patching in fixes to several bugs.  New features and bugs being fixed include the following:

  • New version of the Meeting tool
  • Correcting bugs in Test & Quiz
  • Correcting bugs in the text editor
  • Weekly maintenance windows
  • Consolidated Email for Evaluations
  • Performance Enhancements
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Welcome Back: Fall 2014

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Monday, August 25th, 2014

Dear Faculty and Instructors,

Your Fall 2014 CourseWorks course site is ready for you to use. To begin working on your site, log in with your UNI and password at  http://courseworks.columbia.edu/.

Your CourseWorks site makes it easy to post your syllabus, course objectives, textbooks etc.  In addition the course sites also make it easy for you to post assignments, share documents, and communicate with students and more.  For help getting started, download the QuickStart guide and find other documentation at: http://support.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/knowledgebase/articles/6137.   There are also several workshops offered by CCNMTL and the details can be found at http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/workshops/

Over the summer CourseWorks underwent two major changes.  First, CourseWorks was upgraded to a new version. which includes the following changes:

  • New UI Layout
  • Improved text editor
  • Gradebook can now drop the highest/lowest grade in a category
  • Easier to read interface in Test & Quiz
  • New question types in Test & Quiz
  • Separate Hide and Disable tool options in Page Order.  Hide will prevent students form seeing a tool, but they can be linked to the contents.  Disabling a tool prevents the students from accessing even if linked to the tool.

The second major change was CourseWorks move to a brand new infrastructure.  This was a change on the servers CourseWorks is hosted.  With this change we expect to see improvements in performance as the semester progresses.

If you need any assistance with:

We look forward to helping you make the most of your CourseWorks site this semester!

Sincerely,

The CourseWorks Team

 

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March 15th Update 8AM – 2PM

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Monday, March 3rd, 2014

We will be taking CourseWorks down for maintenance on Saturday March 15th, 2014
8AM – 2PM.  During this time we will be doing a number of enhancements and patches on CourseWorks.  Changes’ being made include the following:

  • Adding a link to view Ninja print quotas for Columbia College, SEAS and School of Social Work students
  • Adding Student reports of past courses evaluations
  • Fixing the display options for Library Reserves and Research Guides
  • Adding a time out dialog message while filling out an evaluation
  • New features and bug fixes in Evaluation Administration including:
    • Adding an option to display rating scales in reverse order
    • Ordering reports for courses added to existing evaluations
    • Correcting an error while exporting Evaluation data to Excel

If users continue to experience issues after the service-interruption hours, please contact the CUIT Helpdesk at:

Web:     https://cuit.columbia.edu/support

Phone:   212-854-1919

Email:     [email protected]

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System Maintenance Schedule

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

There are two scheduled system maintenance windows.  CourseWorks will be unavailable during these times.  If you have any questions please email us.

Saturday March 15th, 2014 8AM – 2PM

Saturday May 24th, 2014 8AM – 6PM

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NewCourseWorks Redirect

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Monday, January 6th, 2014

Please Note: https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu is no longer active.  Please go to https://courseworks.columbia.edu to login to CourseWorks.

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Features and Bug Fixes January 2014

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Sunday, January 5th, 2014

New Features

  • CourseWorks users are now authenticated via CAS (Central Authentication Service)
  • The Syllabus tool interface has been redesigned to make it easier to create and update content
  • Library search is now available easily via Coursework search page
  • CKEditor has been updated to a newer version.  CKEditor is the text editor interface used by many tools within CourseWorks
  • Delegated administrators can look up site membership for individuals.
  • Evaluation administrators can set default settings for Evaluations and Reports
  • Evaluation administrators can create student reports of course evaluations
  • Instructors can now customize the Student view of their Gradebook grades
  • Imported site members are added as NRA members

Bug Fixes

  • An error deleting Sign Up tool meetings has been fixed.
  • A bug in the numbering of Evaluation questions has been fixed
  • A bug in the reordering of Evaluation questions has been fixed
  • A bug preventing Auditors from viewing Assignments has been fixed
  • GSB Student’s no longer get an error the first time logging into CourseWorks via Canvas
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Planned Outage 1/4/2014 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Monday, December 30th, 2013

CourseWorks Maintenance 1/4 8:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Severity Level: Medium
Alert Date: 01/04/2014 – 08:00am to 01/04/2014 – 02:00pm
Alert Message:

CourseWorks will be unavailable on January 4th, from 8 AM to 2 PM for scheduled maintenance.  We regret the inconvenience this may cause.

If users continue to experience issues after the service-interruption hours, please contact the CUIT Helpdesk at:

Web:     https://cuit.columbia.edu/support

Phone:   212-854-1919

Email:     [email protected]

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Planned Outage November 3rd,

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

There will be an outage of Courseworks Sunday, November 3rd.  We will be taking Courseworks offline for regular maintenance.

Sunday, November 3rd, 2013

8AM – 10AM

 

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New Tools and Features in New Courseworks for Fall ’13

By Charles Woods · Comments (0)
Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

Here’s a list of some of the exciting new changes Fall 2013 has brought to CourseWorks!  Now, when you log into CourseWorks, users have access to:

Expanded classroom information

Includes details on classroom size and equipment.

My Evaluations Page

Provides a consolidated view of all evaluations, listed by term, that are assigned to each student.

Improved syllabus tool

Allows instructors to update key information, such as creating multiple sessions and linking sessions to a calendar for students to view.

Piazza

A robust discussion board and online Q&A platform.

Big Blue Button

An interactive web conferencing tool, designed to enhance the classroom experience for distance learning.

 

Please Note: Piazza and Big Blue Button are available to all faculty upon request. For more information on how to use this tool, visit the CourseWorks website.

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