The Home, or Course, page for your school’s online platform offers a streamlined and user-friendly interface for both students and teachers. Each course is represented by a card that provides quick access to important updates, announcements, and tasks for the week. Teachers can customize these cards by changing their colour, renaming courses, and selecting which teacher’s name and image are displayed. All users can reorder the course cards, find specific courses, and hide courses they are no longer active in. This layout ensures that both students and teachers can easily manage their tasks and stay updated with minimal effort.

What you do with the course cards?

• Only teachers can edit the course cards. This includes:
  • Switching the course cards colour 
  • Giving your course a user-friendly name (contact your administrator for edit rights)
  • Course teachers are shown by name and image. For courses with more than 1 teacher, you can select which teacher will be displayed by editing the card. Otherwise, the first teacher on the list (alphabetical) will be displayed. 
• The following options are available to all users - teachers, students, admins:    

• Drag and drop to change the order of courses 
• Find a course by using the 'Search' function - any user can do this
• Reorder the course cards according to you preference.  
• Unstar/Unfavourite courses that you are no longer actively involved in. This will move the course to the bottom of the page. It will also remove the course from the calendar and the course dropdown list.
• Easily switch from Courses to Updates at the top of the page to see the update stream and task list for students. The task list shows the most immediate tasks while hiding tasks further in time.

Note: Each card links directly to the course and students will see important updates like new announcements and their tasks this week. Teachers, meanwhile, will see their follow-up tasks.

Teachers will see their follow-up tasks in the course. In the image shown, the teacher (Jenny Auster) has 2 follow-up tasks, which are visible in her task list on the course overview page.

A similar task list will be shown to students. They will also see tasks with no deadlines, while overdue tasks will be removed after 15 days. 

To learn more about how to create a course, read this article.