TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Accessing course settings
• 2 Course properties and features
  • 2.1 General tab
  • 2.2 Description tab
  • 2.3 Additional actions (three-dot menu)
  • 2.4 Course focus and course type differences
• 3 Plans
  • 3.1 Plan type
  • 3.2 Topics
  • 3.3 Resources and activities
  • 3.4 Visibility
  • 3.5 Anonymous access
  • 3.6 Topic fields and plan fields
• 4 Share as template
• 5 Course catalogue
• 6 Learning objectives
  • 6.1 Insert learning objectives
  • 6.2 Create learning objectives
  • 6.3 Assessment settings for learning objectives
• 7 Assessment settings
  • 7.1 Assessment scale
  • 7.2 Creating a custom assessment scale
  • 7.3 Categories
  • 7.4 Assessment record settings
  • 7.5 Weighting
• 8 Course export
• 9 Deleting a course
• 10 Troubleshooting

1 Overview

Course settings allow teachers to configure properties, features, plans, learning objectives, assessment scales, and sharing options for a course. The settings page is divided into several sections, each covering a specific area of course configuration.

To deeper insights on different topics, look for their respective articles.

Note: Not all settings and features described in this article may be available in your course. The availability of specific features depends on site-level configuration set by your system administrator.

1.1 Accessing course settings

1. Open the course you want to configure.
2. Click the three-dot menu (...) in the course submenu.
3. Select Settings.

The Settings page displays the available configuration options, organised into the Manage course settings section and the Apps section.

2 Course properties and features

The Course properties and features page contains two tabs: General and Description.

2.1 General tab

The General tab contains the following settings:

Description

Course code and hours

Course terms

Terms are divisions of the school year in which grades are organised (also called semesters, quarters, or trimesters). Your itslearning administrator creates terms for your organisation.

If no terms are listed, select Add term, choose the appropriate terms, and click Add. If no terms are available to select, contact your itslearning administrator.

Course focus

Select the format and focus for the course. You can change the course focus at any time without losing content or student data. The available course focus options are:

The selected course focus determines which settings pages, course menu items, course page components, and plan types are available. See 2.4 Course focus and course type differences for details.

Functions

The Functions section allows you to enable or disable specific features within the course. The list below applies to Subject and Class courses. Self-paced learning and Information Hub courses show a reduced set of functions, see 2.4 Course focus and course type differences.

Choose start page

Determines the first page users see when opening the course.

360° reports

The 360° reports allow teachers to compare the progress of all students in the course. This section controls the 360° report settings for the individual course.

Available options:

Permissions

Remember to click Save to apply any changes made on the General tab.

2.2 Description tab

The Description tab contains information visible to students when they view course properties, as well as in the course catalogues if the course is shared.

2.3 Additional actions (three-dot menu)

On the Course properties and features page, click the three-dot menu (...) in the upper right corner to access:

2.4 Course focus and course type differences

The course focus selected on the General tab (see 2.1) determines which settings pages, course menu items, course page components, and plan types are available for the course. The tables below summarise these differences for each course focus.

3 Plans

The Plans settings page allows you to configure plan settings for the individual course.

3.1 Plan type

The plan types available, and the default plan type, depend on the course focus selected for the course. See 2.4 Course focus and course type differences for details.

3.2 Topics

Topics allow you to group plans and describe what students will work on. You can choose whether to create a folder for each new topic, which affects the resource structure.

3.3 Resources and activities

Choose between one combined field or separate fields for resources and activities.

3.4 Visibility

Configure when plans become visible to students. Options include making plans visible manually or automatically. You can also set the default status for new plans (Visible or Not visible) and choose whether connected elements become automatically visible when a plan is made visible.

3.5 Anonymous access

Provides a link to the plan that can be published externally, for example on the school's website. Enable anonymous access by ticking the checkbox.

3.6 Topic fields and plan fields

Configure the fields visible in topics and plans, including their visibility settings (Everyone, Teacher, Nobody) and whether they appear in the calendar.

Default plan fields include: Title, Date, Class hours, Description, Learning objectives, Resources, and Activities. You can add custom fields using the Add field option.

4 Share as template

Sharing a course as a template allows other users to create a new course based on it. All elements within the template are copied to the new course, including course settings, plans, and other elements.

Share with:

Additional options (when sharing is enabled):

5 Course catalogue

The course catalogue setting controls whether the course is available in the school course catalogue and how students can access it.

When set to None, all students must be entered into the course either manually or through an integration.

When the course catalogue is enabled, you can define:

Registration:

Maximum number of free seats: Set the maximum number of available places in the course.

6 Learning objectives

The Learning objectives settings page allows you to insert, create, and manage learning objectives for the course.

6.1 Insert learning objectives

To track standards mastery and progress, align your course to learning objectives from a repository.

1. Navigate to Settings > Learning objectives.
2. Click Find.
3. Navigate to the appropriate repository.
4. Select the appropriate standards for your course.
5. Click Insert or Insert and close.

The selected learning objectives are now available to attach to plans or course elements.

Note: If standards are missing from the repository, contact your system administrator.

6.2 Create learning objectives

Teachers can create their own learning objectives to track within a course.

1. Navigate to Settings > Learning objectives.
2. Click Create.
3. Enter the learning objective details.

Note: Learning objectives created within a course cannot be shared with others unless the course is shared as a template. An itslearning administrator can also import learning objectives from an XML or XLSX format.

6.3 Assessment settings for learning objectives

You can track each student's progress with individual learning objectives by configuring achievement levels.

1. Navigate to Settings > Learning objectives.
2. Click Assessment settings in the upper right area of the page.

Available settings:

Note: Achievement levels can also be configured at the site level by a system administrator.

7 Assessment settings

The Assessment settings page contains three tabs: Assessment scale, Categories, and Assessment record settings.

7.1 Assessment scale

The assessment scale should align with your school's grading policies and is set up by your itslearning administrator. Course teachers cannot change or delete administrator-created assessment scales, but can create and delete their own scales.

To view details for a specific assessment scale, click on its title.

7.2 Creating a custom assessment scale

1. Navigate to Settings > Assessment settings > Assessment scale tab.
2. Click Create.
3. Fill in the required fields:

   Field	Description
   Title	The name of the new scale.
   Totals	How the total is displayed in the assessment record.
   Description	A description of what the scale is for.
   Calculate percentages	Automatically divides the number of rows by 100 to determine percentage thresholds. If unchecked, you can define your own thresholds.
   Percentages can be changed when used with tests	Allows you to adjust percentage thresholds for individual tests.
   Assessment rows	Enter grades in descending order (highest/best first).

4. Click Save.

Note: A custom assessment scale is only available in the course where it was created. To use it across multiple courses or school-wide, contact your administrator.

7.3 Categories

The Categories tab allows the teacher to set up categories for assignments (such as homework, tests, quizzes). These categories can be weighted. If weighting is not enabled, all categories are weighted evenly.

7.4 Assessment record settings

Note: This page edits the settings for the assessment record found under Status and follow-up, not the course settings directly. These settings can also be accessed from there.

Use weighting for assessments: Enable or disable weighting for individual assessments.

Average:

When average for participants is enabled, an additional Average and count tab becomes visible in the assessment record.

Export to a CSV file: Assessment only, Assessment converted to percentage, or both assessment and percentage.

7.5 Weighting

When assessment weighting is enabled, you can enter a numerical weight for individual assignments, tests, or tasks. Without weighting, all assessments are calculated as a percentage (100%). Weighting allows you to increase the value of individual assessments: for example, one assignment might count twice while another counts three times towards an average. Final assessments cannot be weighted.

In the assessment record overview, the assessment weight can be viewed by hovering over the element header.

8 Course export

The course export function allows you to export course resources in one of two formats:

1. Navigate to Settings and select Course export under the Apps section.
2. Select the desired export format from the dropdown.
3. Click Start export.

9 Deleting a course

1. Open the course and navigate to Settings.
2. Select Course properties and features.
3. Click the three-dot menu (...) in the upper right corner.
4. Select Delete.
5. Confirm the deletion by clicking Delete on the confirmation page.

10 Troubleshooting

Cannot see certain settings or features

Symptoms: Some settings or features described in this article are not visible in your course.

Cause: Feature availability depends on site-level configuration managed by your system administrator.

Solution:

1. Verify that the feature is enabled in the Functions section of Course properties and features.
2. Contact your system administrator to check whether the feature is enabled at the site level.

Cannot change the course title

Symptoms: The course title field is not editable.

Cause: Course titles created through integration (SIS) usually cannot be changed within itslearning.

Solution:

1. Contact your system administrator to update the course title through your SIS.

No terms available when adding course terms

Symptoms: No terms appear when selecting Add term.

Cause: Terms are created by the itslearning administrator for the organisation.

Solution:

1. Contact your itslearning administrator to set up terms for your organisation.