Suggested Course Website: Instructions for Adding Courses

The purpose of the Suggested Course Website is to reach a broad audience of students and point them to classes with empty seats.

Guidelines

In order for a course to qualify for this website, it should

• have broad appeal,
• have seats available,
• have either no prerequisites, or only prerequisites that might have been taken by a large population of students (e.g. Psych 1, History 7A, etc.)
• be taught in English.

Access

If you would like to post classes and do not have access, please email Rose Chan-Gee, providing her with your name, department and UID# (found on the CalNet Directory Service). You will use your CalNet ID to authenticate.

Instructions

Here’s what you need before you begin:

• Course control numbers of courses you want to post
• Any recommendations you might want to give about the course (1-2 sentences). This is optional.
• Knowledge of whether this course is
  • A small class (fewer than 30 seats)
  • A course with a service component to  it, or
  • Taught by a faculty member who has won a Distinguished Teaching Award
  • The course website address, if it has one

The steps to add a course are:

1. Log into the Suggested Courses Update website and enter your CalNet ID. You will see a list of all of the courses that have been added to date, by you and others. At the center of the bottom of the screen is a "Display #" toggle button. You can toggle to change the number of courses you see on one page. Toggle to Max to see all of them. You can change the order in which the courses show by clicking the column headers at the top. For example, click on the blue word CCN to sort by course control number. If you want it to sort in descending order, click the word again. You can do that with each of the headings.
2. Press the Add New Course button which will bring up a screen where you will enter the CCN of your course. The next screen will show the information that has been pulled in from the Online Schedule of Classes. All of this information can be edited except the CCN. You can add a more specific course description, a recommendation, website, and can also toggle to tag the class as either small, including a service component, or taught by a faculty member who has received a Distinguished Teaching Award.
3. The Seats Available box will be checked.
4. Once you’re finished, click on Save and you’ll go back to the screen you saw when you logged in.
5. The final step is to make your course live. You'll need to select all courses (see chart below on how) and then press the Update to Live button.
    

The steps to remove a course from the live website are:

If you see that a course is filled, log into the website again and find the course that has filled. Click on the green check mark (under seats available) to the right of the appropriate CCN and it will turn to a red X. Then, as when adding courses, select all courses and press the Update to Live button.

Click on the image below for a larger popup.

Please send any suggestions / input / feedback to Rose Chan-Gee.