How to create a course site

Published August 28, 2009 | By Munir Mandviwalla

Login to your account
Click on My Blogs
Select “Create a Blog”
Please use the following convention for the “Blog name”: course number, section, term, so if your course is MIS 2101 Section 001 and you are teaching in fall 2009, your course URL would be ‘mis2101sec001f09′. If we all use this convention then it will be easy to remember and find courses.
For the “Blog title” we recommend using the title of your course. So if your course is MIS 2101 Informations Systems, then use “Information Systems” for the title.
There is one more critical step after the above process is complete. Click on “My Blogs” again and select the new site you just created. Then select “Switch Themes.”
Select the “Course” theme. This will automatically configure the look and feel of your site so that it is set for a course. Don’t worry you can change it all later. This is to get you started.
Now take a look at the site.
You can add “posts” to the site by again selecting “My Blogs” and then selecting the new site and then “New Post.”
That is all it takes to get going!
For more control and options, select the “Dashboard.”