Automating Communications and Nudges

iCollege has a tool called Intelligent Agents that can be used to automate communications, reminders, or send “nudges” to students. The Intelligent Agent Tool is found in the Course Tools menu under Course Admin in the Communication section. The...

Testing the Course as a Student

The Demo Student The Classlist Tool features a special “student” called the Demo Student. The Demo Student is used by the instructor to test the course from the student perspective. Testing a course as a student usually involves checking content...

Classlist

The Classlist Tool shows all of the students (and instructors, designers, teaching assistants, etc.) that have access to your course. It is an unofficial class roll. GoSolar is the OFFICIAL classroll. The Classlist is updated nightly according to enrollment data...

Managing iCollege

When you are ready to teach using iCollege there are some administrative-type tools that can make your life a bit easier. This next section of iCollegeNow covers tools and features such as the Classlist, testing the course with a demo student, and crosslisted section...

Posting an Announcement

Announcements are used in iCollege by the instructor to communicate information to students. At their core, they should be short and simple items that fulfill one or more of the following: provide important update information on changes to the course content or...