ARCHIVED: In Oncourse, how do I control access to my site?
You can unpublish your site temporarily, which makes it unavailable to site participants while you make changes (e.g., to prepare for the upcoming semester). You can also choose whether people who are not site participants can find and join your site or see certain files.
- In your site's menubar, click .
Alternatively, from the menubar in My Workspace, click
, check the box next to the site you wish to revise, and then click .Note:Although you can check multiple boxes, you can only edit information about one site at a time. - Click .
- Under "Site Status", choose whether your site is visible to
participants or not:
- To open your site to participants, select . A published site will appear as a tab and/or in the active sites list of each of your participants.
- To hide your site from participants, select . This can be valuable if you are building a site and don't want participants to see the site and materials before you are ready.
Note: If you unpublish your site, students in the course no longer see the course tab in their Oncourse workspaces. Students may become confused about whether they are officially registered for your course if they do not see it in their workspaces, particularly in the few weeks prior to the beginning of a new semester.
Individuals with any type of instructor role (AI/TA, instructor, assistant) will still have access to the course when it is not published.
- Under "Site Visibility", choose whether your site will be listed
in the public site list once it is published:
- To limit site visibility to only your site participants, select .
- To open your site description and any public announcements or content to anyone with access to IU's site list, select .
- Under "Global Access", choose which users may join the site once
it is published:
- If you want to control who has access to your site, select .
- If you want to open your site to more participants by allowing users to search for and join the site, select .
- Once selected, decide what role you want to automatically apply to these participants. Next to "Role for people that join site:", select the appropriate role. For more about roles, see ARCHIVED: Participant roles.
- Click .
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Last modified on 2018-01-18 14:28:16.