OVERVIEW
Target audience: Instructors
Before the start of a new term, you should ensure that your courses and sections have been created in Minerva and enabled for myCourses by your department.
In this article:
Enabling a course or section for myCourses
If a course or section exists in Minerva, but was not automatically created in myCourses, you must contact your department to enable it for myCourses. This setting will carry over to future iterations of the course so that you will not need to enable the section every year. This is often necessary for Tutorial or Lab sections of a course that were not always used in myCourses.
Manually enabling a section for myCourses
There may be certain situations in which you need your section in myCourses immediately or you only want to enable the section for the current semester. In these cases, you can manually enable the section in Minerva. This can only be done by an Instructor or Course Coordinator and will not carry over to future iterations of the course.
- Log into Minerva.
- Select Faculty > myCourses Course Creation.
- Follow the onscreen instructions to view the list of courses/sections assigned to you. The screen shot below indicates that for BIOL 200, only the two Lecture sections for BIOL 200 have been automatically created in myCourses.
NOTE:
If you do not see your course or section in this list, contact your department to make sure you are officially registered as an instructor for the course.
- Click Create course beside the course section you wish to copy to myCourses, e.g. the Optional Tutorials.
- Log into myCourses to access the course section(s) you enabled.
If your course is in Minerva and you are not able to create it using these instructions, contact the IT Service Desk.
Creating a course that is not in Minerva
If your course does not exist in Minerva, you must review the Guidelines and forms for courses and programs and submit a New Course Proposal Form to the APC Subcommittee on Courses and Teaching Programs (SCTP). After the course is approved by the university and created in Minerva by your department, your course will be automatically created in myCourses and populated with students according to the enrolments in Minerva. This also applies to non-credit and/or non-transcript courses and workshops.
For more information, contact the SCTP.
