{"id":717,"date":"2022-09-19T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/?p=717"},"modified":"2022-09-20T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T06:14:56","slug":"never-have-i-ever-used-mycourses-for-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/2022\/09\/19\/never-have-i-ever-used-mycourses-for-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Never have I ever &#8230;used MyCourses for teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No worries! Take a sneak peak, how MyCourses can make your teaching life much easier!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mycourses.aalto.fi\/\">MyCourses<\/a> is a comprehensive learning management system that saves you a lot of time, once you have invested a bit of effort to put it in effective use!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2022\/09\/Mycourses-log-in-page.png\" rel=\"https:\/\/mycourses.aalto.fi\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/files\/2022\/09\/Mycourses-log-in-page.png\" alt=\"MyCourses log in page\" width=\"602\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">MyCourses interface (<a href=\"https:\/\/mycourses.aalto.fi\/\">mycourses.aalto.fi<\/a>) before logging in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Seven things you should know about MyCourses<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li>You can communicate with course participants.<\/li>\n<li>You can follow attendance.<\/li>\n<li>You can share course material, resources, links, and other content.<\/li>\n<li>You can set up and grade assignments, receive submissions and track completion progress.<\/li>\n<li>You can manage groups and facilitate discussions.<\/li>\n<li>You can organise remote exams and quizzes with assessment tools.<\/li>\n<li>You can operate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/services\/online-meeting-tools-teams-and-zoom\">Zoom, Teams,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/services\/panopto-media-service\">Panopto<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/services\/turnitin-an-originality-checking-and-feedback-software\">Turnitin<\/a> on MyCourses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><strong>How to get started?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Read a brief introduction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/services\/mycourses-learning-environment\">MyCourses in Aalto.fi<\/a> and watch a short video <a href=\"https:\/\/aalto.cloud.panopto.eu\/Panopto\/Pages\/Viewer.aspx?id=d51ea9b8-b302-4f2c-9455-aefb00c2d429\">Basic use of MyCourses<\/a> (4min).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong><br \/>\nAnd there are more goodies&#8230;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>For try-outs, you can request a <strong>personal sandbox workspace<\/strong> and start exploring MyCourses and its many possibilities. Later, if you like, you can easily import the content you have created from your sandbox to a course space. You can send a sandbox request to: <a href=\"mailto:mycourses@aalto.fi\">mycourses@aalto.fi<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aalto.fi\/en\/services\/book-your-session-with-a-specialist-service-for-teachers\">book a personal online session with a digipedagogical specialist<\/a> to get help with MyCourses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Text: Jaana Brinck, LES \u2013 Teacher Services<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>No worries! Take a sneak peak, how MyCourses can make your teaching life much easier!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"span-a-tag\" href=\"https:\/\/mycourses.aalto.fi\/\">MyCourses<\/span> is a comprehensive learning management system that saves you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3830,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tip-of-the-week","category-tips-and-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.aalto.fi\/opit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}