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Course Visibility in Catalog

This setting affects whether or not students can view and access the course. If this setting is not set correctly, students will receive an error when attempting to access the course even though they are enrolled in the OpenEdX course. The error message says There was an error loading this course.

  • From the CMS site, open the course.

  • From the top menu, select SettingsAdvanced Settings.

  • Find the setting for Course Visibility in Catalog.

  • By default, this setting is set to "none". Change this setting to "both".

  • Click the Save Changes button.

Adding Instructors

To register instructors for the course, use the CMS site.

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  • Select SettingsSchedule & Details.

  • Set the Course Start Date and Course Start Time fields.

  • Click the Save Changes button (bottom of the window).

Registering Students

Export a list of all student email addresses from Learn.

  • Open the Learn course.

  • Go to the Grades page.

  • Select Enter Grades.

  • Click the Export button.

  • Under the User Details section, ensure that Email is selected.

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  • Click the Export to Excel button.

  • Once the export has been prepared, click the Download button.

Clear unnecessary rows from class list.

  • Open the downloaded file in Microsoft Excel.

  • Delete the first three rows of the spreadsheet. The first row is the heading. The next two rows are for Test Student accounts.

  • Keep the Excel spreadsheet open, as it will be used later to copy the email addresses.

To register students for the course, use the LMS site.

  • From the LMS site, open the desired course.

  • Go to the Instructor dashboard.

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  • Go to the Membership tab.

  • Switch to the Excel spreadsheet and select the entire column of email addresses. Note: It may be necessary to copy email addresses in batches of 25 as OpenEdX may not be able to handle the entire list at once.

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  • Copy the column (CTRL+C).

  • Switch to OpenEdX and paste into Batch Enrollment field.

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  • Click the Enroll button.

Clearing Attempts

  • From the LMS site, open the desired course.

  • Go to the Instructor dashboard.

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