Sharing Course Outlines
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- Mirko Vucicevich
Sharing with Students / UW Community
The primary sharing procedure with course outlines will be sharing with students. There's a couple of options here, but the most important thing to do is make sure your course outline is published.
Published course outlines can be viewed by any authenticated UW user, that means other instructors, staff, and students.
Once published, a URL will be available with the form: https://outline.uwaterloo.ca/viewer/view/xxxxxx in the “Sharing Link” settings.
You can get this outline to your students a number of ways:
Via Outline.uwaterloo.ca Homepage / Search
Any student registered for your course in QUEST will automatically be able to see your published course outline on the outline.uwaterloo.ca homepage when they log in. Published outlines for all courses they have on their transcript will show up on said homepage.
Any logged-in users not registered for your course can use the search tools to look up your course by course name.
Via Link
For non-students or others requesting access to your course outline, you can simply send them a URL. If your access setting is set to Internal, users will need to log in before viewing.
Via LEARN
To add your course outline to LEARN, simply create a Link Resource (make sure to check off the "External Resource" checkbox!) in your LEARN course content and paste the view URL
Sharing with the World
If you’re interested in sharing outlines to anybody (even outside of campus) you can use the gear icon in the Sharing Link panel and set the access setting to “Global”. This will allow users to view the course outline without logging in (Some content, such as the course schedule, will be hidden without login)
We don’t currently provide a way for unauthenticated users to get access to these URLs, so you will need to post this link on your own website or departmental pages, or send the URL over standard communications.
Sharing Edit Access
If you need to add additional editors to your course outline, first make sure it has been saved at least once, then press the gear on the Permissions settings panel.
Co-instructors registered in Quest will automatically show up with View-only access, and you can manually add other users or grant edit access.
Outline does not have simultaneous-editing powers. Please make sure only one author is editing at a time!