Hello! Is it possible to automatically add a web link, and a tool link to 'My Grades' to the Course Menu for a list of courses? We build our courses from several hundreds templates, and would like to add these new items to the Course Menu. Having a automated way to do this would save days of work compared to manually adding them.
We are currently on SaaS and the Original Experience.
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While that does require a manual action for every course, this would speed it up! Thank you for your help.
Note that the SIS Integration Framework can be used for batch course copying. If you aren't already using it, the learning curve might be steep if you are only doing this for a few courses. If you have a lot, or think you would need to do something like this again, it might be worth the time to learn.
We use SIS for course copies now, but I'm not sure it can be used to copy content to an existing course.
Yes it can. Check the box for "Change on Update?" for the Source Course Copy Key field in Advanced -> Field Mapping
I have an AutoIt script which performs course copies. You set up a txt file with a list of the source course ID and the destination course ID, then run the script. It uses the GUI to automate the specific copies, one after the other. We have used this to load tutoring announcements, standard menu settings, and normal term-to-term rollovers. It might help in this situation.
Hi Heather! I haven't used AutoIt yet. I'll check it out. Would you mind sharing your script?
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Hello Jai Singh, if you created a new course with just the web link and the My Grades tools in the menu and nothing else, and then copied this course to the courses you'd like to add these to, it should add these items to the bottom of the menu in the destination course. However, I can't think of a way of automatically copying this template to a number of courses on a list, although it might be quicker to just perform a copy function many times instead of manually adding the web link and My Grades to each course.