Create Your Own Course
Welcome to the step by step guide to creating your own course! Hopefully you tried out the short demo course, so you are starting to get a grasp on how our product works. If you want to head back to the demo page just click on the menu above, hit the drop down "getting started" and select "getting started guide".
Now before we get started in creating your own course, make sure you are back on the "instructor mode" side of your dashboard. Every instructor will have access to both side of their courses, but to create a course you must be on "instructor mode".
Step 1:
On your left hand side menu select the "Courses" tab. Then click on the purple button "Create New Course". You can also create a course by selecting the create course button on your main dashboard page.
Step 2:
Once you hit the "Create New Course" tab you will be greeted by the pop up shown to the right. Fill out your school, course name, enter the date of your course and select the default subject you would like to pull questions from.
Don't worry if you decide you want to switch the default subject later, you can select from different material at anytime when making assignments.
Step 3:
Once your first course is made, we can now head over to the " Assignments" tab on the left hand menu. Then select the purple " Create New Assignment" button.
The frequency of assignments is totally based on how you would like to run your class. If you class meets twice a week and you'd like each assignment to cover 1 chapter, or if your class only meets once a week and you need more assignments to ensure students are grasping material.
Step 4:
Fill out the "Create New Assignment" pop up box. All the information in the box can be changed at anytime.
Step 5:
Now that you are on the main assignment builder we would suggest that you go ahead and set your " default points" and "default max attempts" per question. All of these can be changed at any point or changed for different questions, but it does make building homework easier if you have your defaults set ahead of time.
Step 6:
Now it's time to start building your assignments. Your questions bank is on the left hand side. First make sure the subject is correct, you can switch back and forth from Financial and Managerial Accounting if you please.
Then you are going to select the topic of questions to start picking from. Feel free to play around and look through all the questions. See something missing? Let us know we will be happy to add it in.
Step 7:
Once you select a topic then you can scroll down the question bank looking for questions you would like to add to your assignment.
If you click on the arrow it will add that question to your assignment.
If you click on the beaker on each question as display will pop up where you can see the question.
Bonus Step:
Feel free to go through an try to answer the questions so you can play around with the platform more and see the answers. But it is not require to fill out questions.
Step 8:
Continue browsing through questions and hitting the " arrow" on all the questions you wish to add to your assignment. Once all your questions are added, you can move their order around or adjust their point values.
Congratulations you've just made your first assignment! We would suggest you continue reading though, we will highlight some important features below to make sure you can use our platform with ease.
Helpful Tip:
When you create assignments you will see these three options above the question bank.
" Date Extension" allows instructors to add certain extensions for specific students on necessary assignments.
"Details" is where you can go back and change any details of your assignment. Such as title, description or due date.
Gradebook Tutorial:
To review your gradebook first select "gradebook" on the left hand menu anywhere on your page. Once you arrive you will see an over all progress bar of how your class is progressing. If you scroll down, you can check how each assignment is fairing as well.
You can choose to view individual progress if you hit "view". And if you hit "edit" it will take you back over to the assignments page to make adjustments to the assignment.
Export Grades:
First make sure in your gradebook you select students instead of assignments. This will let you go and check individual progress of each student.
If you would like to export grades select the check box of the student or students you would like to export. If you would like to export the grades of all students then select the checkbox at the very top of the list. Once a checkbox is checked the option to "export" or " remove from course" will now become available, select one based on what you want to accomplish.
You've completed the Step by Step Guide!
We hope this has helped you to understand our platform a bit better. However if you have any questions please reach out to us we are so happy to help!
Shoot us an email at support@accountingpass.com
or
sign up for a walk through zoom with our team!