myCourses Learning Management System
myCourses聽is McGill's learning management system used by most courses as a supplement to classroom-based instruction and can also be seen as an alternative to expensive course packs and textbooks. Information about McGill's Learning Management System myCourses can be view here: /lms/. 聽
For more information and self-serve training materials please visit the聽myCourses website.
Additionally,聽ECP encourages instructors to contact the聽Educational Technology Consultants聽from McGill's own聽Content and Collaboration Solutions (CCS)聽to set up an initial appointment to discuss the many options available for developing a dynamic and interactive myCourses interface for their聽courses. They have consistently been extremely helpful.
The McGill Library provides a vast array of additional access points to teaching and learning content and research materials, including over 50,000 e-journal titles and 2 million e-books. Links directly to instructor defined readings can be easily聽included in myCourses as the primary source for student reading materials.聽Liaison librarians in each branch library can provide further assistance.
myCourses course sections are automatically created for all courses offered at McGill. Students automatically have access to the courses in which they are formally enrolled.
Some key features to myCourses are:
- Persistent direct links to library and other resources
- Detailed selective release of content and course components
- Discussions include categories for discussions and gradable discussions
- Pop-up announcements from instructors
- Multiple options for assignments and assessments (e.g. group/individual, gradable/non-gradable, public/private and resubmission)
Adding participants to a course (teaching assistants, etc.)
To give participants (teaching assistants, guests, librarian, etc.) access to the course information on myCourses please follow the steps provided on the following IT Knowledge Base link (article ID KB0011175):
Access can be granted in a variety of levels from full permissions (same as the instructor) to limited access (same a the students).