NMT WebCT 6.0 Administrator's Guide

Direct your Web browser to the NMT homepage.

Under the Quick Links pull-down menu, select Class Schedule.

You are now in the Banner web. Click on Class Schedule. This takes you to the “Course Offerings Search” page.

Using the two pull-down menus, select the desired semester and academic department, and click on Course Search. This will bring up a list of the courses scheduled for that semester in that department.

Note carefully these columns for the desired course. If you plan on creating the sections as well, note also the data for each section.

Login as admin and click the Administration tab.

In the main panel, click the Courses tab.

Click on Create Course.

In the Title field, enter the short course title. For official NMIMT courses, this should be the department code (up to four letters, all capital letters, with no punctuation, but preserving spacing), followed by one space and the course number (but without a section number). Be sure to use the exact department and course number you verified earlier from the online Banner class schedule.

Examples of the title field: “GEOC 554”; “CS 427”; “EMGT 589”; “CHE 326” (Chemical Engineering is spelled “ChE” in the catalog, but “CH E” in the class schedule).

For a list of all the current department codes, see Section 14, “Appendix I: Department codes”.

In the Long Description text field, enter the class title from Banner.

It is not necessary to enter anything into the Full Description field.

Next, you may assign the course to a category. Typically you will select the Assign to existing radiobutton, and use the --Select category-- pull-down to place it into the appropriate category: “On-campus courses” or “Distance education”.

If you select the Do not assign to any category radiobutton, the course will be placed into “Uncategorized courses.”

We discourage frivolous spawning of new categories, as it may tend to confuse students searching for their courses. However, you can create a new category at this point by selecting the Create new radiobutton.

Next, you may wish to specify the starting and ending dates of the course. If the course is ongoing or sporadic, just skip this step.

For regular-semester courses, refer to the calendar on the NMT homepage: in the Quick Links pull-down, scroll down to Calendar. Use the “Classes begin” date for the starting date, and the “Finals end” date for the ending date.

For courses not aligned with regular semesters, be sure to honor any published start and end dates, if you know them.

The easiest way to set start dates is to click on the calendar icon next to Start date: and End date:. In this pop-up, use the green left or right arrows to move backward or forward to the correct month, then click on the desired date.

If you want students to stay out of the course when it is not currently in session, you can enforce that in the section labeled “Do not allow Students to access child sections:”. There are two checkboxes: one to exclude them Before the start date, another to exclude them After the end date. The default is to allow student access outside the session dates.

Next on this form is a long section labeled “IMS fields.” We are not currently using these fields. Schools in the IMS consortium use these fields to share enrollment data. We might use these someday if the Registrar so directs.

Click Save to create the course.