thank you okay so now that we have our settings we’re going to go over to our navigation the navigation tab controls what you see and what students see in the course navigation sidebar so what you would like to do in this section is that you want to make it so that way it’s very easy for students to see what is what it what is necessary for them to see in the course um not everything that is listed in the sidebar is something that students need to be touching so you have a list of items here and not everything needs to be viewed by students so you have the SEI Center for instructors you can click on the three dots to the right hand side of that item and click on the disable option and that will move it to the list on the bottom or you can drag and drop items so I can drag and drop a whole bunch of items that I do not need um cengage I do not need students to look at the rubrics I do not need them to look at my lab and mastering they do not need to look at assignments collaborations discussions files so even though you may have files in your course students do not need to access the files tab and that is because they would be able to access files that maybe you aren’t ready to for them to see yet so you can have files that are published under your files page within Carmen that may not be available in your modules yet so Carmen is designed for students to access everything in your course through the modules it’s kind of like your course um table of contents so everything that they need to get to is going to be in your modules they do not need to access everything from the sidebar and some of the tools that are shown in your sidebar would be a little confusing for students if they were to click on it and view it especially the assignments page the assignments page is a little bit different so you don’t need them to access everything and any tools that are in your sidebar on default that you are not using in your course I would recommend taking them off so what I normally have for a CO for just a basic course you have your home page link I like to have the syllabus come next I like to have the announcements come after that because these are important and you want to create this list based on the above the fold rule for newspapers if anybody’s in familiar with graphic design and journalism you know that the the front page information like that’s what people really want you to see and then if you have to open the newspaper that stuff that’s not nearly as important so you want to do that sort of method here as well so anything that students need up front you’re going to have them close to the top so oh they don’t need quizzes either so we have home syllabus announcements Zoom modules people you can take people you can disable the people option if you are not using groups if you are using groups in your course then you want to keep people the people option there because students cannot access groups um just in the modules you can link groups on pages so you can manage it that way but students will be able to go to the People page and there would be a tab for groups so there’s other ways of managing groups here you have your grades so students can see their grades lockdown browser is an option that you can use for your quizzes to keep students from um searching the web while they’re taking a quiz but if you’re not using that just disable it and then you have the student evaluation of instructor that come that stays and the academic policies stay so now we’re going to scroll all the way down to the bottom and click on Save and we have just updated our sidebar so I’m going to go to my home page I’m going to enter student view and you can see that student view is active based on the purple bar down at the bottom and now you can see that my sidebar is a lot shorter than it is even in instructor View
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