Courses

Courses contain exercises, exams and lectures. Different roles can be attached to different sets of course participants: Instructors, Editors, Tutors and Users. You can find a detailed listing of the different roles and their corresponding permissions here.

Creating courses

Administrators can create new courses by clicking Course Management in the header and then Create new course.

Administrators can then specify options in the creation form, Instructors can later change these values. Fields marked with a red asterisk are required. The bar at the bottom of the page keeps Cancel and Save in view and lists every field that still needs attention; select a field name there to jump to it. Pressing Save before everything is filled in highlights each missing or invalid field.

General Information

• Course Icon and Color – Shown in the course list and the course header
• Title (required) – Name of the course, shown in Course Overview
• Short Name (required) – Unique identifier of 3 to 24 letters or digits, starting with a letter. It appears in URLs and group names and cannot be changed later.
• Course Description – Shown during enrollment and in the course header
• Semester (required) – Groups courses in the dashboard and in the archive. Selecting a semester fills the start and end dates with that semester's period, as long as you have not set them yourself, so choose it first.
• Start/End (required) – The period the course runs for. The end date drives archival and the automatic data cleanup, so it cannot be left empty.
• Tutorial Group Time Zone – Used to interpret the times of tutorial group sessions. The field suggests every time zone Artemis supports, including names such as UTC and Europe/Kyiv, and only accepts those. Once a course has a time zone, it can be changed but not removed.
• Test Course – Exercises and exams are hidden from regular users. Test courses are never part of the automatic deletion of student data, so the two settings below are only shown for other courses.
• Grade-relevant course – Checked by default. Student data of grade-relevant courses is kept for the legally required retention period (by default 5 years); uncheck it for courses whose results do not count towards official grades, so their student data is deleted earlier (by default after 1 year).
• Data-retention hold – Check it while an objection or legal proceeding concerning the course is pending. A course on hold is left out of the automatic deletion of student data until the hold is lifted.

Exercises & Grading

• Max. Points for Course – Used for grading key calculations
• Decimal Places for Score Calculations (required)
• Default Programming Language
• Enable Complaints and Enable More Feedback Requests, each with the limits that apply while it is checked

Additional Course Features

• Learning Paths Enabled
• Communication Enabled, with direct messages and the course's code of conduct

Student Course Enrollment

• Online Course – LTI integration, cannot be combined with self-enrollment
• Student Course Enrollment Enabled – Lets students enroll themselves within an enrollment period
• Assign the course to organizations (Admin-only) – Once checked, add organizations to the course. Only members of those organizations can then enroll themselves; without organizations, every user can enroll.

The General Information section of the course creation page

Managing courses

After a course is created, access it via Course Management.

Courses are grouped by semester, test courses listed separately.

Clicking the course header opens the management view, where Edit and Delete act on the course and the statistics and administration options are reachable.

Students, Tutors, Editors and Instructors can be added via Course Details.