WebCT news at SFU

The most common question we get at this time of the semester is how to add Teaching Assistants to WebCT course containers. You must have access to the Teach Tab (and the instructor role) to do so. There are two ways:

1. You can use the Enroll Members button in the Gradebook to quickly add co-designers and TAs. There are more detailed instructions here.
2. Or, you can add the Course Tools function to your course, which will also allow you to add co-instructors, and to change the dates when your students can access the course container. Students are automatically given access to WebCT course containers on the first day of the new semester at 12:01am, and have access until the beginning of the next semester.

It’s a new semester, and you might wish to remove old courses from your WebCT class list. These instructions are the same for instructors, TAs and students:

When you login to WebCT, click on the small pencil icon next to the “Course List” header. You will be taken to a screen titled “Edit Course List.” From there you can hide links to inactive courses if you like, or reorder your Course List. When you are done, simply click on the MyWebCT tab in the upper left corner again. This will not impact anyones access to the course. It simply hides it from your view.

To reorder the course list, select the courses you’d like to move by clicking in the small box next to the course name (checking the selection box), and then clicking on the box with yellow bars (under the header Move) to where you’d like your course to appear in the list.