New Site. Tools. Content. Users.
You can create as many FREE sites as you need, with All Coursar features.
Once succefully logged in, you will be landing on your "Home" site.
Go to "Worksite Setup" tool on the left side menu, click "New" button to create a new free site.
You may at any time upgrade your FREE site for more storage capacity. Just drop us a line.
You only need ONE account to access your personal workspace and ALL your sites.
Congrats, You've got your Free site! What's next?
Once successfully logged in to your Coursar account, you may add tools that best fit your needs. Coursar lets you rearrange, rename or delete the items in the tool menu, check the user permissions on each tool, and change the preferences on each site you own.
Check site maintainers help page for detailed step-by-step instructions.
Once you setup the tools, it is time to add site material. Use the Resources tool to share files with members of a site or to a specific group that you may create afterwards. You may create assignments and initiate discussion threads.
Coursar gives you the possibility to control the visibility of content based on dates and users' roles. You have also the possibility to check the storage space left at any given time.
In Coursar, you have always the possibility to copy/paste content from other sites that you own.
Check site maintainers help page for detailed step-by-step instructions.
Now that everything is setup. It's time to invite participants. Coursar lets you add users by email or by system usernames. Before being added to a site, users MUST have already created their free account.
Once you've added site participants, you may want to create groups from the Site Info link.
Check site maintainers help page for detailed step-by-step instructions.
If the site is private and not publicly viewable, site maintainers and instructors must add members manually to their site, preferably by email.
However, users always have the possibility to join sites that are publicly joinable.
Coursar is a full featured system supporting technology-enabled teaching, learning, research and collaboration.
It is a set of powerful, yet simple to use, tools to manage your worksites effectively.
Once you go through the below principles of Coursar, you will understand how the system will help you create, easily and powerfully, your courses and projects sites.
Every Coursar user has a "My Workspace" - their own private work area. In your My Workspace, you can:
Coursar worksites are organized primarily by the list of activated tools that appear on the menu on the left. However, worksite maintainers have several options for organizing worksite content including:
Each worksite contains user roles such as maintain/instructor role and participant/student role in project/course sites. Each role has an associated "bundle" of permissions.
Whenever you see the Permissions option on a tool, you can change the permissions associated with a role.
In a single Coursar site, you can have some content private to site members while making other content publicly viewable.
Why might you want to do this?
Group-aware tools allow Instructor and Maintainer roles to release information to multiple groups of people within a single site.
The list of group-aware tools in Coursar includes:
