Course Readiness Checklist
Are you ready for the beginning of the term? Use the Readiness Checklist to ensure that your course is ready to go live to students!
- Create Your Course
- Is your course in onQ yet? You can use the Course Creation Tool+ (CCT+), our course management tool to create a new course, or to clone an existing course in onQ.
- Add Content
- Start adding your course materials by building a Table of Contents, and add new or existing activities.
Note: Make sure your course is Inactive when adding or moving content. If the course is Active onQ will send notifications to students informing them that new content has been added.
- Start adding your course materials by building a Table of Contents, and add new or existing activities.
- Add your Contact Information on the Course Home Page
- Make sure to insert your contact information as well as office hours and TA Information on the 'Course Home' page for students to see.
- Enrol your TAs
- Ensure that your TAs are enrolled in the proper Groups or Sections within your course.
- Set-Up your Grade Book
- If you are planning on grading using the onQ Grade Book, you will first need to complete the quick Set-up Wizard to customize your Grade Book to suit your evaluation methods for your course.
- Activate your Course
- If your course is not set to Active, your students will not be able to access your course! Please make sure that your course either has Start/End dates set, or that you manually activate your course in onQ.
- Notifications
- ITS and the Centre for Teaching and Learning will regularly post News Items to your My Home page, in onQ. Ensure that you've set up to receive email/SMS notifications of these News Items posts, and more.
- Welcome Message
- Email the Classlist welcoming students to your course, and advise that they set up their notifications to receive important information.
- Add your Ereserves link to onQ
- If you are using eReserves to provide a resource list to your students, make sure that you have added the link to your eReserve list to your course.
- If you are using eReserves to provide a resource list to your students, make sure that you have added the link to your eReserve list to your course.