LMS Non-Academic Course Homepage Policy

I. Scope

This policy applies to employee, faculty and student courses that are manually managed within the Learning Management System.

II. Policy Statement

To create a standard policy for how the UI of non-academic courses are to be designed and applied in a scalable manner.

III. Reason For The Policy

To provide a working homepage for courses manually created within the LMS as some of the items on the homepage only works with courses created through the automation.

IV. Procedures

1. The LMS Admin team will develop a course homepage for non-academic courses which will contain the following widgets.
   1. Brightspace Help
   2. Personal Tasks
   3. Back to Top
2. The LMS Admin team will remove the following widgets which do not function or are not applicable.
   1. Course Dates and Faculty Biography
   2. Course Café Forum
   3. Tools for Success
   4. Final Grades/iCare Form
3. The LMS Admin team will not create any custom navbars, icons, or widgets for non-academic courses.  Creating custom items creates:
   1. Inconsistencies
   2. Additional work when updates occur
   3. More items to manage

Rules:

• The defined policy will only pertain to courses created manually in Brightspace for the purpose of training and/or work required outside of the requirements to obtain an academic degree.

Examples:

• Connecting with Military Students
• Executive Council 7-9 Review
• The Learning Academy
• DMIN Project – Bence
• CAPS Rank and Promotion

V. Definitions

LMS – Learning Management System

UI – User Interface

Non-academic – Courses which are not created in Colleague and do not utilize the automation as a means to create the course or enroll faculty and students into the LMS.