Managing Users and Groups

In the CourseCompass environment, anyone who registers is a user. Students who enroll in your course are listed as users of the course. As the instructor, you are also a user of the course.

From the User Management area of the Control Panel, you can:

• List users in your course or in a group

• Search for users in your course or in a group

• Manage groups

You may want to divide users into groups to:

• Establish study groups

• Set up teams for short- or long-term projects

• Divide the class into sections

You can assign different functions to these groups to suit their needs. For example, the study groups you plan to create may need group Discussion Boards and file exchange functions but not the Virtual Classroom.

Note: In CourseCompass, users (students) are added through the enrollment or registration process. You can add users to groups through the User Management area of the Control Panel, but you cannot add them to CourseCompass this way. Likewise, you can remove users from groups, but you cannot remove users from CourseCompass.