Adding web pages to your onCourse site

onCourse is built with a flexible CMS solution to put content on your website automatically

In order to enjoy the benefits by having onCourse power your website, you have to know how to use it.

The Home Page

The home page is the first page that people visiting your webpage will see. It will display all the courses that you’re running and will serve as the source page that other pages will get attached to.

To add content above the list of courses on the home page, read the CMS guide.

Displaying Courses

By default on the welcome page – the hierarchy of your Subjects tags will be shown as headings. Courses need to be checkmarked “Show this course on the website” in the General tab of each course, to display on your site.

You must also tag your courses with Subject tags for them to display on your web site. You may choose to allow subject tags to be set more than once, or limit to one. If a course is tagged with more than one subject, it will appear in the menu for each tag group you have assigned. For more information about setting tags go here

Example of a welcome page and Subject hierarchy

Course description

The field ‘web description’ is where you should enter all the information about the course description, what people should bring, pre-requisites, outcomes and anything else you can think of. As this is the course, this information needs to pertain to all the classes of this course. If you have class specific information you should put this in the class web description.

The description fields are rich text fields, so you can use bullets, headings and numbered lists. A rich text guide is available here

You can also include images and attachments in your pages.

Displaying Classes

Once a course has been tagged and enabled for the web, classes in that course will be displayed if they have the “Show this class on the website” checkmarked in their “Web” tab. The classes themselves do not need to be tagged with anything from the Subjects tag group in order to appear on the website.

Class descriptions

The information that you put in this field should be specific for just this instance of the class. For example, if the class has a session off for a public holiday, this would be an appropriate place for that information.

Creating additional web pages

onCourse also includes an in-browser editor to set up other pages, such as you policies and procedures, about us, college history ect. You can also use it to create HTML newsletters that you can send to your students and mailing list subscribers.

To create additional web pages or modify the layout of your onCourse site, read the CMS guide.

Summary

This is a list of points to help ensure that courses/classes appear on the main page of the website.

• The Course has “Show this course on the website” ticked on the Web tab
• The Course is tagged with at least one tag under Subjects in the tag group (if it has multiple tags,
  this course will appear under each tag)

• Each Class of this Course that you wish to appear on the website has “Show this class on the website” ticked on the Web tab.