Once you have set up your course, it's time to use it to support your class.

Creating logins

Have your students go to your course page and click on "Create New Account" (under the login/password form). They will then follow instructions to create their own accounts.

• Remind them to use an email address that they can access over the web and that they will check frequently: Drupal will email their password to them.
• Have them log in and change their passwords to something they will remember.

Assigning roles to students

If you set up a role for students (such as "Enrolled"), wait until they are all registered, then

1. Log in and click on "Administer->Users."
2. For each user who is a student in your class,
1. click "Edit"
2. scroll down to "Roles" and click the students' role ("Enrolled").

Blogs, comments, forums, and policy

Students will often be intrigued by the possibility of adding their own content to the site. Sometimes this content will be directly germane; at other times, it may be inappropriate. We suggest spelling out a policy for what constitutes worthwhile contributions, including a clear process of mediation for inappropriate content and a clear path for escalating issues. Mediation might include

• issuing warnings
• removing selected posts
• suspending privileges for attaching content

Attachments

If you set up your class along the lines described in Setting Up a Course, only enrolled students will be able to upload and view attachments. By default, users can upload certain types of files: Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, HTML, TXT, and some graphics files. Again, we recommend a policy for appropriate content for attachments.

Links

To put it mildly, there is a lot of content to which students should probably not link. We recommend spelling our your policy on links as well.