Creating Portal-Only Courses
If you have access to the Course Creator feature, you can use it to create portal-only courses, course sections, terms, and departments.
The Course Creator feature lets you do the following:
Create portal-only courses—courses that exist independently of your ERP system. This feature can be useful if, for example, you want to create a not-for-credit course, such as a training session on how to use eLearning.
Create sections of portal-only courses.
Create portal-only sections of existing courses defined in your ERP system.
Create portal-only departments and terms.
Assign portal-only courses to departments that exist in the ERP system or to portal-only departments.
Assign portal-only course sections to terms that exist in the ERP system or to portal-only terms.
In this section, the four items that can exist either in “portal-only” form or within the ERP system—courses, course sections, departments and terms—are sometimes referred to as elements.
Before being able to use the Course Creator feature, you must add it to your course context (if an administrator has not already done this or placed it elsewhere in the portal). You may also want to double-check that your portal administrator has given the Faculty role the Can Manage Courses global feature operation for the Course Creator feature.