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What it does

The Section Info tool provides a way for instructors to efficiently manage sections of a class. The tool is designed to help an instructor manage a course that may consist of lectures, labs, discussions, studio work, recitations, or any combination therein.

The Section Info tool is designed to work with other tools, such as Announcements, Assignments, and Gradebook.

Key concepts

Sections: This tool allows you to create sections in a course site. Information you may add about a section includes days, time, assigned teaching assistant, room, current enrollment, available slots, max enrollment, and the section category.

Note: Depending on your implementation, you may have the option to automatically or manually manage section membership from the Options page in the Section Info tool. Membership information can be based on official registration information, or you can discontinue section and membership updates from the registration system and manually control everything. However, when you select manual mode and then return to automatic mode, you will lose all the changes you made while in manual mode.

Section categories: Choose from several options for the type of section you wish to add. Categories include Lecture, Discussion, Lab, Studio, and Recitation.

Teaching Assistants (TAs): In a course site, you may assign TAs to each section. You assign a site participant the role of teaching assistant through Site Info.

Set announcements for sections: You may set an announcement to be viewable only by a specific section. When you create a new announcement, choose from the drop-down menu which section should see the announcement.

View Gradebook by section: To view the Gradebook by section, in the Gradebook tool, choose from the drop-down menu the section you wish to view.

View Assignments by section: You may view different assignments you have created by section by choosing the section in the drop-down menu.

Things to consider

• A teaching assistant may assign students to any section within a site.
• A section may have any number of assigned teaching assistants.
• You have the option to allow students to either switch and/or sign up for sections.
• A participant may not be a member of more than one section in a given category.
• A section may have any number of assigned teaching assistants.