For SLC teachers only - setting up your course

FELIX 10-150

What you need to know

Have you received your course template from the School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) and want to get your course up?

To create and edit courses in FELIX you need authoring rights. If you don't have any yet, log in to FELIX with your HFU account and request authoring rights from FELIX-Support by sending a ticket.

What you have to do

  1. Finding your course: Click on "Authoring" (above) and then on "My entries".

    • Your entries will be listed.

    • Tip: Click on the last symbol (target) at the very bottom of the FELIX page (below the information "Logged in as"). This way, this page will be set as your personal start page and the next time you log in, you will land here again.

       

  2. Open course: Open the desired course template by clicking on the title.

    • The course view will open.

  3. Customise Syllabus: Open the "Syllabus" in the navigation on the left.
    Click on "Edit page" on the right to customise the contents (contact, schedule, etc.).

    • The HTML editor of FELIX will open and you can customise the content as desired.

    • Click "Save and Close" at the bottom when you have finished your customisations.

  4. Prepare messages: You can find the Messages course element at the top in the toolbar. You can create a welcome message for your students by clicking "Create New Message".

    • We recommend using the "Messages" module as the primary method of communication with your students for your course. By activating the option "Configure e-mail dispatch" you can ensure that every time you send a message an e-mail is also automatically sent to your student group. For this you only have to select the course group behind "Group".

      The advantage over the direct "Send e-mails", is that with this course element all messages are archived for your students. This allows your students to retrieve messages at any time that might otherwise get "lost" in their email inbox.

      Make your students aware of this message element at the beginning of the course and recommend them to subscribe to this course element by clicking "Modifications".

  5. Folder for documents: The "Documents" folder can also be found at the top in the toolbar. You can use this folder to make files available to students. To do this, click on "Upload file".

    • Make your students aware of this folder at the beginning of the course, too, and recommend them to subscribe to this course element by clicking "Modifications". For more information on the folder and file upload, see Helpcard Internal link opens in the same window:30-031.

  6. Customise the units/lessons (content and visibility/access):
    The visibility of the individual lessons is preset in such a way that the first lesson becomes directly visible for students.
    The visibility of further lessons is initially blocked for learners and must be "unblocked" by you ahead of time in each case.
    As soon as you allow "Visibility" for learners, all content pagesare visible for students.
    The content pages are HTML pages with images (usually scans from textbooks) and instructions for students.
    The course elements for H5P-exercises, tests and tasks are not visible to learners.
    You must make these "visible" to learners every lesson if you want to use them.
    Further instructions can be found on Helpcard 10-151.
    To make"blocked" lessons or course elements visible for students proceed as follows.

    • Under "Administration", click "Course editor".

    • Activate the desired course element by clicking on it (highlighted in green in the navigation).

    • Select the "Visibility" tab and uncheck "Blocked for learners".
      Save your changes.

    • Click the red cross in the upper right corner and select the "Yes, automatically" option.

    • For more information on controlling access and visibility of individual course elements, see Helpcard 30-002.

    • If you change content on the "Content pages", please note that these changes only apply to the current course. In the next course template, the changes will not be automatically applied. If you wish changes in the course template (e.g. in case of errors), please contact FELIX support via the email form in the course.

    • To add a new content page to your course, please add a new "Single page" module via "Quick-Add" (above). Please do not duplicate existing content pages, because the linked page of the original page will not be copied, but will instead be "carried over" to the duplicated element. If you then change the contents of the "copied" page, you will unintentionally overwrite the contents of the original page.

      For more information on "Single page", please refer to Helpcard Internal link opens in a new window:30-040.
       

  7. Create dates for recording attendance: For each course in which attendance must be taken, you must create a so-called lesson block. How this works is described from step 3 on Helpcard 20-140 (steps 1 and 2 can be omitted as these have already been done for you in your templates).

    • How to record attendance in the current semester is described on Helpcard 20-145.

    • How to check attendance can be found on Helpcard 20-150.

  8. The last two modules in your course included email forms addressed to FELIX support and to you as the course owner.

    • Use the "FELIX-Support" email form if you have any problems or questions concerning your course.

    • Also, please advise your students that they can use the "Email to Support" form for technical problems with the course, and to use the "Email to Instructor" form for questions related to course organisation or content.

Problems or questions?