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EchoVideo: Managing Sections

Brockman Winfrey
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Who can do this?
Administrators and Schedulers can manage all sections in the courses (within the organizations and departments) they have access to.

In any given term there may be multiple offerings of the same course, which are represented as sections. Sections get scheduled and those scheduled occurrences of the section are the classes students attend.

Once a section is created, managing the section involves editing the section ID, adding or removing instructors or teaching assistants (TAs) from the section, and viewing the section as an instructor. You can also select a different "primary instructor" for the section if necessary. Primary instructors have certain rights over the features available for a section and are also typically the "owners" of captures for the section.

Primary instructors as capture owners: When schedules are configured for a section, the Instructor on the capture schedule becomes the owner of those captures, which then appear in their Library. This is typically the primary instructor of the section. However, it is the instructor identified ON THE CAPTURE SCHEDULE and NOT necessarily the Instructor for the section that determines who owns the captures generated for the classes in the section.

You can delete the section when it is no longer needed. Understand, however, that if you delete a section, user access to those classes is removed, along with all ancillary content such as notes, Q&A, and analytics data. Content published to the section remains in the owner's (instructor's) Library.

To manage sections

  1. From the main menu, select Courses.
  2. Use the search box or filter drop-down lists to find the course for the section you want to manage.
  3. Click on the course to expand it and list the Sections for the course.
  4. HOVER over the section you want to edit, to expose the action icons on the right side of the row, as shown in the figure below.
    Course list with sections shown and action icons identified
  5. Click the Edit icon (it looks like a pencil).

    The Edit Section dialog box appears.

    Edit section modal with editable items for steps as described
  6. From the Edit Section dialog box you can:
    • Edit the Section ID
    • Add instructors to the section by clicking ADD INSTRUCTOR.
      Begin typing a name or email address search box for the drop-down list to limit your selections.
      Select instructor list narrowed by name typed into search box as described
    • Remove instructors from the section by clicking the X next to their name.
    • Add or Remove Teaching Assistants for the section (using the same process as adding/removing instructors)
  7. Click SAVE.

To delete a section

NOTE: Deleting a section removes user access to those classes and deletes all ancillary content such as notes, Q&A, and analytics data. Content published to the section remains in the owner's (instructor's) Library. Primary instructors for a section typically own the captures generated for the section.

  1. From the main menu, select Courses.
  2. Use the search box or filter drop-down lists to find the course containing the section you want to delete.
  3. Click on the course to expand it and list the Sections for the course.
  4. HOVER over the section you want to delete, to expose the action icons on the right side of the row.
  5. Click the Delete icon (it looks like a trash can).
  6. CAREFULLY REVIEW THE WARNING MESSAGE that appears and type DELETE to confirm. 
  7. Click Continue.

The section has been removed and no longer appears in the Course Catalog.