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What is courseworks.

Tools for Community Building in CourseWorks

How do I foster community in addition to face-to-face engagement with students? This video focuses on some strategies to foster community using CourseWorks tools. We cover syllabi, announcements, the mail tool, Zoom class sessions, and the calendar.

Tools for Promoting Engagement in CourseWorks

How do I engage my students? This video looks at student engagement with course material, peers and instructors and covers essential CourseWorks tools you can use to support engagement: files, modules, discussions, Panopto recordings, and how to modify your course site navigation.

Tools for Assessment in CourseWorks

How can I assess student learning using CourseWorks? This video looks at the tools CourseWorks provides to assess student learning and provide grades: the gradebook, speedgrader, assignments and quizzes.

Best Practices for Online Discussions in CourseWorks

How can I foster discussion among my students? This video looks at the integrated discussion tool in CourseWorks. Learn how to set up interactive communication, focused discussions, and graded assignments.

Additional Support

Do you need assistance with CourseWorks? Would you like to learn more about how CourseWorks can support your teaching?

See below how to get help with content creation issues and technical support:

Content Creation Support

Technical support.

The CTL supports faculty and administrators with learning how to navigate CourseWorks; add tests, quizzes, content, announcements and assignments; design modules; and discuss ways in which CourseWorks can best serve teaching and learning needs.

Get started. Review the videos at the top of this page for an overview of the most important features of CourseWorks and to learn how to get started working on your course site.

Explore resources . Access the CTL’s CourseWorks Knowledge Base where you can find online resources and documentation.

Talk to an expert . Set up a one on one consultation with the CTL Learning Designer to discuss the purposeful integration of educational technologies into your class.

Learn at your pace. Explore the self-paced “Introduction to CourseWorks (Canvas) 2.0” online course.

Create assignments and grade. Explore the self-paced “Assessment and Grading in CourseWorks (Canvas) 2.0” online course. You can also watch this screencast for a brief overview of the CourseWorks grade book. 

The CourseWorks platform is powered and maintained by CUIT. If you or your students have technical or access issues, email CUIT directly at [email protected] .

You can also visit the CourseWorks  tips and tricks resource .

Office Hours Schedule

View our office hours. Contact the CTL during office hours for help with CourseWorks and other educational technologies .

Receive an In-Person Consultation

Email [email protected] to set up a consultation or contact a CTL Learning Designer for the CTL Learning Designer assigned to your school or department. Our Learning Designers help promote the purposeful use of educational technologies for in-person, hybrid, and online education .

Teach with CourseWorks

Your CourseWorks site makes it easy to post your syllabus, course objectives, and textbooks, communicate with students, and more. A CourseWorks site is a good way to make course material accessible to students at any time — in many cases eliminating paper handouts. Instructors can easily revise course materials as the semester progresses or migrate the materials to a course in the future. CourseWorks also offers tools for scheduling meetings, assignments and online testing, and student collaboration.

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The Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning provides an array of resources and tools for instructional activities.

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These guides and tutorials are designed to help you get familiar with the tools and layout of CourseWorks.

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CourseWorks is Columbia University's online course management system. With CourseWorks, instructors can easily manage course materials, class meetings, assignments, and student collaboration from a single website.

To get started, log into CourseWorks with your Columbia UNI .

CourseWorks Columbia has transitioned to a new version of CourseWorks that offers faculty more features, greater customization, and faster performance for managing course websites.

Log into CourseWorks with your Columbia UNI .

CourseWorks Support CCNMTL offers faculty and instructors many ways to get help with CourseWorks, including quick online video tutorials, a searchable Knowledge Base, and one-on-one consultations.

Online resources:

• CourseWorks FAQ
• CourseWorks help in the CCNMTL Knowledge Base
• CourseWorks video tutorials

In person support:

• Visit the CCNMTL Faculty Support Lab in 204 Butler Library.
• Email [email protected] or call 212-854-9058.
• Register for a workshop .