Basic Course Set-up LearningHub

Basic Course Quick Guide

Introduction and Set-Up

Summary

This guide introduces you to the following aspects of Learning Hub:

Dashboard navigation and customization
Setting location and language preferences
Finding your courses
Course format and organization
Basic setup and customization
Uploading documents

Confirming Course Listings

Your teaching courses should be listed in Learning Hub. Course links are created automatically based on the official schedule. If you’ve taught a course before, you must import content from the previous version.

Finding Your Courses

Click on My Courses at the top of the page.
Your current courses will appear in a dropdown menu under In Progress.
View past courses or search for courses using the search icon in the upper left.
Click on a course to enter.

Customizing Your Dashboard

Your most accessed courses will appear under Recently Accessed Courses. Under Course Overview, you can:

Choose which courses to show: In Progress, Future, Past, Starred, Removed.
Sort courses by name or last accessed.
Display courses as a Card (default), List, or Summary.

Starring Courses

Click on the three dots next to the semester and year.
Select Star this Course or Remove from View.

Customizing Preferences

Changing Language

Log into Learning Hub.
Hover over World English (en_us) near your name.

Choose your preferred language (Course content remains in the original language).

Setting Time Preferences

Log into Learning Hub.
Click on User Menu > Preferences > Edit Profile.
Scroll to Timezone, select your location.
Note: Assignment deadlines are based on Michigan Time.

Navigation

Navigation Bar

Dashboard – Return to Learning Hub home.
My Courses – View current and past courses.

In Progress

Past

This Course – Access participants, grades, and activities (visible only in a course).
Hub Tools – Links to Panopto, Zoom, Mahara Portfolio, PreVue, iVue, finVue, AU Gmail, and Timeclock.

Resources – Links to Learn Remotely, Thrive Remotely, Library, and Registration Central.

Help – Links to LearningHub Helpdesk (DLiT) and ITS Helpdesk.

Breadcrumb Trail

The Breadcrumb Trail allows you to:

Click Dashboard to return to the homepage.
Click on a Course Name to view courses per semester.
Click on a Course Title to navigate to the course front page.

Navigation Bar

Dashboard - click to take you back to LearningHub Dashboard
My courses - see courses In progress and those in the past
This course - see participants, grades, and the activities for the course (only visible if you are viewing a course)
Hub Tools - links to Panopto, Zoom, Mahara Portfolio, PreVue, iVue, finVue, AU Gmail, and Timeclock
Resources - links to Learn Remotely, Thrive Remotely, Library, and Registration Central
Help - Links to LearningHub Helpdesk (DLiT) and ITS Helpdesk

Upper Left Area

Notifications and Messages
Change the language that LearningHub is displayed for you
User Menu
1. Dashboard
2. View profile
3. Grades
4. Preferences
5. Calendar
6. Switch role to…
7. Log out
Gear Icon items that were from the left side of LearningHub (only visible if you are viewing a course)
1. Edit settings
2. Turn editing on
3. Course completion
4. Gradebook setup
5. More.
  1. Question banks
  2. Enrolled Users
  3. Groups
  4. Reports
    1. Logs
    2. Overview statistics
Turn editing On/Off
Hide Blocks
Switch between Full screen and Standard view

Course Homepage Navigation

Changing Format

Click on the Gear Icon.
Select Settings.
Scroll to Course Format, select desired format.
Click Save and Return or Save and Display to return to the main window.

Topics and Weekly format examples are below - other examples can be found in the advanced course setup help guide.

Note: With editing turned on your will be able to change the name of any of the format names

Editing Section Headers

Turn Editing On.
Click the pencil icon next to a header.
Enter the new name and hit Enter.

Gear Icon Functions

The Gear Icon replaces the left-side navigation bar. Functions include:

Settings – Modify course settings, availability, and groups.
Course Completion Setup.
Gradebook Setup.
Backup/Restore.
Manage Badges & Question Bank.

Adding Content

Using the Activity & Resource Selector

Click Turn Editing On.
Click Add an Activity or Resource.
Select from Activity or Resource tabs.
Choose the desired option.

How to “star” an activity or resource
Click on the Activities or Resources Tab
Click on the Star, it will add it to the Starred Tab
Click on the X in the upper right to close this page

Note on Activities and Resources:

When you have clicked on editing or are creating a new activity or resource the administration setting settings that were on the left of the course, now show up on the right side.

Uploading Documents

Note: Use PDFs unless students need to edit/download the file.

Click Turn Editing On.
Drag & drop the file into Learning Hub.
If uploading multiple files, create a folder.

Adding a File

Click Turn Editing On.
Click Add an Activity or Resource.
Select File.
Enter a name and upload your file.
Click Save and Return to Course.

How to edit header sections in your course

Click Turn editing on, located on the front page of the course
If the general area is not open, click on the arrow pointing up; this will open up the top section to be edited.
Click on the menu to the right

Click on the Edit topic
Put a check in the box next to Custom; this will allow you to change the name of the section

Click on the down arrow for adding and editing the content
Create your content
Click Save changes

Managing Communications

Messages

Click on Messages.
Select a student.
Click the three dots for notification settings.

Notifications

Users can modify notification preferences:

Information: Notifications are shown in a course if you have put in the settings that you want to receive a notification when students submit different types of activities. Each user in LearningHub can modify their own preferences.

Click User Menu > Preferences > Notification Preferences.
Enable/disable different activity notifications.

Additional Resources

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