Course/Organization Management

Ultimately, a course and an organization have the same functions.

Course vs. Organization

Courses have a fixed start and end date; Organizations are "Open Ended."
Faculty can create their own courses, whereas, users must put in an IT Support Center ticket to request that an organization be created.
Only Faculty and Staff can request the creation of an organization. If a student needs to create an organization, a faculty member's eID and enrollment as a "Co-Leader" must be included in the request.
Courses are automatically populated via the banner enrollment file; Leaders must manually enroll users to their organization.
Course and Organization user roles have different names but the same privileges.
- Faculty vs Leader
- Student vs Participant
- Teaching Assistant vs Assistant
- Course Builder vs Organization Builder
- Grader vs Grader
- Guest vs Guest
Courses are automatically archived after a period of time; Organization, currently (this could possibly change) are not deleted until requested by the Leader(s).
Courses can be merged/cross-listed with other courses or sections; Organizations cannot be merged/cross-listed.
Courses usually have assessments and grades and that is usually not the case in an organization. Although, Organizations do have a grade center the same as a Course and are capable of the same features.

** In this section, if something is not otherwise stated for an organization, it is safe to assume the course and organization work the exact same way.

This article was updated: 12/7/2017