ARCHIVED: What can I do in read-only Oncourse?

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Important:

Oncourse is retired. For details, see ARCHIVED: About the Oncourse retirement.

As of August 31, 2016, Oncourse is in read-only mode, and the features available in the application are, by and large, limited to viewing and downloading or migrating existing content.

In a few tools, you may find that you can still create or edit content to a limited extent. Also, in some tools, the buttons for creating or editing content remain visible, but attempts to save the content generate an error.

The table below shows what specific roles can expect to be able to do within Oncourse course, project, and portfolio sites. If you need help ARCHIVED: exporting or ARCHIVED: migrating your Oncourse content, contact your department's LMS administrator, your campus teaching and learning center, or your campus Support Center.

Oncourse tool	Site admin (instructor, project owner, coordinator, assistant)	Site member (student, member, participant, etc.)	Department LMS administrator
Announcements	View announcements	View announcements	Full control
Assignments	View assignments View student submissions Download all	View assignments View own submissions	Full control
Blogs	View all blog posts	View own and shared blog posts	View public blog posts
Calendar	View the site calendar	View the site calendar	Full control
Canvas Migration	Migrate course content to Canvas ¹	No access	Do not use ²
Chat Room	View chat history	View chat history	Full control
Drop Box	View resources	View resources	Full control
Email Archive	View messages Download message archive	View messages Download message archive	Full control
Evaluations	No access	No access	No access
Forms	No access	No access	No access
Forums	View forums, topics, and messages	View forums, topics, and messages	Full control
Glossary	View glossary entries	View glossary entries	No access
Gradebook	View all grades Export all grades	View own grades	Full control
Lessons	View lesson content	View lesson content	Full control
Matrices	View all matrix content	View own matrix content	No access
Messages	View sent and received messages	View sent and received messages	View sent and received messages
Modules	View module content	View module content	Full control
News	View news feed	View news feed	Full control
Podcasts	View podcasts	View podcasts	Full control
PostEm	See footnote ³	View own scores	Full control
Presentations	View own and shared presentations Export own presentations	View own and shared presentations Export own presentations	Full control
Presentation Templates	No access	No access	No access
Reports	Generate reports	No access	No access
Resources	View folders and resources Bulk download via ARCHIVED: WebDAV ⁴	View folders and resources Download individual resources	Full control
Roster	View site roster Export site roster	View site roster	Full control
SIS Grade Roster	No access ⁵	No access	No access
SIS Performance Roster	No access ⁶	No access	No access
Site Setup	View site members and groups	View own groups	Edit site information Add/remove/reorder tools Add/remove/update participants ⁷ Manage groups Manage external tools Manage access
Site Stats	Full control	No access	Full control
Tests & Surveys	View assessments and question pools View assessment results	View own results	Full control
Web Content	Launch existing web links	Launch existing web links	Full control
Wiki	View pages	View pages	Full control

Notes:

1 In read-only Oncourse, the Canvas Migration tool is not visible. To gain temporary access to the tool, in the Oncourse menubar, click Enable Migrations and reload the current page in your browser. After the page refresh, the Canvas Migrations tool will be visible in the site menubar.

2 To ensure all data in selected tools are migrated, only instructors/site owners should launch the tool.

3 In the default state of the tool in read-only Oncourse, instructors will not be able to see or download full PostEm files. To gain temporary access to your PostEm files, in the site menubar, click Enable Migrations and reload the current page in your browser.

4 In read-only Oncourse, site owners no longer have access to the Compress to ZIP archive option in Oncourse. If you need a ZIP archive of all resources or a specific folder in site, contact your department administrator, your campus teaching and learning center, or the UITS Mission Critical team. However, if you have reached or are close to meeting your site's Resources quota, you must export your Resources using ARCHIVED: WebDAV or the Canvas Migration tool.

The quota for a course, project, or portfolio site, or for My Workspace, is 4 GB. To check your site quota and usage, in the Resources tool, click Check Quota.

5 Access past grade rosters via the Faculty Center; see View your grade roster in the Faculty Center

6 Access past performance rosters via the Faculty Center; see ARCHIVED: View your Student Performance/FLAGs Roster as an instructor

7 Department LMS administrators can no longer add themselves to sites as instructors. If you need to be added to a site as an instructor, contact the UITS Mission Critical team or ask another department LMS administrator to add you.