Getting an ICON course site
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Getting an ICON Course Site
ICON course sites are available for Registrar-affiliated and non-Registrar-affiliated courses; for instructor testing and development purposes; for faculty, staff, or research organizational purposes; and for student organizations.
Note: Registrar-affiliated courses are those that are tracked by the Office of the Registrar (i.e., "normal" courses with UI course numbers). Students register for these courses in ISIS.
For some UI departments, an ICON course is created automatically for each Registrar-affiliated semester course (check with your departmental tech support person if you’re not sure). For other departments, or for non-Registrar-affiliated courses, instructors who want an ICON course must submit an online request form. Faculty or staff who want an ICON development site or a site for training or other organizational purposes must also complete an online request form.
This online request form is available from the ICON website:
- Go to http://icon.uiowa.edu/support/newsite/.
- Select the type of site you want (Registrar-affiliated, Development or Non-Registrar).
- On the Hawk ID Sign In page, enter your Hawk ID and password.
- If you chose the Registrar-affiliated course site type, select the session from the Change Session dropdown menu (if necessary), and your assigned courses will be listed. Click the checkbox for each course for which you want an ICON course site created and click Submit. (If you don't see the course(s) you want, check with your departmental administrator to make sure you are listed in OSIRIS as the Instructor of Record.) If you choose either the Development or Non-Registrar course site type, fill in the requested information and click Submit.
Your course will be created within two working days.
A different form is required for student organizations. The student representative for the organization can request this form by sending email to ICON Support at icon-support@uiowa.edu. The form must be signed by a faculty or staff advisor and submitted to the ICON administrator.
12 May 2008
Combining Multiple Sections into One ICON Course ("Mapping")
To combine or "map" multiple sections of the same course together so that all sections can be managed at once, send an email to icon-support@uiowa.edu indicating the course number, the section numbers you want mapped together, your role in the course, and the semester. If you've already done design work on one of the sites, let us know which one, and we'll use that as the base site for all the sections.
When the sections (or courses) are combined, you will be able to view your gradebook section-by-section using the dropdown menu at the top of the gradebook window.