COMSATS Course Portal Users Guide

By: Muhammad Tasadduq Hussain Project Manager, CIIT Abbottabad.

About Course Portal

COMSATS Course Portal provides a common platform for information sharing among the students by the teachers. A teacher may send Course outline, lecture Notes, Quiz/Assignment/Sessional Solutions etc. A teacher may upload Assignment /Lab Assignment specifying the due date and total marks. The portal serves as repository for the teachers to keep relevant material for the students on portal and send it to them any time as they wish. Assignments and contents are sent to students in two steps. First upload to portal and then send these to students of specific class. In response to the Assignment/Lab Assignment, students can upload solution from their console on or before due date. Teachers can then view or download assignment uploaded by students any time. A teacher may also send an announcement to student that is immediately visible to students on their consoles. A teacher is provided facility to set reminder for some important event.

Using Portal
COMSATS Course Portal can be accessed through link provided in your Console on CUOnline. The Home Page shows List of courses assigned to you, Menus, Links and Quick Links. Several hands on Demos are available under Support Link. FAQs may be helpful for the new users of the portal You can start with sending course outline to the students. o Open up Upload New menu by just bringing cursor over it and then click on Other Contents o Give Title , Description and may attach file and then click on Save to Portal o Note: This content will be uploaded to portal only, to sent it to students go to View & Send Menu and select Other Contents or just click Step 2/2 Click Here o In View & Send->Other Contents, all contents that are uploaded and not sent to students are available You may select all or any of these and send them to students of selected classes You may edit this content before sending it to students For sending an assignment; go to Upload New Menu and click on Assignment. o Give Title(compulsory), o Give Description (optional), o attach file(optional), o set the due date(compulsory), o specify total marks (compulsory) o and click on Upload to Portal o This Assignment will be uploaded to portal only, to sent it to students go to View & Send Menu and select Assignment or just click Step 2/2 Click Here

In View & Send -> Assignments, all assignments that are uploaded but not sent to students are visible. You may select all or any of these and send it to students of selected class or classes You also send information of this assignment via email You may edit this assignment before sending it to students You can send Lab Assignment if you have course with Lab o Go to Upload New->Lab Assignment o Give Title (compulsory) o Give description(optional) o Attach file(optional) o Specify From Date-Time and To Date-Time (compulsory) o Specify total Marks (compulsory) To view the history of Assignments/Contents sent to the students, go to View & Send->My History o You may sort history by clicking on Title, Course/Class, Date or Type o You can deprecate any record so that it may not be visible to the students, you also may hide the deprecated records for yourself. (Deletion from history is not provided) o Searching a particular record is possible through Search History by providing search criteria o At the end of semester you are provided facility of archiving complete portal to your desktop and export history to PDF file. (for reference purpose) A facility to Set Reminder has been provided. A reminder can be set from Misc->Set Reminder menu o Specify Start and End dates o Write text o Make it active o Press Set Reminder button o To see all reminders press Show All Reminders Button on top right of page. o You may delete a reminder or can edit it in-line. Announcements is yet another facility to be sent to a particular class and can be sent through Misc>Announcement menu. Students can immediately see all announcements on their console. o Write Text o Select Class o Set auto expiry date o Press Send button For any further support you may visit Contact Us page