Overview
The default Course Entry point (where both students and instructors land after clicking on the course to access it) is "Announcements". The instructor or Course Admin can change the course entry point, and in some cases, may do this accidentally. This article discusses various ways that the course's entry point can be changed, and in case of an issue, how to reset it manually.
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Changing The Entry Point Normally
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1. To manually change the course's entry point, on the course's left menu within Course Management under Control Panel, go to Customization > Teaching Style. |
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2. Click the Course Entry Point dropdown menu, select which option from the left menu that you'd like to configure as the entry point, and click Submit. |
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Occasionally, when suppressing the Announcements, faculty may run into an issue where there are no more normal content areas in the course, and the next available content area is an externally-facing web link. Or, they may move an externally-facing link to the top of the left menu. If this happens, students and faculty entering the course are almost immediately redirected to the external site.
If this or something similar to this happens (where the course's left menu no longer appears), Faculty can click the "X" at the upper right of the header to "break out" of the external link.
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After clicking this, the course's left menu will appear, and faculty can now follow the instructions from the first step in this article to correct the entry point to a more preferable page. |