This CatCourses Training course is intended to serve as an example course for instructors and teaching assistants to see how CatCourses can be setup and utilized, as well as to provide training resources. Instructors as automatically enrolled in this course as a student. If you are not enrolled in this course, but would like to be, please click here to e-mail me.

If you'd like to start exploring this course, we recommend you start here: Modules List

NEW! Mid/Final Grades Tool modules:

Getting Help with CatCourses

Primaru support for CatCourses is provided by the vendor. Please click on Help on the bottom of the left-hand menu in CatCourses to see available options. "Search the Canvas" guides offers hundreds of articles and videos on all features. "Canvas Support Hotline" is a tool-free number instructors can call to ask questions, get help, and report issues. "Chat with Canvas Support" offers the same but through an online chat in CatCourses. Both the toll-free number and chat are available 24/7, 365 days/year.

Grading Online Help Session and Drop-In Hours

Fall 2016 Final Grades: Tuesday, 12/20 9 am - noon

Join here: https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/2092284442

IT staff will have a Zoom web conference open in CatCourses during these hours so that instructors may join in to get any help needed to submit grades on the day final grades are due.

One-on-One Consultations

Are you an instructor who would like to meet with Academic and Emerging Technology staff to discuss CatCourses? These sessions are intended to help instructors who are just starting out with CatCourses, need personalized grading help, or would like to discuss how to use CatCourses to accomplish particular goals for your classes. Please click here: http://it.ucmerced.edu/services/catcourses-lms/ and chose "Request Service" to fill in some available dates and times and what you would like to meet about. An AET staff person will get in touch to arrange the consultation.