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Generate an Academic Course

Carmen course sites are available for all academic courses listed in the Registrar’s system. Individuals listed as an instructor for a course in the Registrar's system will be able to use the Generate Academic Course functionality. Once this is done, content can be added and the Carmen course can be published.  

Instructional staff have access to edit a Carmen course as soon as it is generated. Students enrolled in the course through the Registrar will be added after a short amount of time. If student enrollments are not present 24 hours after the course is created, contact us at carmen@osu.edu. 

Students and instructional staff can see all the CarmenCanvas courses they are enrolled in on the Carmen landing page, along with an indicator of whether the course is not generated, not published, or published.  

Students can only access published courses. Students can see all their courses on the Carmen landing page but they cannot see not-yet-published courses on the Canvas dashboard or within Canvas mobile apps. For some students, this can cause confusion about enrollment status. To mitigate this issue, we recommend that instructors generate and publish their courses before the semester begins.  

If you have questions about forum course creation, please visit Forum courses. 

Generating a Course 

  1. Navigate to your course list on the Carmen landing page.  

  1. Find the course you wish to generate and click the three-dot button on the Actions Column. 

    Aegis Generate Course button from the Course list page

  1. From the drop-down menu that appears, click the “Generate Course” button with the magic wand icon. 

    Generate course button from action menu drop-down menu

  1. Then, in the window that appears, click the red "Generate” button to generate your course.  

    Aegis generate course confirmation button page

     

Your course is now in the unpublished status. Students will see the course has been generated in Carmen but will not have access until you publish the course. 

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