| Courses and Groups in the Edison portal give students, faculty, or employees at Edison College the ability to create and manage homepages for clubs, courses, and other affiliations and interests.
The group and course homepages provide members with the ability to:
- Read articles posted by the group or course members and submit articles for posting
- Access links to other Internet resources the group or course considers appropriate and submit potential links
- View photos posted by the group and course members and submit photos for posting
- View information about and e-mail other group or course members
- Access a group chat room, message board, and an online calendar
- Post you own personal homepage link for group or course members to access
Courses and Groups are essentially the same thing, you can think of Courses as Groups that are automatically populated with the instructor and students. |
Accessing Courses
Students - After registering for a course it will automatically appear in your Student Academics tab in the Edison portal. You might need to change the dropdown box to the current term or All Terms to see your course.
Faculty access courses through the Faculty Academics tab. If you do not see a course that you think you should see in your Faculty Academics tab contact your scheduler.
When you click on a course in the Student or Faculty Acadmics tab it will either go into the portal Course Homepage or into WebCT. For help with WebCT go here. |
Accessing Groups
Click the Groups icon in the top right of the Edison portal.
This page provides three tabs: My Groups, Group Index, and Request Groups.
- My Groups. Provides access to the My Groups page which lists the clubs or other groups to which you belong. You use this index to access a group's homepage. In addition, the My Groups page provides a link that lets you remove your membership in a group.
- Group Index. Provides access to a listing of all categories of groups at your institution. You can use this index to access group homepages within each category where you can read about and request to join the group.
- Request Group. Provides the form necessary to request the creation of a new group. If you request the creation of a new group, you become the group leader and have initial responsibility for creating and managing the group homepage and guest view. Click for more information on group leader responsibilities.
There are three types of groups:
- Public groups that are open for anyone to join
- Restricted groups where membership is subject to certain restrictions. For example, to access a group home page for an academic or social fraternity, an individual must first be accepted as a member of that organization.
- Hidden groups that are not displayed in the group category index and do not have a guest view page. Hidden groups are typically used to publish and discuss sensitive information that should not be available to a public or restricted group.
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