> Merged Roster Manager
Quick steps:
- Navigate to your Home page.
- Locate the Toolbox section.
- Click on the Merged Roster Manager link.
- Use the top Edit a Merged Course section to edit already-merged courses.
- Use the drop down menu to select the course and click the Edit or Delete buttons as appropriate.
- Use the Create a Merged Course section to create a newly-merged course.
- Click the check box to the left of those courses that should be merged together.
- Click the Continue button.
- Enter a title in the Merged Course Title text field.
- Select the Master Course from the drop down menu.
- Typically you will check the box Disable Source Course.
- Click the Create Course button.
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An ANGEL course is created for each section offered for a course. If you have several sections per course, you will have several versions of your course to manage. You may wish to keep students in the various sections separate and teach each as a separate group, but you may wish to combine all the students into one course with one class roster. Merging courses allows you to combine the class rosters of multiple sections into one course.
Note: You can only merge courses which you have editing rights in. Whoever merges the courses becomes the administrator for the merged version, so this should always be done by the Instructor of Record.
When you Log On to ANGEL, you will be taken to your Home page. Locate the section entitled Toolbox and then click on the subheading Merged Roster Manager.
Locate each of the sections you wish to combine and click in the checkbox to the left of its name. The rosters for any course whose checkbox is checked will be added into the merged course. When you have completed all selections, click on the Continue button at the bottom of the page.
You will be taken to the Merged Course Settings page. Create a title for the merged version of the course and enter it in the Merged Course Title box. Consider including semester information and the course number as well as the name to make it easy for others to identify. Be sure you do not choose a non-credit section for the master course. Click to place a check into the box to the left of Disable Source Courses. Since students will see all courses for which they have access permissions, they might mistakenly enter the section rather than the joint merged course. If you disable the sections, students will not be confused and will only see the merged version of the course. (If you will be using both the sections and the merged version of the course, do not check this box.) Click the Create Course button at the bottom of this page. You will be notified of the success of this operation. Click the Return to Profile button and locate the newly created merged course in the ANGEL Courses section of your Home page.
Note: if you do not want the various sections to appear in your Home page you can uncheck them in the ANGEL Course Settings page. See Courses display options and settings.
Merging a course only copies the class rosters; it does not copy any course content. You will need to import your course content. You will also need to add guests and support staff ids (other than TAs which are automatically assigned) into the merged course as these do not copy over.
Once you have created a merged course, return to the Merged Roster Manager to Edit what sections are included or Delete the merged course under the Edit a Merged Course section of this page.
An Alternative Use of Merged Courses
You might offer a lecture/recitation course where TAs handle the recitation sections and the lectures are offered to the merged roster list. In this option, you would not Disable Source Courses but would need to label course components properly and ensure students understand to enter both sections.
