How-To Guide
Preparing Your Folio Course for A New Semester
We’ve created a how to guide to help you get ready for the coming semester. Keep reading to learn how to prepare your courses in Folio, the Georgia Southern instance of D2L Brightspace.
Getting Started
New Integrations
All requests for new integrations for Folio must be submitted at least a month prior to the beginning of the term.
Crosslisting Requests
We recommend that you submit requests to have courses cross listed in Folio prior to beginning course preparation. All cross listing requests must be received prior to the first day of the term.
What Is Crosslisting?
Multiple course sections can be combined into one course site. Combining course sections allows instructors to have all their students and course materials in one convenient location within Folio.
Note when a course is crosslisted, a new course space is created and any content, grades, and student work that exists in other sections will not be automatically transferred. Instructors will have to copy content from existing courses into the new crosslisted course space. No student grades and activities can be moved to the new course space.
Requests should be completed prior to the first day of class. Be sure to submit your request early so that staff have time to complete the requests prior to be start of Attendance Verification. During the Attendance Verification process crosslisting courses will be temporarily paused until after the end of attendance verification time period.
Course Preparation Checklist
The process for preparing your courses in Folio is documented in our Course Preparation Checklist below. To schedule additional assistance please email helpdesk@georgiasouthern.edu and we will contact you to make arrangements.
| ✓ Copy | ✓ Update |
| Use our Copy Content Guide to import, export, or copy content to your new courses. | Be sure to update your quiz, dropbox, and calendar dates in the new course. |
| ✓ Confirm | ✓ Verify |
| Confirm that Respondus, Turnitin, and other integrated items are set up correctly. | If you have publisher integrations*, verify that these are set up correctly in course spaces. |
| ✓ Activate | ✓ Explore |
| When all updates are complete and you’re ready for students to begin accessing your course, set it to “active” through the MyGS console or within the Folio course. Use our Activation Guide to learn how. | ITS offers many technology resources to support remote learning and teaching. Check out the Virtual Resources for a comprehensive list of technology solutions. Click here to learn more |
*Technology assistance may be needed when updating newer versions of existing publisher course materials. To initiate this assistance, please submit a MyHelp ticket.