In this video
we're gonna look at
how to put in the info tab information
inside itunes u
this is a screenshot from what iTunes U looks like on the ipad
is a good example of the basic structure of what an iTunes U course looks like
when I discuss info tab
I'm meaning this tab
over here in the upper right
when the student clicks on that
they get these three boxes overview, instructor, and outline
this video will talk about how to put in your information
into the info portion of overview instructor and outline
the first thing you need to do is log into the itunes u course manager
again you need to have an apple id with your @osu.edu email
address
and email me Cory Tressler
at tressler.8@osu.edu and request access
after I give you access
you'll be able to log into course manager
now I've already logged in
but the first time you log in
you'll get a screen
that looks like this
you need to fill out your my instructor information
first
this will populate
into the instructor portion of the info tab
prefixe is optional
put in your first name last name
your title
your institution is going to be ohio state university
put in a brief
bio about yourself
that students may find interesting
your expertise
but also use some tidbits
again that students would find interesting like a link to your twitter
account
or other information that you'd like to share
you must upload
an instructor image
it will not let you save unless you do so
you can take a picture
using the camera installed on your computer
or if you have a image already
you just find that image
click on it
press choose
it will then upload your image
and you can actually move it around
to where you'd like it to show
click done
and it uploads your image
again every box needs to be filled out except prefix
and an image uploaded
before it will allow you to save
when you're ready to go to the next step just click save
and it will take you to
this main landing page
of itunes u course manager
now when you first login you will not have anything here under course name
this is where your courses
land
or where they display
you can have multiple itunes u courses
I only have one right now which is an example
but I'm gonna go ahead and create new course because that's what you'd be
doing
so I would go in here under course info
itunes u
you give it a short name again whatever may be listed as
institution will always be ohio state university
you can put in your department
you can put in the category
depending on what college you work for
and you may have a sub category as well
you can choose the level
of what your students are
and then you can pick any language that it might be taught in
just like the instructor page
you must add an image for your course
before you can save
you can't always change any of this and I'll show you how to do so
again I'm just going to choose the same image
and use it right now as sort of a placeholder and I can come back and
change it later
if you need help with creating an image
email myself
Cory Tressler at tressler.8@osu.edu
and I'll help you build an image
with the OSU branding on it
put in a short course description
choose a course type
self-paced allows the students
to work at their own pace
and is a really good option for public courses
people can jump around, into any portion they want
in session would be more for your private courses
that your students are on a deadline and that you can use specific dates
now I'm going to choose self-paced
under suggested
duration
I'm going to put fifteen weeks because that is approximately how long a semester is
now under licensing
if you're doing a private course and your distributing only to your Ohio State
university students
you are protected under fair use because it's not going out globally
if you are choosing to do a public course
be sure that you have copyright permission for all of the content that
you'll be using in your course
we can discuss this more
again if you email me and we set up a meeting time or conversation that we can
have together
if you want more information
on these choices
you can go to creativecommons.org and there is a link built-in
and it will give you information about each option
this is a really good website
to understand
what the different licenses are
after you filled in your information and again you can change this it anytime
click save in the bottom right corner
and you'll see that it created a new course
so now i have two different courses which i can choose from
now let's just pause for a minute
let's say I don't like my photo or I want to change a little bit of the
information about me
to do that
go to the upper right-hand corner
click on it
and then click my instructor info
at anytime you can change any of this information
you can change your photo
you can change your name if you'd like or your title
or anything in your bio
just hit save
and it will save
your new information
to get back home
from anywhere in course manager
you can click this all hat icon in the upper left hand corner
and it will take you back
now I'm going to pop in here
to my digital first class
I just click on the title
and it will take me into
the actual area where I am building the information
now notice
this starts to look
very similar to what the students will see on an iPad or an iPhone
again students will also be able to access this if they have a mac or pc or on an
android
directly through itunes
now if I want to change
any of this content
that I've set up for my course settings I just mouse over it
hit edit settings
and I'm back to the same screen
where I entered all the basic information about my course
this is also where you could submit a course
to be publicly available in itunes u
I do not recommend clicking this until you have
everything
organized to a point
where you want to have it released
you can always add things to a public course but you want to have some basic
structure in place first
again to get back home I just click the hat in upper left-hand corner
click on the name of the course I want to work with
and it takes me right back to where I was
so overview
is that overview of your course
with the basic information
instructor
is your instructor information
again in this window I can edit that information
one important aspect of this little window is course email
if you're doing a public and you do not want people to have access to your email
you can just leave this blank
but if you're doing of course that you don't mind people emailing you
go ahead and put your email in there
and hit save
and that will give the students the send email button
to contact you
if I want to edit my bio just click edit bio
click save and it will
update my information
outline is where we start to build the structure of your course
in this example
I have developed
twelve different sections
each having a sub-section
and this is really easy to do
to demonstrate it
I'm going to go back to my new course
by clicking the hat
and going going into iTunes U
again my overview and instructor is already in place
but noticed there is this little exclamation point by outline
you must complete your outline or at least start your outline
before you can go to any of the next steps
you I am going to click outline
and I could paste in a basic text file with my outline if I already had one
or I could just start typing
I click enter
to add another section
notice at the bottom
I have some options for formatting
and you can change this at any time
when I click enter notice it adds another sub-section
of this main section
if i want to change that
to go to a new section
I just hit the left button down here
and it will re-indent backwards so I have the number two
I can also hit the right
and make a subcategory of a subcategory
you can see this is really easy to fill in
and again
you can change the format anytime you'd like
you also do not need to put in
section one or section to if you don't want
because it's already giving you a structure
but I'll leave that up to you
and I will show you in this example
they did not put any sort of section heading
they just put in
the heading of the topic itself
after you have your outline
started
click save outline
and it will then allow you to move to the post section
which we will cover in the next video