Please click on an article below for information regarding favorites in Bridges: How do I pin sites? Reorganizing your pinned sites on the Home Tab For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding tools and tool ordering in Bridges: How do I add tools to my site? How do I rearrange the items in Tools? How do I lock access to a tool? How do I hide a tool from students? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding site info in Bridges: What is Site Info? How do I edit Site Info? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding course statistics in Bridges Course Statistics Overview: How do I create and run a report? How do I view detailed user activity reports? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding the date manager in Bridges: How do I use the date manager to bulk edit dates in Site Info? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding favorites in Bridges: New Home Navigation How do I navigate my pinned sites? How do I pin a site? For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Please click on an article below for information regarding creating a course site icon in Bridges: For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

At RWU, student enrollment for registered courses is handled automatically through integration with Roger Central. However, in certain situations you are able to add other participants such as TAs, Designers, etc., this article will walk you through the steps on how to add users. GGo to Site Info. Select the Site Info tool from the Tool Menu of your site. CClick Add Participants. Click Add Participants from Site Info tabs. AAdd participant information. For participants with official usernames, under "Official Participants: RWU Username Only" type each participant's username, one per line. This would normally be whatever is in front of the @ in their official RWU email (eg. jsmith@rwu.edu would be jsmith). For participants without official usernames, under "Non-official Participants," enter their email addresses, one per line. Under "Participant Roles," choose whether to give all your newly added participants the same role or different roles (i.e., student, instructor, TA, etc.). Under "Participant Status," choose whether to let your newly added participants use the site right away by selecting Active, or keep them from accessing the site for now by selecting Inactive. Click the Continue button to save. CChoose participant role. For the default option of Assign all participants the same role, select the radio button for the desired role and then click the Continue button. SSelect individual participant roles. If you are choosing to add a student that is not officially enrolled in the course please make sure to choose MStudent. If you chose to Assign each participant a role individually, use the drop-down menus to the right of the participants names to select each participant's role, and then click Continue. CChoose to send or not send a notification email. You may choose the Send Now option to send a notification email to participants if desired. The default setting is Don't Send. Click the Continue button. CConfirm addition of participants. Review the list of site participants and their roles to confirm that they will be added to your site. If the information is correct, click the Finish button. For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Merging Courses in Bridges Overview Merging courses is normally a process by which an instructor would like to merge two sections of the same course together or two different cross-listed sections together in order to post to only one course. Normally a "master" course is chosen as the main course, and the enrollments of the "children" courses are then added to that master course. In Bridges Merging courses is possible, however there are with a number of caveats: It is a manual process of moving students from one course into another (ie from child course(s) into master course). The child course(s) becomes unpublished, the master course is renamed to include all sections, and all students do work in the master course. Child course enrollments in the master do not update - so one must manually check the child course to see if someone has dropped/added and then change that enrollment in the master course (Instructions). Merging courses is therefore only recommended if an instructor will only be posting information for both sections that is not time or section specific. It is not recommended for courses that require online assessments that need to be taken at different times with different groups. To request a course merge, please email id@rwu.edu with the following: Course names of all courses to be merged Master course Given the manual nature of the merging it is also best done as close to the beginning of the semester as possible to mitigate add/drop issues. For further assistance, please email id@rwu.edu

Once your courses have been merged into a Master course, you will need to sporadically check your child courses to make Check enrollments (add/drops) and update this in your Master course. If you are adding a student that recently was added to a Child course into your Master course, you must add them with an MStudent role. Otherwise they will be dropped in the next update. To add a student into a Master course: 1. Select Site Info > Add Participants: 2. Input their username - for example RWU student jdoe123@g.rwu.edu would have a username of jdoe123 3. Select Mstudent and click Continue Select Continue Select Finish