This optional step allows your students and peers to learn more about you!

Since Pyuple allows anyone to teach anything online, you must specify the type of course you are teaching.

1. Course Type A
   This type of couse is open for anyone to enroll in and join from Pyuple as in the case of a professional who has created an online course on Pyuple and is accepting enrollment from Pyuple without restricting who may enroll.
   
   
2. Course Type B (typically for school teachers)
   This type of course is only available to a specific list of people such as students who have enrolled in a course at a college and access to the course's website on Pyuple is restricted to those students only.

You may also specify enrollment instructions so that prospective students know how to enroll in your course. Examples for each course type are shown below.

1. Example Enrollment Instructions for Course Type A
   To enroll, add this course to your Pyuple account then pay $50 either by check payable to ABC Language School. Mail to ABC Language School, 123 Some St., Some City, Some State, Some Zip Code. You may also pay online at www.abclanguageschool.com via Paypal or over the phone by credit card by calling (800) 123-4567.
   
   
2. Example Enrollment Instructions for Course Type B
   To enroll, add and pay for this course through ABC University's website (BANNER) or at ABC University's administration building (Bldg 100). Adding the course through ABC University is required in order to get access to this course and its website.

1. Online Course
   Everything is online. No in-person meetings.
   
   
2. Hybrid Course
   Partially online, partially in-person.
   
   
3. In-Class Course
   Web-enhanced in class meetings.

Your course home page is where you can put anything you
want that you would consider appropriate for your course
home page. You may also upload pictures related to the
course you are teaching.

You can create your course syllabus by copying and pasting
from MS Word or typing your syllabus directly into the HTML
text box editor. A sample syllabus in Word format is available
for you to edit to help you.

To simplify your teaching experience as much as possible, you should plan and create your course content ahead of time. Following are some features and their descriptions.

• Calendar
  Use the calendar to post events such as tests, midterms, final exams, spring break, predetermined canceled
  class meetings, etc. You may also optionally display assignment due dates in the calendar.
  
  
• Lecture / Learning Units
  Use this feature to upload your main course content such as reading materials and related documents.
  
  
• Announcements
  The announcements feature allows you to post important announcements for all your students to see.
  
  
• Assignments
  The assignments page is where you post assignments that your students must do. These may include reading
  lecture materials or learning units, taking an online test, or writing an essay to submit through the digital dropbox tool by a certain due date.
  
  
• Manage your Gradebook Items
  You can apply weights, possible points and other details to your assignments and grade book items that you
  want to use in grading your students.
  
  
• Resources
  The resources page is where you can upload files, documents, pictures and links that are related to the course and organize them into groups.
  
  
• Discussion Board
  The discussion board allows you to create topics for you and your students to discuss.
  
  
• Tests / Quizzes
  You can create online tests for your students to take and have their answers graded automatically.
  
  
• Glossary
  You can upload a glossary of terms related to your course for students to reference.
  
  
• Custom Pages
  If the existing features aren't enough, you can create up to 10 custom pages and put whatever content you want in them.

If you don't need all the features listed above, you can hide the ones you don't want to display on your course website.

If your course is type B (you are a school teacher and you are restricting who can access your course website to the students who have enrolled in your course through your school, e.g. Banner), then you will need to manually add those students to your course website either one by one or by bulk upload from an excel file. Each student you add will be given an authorization code which will automatically get sent to students by email. Your students will then be able to access your course website by entering that authorization code in your How to Enroll page of your course website.

Prospective students will only be able to see your course’s Home page, How to Enroll page, Instructor page and
Syllabus page. Enrolled students can see all pages in your course's website.

Your course url / website address is shown on all pages of your course website in the top right corner. You can also change your course url from your control panel under "Edit Course Name and Dates". For example, if you are teaching Math 101, you can specify your course url to be

http://math101.pyuple.com