 Teachers in loop are presented with an empty loop course page for each of your modules for the upcoming academic year. These have been auto-created from information in ITS and CourseBuilder. You will need to manually import content from last year's course to the new one. It is a straightforward process that only requires a few clicks. Your new class of students will only have access to the new course, and last year students will have access to last year's course. That is why you cannot use last year's courses for this year. You must import your content into your new empty courses. In your loop dashboard, find the new empty course for the upcoming year. Make sure your filter is set to All. Additionally, make sure you are viewing all courses, and not just 12. If you are having difficulty locating your new empty course, switch to List View, which might make it easier to read. If you still cannot find it, use the Search field in the Course Overview block to locate it. If it does not appear in your Course Overview block, use the SiteWide Loop Course Search feature to see if it has been auto-created. If it appears in the search results, it means it is available on loop, but perhaps you are not enrolled as a teacher. In order to get yourself enrolled, you will need to be listed as a module teacher on the CourseBuilder system. Contact the relevant person in your faculty or school office to help you with this. If the module page does not appear in the search results, it means it has not been auto-created. Remember, if you have a module running for the first time in the upcoming year or a module returning, having been inactive, it won't have been auto-created. In order to request the manual creation of a page like this, complete the form at bit.ly forward slash loop dash page dash request. If you have other issues regarding module page access, visit dcu.ie forward slash iss and log a ticket with the iss helpdesk. If you do already have access, go to your new empty loop course for the upcoming year. Remember to make sure the academic year is correct in the title. From the course top menu, choose More and then Course Reuse. From the drop-down menu on the left, choose Import. A list of courses appears. These courses are those that you are enrolled in as a teacher. It is not a list of every course on loop. You will only see those that you should have access to. Select last year's course from the list. If it is not there, use the search field to locate it. Use the academic year and the module code as your search term. Then select the radio button to choose it. Choose Continue. The default import settings on this screen should suit your needs, but do deselect anything that you do not need to bring across. Choose Next. You are now presented with the list of activities and resources from last year's course. It is a good idea to scan through the list and deselect all of the activities and resources you no longer need. Some resources may be out of date, or some files may no longer be relevant. Use this as an opportunity for a quick cleanup of your content. This means your students for the upcoming year will have a fresh lean loop course to access. Make sure to also deselect the items at the top of the list because these will have already been added during the creation of the new empty course. You might also want to delete your assignments and quizzes and other continuous assessment items and take the opportunity to design new ones which is good for supporting students' academic integrity and helps avoiding confusion for yourself, not having old assignments mixed in with new ones. Choose Next. You now need to confirm and review the content you wish to import. If you have left something out, you can go back and select it by using the previous button. Choose Perform Import When Ready. Depending on how much content you have chosen to import, it might take a few minutes for the import to occur. Do not select anything on the page or navigate away from loop. After some time has elapsed, you will receive a success message telling you that the import is complete, so choose Continue to return to your course. Scan through your course page, making sure the activities and resources are in the right sections. You may need to move some of them around or re-title them and so on. You can make changes like that by turning on the editing mode. There are a few other configurations you should make after importing your content and activities. The block drawer on the right hand side contains a number of important static blocks for students to interact with. By default, this block drawer should be visible to you when you visit the course page. To collapse it, choose the X button. To expand it, click the left-facing Chevron button. You should configure the contacts block by putting in your name, your office hours, and your contact details and picture. With editing turned on, choose to configure the contacts block. Type your details directly into the text field. When updating your profile photo, you can either link to your photo on the DC website if you have one or you can directly upload a photo. Just make sure the photo file is not too large, otherwise it will not display properly. Before uploading, resize it to make sure it is about 150 pixels wide. Choose the placeholder image and then choose the image button on the toolbar. If linking to your DC website photo, go to your profile page, right-click on the photo and then copy the image address. Then, back in the loop image window, paste the address in the URL field. Also be sure to update the alt text to describe the image. If you prefer to upload a photo from your computer, choose browse repositories, upload a file, and then choose the image file from where it is saved on your computer and upload it. Whichever method you choose, be sure to choose save image to save your profile photo to the contacts block. When the contacts block is updated, choose save changes to return to the loop page. You might also want to edit the template module handbook here with your own modules details. With editing turned on, open the handbook. Use the cog icon in the table of contents block to edit a particular chapter in the handbook. For example, you might want to enter your learning outcomes. Or your reading list. The default text in each of these chapters are instructions for you as the teacher, so be sure to check each chapter and edit appropriately so students don't see this instructional text. In particular, you should populate the assessment chapter of the handbook. Use the table to summarize the assessments in your module so students see their assessment expectations in one place. After making changes to a chapter, choose save changes. Then use the breadcrumb trail to return to the main course page. You might also want to set up any continuous assessment items for the start of the semester, such as loop assignments or quizzes. You don't necessarily need to have your quiz questions ready to go, for example, but even just setting up the activities and configuring the due date will be a big help for students. These due dates will appear in their loop calendars and their timelines, so it will help them in planning the semester ahead. Configuring these dates will also populate the multi-tag timeline report, which allows teachers across a program to see upcoming deadlines for all modules associated with the program. You can add assignments and quizzes by choosing add an activity or resource and selecting the one you wish. Information on how to configure particular activities is available on the loop staff support page, accessible from the loop top menu. Another block on your loop page is the library guide block. Most pages come with a link to a subject library guide, but if your block does not have a pre-populated link, you should insert it. The full list will be in the description below. With editing turned on, choose to configure the library guide block. Select the words school library guide and then choose the hyperlink icon. Copy and paste the subject guide URL from the library website and then choose create link and then choose save changes. The default loop module page template has been designed according to Universal Design for Learning principles. You can find the library guide on the library guide block. Select the words school library guide for learning principles. You can find more information about this on the TEU website dcu.ie under the learning design menu. Lastly, don't forget that you also need to set the start and end dates for your course and you can do that by choosing settings from the course top menu. And then selecting the start and end date for whenever the module begins and concludes. This means that students will see their courses on their own dashboard as either or past. It doesn't prevent access to the course however, it just helps students organize their dashboard. Full information on how to use loop to support teaching and learning is available on the loop staff support page which is accessible from the loop top menu under support. If you have any questions, please feel free to join one of our regular loop dropping clinics on zoom details of which can be found on the TEU events calendar. Or log a ticket at dcu.ie forward slash ISS.