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• Select "New Course" from the left-hand menu on your Quest homepage.

• Name your course with a full name and a short name.
• Assign a course unique (can include letters) for students to be able to enroll in the course. The Associated Uniques designation is optional, but useful for combining multiple sections of a class. All the assignments and grades are kept in one course, but the grades can be sorted by their associated unique.
  
  

• If you have multiple institutions associated with your account, you can select the appropriate one using the Institution drop down menu.

• The semester drop down menu allows you to pick which semester a course is associated with and selects which subject icon is viewed by students.

• Specifying a subject area provides us with additional information about the course.

• The student access start and end dates control when students will be able to access your course, but are limited within our semester windows. The semester dates are available here. 

  • Let us know when you have a course that needs to be moved to the new semester so that we can avoid issues with access as we move through the academic calendar.

• You have the option of displaying when and where your class will meet.

• Student Enrollment must be enabled for students to request enrollment in your class.

• Student Login must be enabled to allow students to access the course once enrolled.

• These are simply the department, email, and website you want associated with the course.

• If you already have a course from a previous semester, you can use it as a template for a new course through these dropdown menus.
• Alternatively, you can request access to similar courses built by other users at your institution to use as a template by emailing us at questhelp@austin.utexas.edu.

The next page in course creation is the grading scheme, which will copy from a template if used.