Adding a course

OERca: Adding a Course

Add a School

 * 1) Go to ocw_schools table and insert a new entry.
 * 2) Fill out the name and description of the new school you are adding.
 * 3) Click "Go" and remember the new school id number.

Add a Curriculum

 * 1) Go to ocw_curriculums and insert a new entry.
 * 2) Fill out the name, description and school id number.
 * 3) Click "Go" and remember the new curriculum id number and do not forget the school id number.

Add a Course

 * 1) Go to ocw_courses table and insert a new entry.
 * 2) Fill out the course number, title, curriculum id, director (primary instructor), creator (instructor), and school id. Other fields can be changed at any time.
 * 3) Click "Go" and remember the new course id number. You can now forget the school and curriculum id numbers.

Add a dScribe user

 * 1) Go to ocw_users table and browse.
 * 2) Look at the most used password and copy the hash value.
 * 3) Insert a new entry.
 * 4) Fill out the name, username, email, paste the copied password, and type the role dscribe1.
 * 5) Click "Go" and remember the new dScribe user id number and the course id number.

Add a dScribe2 user

 * 1) Go to ocw_users table and browse.
 * 2) Look at the most used password and copy the hash value.
 * 3) Insert a new entry.
 * 4) Fill out the name, username, email, paste the copied password, and type the role dscribe2.
 * 5) Click "Go" and remember the new dScribe2 user id number and don't forget the dScribe user id and the course id number.

Add an instructor user

 * 1) Go to ocw_users table and browse.
 * 2) Look at the most used password and copy the hash value.
 * 3) Insert a new entry.
 * 4) Fill out the name, username, email, paste the copied password, and type the role instructor.
 * 5) Click "Go" and remember the new instructor user id number and don't forget the dScribe user id or the dScribe2 user id or the course id number.

Assign a dScribe2 to a dScribe

 * 1) Go to the ocw_dscribe2_dscribe table and insert a new entry.
 * 2) Fill in the dScribe2 user id and dScribe user id.
 * 3) Click "Go" but do not forget the dScribe2 user id, the dScribe user id, the course id, or the instructor user id numbers.

Assign a dScribe to a course
With OER Tool


 * 1) Go to whichever instance of the OER Tool you want to update.
 * 2) Sign in.
 * 3) Click on "Manage dScribes".
 * 4) Choose a course.
 * 5) Choose a dScribe to assign to the course and remember the dscribe2 user id, the instructor user id, and the course id numbers.

With phpmyadmin


 * 1) Go to ocw_acl table and insert an entry.
 * 2) Fill in the dScribe user id, the course id, and choose dscribe1 as the role.
 * 3) Click "Go" but do not forget the dScribe2 user id, the course id, or the instructor user id numbers.

Assign an instructor to a course

 * 1) Go to ocw_acl table and insert an entry.
 * 2) Fill in the instructor user id, the course id, and choose instructor as the role.
 * 3) Click "Go" but do not forget the dScribe2 user id or the course id numbers.

Assign a dScribe2 to a course

 * 1) Go to ocw_acl table and insert an entry.
 * 2) Fill in the dScribe2 user id, the course id, and choose dScribe2 as the role.
 * 3) Click "Go" and you can finally forget all those pesky id numbers that have been rattling around in your head.