Chapter 6. Configure courses - additional details

A student's view of a Manhattan classroom is very similar to the teacher's. Manhattan doesn't have a special "designer mode" that is used by the teacher to make learning materials available to her students. For the most part, the teacher sees the same menus, buttons, and pages that a student sees, although often the teacher has a few more commands available than a student does. One very significant difference between a student's and teacher's view of Manhattan is contained within the main menu's button. Only the teacher of the course has the Configuration button as the last item on the main menu.

Once a Manhattan classroom has been set up by the server administrator, the teacher is in full control. Using commands found within the Configuration section, the teacher can:

• Change details like the name of the course, the semester, and how your name appears throughout the system.

• Turn Manhattan's modules on or off.

• Reset student passwords, and make minor changes to their names.

• Add new students and additional teachers to the classroom.

• Remove students and teachers from the classroom.

• Get a roster for the course as a text file that can be imported into a spreadsheet or grade book program.

• Organize the students into teams.

• View logs that show when students have logged in, and what they have done while logged in.

• Get information about the amount of disk space used by the classroom.

• View the contents of their Clipboard, which is a special feature that allows teachers to reuse Manhattan messages.