MSU Faculty Support

Summary: This page explains how request, view, modify, or cancel LON-CAPA course requests. There are also instructions for using automated enrollment and cloning courses.

Request a course for an official MSU class

• Courses are created on LON-CAPA
• Courses are specific to semester, course number, and section.
• You may incorporate automated enrollment of registered students from the Registrar (see below).
• Courses can be cloned from any course you previously taught or have permission to clone (see below).
• Your request will result in automatic creation of a new LON-CAPA course if either of the following are true:
  • You are listed in CLIFMS as faculty instructor or course supervisor.
  • You used LON-CAPA previously for the same course
  Else, your request will be held in a queue pending your addition to CLIFMS by your department.

View course requests

View or print an application form for an existing course request, if a form is required for record keeping.

Modify or cancel pending course requests

Modify or cancel a LON-CAPA course creation request for an official MSU course that has yet to be processed.

Automated Enrollment

Automated enrollment will only run if you are listed in CLIFMS as the the official instructor or course supervisor for the course.

Automated Enrollment for Team Taught Courses

If you want one LON-CAPA course for multiple sections with different official instructors for each section, the instructor making the course request must be listed in CLIFMS as instructor or course supervisor for all sections for automated enrollment to work.

• What if I requested a course already?

  After getting added to CLIFMS, automated enrollment should start working that night for the other sections assuming you requested automated enrollment for them.

• I created my course already for my section, but have now decided to team teach.

  If you plan on using your course for a team taught course, you will need to be listed in CLIFMS for the other sections. You then need to visit the User Management page off of the LON-CAPA Main Menu and choose the Automated Enrollment Settings page. From here, you can change which sections you wish to automatically enroll.

• I requested a team taught course, but the other instructor has been added to CLIFMS instead.

  The other instructor needs to submit a help request ticket to request that course ownership be changed.

Granting Cloning Privileges for Another Instructor

1. Become course coordinator for the course you want to grant cloning privileges.
2. Go to the parameter setting screen off the main menu.
3. Select the link for Course Environment.
4. There is a field to allow others to clone your course. Enter username:domain into this field. For example, if the username is smith1234, you would enter smith1234:msu into the field.
   Entering wildcards in this field will take about 30 minutes to propagate to the request form.
5. Click the Set Course Environment button to save changes.