C. Who Can Request a Course?

The list of users presented here is not intended to be exhaustive. Instead, it represents current practice for providing space for an online course on University servers. As a general rule, it is up to the administrator creating the course to determine if the request for the course is legitimate and fits within the University’s Acceptable Use policy.

1. UI Faculty

This is the largest group of course designers. It includes current, future, and emeritus faculty. While most courses for faculty designers will be courses known to the Student Information System (SIS), faculty may also be in charge of courses that fall outside the SIS (e.g., courses set up for research purposes or that offer staff training). Courses known to the SIS can be created either through the fully automated SIS integration for colleges which have selected that option (see Data Conventions > Integration for more details), or on a request basis. In addition, any faculty member may request an individual ICON course site. If the faculty member wishes to work on the course well in advance of the creation of the course through the fully automated method, s/he may request a development course (a course used for the development and testing of content but which will not have student enrollments).

2. UI Staff

UI Staff includes administrative assistants, program assistants, course coordinators, teaching assistants, research assistants, and IT staff. Courses for these users may be created by the fully automated system described above or they may be created on a request-only basis.

3. UI Students

An ICON course may be created for UI students for class use, so long as the instructor provides written permission from the instructor.  Student organizations are encouraged to use CampusLabs from the Division of Student Life for online collaboration and content sharing.

4. Non-UI Users (No HawkID)

A course created for users outside the UI community should only be created if the course adds value to the University community and has a sponsor who is associated with the University of Iowa. Examples of valid reasons for creating courses for non-UI users are:

• instruction/coordination of programs with UI approval/support (International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning),
• in-field instruction of UI courses and their support staff (the College of Business offers some courses that fit into this category),
• instruction of continuing education courses offered through a University of Iowa college (e.g., continuing education courses offered through Public Health).