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Coursebuilder
Coursebuilder is a development tool for teaching and learning, designed to assist staff with the writing of module descriptors in terms of learning outcomes in the short term and to facilitate on-going academic development in the future.
The Coursebuilder application is supported by ISS on behalf of the OVPAA.
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You can login to the system with your standard DCU network username and password.
Please contact ISS if you need to have your network password reset.
A user guide can be downloaded by staff once they've logged into Coursebuilder.
Module Access
ISS do not manage module/programme access in Coursebuilder.
If you are a new academic staff member or teaching assistant - you need to login once to Coursebuilder to activate your account on the system.
If you require access to a module as a module co-ordinator please contact your Faculty office to request the change.
If you are a new academic staff member or teaching assistant - you need to login once to Coursebuilder - this will activate the account and allow your faculty to find/assign you to teach the relevant module on the Loop VLE system.
Module coordinators in coursebuilder are NOT automatically imported/enrolled as the teacher in the loop system. This access must be requested through your faculty office.
Only staff assigned as TEACHERS on the latest approved version of a module in the course builder system will be automatically checked/imported/enrolled as the teacher for the module on the loop system.
If you are a new academic staff member or teaching assistant - you need to login once to Coursebuilder to activate your account on the system.
Anonymous marking access is provided by your Faculty Office.
Users assigned as module co-ordinators and teachers will not have anonymous marking access by default.
Anonymous marking must be requested and only a single anonymous marker can be assigned to a module at a time.
Find out more information on Anonymous Marking >>