Under the Control Panel inside a HuskyCT course site, there is a "Customization” link. In this menu are “Properties” and “Teaching Style“.

Change Start Date for course site

Change Entry Page for course site

Granting Student Access to Unavailable Courses

Change the Course Banner Image

Change the Course Image (thumbnail on Courses page)

Managing HuskyCT Course Enrollments

Creating an Announcement

Communication Tools Overview

Using the External Email Tool

• Tests
  • Creating and Administering Tests
  • How to Create a Test Question
  • How To Deploy a Test
  • Setting Test Options
  • How To Build a Pool of Test Questions
  • How To Create Question Sets and Random Blocks
  • How To Copy A Test to Another Course
  • How To Accommodate Extra Test Time And/Or Allow a Different Test Time
  • How To Force Submit a Test in Progress
  • How To Edit Test Questions
• Grading
  • How To Clear a Student Attempt On A Test
  • How To View A Test Access Log
  • Reviewing and Grading Exams
• Survey
  • Creating a Survey
  • How To Access Survey Results
• Pools
  • How to Build a Pool of Test Questions
• Respondus 4.0
  • Respondus is a Windows only application that can be used to create tests or pools of questions in a word file that can be published directly to a HuskyCT site.
  • How to Use Respondus 4.0

Lockdown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment when used for taking a test in HuskyCT. When taking a test using LockDown Browser, students are unable to print, copy, go to other websites, access other applications, or close a test until it is submitted for grading. LockDown Browser can be a good option for in-person quizzes/exams, where students are expected to bring their own devices and take a quiz/exam through HuskyCT, but the instructor wants to add a layer of security to prevent students from using their devices for anything other than the quiz/exam itself.

Instructor Guide for LockDown Browser

Student Guide for LockDown Browser

Creating an Assignment or SafeAssignment

Grading submitted Assignments

Options for downloading submitted Assignments

How to Ignore, Clear, or Allow an Additional Assignment Attempt

Adding the Discussion Board Tool

How to Create a Forum

How to Create Discussion Threads

Reviewing and Responding to Student Posts

Grading Discussions

Create Columns

Columns Types

Weighted and Total Calculated Columns

Entering Grades

Show/Hide Columns for Instructor

Reorder Columns

Delete Columns

Disable the Default Total Column

Show/Hide Grade Columns for Students

Download Grade Center

Using Rubrics

What are rubrics?

Managing HuskyCT Course Enrollments

Enroll additional users

Change user’s role

Using the Groups Function

Using Rubrics

What are rubrics?

Edit Mode OFF Student View 

When working in a HuskyCT site, an instructor needs to be in “Edit Mode ON”. By changing Edit Mode to OFF, an instructor will not see links to files, assignments, tests, discussion forums, etc., that are not currently available to students, but they will still see the Control Panel area of the left-hand navigation menu, so it is not a “true” student view.”

Student Preview Mode – a true student view

Accessing Student PreView mode: Use the “Student Preview mode”  button at the upper right of your HuskyCT site. Once in Student Preview mode, an orange bar will appear at the top of the screen. What the instructor sees when in Student Preview mode is exactly what students will see in terms of content and activities. The control panel will not be visible.

Types of Student View

Using Student Preview Mode

The Blackboard Collaborate tool makes it possible for instructors to interact with students synchronously in an online web conferencing session that includes the capabilities for video, audio, screen sharing, text chat, hand-raising, file sharing, and an interactive whiteboard.

Hosting a Collaborate Session

ITS Collaborate Help Page