How to SAFELY share your CODA material with students
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You need follow the following process to securely share the information with students.
If you do not do the following steps students can possibly:
Copy your course material
Edit your course material
Share your course material with anyone who has an internet connection
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Step 1 - Make two separate CODA docs
Source Doc - This is the workspace for you and your teacher team
Sync Doc - This document will link to a part of your workspace that you will later share with your students
Example screenshot
Game Asset Pipeline → Source Doc
Game Asset Pipeline 23-24 → Synced Doc
Step 2 - Structure your source doc
One SINGLE page with Subpages will get synced to students.
All other pages can be a workspace for you and your team to work in.
Once you want to make something visible to students you simply drag and drop it into the page synced to students
← Example screenshot: GAP Synced to students
Step 3 - Create a Sync page in the sync doc
Create a page in the empty Sync Doc using the “New sync page” option
Select your source doc
Select the Page we earlier created to share with students
Enable Include subpages & hit “Create”
DO NOT SHARE ENTIRE DOC
You should now see the page with all its subpages from your source doc inside your sync doc
Click on the 3 dots of the main sync page and click Sync page options.
Last but important step
Set “who can access this sync page?” to “everyone in this doc”.
Forgetting this last step will make people you share this Doc with unable to see the page.
Step 4 - Invite students to view your Sync doc
Exactly follow these steps
Make sure students can only access the sync doc through their official Howest account.
Ask students to sign up to CODA for free using their official Howest email account here:
Students not using their official Howest accounts wont have access to CODA documents.
Note: There is no need for students to get PRO accounts.
Students can easily sign up to CODA by picking the Microsoft option.
Simply signing in to your Howest account will instantly log you in to CODA
Get a list of your courses student emails.
You can easily get such a list by going to your Leho course → Grades
Go to Export and Export Entire Gradebook
Open the CSV file with excel and expand the SIS Login ID Collumn, here you can find all the people who have officially enrolled to your LEHO course.
Coda can only invite 30 people at a time. This “feature” is a bit tedious but doesn’t take long.
If you for example have 300 students you need to the following 10 times:
Select 30 new email addresses in the Excel file and press CTRL+C
Go to your CODA Doc and click Share again
Under “Type names or emails...” press Ctrl+V
Make sure to set to “Can View” and turn “Notify People” OFF
You can now see everyone who is invited when pressing “share” again
Here you can check if someone already has a CODA account or not as well:
Congratulations!
You have now shared your Doc !
Simply copy the link of your doc and share with students on Leho.
If they created a CODA account with their official Howest email address they should be able to view your doc securely.