One of the most frequent questions I get asked is: "I have so many courses on my courses page that it is difficult to know which ones are old and which ones are for the current semester. Can you delete the old courses?"
The answer is "yes… and no." You can "hide" your old courses from appearing on your Courses tab. You can also unhide them in the future if you need to retrieve material from an old course.
After you login to Pulse and click on the Courses tab at the top of the screen, you should see a box called My Courses. All of your courses (or at least those that you haven't already hidden) are inside this box. You can modify the content of the My Courses box to only show you courses you want to see and to also show more (or less) information about each course. To do so, click on the pencil icon 
in the upper-right corner of the My Courses box. The resulting screen lists all of your courses and gives you some options that can be turned on or off with checkboxes.
In section 1, Modify Courses List, you have the ability to turn course features on or off or to completely hide the course from view by not turning on any features.
- Courses in which you are enrolled:
All of your courses are listed here. One drawback of this listing is that it doesn't easily distinguish courses that have the same name, such as the "Des, Collect & Analy Research" course in the image above. You will find that when courses with identical names are listed, they are listed from oldest at the top to most recent at the bottom (this is in the same order as the previous screen in your My Courses box). So, if you only want the current "Des, Collect & Analy Research" course to be visible, activate the last one of the two listed above.
- Display Course:
If this option is checked, you will see the Course Name listed in your My Courses box.
- Display Course ID:
If this option is checked, you will see the Course ID listed in your My Courses box. See the previous JEFFLINE Forum article for more information on the Course ID.
- Display Announcements:
If this option is checked, all new and permanent announcements for the course will be displayed.
- Display Tasks:
If this option is checked, all tasks assigned to you in this course will be shown.
- Display Calendar Events:
If this option is checked, calendar events for this course will be displayed.
In section 2, Modify List of Courses on Other Systems, you can add links to other non-Pulse courses you are teaching or enrolled in (i.e. JEFFLINE Distance Learning courses or courses at another university).
Finally, in section 3, click the Submit button to save your changes and return to your Courses page, or click Cancel to cancel all the changes you made on this page.
The following demo will show you how to modify your course listing using the steps described above.
If there are specific topics you would like me to cover in future issues, please let me know by emailing me at Chris.Braster@jefferson.edu or by filling out the comments poll to the right of this article (under my photo and name).
Related Links:
- Pulse [http://pulse.jefferson.edu]
- Pulse Support [http://jeffline.jefferson.edu/Education/Pulse/]