How do I customize my course homepage?

Custom homepages can be useful for instructors looking to add widgets to their homepages or to customize the layout of your homepage. In order to customize your homepage, you can create a new Homepage from scratch or you can copy your current Homepage. NOTE: In order to customize a shared […]

How do I change my course banner?

A quick way to just add a banner to your course homepage: Course images are used for the My Courses Widget, the course image banner and in Brightspace Pulse, and on all devices and screen resolutions. While the display size for the banner is 1170 by 200 pixels, it is […]

Activity Feed

Activity Feed The Activity Feed is a course homepage widget that allows instructors and learners to post messages visible to the entire class. NOTE: To add the activity feed widget to your homepage you’ll need to make a copy of the homepage or have a custom homepage. To do so please […]

Accessibility

Accessibility The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) was passed in 2005 with the goal of creating an accessible Ontario by 2025. This legislation is unique because it: Applies to both public and private organizations Requires obliged organizations to be proactive in identifying, preventing and removing barriers to accessibility […]

Third Party Integrations

Publisher and Other Third Party Tools Integrations As of January 2023, Avenue to Learn is currently integrated with: Echo360 Pearson MyLabs and Revel Cengage MindLinks i>Clicker Cloud Macmillan Course Tools McGraw Hill Connect Top Hat Turnitin Turnitin PeerMark Wiley Plus MacVideo/Kaltura eReserves/ARES Sensus Access MATLAB/Mathworks peerScholar Capsim Microsoft Teams Studiosity […]

March 2020

March 2020 Update Announcements – Display author information To provide more information to users, Announcements now supports displaying author information (name and timestamp) on new and edited announcements. Groups – Set exact time learners can self-enroll When setting up groups that allow learners to self-enroll, instructors can now add an […]

What can Avenue to Learn do?

What Can Avenue Do? Get Started Are you looking for the basics to help you get started with building courses in your Avenue to Learn site? Navigation Knowing where to find the things you need to build your course site: Navbar: a navigation bar found at the top of the […]

What is Avenue to Learn?

Welcome to our Avenue Support Knowledge Base! We have created this in order to make it easier to provide up-to-date support for Avenue.  Avenue to Learn is McMaster University’s Learning Management System, or LMS. It provides a secure, online space where instructors can share their learning resources, administer quizzes, conduct […]

How do I get help with Avenue to Learn?

Support Tickets Need some assistance with Avenue to Learn? If you can’t find the answers you need on the Avenue Help Site, you can connect with a member of the Avenue Support Team by submitting a support ticket, or emailing avenue@mcmaster.ca We can provide additional information and instructions, or arrange […]

February 2020

February 2020 Update Assignments – Streamlined access to inline feedback To streamline access to assignment feedback, learners can now immediately access inline feedback from User Progress, Grades, and Assignments. From these tools, the View Inline Feedback link takes the learner directly to the annotations view (or Turnitin viewer, if that […]