New for 2021: CalNet appointments can now be future-dated to grant early access to bCourses. Instructors can access bCourses and begin setting up their course site(s) as soon as their paperwork is processed by the campus. Please work with your department scheduler to ensure that your hiring process is on track to grant you early access to bCourses.
The guest account process described below should not be used to grant an instructor early access to bCourses but may be necessary in other cases.
If you need access to bCourses and you do not have a CalNet Account, we recommend that someone from your department sponsor you for a CalNet Guest Account. Then, you may request a "sandbox" site where you can start work setting up your course materials online.
The sandbox site would serve as a temporary space where you could add course content and set up your course materials and activities.
See below for all the steps in this process.
Instructions
- A staff member from your department sponsors you for a CalNet Guest Account (See CalNet Sponsor Guide)
- You receive an email from CalNet prompting you to set up your Guest Account
- You or the department staff member contacts us at bcourseshelp@berkeley.edu to request that a sandbox site be created for you and to add your Guest Account to it.
- You log in with your Guest Account and add your course materials and activities to your sandbox site.
- Once both your official CalNet ID and your teaching appointment are active, you can log in with that CalNet ID and create your official course site (See How do I create a Course Site?).
- Log out of bCourses, and then log back in using your Guest Account.
- Go to the sandbox site and add your *official* CalNet ID to it. This gives your official account access to the sandbox so that you can import its contents.
- Log out, again, and log back in using your official CalNet ID.
- Import content from your sandbox site into your official course site (See How do I copy content from another Canvas course using the Course Import tool?).