Nexus Best Practices for CourseKey Success

When it comes to managing the Nexus system there are established best practices that will help ensure success in CourseKey. 

Best Practices Topics:

1. Creating Instructor Accounts
2. Creating/Updating Student Accounts
3. Creating/Updating Courses
4. Archiving/Deleting Courses

Instructor Account Creation

When a new faculty member is hired they will typically go through an onboarding process and have their email accounts, logins and Nexus profile created.

There are two requirements for instructor accounts to be created in CourseKey:

1. The Staff Table in Nexus must have the faculty listed with a first & last name and valid email (cannot have special characters, notes and must be in the @brooklinecollege.edu format).

2. The instructor must be assigned to a course in Nexus as either a primary or secondary instructor to trigger the account creation at the next available user creation interval (see API Schedules and Frequencies).

Student Account Creation/Update

Student accounts are created automatically via the APIs and are triggered whenever a student status in Nexus changes to Future Start.

1. When it comes to new students, there must be an email listed on the students profile or the job will fail until it is added.

2. Updating existing student information like contact info can be done at any time and the systems will update CourseKey at the next available user update interval (see API Schedules and Frequencies).

Course Creation/Update

There are currently three types of custom configurations that are applied to a course based on the characteristics.

1. Sound

2. Sound

3. Sound