How do I create a new course or project site?

If you have the appropriate permissions to create new course or project sites, do so from View All Sites.

Click View All Sites.

In the header area of the page, click the grid icon (View All Sites).

Click Create New Site.

In the View All Sites area, click Create New Site.

Select the type of site.

Choose either course site or project site depending on which type of site you want to create.

Note: If your system has one or more template sites enabled, you may also see the Create site from template option.

For course sites only

If you choose to create a course site, some additional steps are available to you.

Select the term.

  1. In the Academic term menu, select a term.
  2. Click Continue.
Select the Course/Section Information.
  1. Make selections from the Subject, Course, and Section menus.
  2. Enter the username of the authorizer within your institution within the Authorizer's username field. This user will approve the creation of your site with the course sections you've requested.
  3. Optionally add information to Special Instructions that relate to your request for the course sections.
  4. Click Continue.

Or, click on the Still cannot find your course/section? link.

If your course is not listed in the menu above, you may choose the Still cannot find your course/section link? to add a site with a custom course/section.

  1. Enter the Subject, Course, and Section into the text fields provided.
  2. Enter the username of the authorizer within your institution within the Authorizer's username field. This user will approve the creation of your site with the course sections you've requested.
  3. Optionally add information to Special Instructions that relate to your request for the course sections.
  4. Click Continue.

Enter information about the site.

  1. Enter (or modify) the site title in the Site Title field.
  2. Optionally change the default language for your site to any of the available languages. Languages in this list will vary depending upon the language pack(s) installed on your instance.
  3. In the Description field, enter a summary of the site's purpose. This information will appear on the new site's homepage.
  4. In the Short Description field, enter brief information about the site that will appear in the site lists used by your institution. Some institutions do not make use of this feature.
  5. Complete information in the Site Contact Name field.
  6. Enter a contact email into he Site Contact Email field.
  7. Click Continue.

Select site tools.

An image of the General tools area will several tools checked.

Place a check mark next to the tools that you would like to activate within the new site. Note that you can also activate tools after the site has been created.

Click Continue.

Configure site access.

In the Site Availability area, select a method of publishing the new site to students and teaching assistants.

  • Automatic: the site will automatically be published based on the timing of the course sections that you've included in the site.
  • Scheduled: manually set the date and time at which the site will be published. You can also optionally choose the date and time at which the site will be unpublished.
  • Manual: immediately choose to publish the site upon its creation, or use the Manage Access area of Site Info to manually publish the site later.

In the Additional Access area, indicate if there are any other types of access allowed. (This section may not present options if the administrative system settings have not configured additional access types.)

In the General area, select the type of users that will be able to access the site. You can choose either Anyone (which includes unauthenticated users) or Logged in users.

In the Global Access area, choose which users will be included in your site.

  • Select Limit to official course members or to those I add manually (recommended) to allow only enrolled students and others that are formally associated with the course section(s) you've included.
  • Select Allow any Sakai user to join the site to make your site joinable.

Click Continue.

Confirm the site setup.

All of the selections you've made for the new site will display to you on the Confirm Your Course Site Setup page. After verifying the details, click Request Site.