• When naming a course, most instructors use their institution's naming conventions. For example, "Environmental Science 101" or "CHEM 120." Often, this name stays the same from semester to semester.

• The name of the individual instance of this course, such as "Spring 2023."

• This field only appears if an Institution Admin or Instructor Admin is creating the session. Once you begin typing a name, Cloud will suggest matches that you can select.

• Enable LTI Grade Sync: With this checkbox selected, Cloud will send student grades back to your LMS. Check out How does grade pass-back and auto-grading work? for more specific details.
• Enable Student Final Report Download: With this checkbox selected,  students have the ability to download a PDF of their work for each lesson. In the interest of academic integrity, we recommend not checking this box.
• Maintain Instructor Notes: When checked, Cloud will carry forward any notes the instructor has added in previous SI Cloud sections of this course.
• Maintain Gradebook Weights: When checked, any grade weight changes the instructor made in previous SI Cloud sections of this course are preserved in the new semester.
• Maintain Paywall Requirements: If this is present during course setup* we highly recommend keeping this checked. This maintains Kitcode requirement settings if applicable.

* Courses may have different settings that do not require the presence of this checkbox.

• Start Date: This is the date that students can enroll in the course and order or register their kits.
• End Date: This is the date that the course closes to students.
• Course Start Date: This is the date that students will begin completing coursework.

After you've filled the form in, select the "Complete Setup" button to get your course started!