Browser Requirements | Course iSite URL | Administrative Access | Guest Access and Harvard XID
This page describes how to access your Course iSite. For an overview to editing your Course iSite, see the Overview page. For complete documentation, see the Course iSites Help Center (HUID Authentication Required).
Every course offered in the GSD curriculum is given a Course iSite at the start of the academic year. All Course iSites contain basic information automatically generated from the GSD registrar's database.
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The best method is to go through the GSD course offering list at http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/courses
Click on your course title and then click on the link "GSD iCommons Website" to access your Course iSite.
Sample Course Site Home page
To make changes to your Course iSite, you will need to login with your HUID and PIN by clicking on Login at the top right of the Course iSite. If you have not registered for a Harvard PIN or need to request a replacement PIN, visit the Request a New PIN page and follow the instructions
By default, only the course instructor (as listed in the GSD Registrar’s database) can make changes to a Course iSite. If you are a course instructor, you can grant other teaching staff administrative access (this would include your teaching fellows and assistants) by clicking on the Course Site Admin link (at the top left navigation bar of the main page, as in the sample above) and then clicking on Manage the list of Site Administrators.
Sample Course Site Admin page
To grant guest access to people who have not registered as students in your course, click on the Course Site Admin link at the top left of the main Course iSite page, then click on Manage the Class List. The Class List page displays teaching staff, enrollees, and guests. To add a guest, click on the Add People link to the right of the Guests listing.
Harvard XID
Guests who do not have an HUID or Harvard-affiliated email address must first register for a Harvard XID (this would include visiting lecturers and scholars or new faculty members who might not have their HUID/email address yet). This temporary account enables a course administrator to grant access to any Course iSites space. Once a potential guest have completed the whole registration process, the course instructor can then add them into the guest list (or administrator list depending on the role of the guest) by entering the email address used during the XID registeration process.
NOTE: if the course instructor is not available, drop a message to the Instructional Technology Group and someone will process your request.
Sample Class List page