What is eCourseware? eCourseware (powered by Desire2Learn) is the University of Memphis latest course management system software. This web-based platform provides many tools that can enhance both the online and traditional classroom teaching and learning experience for faculty and students. 

Would you like to learn how to create a discussion posting to engage more classroom participation from your students? Would you like your students to submit assignments online? How about online quizzes? Then eCourseware is the way to go. Use the resources below to assist you.

Need face to face sessions 

View the schedule for eCourseware training or open forum sessions.

Help Request Forms

Help Request Form for: 

• Requesting assistance with login, course tools, errors, etc.

Combine Courses Request Form for

• Requesting that courses and/or course sections be combined by having all students enrolled/populated into one live course instance.

Wimba/Respondus/StudyMate Assistance While there is currently no direct integration with any of these software applications/services, there are ways that they can continue to be used with eCourseware. Please contact the ALC at alcsupport@memphis.edu for assistance.

Faculty Semester Start Checklist

Browser preparation

• Turn off pop-up blocker software or set it to allow for https://elearn.memphis.edu.
• Add https://elearn.memphis.edu to trusted sites in your browser security settings.
• Run the Pre-Login System Check: Checks browser version, settings, plug-ins and computer display settings.

Login to Course

• Login to eCourseware at http://elearn.memphis.edu or through the Spectrum portal using your UUID and password.
• If you prefer to build course content separate from your live course instance, request a development course shell. (Note: you will need to copy course content/components to your live course instance prior to the start of the semester.)

Copy components to live course instance

• Each semester faculty may import all or part of their course content from the previous semester in the new empty shell created by Banner. The following guide shows how to import such content.
   
  • Importing Previous Semester Components 
• You may also copy content components developed in one live course instance to another in order to not have to re-create content for multiple sections.

Special course access requests (adding users)

• For technical reasons, the ability for faculty to manually add users or participants such as Faculty, Students, or TA's to eCourseware courses has been suspended. While the issues behind this change are being addressed you may request additional access for users/participants by submitting a Help Request Form. You will need to indicate what role or permission level you wish for each user. A list of roles and explanation can be found here-- View Roles Chart.
  • Department Aide Function: A chair-appointed eCourseware Department Aide administers many important in-house services for their department's online courses, such as special course creation and enrollments, inter course content sharing and incomplete student access. At this time the following departments have assigned Department Aides: Business, Health Administration, History, Journalism, Nursing, University College/University College-Fire Service. To learn more about this role or specific contacts for the departments above, please email alcsupport@memphis.edu.