What is an A2A check?

An A2A check is a technical check of your eLearning site to ensure that it is ready to have students added to the site. When one of our team begins to check your site you will receive an email asking you not to make any further changes. Our check is focused on usability and clarity for students.

We check the following:

• That an up-to-date copyright notice and disclaimer are on the homepage
• That all the links in the site, both to the documents you have uploaded into the site and any links to external sites, are currently working
• All links to external web pages display in a new browser window. This makes navigating the pages much easier and helps students distinguish between the UoS site and external sites.
• That there aren’t any blank pages or unedited tools in the site (these tend to make students anxious – if a page will have material added to it later then please put a note to that effect on it in the meantime)
• That any dated documents in the site have been updated for the current students (e.g. course outline with deadlines in it)
• That the dates for timed tasks such as quizzes have been updated
• That all pages are displaying correctly in several browsers on both Mac and PC platforms
• That the structure of the site isn’t confusing and, especially if the course is fully online, that students will be able to follow it when they log in
• That copyright material is properly presented or acknowledged (see information about putting images or links to copyright text material into your course
• That there are no really big files, such as powerpoint presentations, that students will have trouble downloading (see some options for the presentation of these files above)

We do not check the following:

• Content, links or anything else in sites outside the University eLearning LMS
• Content of documents in the site in any detail – although we might run our eye over them to check for live links we wouldn’t for instance proofread them or check their spelling

Your site will not be able to move through the process until these things have been fixed.

Once the site has passed the Application to Activate (A2A) you will receive an email telling you that it will be released to students on the dates you've specified on the Enrolment Settings screen in SEAMS. Please be sure to check that the dates set in SEAMS for the students to be given access are the dates you want. You can change these dates yourself before you submit the A2A. Once you've submitted the A2A you'll need to call the Sydney eLearning Helpdesk on ext.18728 to change the dates for you.