Managing Groups and Pages
Pages can help all members
of a school community easily share information and ideas. Pages are web
pages you can set up at the
Groups and Pages are combined in Aspen.
First you create a group; then you determine whether you want that group
to have its own Page. It is possible for
any and every group in your
After creating a group with a Page, you add members and designate a page administrator. Only members of a group see its Page on their Pages tab. And because Aspen is web-based, group members can access their Pages anytime from anywhere they have Internet access.
If you create Pages for classes (either individually as a teacher or in large numbers as the Aspen system administrator), Aspen turns each course section into a group before creating its Page. The teacher of the section automatically becomes the page administrator, and the roster of students are its members. If a student transfers out of or into a particular course section, Aspen updates their page access accordingly.
The Instructor role in Aspen automatically gives teachers the ability to create their own Pages. If Aspen system administrators mass-create class pages, teachers are able to edit their Page's layout.
Pages can have a variety of widgets, including announcements, blogs, group resources, links to websites of interest, and more. The page administrator maintains and updates content on the Page. It is possible for a student to be the administrator of a Page, but there is always a designated staff member who is ultimately responsible for that Page's contents.
Use the Page Directory to determine which of the Pages you have access to you want to be easily accessible. You can add and remove Pages from the Quick Access menu (removing a Page does not delete it).
You can do any of the following:
