In Oncourse, how do I add, remove, hide, or reorder tools?

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Anyone can add, remove, or reorder the tools in the menubar of his or her My Workspace. If you have a role with the necessary permissions, you can perform all of these actions for the menubar of a course, project, or portfolio site, or hide tools from users with restricted permissions.

To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. To view a list of permissions associated with a given role, see Permissions, roles, and tools. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.

To change tools in any type of site, including My Workspace, you can choose between the Edit Tools feature and the Reorder Tools feature, depending on what you want to do:

Edit Tools: You can add or remove tools with this feature. If you add Email Archive, News, or Web Content, you'll be prompted to provide additional properties to use these specific tools.
Reorder Tools: You can add, remove, or reorder tools with this feature, and you can also hide them from most site participants while keeping them in your site. You won't be able to set properties for Email Archive, News, or Web Content while adding them, but you can set those properties afterwards by going to the tool and clicking Options.

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Using Edit Tools

From your site's menubar, click Site Setup.
Alternatively, from the menubar in My Workspace, click Worksite Setup, check the box next to the site you wish to revise, and then click Edit.

Note: Although you can check multiple boxes, you can only edit information about one site at a time.

Note: To modify tools in My Workspace, you must check the box for My Workspace.
Click Edit Tools.
To add a tool, check the box next to the appropriate tool name; you can select more than one at a time.
To remove a tool, uncheck the box next to the appropriate tool name.
Click Continue.
If you're adding any of the following tools, the Customize Tools screen will ask you to provide additional information. If you're not adding one of the tools below, skip to the next step. For the following tools, these tasks are possible:
- Email Archive: Create or modify your site email address
- News: Add or modify news feed titles and web addresses (URLs); titles will appear in your menubar
- Web Content: Add or modify titles and web addresses (URLs); titles will appear in your menubar
When you're finished, click Continue.
On the confirmation screen, you will see a list of your site's tools and any changes you've made. If the list is accurate, click Finish. To edit your changes, click Back, or click Cancel to exit without saving your changes.

Your new tools will appear in the menubar. To change the order of the tools, use Reorder Tools.

Note: Adding the iTunes U tool will create a site in iTunes U for you.

Using Reorder Tools

From your site's menubar, click Site Setup.
Alternatively, from the menubar in My Workspace, click Worksite Setup, check the box next to the site you wish to revise, and then click Edit.

Note: Although you can check multiple boxes, you can only edit information about one site at a time.

Note: To modify tools in My Workspace, you must check the box for My Workspace.
At the top of the page, click Reorder Tools.
You can do the following:
- To add a tool, at the top of the page, click Add tool(s) to your site. Check the box for each tool you want to add, and then click Add selected tools.
- To remove a tool, click the delete icon
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- To reorder tools, click and drag the different tools until they are in the order you want.
- To hide a tool from normal users, click the light bulb
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Click Save to save your changes.