Open the Console
In Account, you can choose your course and open Instructor Console. Course owners and specifically authorized guest instructors can prepare questions and guidance within their permissions. Use Back to project or Projects to return to student work.
Field Notes Questions
In Course settings, choose Edit prompts, select a level, and write a question of up to 1,200 characters. You might ask what a source supports, whose perspective is missing, or what students want to investigate next. Field Notes are optional in the app, so explain any course requirements in your assignment.
Student preview shows the current question, including unsaved edits. Save draft saves it for later. Publish changes saves pending edits and publishes the questions. The editor checks that each level has a question. Existing student notes remain available when a question changes.
Guidance and Materials
Under Guidance and materials, choose the Part and Mapping step you want to edit. The console retains Part 1 and Part 2 settings, with guidance up to 2,500 characters and course material up to 4,000 characters for each section. The console groups these settings by Part and Mapping step; students work through Micro, Meso, Exo, and Macro in Notebook.
Use the saved guidance preview to inspect published course text. Changing the preview level does not change the saved version. Editing or previewing course settings does not send a request to the model. In the student workflow, the app reads submitted memos to add supported nodes, and students create the relationships.
Versions
Published versions remain available in Versions and change history. Create a draft from an earlier version if you want to revise or restore it, then save and publish. The app uses the published version for later requests and preserves existing student work.
If someone else has changed the settings, the app checks the revision before saving. Read the conflict message and compare your draft with the server version. A failed publication can leave a saved draft available for retry.
Saved Progress
Under Submissions, open Saved progress to load the course roster and saved-map information. Use Refresh progress and More students when available. These records can show visits and saved progress. Ask students for a project link or exported copy to read their current map, sources, and notes.
The Submissions list can also hold records from a separate instructor-review workflow. Keep those records distinct from the two-memo workflow, in which students move through the four mapping steps in Notebook, with optional Field Notes.