General Support
The MacPherson Institute provides a range of services designed to assist the McMaster teaching and learning community. Help us to direct your request appropriately by filling out the following form. We will respond to your request as soon as possible. Please keep in mind that we require appropriate advance notice prior to your deliverable. This will vary with each request.
Request Avenue Support
Get support:
- Request a course shell if you do not already have one.
- If you need additional support, complete an Avenue to Learn support request form
Find additional advice and resources:
- Avenue Support Wiki contains a wealth of information and tips on use of Avenue features and tools.
- Brightspace (Avenue to Learn) YouTube tutorials
- Brightspace resource – Changing from classroom to online courses during the COVID-19 virus outbreak
- Brightspace resource – 3 quick tools to get you teaching a course
- Camosun College has a comprehensive bank of online tutorials that demonstrate how to use many of the tools available in D2L (e.g., assignments, discussions, quizzes, etc.)
Request WebEx Support
Get support:
- Support available by request at https://avenue.mcmaster.ca/support/
- 24/7 support from WebEx at 1-866-229-3239
- For smaller classes, we recommend using Webex Meetings. Please see our “Webex Meetings for first-timers guide”
- For larger classes, that require breakout rooms we recommend using Webex Training.
- Uncertain as to what web conferencing solution you should use. Check out our “Web conferencing Comparison” Sheet
Find additional advice and resources:
- Request a Webex account to start creating your own synchronous interactive sessions at or get WebEx support at https://avenue.mcmaster.ca/support/
- 24/7 support is also available from WebEx at 1-866-229-3239
- See the Quick Start Guide easy-to-follow tutorials from WebEx