What is Stellar?
Stellar is MIT’s online platform for learning and course management [stellar.mit.edu]. Faculty use Stellar to centrally organize course materials, assignments, and class activities, while students use it to access their course work. From a Stellar course site, instructors have the ability to post class announcements, e-mail their class, upload lecture notes, and release solutions to PSETs – all electronically and all online. Course administrators also have access to a host of tools that allow them to manage everything from course membership to recitation selection to student grades (via the Stellar Gradebook pilot). Currently, Stellar hosts over 1000 sites for nearly 800 courses across all of MIT’s Schools, departments, and programs.
