Given discussions presented by the UX team it has been raised that a quick UX win could be to add the following buttons to the incoming my courses page: "New course" & "Manage courses" this would allow users from having to navigation into the link farm within site administration or directly typing in <foo.bar>/courses to get to the course management page.

See the attached screenshot.

EDIT: following recent UX discussions I'm adding a note here on how this page should behave:

• The course overview block title should not be displayed with the string being added to the template inline with the dropdown instead