White Papers

1.2 Assignments Explained  (s)

1.3 Assignments Explained Narrated (s)

1.4 How Do I Know When Something is Due (s)

1.5 FAQ Page

1.6 WebCT Mail(s).1 Reviewing a Previously Taken Quiz (s)

1.7 Changing Your Password (s)

1.8 Two Sided Printing (s)

1.9 Working with Pictures (s)

1.10 PowerPoint Training Videos (s)

Instructor Resources

Papers with an asterisk (*) are suggested reading for new faculty building their first course in WebCT.

2. Creating a Course

2.1 * Setting up WebCT for the First Time

2.2 Moving Your WebCT Course from Last Semester in Blackboard

2.3 * Adding Announcements to the Homepage

2.4 Adding a Counter to a WebCT Page

2.5 Adding Links to the WebCT Home Page

2.6 Adding a Shared Designer to Your WebCT Course

2.7 How to Request a Course in PeopleSoft for WebCT

2.8 Creating a Picture Page

2.9 Using the Image Database

2.10 Too Many Courses

2.11 Too Many Courses part 2

3. Assignments

3.1 * Basic Assignments in WebCT

3.2 * Creating Assignments

3.3 Assignments Explained

3.4 How Do I Know When Something is Due

3.5 Adding a Solution Page

4. Lectures

4.1 Adding a PowerPoint File to WebCT

4.2 * Setting up a PowerPoint Lecture

4.3 PowerPoint to WebCT

5. Gradebook

5.1 Exporting Grades to Excel

5.2 * The Grade Book

5.3 * Adding the Gradebook

5.4 * Adding a Column in the Gradebook

5.5 * Gradebook Formulas

5.6 Drop the Lowest Two Grades in Excel

6. Content Pages

6.1 Content Page HTML Link to Non-HTML Pages

6.2 Adding Content to a Content Module Page

7. Quizzes

7.1 Creating Quiz Questions

7.2 Creating the Quiz

7.3 Grading a Quiz

7.4 Creating a Self Test

7.5 Moving Quiz Questions

7.6 Posting Grades for Quiz not Part of WebCT Quizzing

7.7 TestGen to WebCT

8. Surveys

8.1 Understanding Surveys

8.2 Analyzing Surveys

9. Using the FDR

9.1 * Introduction to the FDR

9.2 Moving Files from WebCT to the FDR

9.3 WebCT and the FDR

9.4 Linking from WebCT to the FDR

9.5 Using Cyberduck, and FTP client for MAC Users

9.6 Updating Faculty Web Pages on the FDR

9.7 Updating Your Faculty Web Site (Build a new site and maintain locally)

10. Discussion Boards

10.1 Discussion Boards

10.2 Attaching a File in a New Discussion Posting

11. Other Useful Info

11.1 Downloading Student Data

11.2 Displaying File Extensions in Windows Explorer

11.3 Useful HTML Codes for WebCT

11.4 The Compile Button

11.5 Using WebDAV

11.6 Using WebDAV in Vista

11.7 Backing Up WebCT

11.8 Using the Search Tool

11.9 Using the CD-ROM Tool

11.10 Streaming Audio and Video in WebCT

11.11 Reducing File Sizes in WebCT

11.12 Student Presentations

11.13 Tracking Students in WebCT

11.14 Roster to Excel

11.15 Importing Calendar Entries

11.16 Missing Compressed Options in Windows XP

11.17 Adding an External File to a Single Page

11.18 How to Change the Icon

11.19 Turning a screen image into an Image File

11.20 Copy Screen Text into any Application

12. Office 2007 and WebCT

12.1 Using Internet Explorer 7

12.2 X Files in WebCT

12.3 Windows Office 2007 Demo

12.4 Collaboration between Office 2003 and Office 2007

13. Templates Courses

Templates Courses

The following are backups of empty WebCT courses. Theses are useful when creating a new course.

13.1 Empty Course Backup File (homepage is empty)

13.2 * Template Basic Course Backup File (only the syllabus tool is on the homepage)

13.3 * Template Starter Course Backup File (homepage has eight starter tools)

13.4 History 161 Template for the History faculty (RIC Version)

13.5 History 161 Template for the History faculty (Thomson Version)

14. Alger Info

14.1 Alger Podium Instructions

14.2 Using the Gyro Mouse in the Alger Podium