RIC WebCT Faculty Fall 2007 Training
Week of TBA
Training Schedule
To Be Announced
Detailed Descriptions of Classes
Introduction to WebCT
- Using a live course, a walk through using some of the features, not how to build them
- Homepage
- Mail
- Assignments
- Grading
- Quizzing
- Content Manager
- Discussion Board
(Student white paper on using WebCt available)
- The "Template Course" explained
- How to create a course for the Spring (RIConnect)
- Hands on example of using Mail
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Moving a Course to Spring
- Using the new RIConnect pages
- How to migrate your old course to Spring
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Using the Gradebook
- Adding the Grade tool
- Creating a gradebook
- Assignments and Quizzes
- Using a Formula
- Averaging assignments
- Averaging quizzes
- Creating the Final Grade using percentages
- What the student sees
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Using Mail
- Adding the Mail Tool
- Use the Mail white paper
- Show examples of sending, receiving, replying, and attachments
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Using the Quiz manager
- Adding the Quiz tool
- Creating a quiz
- Randomizing a quiz
- Importing a quiz from a textbook company
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Creating a Self Test
- What is a Self Test?
- Why would I use one?
- How is this different than a quiz?
- Where do the questions come from?
- What does it look like for the students?
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Tips & Techniques covers the following:
- HTML pages, PowerPoint, PDF, and more
- How and why to save files as HTML (or MHT)
- Uploading files to WebCT
- Using Compress Files in WinXP
- Unzipping in WebCT
- Managing folders in WebCT
- Adding the Content Tool
- Using the Search Tool
- Adding a search capability to your WebCT course
- Posting up Video/Audio files on Streaming Video Server
- Presentation Tool
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Creating Assignments
- Adding an assignment
- Using the text box on the assignment page
- As a Word Doc
- As a link to a page on the RIC server
- As a PDF
- As and HTML document
- Including pictures within WebCT and from the RIC server
- Editing the assignment settings
- Making sure the assignment appears in the student view
- Grading an assignment
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WebCT Pedagogy
- Creating a pedagogically sound course
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Using Chat and the Discussion Board
- Why and When to use Chat
- How to setup a Chat session
- What is a Discussion Board and how can I use one
- How do I use the Discussion Board for Announcements
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Creating a Survey
- How does this differ from a quiz
- How do I create it
- Why would it be useful
- Report available in WebCT
- Exporting to Excel
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