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TTE 350. Lecture Notes for 2/2/01. Agenda. Nuts and Bolts Overview of Courseware WebCT Demo. Nuts and Bolts. WebBoard Assignments & Discussions Nice Job Can learn from each other too… Course Home Page Change to WebCT Sections 2&3 Keep track of Passwords
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TTE 350 Lecture Notes for 2/2/01
Agenda • Nuts and Bolts • Overview of Courseware • WebCT Demo
Nuts and Bolts • WebBoard Assignments & Discussions • Nice Job • Can learn from each other too… • Course Home Page • Change to WebCT Sections 2&3 • Keep track of Passwords • Remainder of the Course: Project &Tools
Courseware • Software to help you create a learning environment online. • WebCT http://www.webct.com • Course Info http://www.blackboard.com • Custom http://www.itcourseware.com/ • Custom “elearning” Development Software • Click2learn http://home.click2learn.com/products/instructor.html# • Macromedia http://www.macromedia.com/software/weblearningstudio/ • Other MM Authoring Software
WebCT Overview • WebCT software can be used to create entire courses online or to complement a classroom-based course. • WebCT software resides on a server, allowing you and your students to access it via a web browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer. • It also allows you to make changes to your course readily, from any web-accessible location, and to make these changes available to your students immediately.
WebCT Capabilities • provide course materials that include text, images, video, and audio • evaluate students with quizzes and assignments • facilitate learning using searchable indexes, glossaries, and image databases • integrate web resources into your courses • create opportunities for students to be knowledge builders • encourage student interaction by using hyperlinks to websites, student web pages, and a note-taking tool • communicate with students via discussions, email, real-time chat sessions, and an interactive whiteboard • manage grades • supply student feedback via an online gradebook, self tests, and progress tracking • obtain data that allows you to analyze the effectiveness of your course
Getting Started with WebCT • Tutorials • http://www.webct.com/quickstart • Faculty (Designer) • http://www.webct.com/quickstart/viewpage?name=quickstart_3.1__getting_started • Student • http://workbench.webct.com/web-ct/help/en/student/student_index.html
Login to WebCT • TTE 350 Course (for the next month or so) : Student • http://webct.cet.uiuc.edu/webct/public/home.pl • User ID: xx9schalmers • Password: xx9schalmers • Class Practice Environment: Designer • http://v3trials.webct.com/ • User ID = TTE350 • PW = broberrett • Your Own Course • http://v3trials.webct.com/freetrial/
Assignment 2f • Log on to the course WebCT page as a Student and complete the following: • Upload a digital picture of you and place it in the Photo Album with a brief bio statement about yourself. • Take the quiz called Assignment 2f • Post a message in the discussion board stating you are finished in the Assignment 2f discussion section.