Effective Course Management with ICG Toolkit

1. April 06 LabThe ICG Toolkit • How to set up the site • Announcements • Add a content item • Discussion Board • WWW links • Where to find information about other tools

2. The Instructor's Toolkit: Four Main Areas • There are currently four areas of the Instructor's Toolkit accessible via tabs at the top of the desktop: • Preferences • Site Management • Course Administration • Toolkit Access

3. Preferences The Preferences area enables instructors to establish a preferred starting page for their work in the Toolkit and to set preferences for the way their name and address will be displayed in the Toolkit and in the student view of the course Web site.

5. Site Management The Site Management area of the Instructor's Toolkit offers functionality for handling the most common tasks associated with developing and maintaining a course Web site: uploading, moving, renaming, or deleting files; adding, removing, organizing, and setting access permissions for tools and folders.

7. Edit Home Page

8. Select Site Colors & Page Layout

9. From the Site Management area you can also install a variety of interactive tools. For lab today, we are going to concentrate on adding the following items. • (please add them). • Announcements (publish announcements on the course home page and on the course portal calendar) • WWW Links (design a page of links to other Web sites; search a library of sites used by other courses like yours) • Discussion Forums (highly customizable threaded forums for sharing of thoughts and documents)

11. Other tools available to you in this section but will NOT be covered in lab, however you incorporate on your final project web site . Note…some of these will not function (e.g., Course Video) because you need to liaison with necessary Harvard departments to make active or because you need actual student enrollment (e.g., eMailbag,). • Ask A Librarian (contact information for discipline-specific reference librarians at Harvard College Libraries) • Collaborative Annotation Tool (post texts for students to annotate collectively) • Course Video (arrange with icgvideo@fas to present your course video via the course Web site) • Early Evaluations (publish links to midterm course evaluation forms developed by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning) • eMailbag (automatically publish email sent to the entire class)

12. More… • eReserves (link to the library's electronic reserves program) • Glossary (create a glossary of key terms; have those key terms automatically linked to their corresponding definitions) • Q&A Tool (create on-line quizzes, surveys, and assignments) • Sign-up Tool (on-line schedule where students can sign themselves up for meetings with instructors) • Slide Carousel (present images along with descriptive information in a searchable, sortable digital carousel) • Teaching Staff (automatically design a page with course instructors' information)

13. Course Administration The Course Administration area allows authorized teaching staff to view and download the enrollment list for their entire course and for particular sections Toolkit Access The Toolkit Access areas allows course heads to authorize teaching fellows and administrative staff to help manage the Web site

14. Manage Tools & Folders 1 2 You can see the “student view” of course at any time by clicking on “view as student”

15. Announcements, Discussions and WWW links

16. Announcements

17. Discussions

18. WWW links

19. Adding Content: Go back to Manage Tools & Folders 1 2 You can see the “student view” of course at any time by clicking on “view as student”

20. Adding Content Add new course navigation item Or, work with an existing item (select “open” or click on name which is a link) You can see the “student view” of course at any time by clicking on “view as student”

21. Adding Content

22. Interested in learning more about the other tools in the ICG toolkit? Visit: http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/courseweb/tour_features2.html