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WebCT Series
WebCT is the web-based course
management tool selected and supported for campus. For those interested
in learning more about WebCT before participating in a series of training
modules and requesting course space, the IIT provides an overview of this
tool, listed below as What is WebCT?.
The IIT additionally offers the following WebCT modules for faculty,
although participation by teams of a faculty member
and support person (e.g., teaching assistant, instructional technology
support personnel, graduate assistant) is strongly encouraged.
WebCT Series
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Getting Started With WebCT (Module recommended before
requesting WebCT course space.)
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Course Management
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Course Content
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Collaboration and Communication
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Assessment and Evaluation
WebCT Series |
| Module |
Dates & Times |
Description |
| What is WebCT? |
Tuesday, June 1 (1.5 hours)
1:00-2:30pm
OR
Friday, June 4 (1.5 hours)
10:00-11:30am
OR
Monday, August
2
(1.5 hours)
10:00 -11:30am |
This session will survey the tools and pedagogical potential
of this web-based course management tool.
This is the first workshop in the WebCT series. We strongly recommend
that you attend this survey session before taking the "Getting Started
with WebCT" workshop.
Registration Info |
| Catching Up With WebCT 4.1
For current WebCT users only
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Monday, August 9
(1 hour)
11:00am-noon OR
Tuesday, August 10 (1 hour)
1:00-2:00pm OR
Wednesday, August 18 (1 hour)
10:00-11:00am
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This session will highlight the enhancements found in version
4.1.
Registration Info |
| Getting Started With WebCT |
Monday, June 7 (1.5 hours)
9:00-10:30am
OR
Tuesday, August 3
(1.5 hours)
9:00am - 10:30am |
We recommend that you participate
in this module before requesting WebCT course space.
We strongly encourage you to attend the introductory "What is WebCT?"
session before taking this workshop.
This hands-on interactive workshop will get you started using WebCT
for your course.
- Learn how to request a WebCT course.
- Learn how to request automatic student registration.
- Learn to customize your Homepage.
- Work with the Syllabus tool.
- Learn how to drag and drop files between your desktop and your WebCT
course.
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| Course Management |
Monday, June 7 (1.5 hours) 10:45am-12:15pm OR
Tuesday, August
3
(1.5 hours)
10:45am-12:15pm |
This workshop is for those who are new to WebCT Course Management:
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Learn to use the student management portion of your WebCT course.
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Learn how to add and manage student information, including grades.
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Learn how to transfer grades from WebCT to UMEG.
Prerequisite(s): Getting Started with WebCT
Registration Info |
| Course Content |
Tuesday, June 8 (1.5 hours) 9:00-10:30am OR
Tuesday, August 3
(1.5 hours)
1:30-3:00pm |
This workshop is for those who are new to adding content
pages to their WebCT course.
- Learn how to convert files for HTML for use in WebCT.
- Learn how to add your course notes, outlines, handouts, and other
instructional materials.
- Learn how to manage your files within WebCT.
Prerequisite(s): Getting Started with WebCT
Registration Info |
| Collaboration and Communication |
Tuesday, June 8 (1.5 hours) 10:45am-12:15pm OR
Wednesday, August 4
(1.5 hours)
9:00 - 10:30am |
This workshop introduces users to collaborative tools in
WebCT: discussions, email, student projects, and student homepages.
- Learn how to communicate with students via WebCT's discussions, chat
and e-mail tools.
- Learn how to encourage collaboration and communication amongst students.
- Learn how to facilitate group projects using WebCT.
Prerequisite(s): Getting Started with WebCT
Registration Info |
| Assessment and Evaluation |
Wednesday, August 4
(1.5 hours)
10:45am - 12:15pm |
This workshop introduces users to WebCT's evaluation tools:
quizzes and surveys, assignment drop-box, grading and student tracking.
- Learn how to create graded quizzes.
- Learn how to create surveys.
- Learn how to access automatically generated quiz and survey data.
- Access student tracking information.
- Learn how to manage assignments with WebCT's assignment tool.
Prerequisite(s): Getting Started with WebCT
Registration Info |
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| Module |
Dates & Times |
Description |
| Build a Course Webpage
(with Dreamweaver MX) |
Monday, June 14
9:30am-3:30pm
OR
Tuesday, August 17
9:30am-3:30pm |
This module is geared to those with little or no HTML or web page creation
experience. Participants will create a webpage from a course syllabus and
plan a more complete website to support the goals and activities of a course.
Those planning to WebCT course space(s) are encouraged to complete this
course in tandem with WebCT training.
- Learn to use Dreamweaver to transform a simple text document into
a fully formatted web page.
- Understand basic file and directory naming conventions.
- Transfer files to a web server (WAM account or account on another computer that hosts the web is needed to participate in this brief segment of the class).
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| HTML Skills for Course
Web Pages |
Monday, June 28
(1 day)
9:30am - 3:30pm |
Learn to interpret and modify HTML coding produced by web page editors such as Netscape Composer or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Create a simple course web page whose structure can be applied to multiple content pages throughout a course website.
- Learn HTML codes that affect text and paragraph formatting.
- Create page formatting through the use of color attributes and tables.
- Discuss issues of accessibility and usability—what do students need? what
do they like in web-based resources?
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| Photoediting for the
Web with Adobe Photoshop |
Monday, June 21
(1 day)
9:30am - 3:30pm |
Learn to use a tool (Photoshop) for creating or manipulating
graphics destined for web publication.
- Learn to scan and digitize graphics and photographs.
- Survey compression schemes and image formats (e.g., what are the
differences between gif and jpg, tiff and eps).
- Experiment with such Photoshop tools as cropping, colorizing, sharpening,
and masking.
Registration Info
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| Module |
Dates & Times |
Description |
| Quick Start to MS PowerPoint |
Wednesday, June 2 (1 day)
9:30am-3:30pm
OR
Thursday, August 19 (1 day)
9:30am-3:30pm |
Learn to use MS PowerPoint to develop professional presentations
for the classroom or conference room:
- Learn basic "how tos" of creating or importing outlines, selecting
design templates, formatting text, and integrating clip art.
- Learn how to create slide transitions and basic custom animation.
- Learn how to prepare a presentation for a variety of media and to
print presentations for audience and speaker use.
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| Creating Effective
Presentations for the Classroom |
Wednesday, June 16 (1 day)
9:30am-3:30pm
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Learn to enhance the visual impact of your PowerPoint presentation:
- Explore the issues surrounding color selection and graphic composition.
- Enhance presentations through thoughtful integration of imported graphics,
Word Art, and charts.
- Learn to modify color schemes and clip art.
- Discover useful presentation tools like "Meeting Minder"
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| Getting Your Course Material On-line |
Tuesday, June 22
(1/2 day)
9:30am-11:30am |
This class will show those with basic PowerPoint skills how to integrate
PowerPoint, MS Office, and web documents seamlessly. In addition, participants
will learn to create PDFs of their MS Word and MS PowerPoint files to post
on the Web.
- Learn to save your PowerPoint presentation in a web-compatible format, and explore the issues of usability and compatibility.
- Create hyperlinks to web documents and other MS Office documents from within the PowerPoint presentation.
- Learn how to upload a PowerPoint presentation to your website (an
account on a server that hosts the Web [e.g., WAM] is needed to participate
in this part of the class; those without an account will observe
the process).
- Learn to convert files to PDF using Adobe Acrobat.
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| Module |
Dates & Times |
Description |
| Easy Online Quiz
Creation with RESPONDUS |
Tuesday, June 15 (1.5 hours)
10:00-11:30am
OR
Monday, August 9 (1.5 hours)
1:00-2:30pm
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Respondus is a simple tool for creating and managing exams, quizzes
and surveys. Once created in Respondus, exams, quizzes or surveys can
be printed or published to a
number of course management systems, including WebCT and Blackboard.
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| Research Port |
Tuesday, June 15 (1.5 hours)
1:30-3:00pm
OR
Tuesday, August 10 (1.5 hours)
10:00-11:30am |
Research Port is a powerful tool in the classroom because it can be easily
integrated into WebCT,
Blackboard, guides and class Web pages.
Learn how to:
- access and use the University's databases and e-journals to their
fullest with Research Port and "Find
It" (SFX).
- save records
and access full text.
- get the articles you
need.
- search the collections of databases handpicked by subject librarians.
- download
full text.
- save citations.
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| Manage Your Gradebook with MS Excel |
Thursday, June 17
(2 hours)
1:30-3:30pm |
This class will show those with very basic Excel skills how manage gradebook
functions from within the application.
- Learn to import students into an Excel spreadsheet from UMEG.
- Format, add and hide columns and rows of data.
- Survey such mathematical functions as SUMming, AVEraging, finding
MINimum and MAXimum grades in a group.
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| Creating Simulations for Classroom Use |
Wednesday AND Thursday, June 23 AND 24
(1/2 day each day)
9:00am-noon |
This workshop will provide an in-depth look at the role
that simulations can play as a pedagogical tool appropriate to many disciplines
and applications, focusing particularly upon on-line simulations. Participants
will review the purposes and structure of simulations, and gain access
to the ICONS Simulation Builder to facilitate their creation of a simulation
customized to support their specific course curricula.
The objectives of the workshop are:
- To impart an understanding of how to support active learning by exploiting
the educational possibilities inherent in simulations.
- To provide a design schema instructors can use to create their own simulations.
- To introduce instructors to the ICONS Simulation Builder, a tool to
facilitate simulation creation.
- To offer one-on-one advice as instrucors develop their own simulations.
- To suggest methods for evlauating the effect of the simulation and
student performance.
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| Calibrated Peer Review |
Wednesday, August 11
(2 hours)
1:30-3:30pm |
This workshop will explore a writing and critical thinking
instructional tool. CPR is a discipline-independent,
instructional management tool that enables an instructor to make
frequent writing assignments that probe student understanding of
concepts without increasing instructional resources for grading.
Instructors can choose from a growing library of field-tested
assignments or create their own assignments.
Well-designed CPR assignments have been demonstrated to
enhance student understanding of the topics, to facilitate
self-based learning using technology, to improve writing skills, and
to teach evaluation skills.
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| Blogging for Instruction |
Monday, August 16
(3 hours)
9:00am-noon |
Have you ever asked your students to participate in an online
discussion or to keep a learning journal for your class? This workshop
will explore the use of weblogs or "blogs" to enhance the student learning
experience. While blogs are commonly used as personal online journals,
a course
weblog provides a simple, asynchronous, classroom-independent
space within which instructors can manage certain portions of their course and
students can
practice writing and critical thinking skills. The potential for teaching and
learning is tremendous.
In this session, participants will learn how to set up a class blog
on the University's implementation of MoveableType (a commonly used blog).
Topics of the workshop will range from the basic technical "how-tos"
to best practices for teaching and learning needs.
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| Faculty
Development Workshops |
Friday, June 25
9:30-11:30am OR
Monday, August 16
1:00-3:00pm
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Get help scanning graphics, creating design features, locating
interesting links, and other topics.
Open to IIT graduates only. |
Sign up for any and all times desired.
Registration Info |
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Registration
The Office of Information Technology underwrites the cost of faculty training
as part of its mission to support undergraduate and graduate education. Faculty
and those teaching credited courses will have first priority seating; up to
20 faculty and teaching assistants will be enrolled in each module with priority
seating given to WebCT teams. Web and presentation technology skills training
is available to University staff and graduate students through
the OIT Short Course program. The summer
roster of classes for this program will be posted on or before May 20, 2004.
Departmental Instructional Support personnel should contact the IIT
coordinator via e-mail with inquiries about participation in IIT classes;
please be sure to note the specific courses and faculty that you support and
the ways in which that support can be enhanced through your participation in
IIT training modules.
Team participation is accepted ONLY for WebCT training. Faculty members should register themselves and their support team member on one registration form. WebCT team members will share one computer, but each will receive full sets of training materials.
Applications can be sent via the online Registration Form. Electronic registration and brief
"proposals" are due as follows:
| June IIT offerings |
By May 27, 2004. Registrations received after this time will be processed
on a "space available" basis only.
Classes fill fast; register early! |
| August IIT offerings |
By July 28, 2004. Registrations received after this time will be processed
on a "space available" basis only.
Classes fill fast; register early! |
| Faculty Development Workshops |
no later than 48 hours prior to the date of the workshop |
As part of the Office of Information Technology's desire to share technical
knowledge and resources with the K-12 teaching community, a limited
number of seats in most non-WebCT courses are available. Please select the
K-12 Registration link below if you are a K-12 instructor.
Registration for the Summer Offerings of the Institute for Instructional
Technology will begin on April 26, 2004.
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