Upload grades from Excel to WebCT!

Use Excel and WebCT together to keep grade records and make them available to students.

Take your WebDAV folder with you!

Create your WebDAV folders for WebCT courses as usual (http://www.wcu.edu/it/edtech/handouts/webct/ManagingWebCTFileswithWebDAV.pdf).

Then drag the shortcut from your "Network Places" folder onto your jump drive. Presto ... you can take it with you!

Presumably, this would work with any removable media (zip drive, etc.), but I've only tested it with jump/flash drives.

Thanks to Jane Sullivan for this tip.

Why can’t my students take quizzes, view discussion postings, or download files in WebCT?

Has a student reported to you that they cannot take quizzes, view discussion posting, or download course materials?

To view solutions to these problems, click here.

Another possible problem is that downloads are being blocked. This problem is addressed in the blog posting entitled "Why can't my students access course materials."

If you want help, send Nina Marable an email.

Why can't my students access course materials in WebCT?

Has a student reported to you that they cannot download course materials? ... PowerPoint files, Word documents, PDF files?

To view solutions to these problems, click here.

If you want help, send Nina Marable an email.

Images in Respondus ... adding and deleting

Creative (higher level) questions can be constructed in Respondus by putting images in the question or the answers.

You can view a helplet and a sample question.

The helplet also describes how to remove images.

If you want help, send Nina Marable an email.

Two More Helplets

Two helplets: Creating a Content Module and Using PowerPoint in WebCT

Assignments/Dropbox Tool Helplet

If you want students to submit assignments digitially, "best practice" would be to use the Assignments/Dropbox tool.

You can view a helplet.

Please note that the default icon for this tool is a file/in tray. If you have something on your course (that was there when the course was new) called Assignments, but the icon is a backpack, beware. This tool is probably a Content Module, a good tool but different from THE Assignments tool.

If you want help, send Nina Marable an email.

Turnitin Instructions for Faculty and Students

Turnitin can help you with plagiarism detection. This software is available to WCU faculty (and students if faculty allow access) on the web.

For faculty instructions on how to set up an account and upload student files, click here.

You may also choose to allow your students to upload files. For instructions to give to your students, click here.

If you want workshop instruction on using Turnitin, email Nina Marable.

Mac and Wimba

Recent Wimba updates should make Wimba and MAC's Tiger work together. If you are running OS10.4 (Tiger) and have any problems, please contact Kevin Sisson.

Become a member of this blog

Anyone can comment on any blog posting by clicking on the word "comments" in the right-hand bottom corner of a posting.

If you want to become a member of the blog team and make original postings, send Nina Marable an email

Best Practice for Student File Submission in WebCT

Use the assignment/dropbox tool.

Frequently, we answer calls from frantic students who have lost files while typing in a WebCT discussion session.

• Because of the nature of a WebCT session, typing LONG entries in a discussion posting can very easily lead a timeout.
• WebCT only registers link and button clicks to show that a user is active. “Non-active” (just typing text) users are timed out after 180 minutes.
• Therefore, if a user types in a textbox for longer than 180 minutes and then clicks the submit button, they will be told they have timed out and their message will be lost. We cannot recover these lost messages.
  

Best Practice: Don’t ask students to submit long documents by attachment to the discussion board or email. If you really want them to do it this way, tell them to compose in a word processing program, saving frequently, and then to cut and paste to the discussion or email attachment.

Move a content module from one course to another

This is very, very slick.

NEW Respondus password ... 2005-2006

To use Respondus this year, you will need to go to
http://www.wcu.edu/win/pers/Respondus.htm
to get the new password.

You will need to login with your 999 password (or cybercat password, whichever works) and pin.

Please note that Respondus 3 is available if you haven't already upgraded.

Quiz Tool Grading - Special Situations

Scenario 1: How to give everyone in your course credit for a bad quiz question.

Scenario 2: How to curve a quiz.

Read the comments below for more.

Interactive syllabus ... from EduCause via Debra Randleman

Click "Link" below.

Use good rubrics and change your image! 

Here's a rubric web site from Laura Rogers ... Click "Link" below.

Update your WebCT site

funky cat

If you have this icon on your WebCT site:

* please check the link
* The link should take students to https://online2.wcu.edu, https://online2.wcu.edu/student_faq.html OR https://online2.wcu.edu/student_tutorials.html.
* In many courses, the link is to an older (and out-of-date) eTech site.

Wonderful creative solutions

Please share "WebCT solutions" here as comments. Tell us special tricks that have worked for you.

WebCT Helplets

To find WebCT helplets, go to
http://www.wcu.edu/it/workshops/trainmat.html

https://online2.wcu.edu/student_tutorials.html

https://online2.wcu.edu/instructor_faq.html

WebCT questions? Post them here

You can post your questions here by clicking on the word Comments.

Nina Marable will be notified by email. If she can't answer your question, she will make "top level" post from your question and get help from someone else.

Although you can choose to post anonymously, you will get a quicker answer if you sign your comment with your email address.

Hi WebCT users

EdTech now provides this forum for you to share wonderful creative ideas or stimulating questions.