All faculty and staff providing support for faculty are encouraged to join this group in the my.UMDNJ portal. The group, which is open to faculty and staff only, provides access to UMDNJ licensed software, and helpful information about the UMDNJ resources available for educuational technology. See the "Joining Groups" tutorial on the login page at my.UMDNJ.edu for more information about how to join a group. This group in the Academic folder of the Groups Index.

Orientation to WebCT (For Faculty)

Self-enroll in the Orientation to WebCT and read information in the Faculty Start Here link. At the end of the Faculty Start Here information you will be able to request to be added to the UMDNJ WebCT Designers Forum (Campus Edition)

WebCT Forums - in WebCT Campus Edition

• UMDNJ WebCT Designers Forum (Campus Edition)

Getting Started On Your Own

1. Online Course Planning Guide
What is involved in using WebCT Campus Edition or Vista for your course?

2. General Guidelines for posting content - Selecting file types, naming and organizing files

3. Become familiar with how to use WebCT

Getting Started Tutorials from WebCT.com - (Our Current Version is 4.1 Campus Edition) PDF handouts provide step-by-step technical directions on how to add WebCT features to your course.

Group Training

Live group trainings are coordinated by a contact for your school or unit.

If you are not yet a member of the UMDNJ Designer's Forum and want a more basic introductory training instead of going through the Orientation to WebCT on your own, contact your school's representative. If you do not have a representative, contact Gail Tuzman.

Additional Information - Online Learning

General

• Getting Started: Pedagogy and Content
• Preparing Your Content

See Also
WebCT Vista at UMDNJ Website
UMDNJ Center for Teaching Excellence Website

Pedagogy and Content

http://cte.umdnj.edu UMDNJ's Center for Teaching Excellence is a rich online resource for traditional teaching and teaching with technology.

http://www.webct.com/quickstart/viewpage?name=quickstart_faculty0 Resources for best practices, planning, sources for more help

www.merlot.org Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

http://www.ibritt.com/resources/. Pink Flamingo's Resource URL's for Educators... This includes a wealth of information for the "virtual" professor about online teaching: copywight, designing courses,pbl, students and much more.

http://www.healcentral.org. HEAL provides access to over 30,000 teaching images, videos, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education, predominantly undergraduate medical education. The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials. It began in September 2000 as a joint project between three institutions: the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, and the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine.

Preparing Your Content

WebCT Policies, Hints and Best Practices for Files in WebCT (PDF)

Preparing webpages (html/htm)- Converting existing docs and creating new docs

Creating Webpages - see resources in the Step-by-Step section of the UMDNJ Designers Forum

Accessibility Issues - Use WebCT Built in Help for information about making webpages accessibile)

WebCT Campus Edition Task Specific Tutorials

We recommend you use the built-in help link at the top of your course in WebCT for instructions for using any tool.

Campus Edition is the version of WebCT that most courses are in at UMDNJ.

• Orientation to WebCT Campus Edition
• Building a Course in WebCT CE
• Quizzes and Surveys in WebCT CE
• Managing Students in WebCT CE
• Student Presentations in WebCT CE
• Managing Course Backups

Building a Course

WebCT Campus Edition: Basic Anatomy & Physiology of WebCT for Designers. (Word)

Introduces you to general design features and provides instructions on how to display single files, links to webpages and WebCT tools.

WebCT Campus Edition: Uploading/Downloading Multiple Files Using WebDAV

Quizzes and Surveys

WebCT Campus Edition: Creating quizzes and surveys (Word)
WebCT Campus Edition: Viewing Quiz and Survey Results

Managing Students

WebCT Campus Edition: UMDNJ procedures for adding multiple students
WebCT Campus Edition: Registered Course Names
WebCT Campus Edition: Managing Students (Teaching Assistants)

Student Presentations