On-line Course Development for Educators

If You Already Using WebCT, Check Out These WebCT Mini-Courses
If You are New to WebCT, Check Out the 2-Day "Getting Started in WebCT"
Course at the end of this section

Courses currently available at the E2E Institute or in service at your facility.
For more information contact us at [email protected].

The Educator-to-Educator Institute at NWCET-BCC is an Official WebCT Training Institute.
As a WebCT Institute, E2E shares skills and techniques in creating powerful web based or
web-enhanced courses with other educators in our region. Currently over 260 courses are offered on on-line at Bellevue Community College using WebCT.

WebCT: Editing Course Content (1 day)

Eventually you will want to be able to edit the content in your WebCT course. This course teaches you the very basics: How to download and upload html files you edit in your html editor and how to use WebCT's own editor to make minor changes in your html files. We'll review how to connect from a Tool Page to a single page.
At the end of this workshop you will be able to: Upload and download files from WebCT's File Manager, make minor changes to an HTML file using an HTML editor (Netscape Composer), use WebCT's File Manager Page Editor to make minor edits directly in the HTML code of your file, and Link from a Tool Page to a single page.

WebCT: Leading Classroom Discussion
with the Bulletin Board (1 day)

The Bulletin Board is probably the tool used most often by faculty teaching online. This is where most of the interaction between students and students and between students and instructor takes place. This workshop will show you the basics of the Bulletin Board, including some typical problems students and instructors run into. We'll discuss some interesting assignments to help students focus discussion in desired ways.
At the end of this workshop you will be able to: Read and post messages to the Bulletin Board, select messages to compile, delete, or move, create forums for discussion on special topics or in small groups, send and read email messages, and send an attachment in email and to the Bulletin Board.

WebCT: Quizzes (1 day)

The quiz tool is traditionally used to give online exams, but many instructors are finding other uses for it. For example, some instructors are using the quiz tool to warm students up to a discussion or to make sure students are all at the same point in their reading assignments. The quiz tool can even be used to keep students from accessing certain parts of your website until they achieve a certain score.
At the end of this workshop you will be able to: Describe how the question database and quiz creator work together in WebCT's Quiz Tool, create five different types of questions and add them to the question database, create a quiz by selecting questions from the question database, and set quiz options like student access, time limits, dates of availability.

WebCT: Adding Students to Your Course &
Putting Them into Groups (1 day)

WebCT now allows you to add all students to your course with a few simple keystrokes! Come to this workshop armed with your student list. We'll take you through the steps you need to follow to get your students loaded into your course and put them into groups in the Bulletin Board and the Student Presentations Tool.
At the end of this workshop you will be able to: Add your students to your course, create discussion groups with the forums in the Bulletin Board, create groups in the Student Presentation Tool.

Getting Started in On-line Course Delivery Utilizing the
WebCT Course Management Software (2 days)
16 Clock Hours

This two-day, hands on workshop provides an overview of the benefits of web based learning environments, and prepares you for your first "WebCT enhanced" semester. By the end of this two-day, hands-on workshop, you will be able to use WebCT's basic tool set to teach online your way. You will take away the basic structure of your online course, learn to manage your students online, and understand how to use WebCT's basic tool set. You will know why webbed learning environments are better for the student, and more powerful for the teacher, and you will know how to begin using them yourself.