Quickstart Guide to Developing your LMS unit (WebCT)

Intended Audience:

UWA staff new to using UWA's Learning Management System (WebCT) or those who would like a refresher.

Workshop Description:

Have you ever wanted to:

• Communicate important study related events to your students?
• Provide a unit outline and learning materials in a central location?
• Manage access and release results to individual students?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then you will find using UWA's LMS as part of your teaching very useful.

This workshop will enable you to develop a LMS unit and maintain it during a teaching period.

Learning Outcomes:

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Request an LMS Staff or Guest account
• Request an LMS unit
• Request the addition of staff and students to an existing LMS unit
• Log in and navigate the LMS
• Differentiate LMS roles and tabs
• Customise the appearance of the unit and homepage
• Add and customise common LMS tools
• Develop and maintain a unit announcement board
• Create a link to your unit Lectopia recordings
• Differentiate between various unit structures
• Upload and display files in the LMS
• Release student grades and view them as a student
• Explain the advantages of archiving your LMS unit

Key Activities:

Hands-on workshop

Please note: Participants should bring in electronic format (eg .doc, .pdf, .html, or .ppt) a variety of file types that they intend to distribute via the LMS for a given unit, preferably on a USB thumb drive.

Duration:

2 hours

Date and Time:

• Tuesday 1 December 2009, 9:30am - 11:30am
• Thursday 3 December 2009, 9:30am - 11:30am CANCELLED

PLEASE NOTE: THERE ARE ONLY 10 PLACES AVAILABLE FOR EACH WORKSHOP SO REGISTER QUICKLY.

Venue:

Room 1.01, Sanders Building

Coordinator:

Yvonne Button, Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, UWA