WebCT presentation

1. Workshop for
Template Designers
WebCT Administrator
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2. UNLV
Today’s Workshop
WebCampus (WebCT Vista)
Overview
– Organizational Structure
– Roles
– Understanding the Workflow
– About Content Manager
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3. UNLV
Today’s Workshop
Creating and Managing Templates
– Advantages of Using Templates
– Saving Sections as Templates
– Creating Templates
– Accessing and Editing Templates
– Copying and Sharing Templates
– Moving and Deleting Templates
– Associating Templates
– Assigning Templates
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Learning Outcomes
After completing this workshop, you will
be able to:
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save sections as templates
explain how a section is populated with content.
explain how templates are deployed.
create and copy templates.
set permissions to allow other designers to edit or
copy your templates.
University of Nevada, Las Vegas

5. WebCampus (WebCT Vista)
UNLV
Overview
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Organizational Structure
Roles
The Designer Role
Understanding the Workflow: Populating
a section with content
• Content Manager
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6. Activity:
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Match the task with the role
1. Assign a template to a
section
a. Any designer
2. Design a template
b. Administrators and course
designers
3. Turn an existing section into
a template
c. Administrators and section
designers
4. Associate templates
d. Any designer, except section
designers
5. Create, add, and organize
course content
e. Administrators
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Content Manager
• Create and manage templates
• Create and manage files
• Access your own personal files
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8. Activity:
Logging In
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Log in to Your Practice Course
The URL is http://webctt.sysapps.unlv.edu
The WebCT ID is your firstname.lastname
(yvette.aqui).
The password is unlv06
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9. Activity:
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Exploring the Content Manager Interface
Explore the interface:
• Look at each of the areas: My
Files, Repository, and Template
Manager
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Creating and Editing Templates
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Advantages of using templates
Template Manager interface
Navigating in Template Manager
Saving sections as templates
Creating templates
Accessing and editing templates
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11. Activity:
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Editing Templates
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Allow another designer in your
learning context to edit one of the
templates that you just created.
Edit one of the templates created
by another designer.
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Copying and Sharing Templates
• Copying Templates
– Copy options: keep subscriptions, fully
subscribe, fully copy
• Sharing Templates
– Setting template permissions
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13. Activity:
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Copying and Sharing Templates
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For the templates that you
created, set permissions so that other
template designers can copy them.
Copy a template created by another
designer. Fully subscribe to all the
files.
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Moving, Deleting, Associating Templates
• Moving Templates
• Deleting Templates
• Associating Templates
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15. Activity:
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Associating Templates
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Associate several templates with a
course.
Log in as a section designer and
assign one of the templates to the
section.
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16. Recap
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Steps for Assigning a Template to the Section
1. Saving section as a template or creating a
template from scratch
2. Associating template to a course
3. Assigning template to a section
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Questions and Answers
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Workshop Evaluation and
Workshop Evaluation
Feedback
and Feedback
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