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Learning Delivery Systems

Tutorials

Tutorial 1 Electronic Mail

Tutorial 2 Importing Mail

Tutorial 3 LISTSERV

Tutorial 4 Domain Names and Web Hosting

Tutorial 5 Using Web Pages

Tutorial 6 Uploading and Publishing

Tutorial 7 Web Course Tools

Tutorial 8 Faculty Electronic Gradebooks

Tutorial 9 Web Page Accessibility

Tutorial 10 Creating Adobe PDFs

Tutorial 11 Tegrity

Tutorial 12 Discussion Groups

Tutorial 13 Linking to Library and Other Resources

Tutorial 14 Tracking Changes in MS Word

Tutorial 15 Online Testing Tools

Tutorial 16 Podcasting

Tutorial 17 Mobile Multimedia Unit

Tutorial 18 Using PowerPoint

Tutorial 20 Elluminate vClass         

Tutorial 19 Online Forms

Tutorial 20 Elect Gradebook

Tutorial 21 Starbak Streaming Video Network

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Electronic Communications

We are aware that learning is a complex, inter-related series of processes. Instruction requires the employment of cognitive psychology in the design and structure of teaching to enhance the goal at hand: faster, easier, and assimilation more knowledge - in short an effective pedagogy.

When your course or presentation is made interesting and interactive with multimedia, your audience will stay longer, return more often, and retain more knowledge.

The primary tool to attain this goal is new web multimedia course tools with support in an on-line or off-line setting. The incorporation of multimedia and the Internet in computer based training and distance learning has made the dream of teachers, trainers, and/or learners come true.

When teachers or trainers make their courses more interesting, more students will enroll for their courses. Often these teachers find that enrollment exceeds the seats available for their classes. With interesting, interactive, content-rich pages, students will: retain more knowledge, return to your site more often; and stay longer.

These training sessions covers the various means available to the instructor to communicate electronicaly with students. The primary means of communication are electronic mail, web pages, discussion groups, LISTSERV, chat rooms, and video conferencing. Each of these means of communication will be described followed by a project and a tutorial which you can complete on your computer. These tutorials can also be printed for use later.

The Web Course Tools or WebCT offers an excellent means of electronic communications for exchanging mail with students. WebCT mail is "web-based', meaning that it is accessible to any computer connected to the Internet. One of the main features of WebCT mail is the abilty to restrict users to only the students enrolled in the course. Sending mail out or recieving email from outside WebCT is not possible, therefore you don't have to deal with spam. WebCT mail is restricted to only the students who are enrolled in your course.

WebCT mail allows you to send, receive, reply, and forward mail messages to other students enrolled in the course. You can also store drafts of mail messages, search your mail messages, and add mail folders. There are four default folders for each user. The default folders cannot be renamed or deleted. However, new folders can be created.

Users access resources, such as text, graphics, sound, video, and multimedia, through a Web page. Every Web page is identified by a unique address, or Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL provides the global address of the location of the Web page. To view data contained on Web pages requires a Web browser. A Web browser is a software program that requests a Web page, interprets the code contained within the page, and then displays the contents of the Web page on your computer display device.

Course Management: Learn to manage the delivery of content by hiding items and setting release criteria. Facilitate content sharing by importing and exporting assessments, questions, and learning modules. Present new information when students demonstrate comprehension of the current content. Your criteria for a schedule may vary according to student performance, time, special needs, or a combination of all three.

Presenting Content: Discover how to present content within learning modules. Associate entries which include definitions and related multimedia elements. Link entries to the terms found throughout your course content.

Online Communications: The quality of interaction between students and with the instructor is critical to a students' satisfaction and success in an online learning environment. Use Announcements and Calendar tools to post important announcements and events to the class. For real-time communication, such as a brainstorming session, you can use the Who's Online and Chat tools.

Surveys and Assessments: Present assessments and surveys online. The Question Database is a repository for all assessment questions, enabling you to use them in multiple assessments. Organize assessment submissions so you can easily see which submissions are complete, which need review or grading, and which have not yet been submitted.

Course Assignments: Use the Group Manager to easily create and manage class groups, and to set up private group discussion boards and chat rooms. With the Assignments tool, you'll create individual assignments, group assignments, or custom assignments with different instructions for each individual or group receiving the assignment. You'll also learn to use the Assignment Manager to manage, review, grade, and publish submitted assignments.

Electronic Grade Book: Set up grade books; enter, change and manage student grades. Manage students with the Grade Book, including enrolling students, sending mail, and granting or denying access to the course. Learn to access audit trails and individual performance reports.