For Wright State’s online faculty

Create a new online course

We’ll create a password-protected online classroom for you. Tell us what Wright State class it’s for and if you want the course active for the coming quarter or if you will just be developing the course for another quarter.

• Create a new course

Registering courses no longer necessary

With the new Banner/WebCT integration, faculty no longer need to register courses each quarter to make them active for students. Banner will automatically create shells for all active courses.

Help Desk will notify profs when students can’t find courses

When a student tells Help Desk staff his online course isn’t on his myWebCT page, the Help Desk will notify the course instructor by e-mail. To learn how to update your student list, see the “Manage your course” section of A Warehouse of Wisdom.

Respondus 3.5 now available

Make and manage quizzes for your online courses the easy way with Respondus.

The latest version has a provision for adding alternative text to images for accessibility. And you can deliver equations using MathML.

This Windows program works great on a Mac with Virtual PC, too. Download Respondus in the “Download” section of A Warehouse of Wisdom, free for Wright State faculty.

StudyMate is now available

Create online games and other fun activities and upload them into your WebCT courses. Download StudyMate from the Warehouse of Wisdom.

Faculty training from the Center for Teaching and Learning

Choose from all-day fundamentals workshops and two-hour sessions on specific features. Instructional designer Chris Roberts has taught college courses online since 1995 and weaves tips for effective online learning throughout these hands-on workshops. Chris is a certified WebCT trainer.

• CTL workshops
• Chris Roberts
  • X3943
  • chris.roberts@wright.edu

Tutorials

Wright State Professional Learning Community

How to Use an iPod

Record Your Lecture on an iPod

Digital Storytelling

Getting Started with WebCT

Using Elluminate

Find digital content for your courses

Browse the WebCT Content Showcase to find e-Packs that match your textbooks.

CTL sends welcome letters to online students

The Center for Teaching and Learning sent more than a thousand welcome packets to online students fall quarter. Each packet included the student’s user name and password and information to help get started online. Contact Terri Klaus to have packets sent to your Web-only or mixed-mode class next quarter.

• Terri Klaus, terri.klaus@wright.edu, x4965.

Faculty using the Web to enhance face-to-face courses may print and handout the same logon instructions. They are available on the "First time here?" page.

Teaching and learning resources from WebCT

Browse online teaching and learning articles and studies, sample publishers' content for WebCT, join a discussion with online educators or learn more about what WebCT, the company, has to offer online.

• WebCT Community Resources

Distance learning faculty support

For more information about support for faculty teaching online at Wright State, visit the Center for Teaching and Learning Web site.

• CTL Distance Learning