Transcript April 06 Lab The ICG Toolkit

April 06 Lab
The ICG Toolkit
•How to set up the site
•Announcements
•Add a content item
•Discussion Board
•WWW links
•Where to find information about other tools
The Instructor's Toolkit: Four Main Areas
There are currently four areas of the Instructor's
Toolkit accessible via tabs at the top of the desktop:
• Preferences
• Site Management
• Course Administration
• Toolkit Access
Preferences
The Preferences area enables instructors to
establish a preferred starting page for their work in
the Toolkit and to set preferences for the way their
name and address will be displayed in the Toolkit
and in the student view of the course Web site.
Site Management
The Site Management area of the Instructor's Toolkit
offers functionality for handling the most common
tasks associated with developing and maintaining a
course Web site: uploading, moving, renaming, or
deleting files; adding, removing, organizing, and
setting access permissions for tools and folders.
Edit Home Page
Select Site Colors & Page Layout
From the Site Management area you can also install
a variety of interactive tools. For lab today, we are
going to concentrate on adding the following items.
(please add them).
•Announcements (publish announcements on the
course home page and on the course portal
calendar)
•WWW Links (design a page of links to other Web
sites; search a library of sites used by other courses
like yours)
•Discussion Forums (highly customizable threaded
forums for sharing of thoughts and documents)
Other tools available to you in this section but will NOT be
covered in lab, however you incorporate on your final project
web site . Note…some of these will not function (e.g., Course
Video) because you need to liaison with necessary Harvard
departments to make active or because you need actual
student enrollment (e.g., eMailbag,).
•Ask A Librarian (contact information for discipline-specific
reference librarians at Harvard College Libraries)
•Collaborative Annotation Tool (post texts for students to
annotate collectively)
•Course Video (arrange with icgvideo@fas to present your
course video via the course Web site)
•Early Evaluations (publish links to midterm course evaluation
forms developed by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and
Learning)
•eMailbag (automatically publish email sent to the entire class)
More…
•eReserves (link to the library's electronic reserves
program)
•Glossary (create a glossary of key terms; have those key
terms automatically linked to their corresponding
definitions)
•Q&A Tool (create on-line quizzes, surveys, and
assignments)
•Sign-up Tool (on-line schedule where students can sign
themselves up for meetings with instructors)
•Slide Carousel (present images along with descriptive
information in a searchable, sortable digital carousel)
•Teaching Staff (automatically design a page with course
instructors' information)
Course Administration
The Course Administration area allows authorized
teaching staff to view and download the enrollment list
for their entire course and for particular sections
Toolkit Access
The Toolkit Access areas allows course heads to
authorize teaching fellows and administrative staff to
help manage the Web site
Manage Tools & Folders
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You can see the “student view” of course at
any time by clicking on “view as student”
Announcements, Discussions and WWW links
Announcements
Discussions
WWW links
Adding Content: Go back to Manage Tools & Folders
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You can see the “student view” of course at
any time by clicking on “view as student”
Adding Content
Add new course
navigation item
Or, work with an existing item (select
“open” or click on name which is a link)
You can see the “student view” of course at
any time by clicking on “view as student”
Adding Content
Interested in learning more about
the other tools in the ICG toolkit?
Visit:
http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/courseweb/tour_features2.html