| COMMAND |
DEFINITION |
| Add
Page or Tool |
A function available through the
navigation bar that allows you to add new pages or tools (whiteboard,
chat facility etc.) to your course. |
| Adding Student Record |
Students need to be included in the
global database so that they can be registered on your course.
They can be added individually or imported from a text file. |
| Administrator |
Manages the installation and maintenance
of the WebCT software on the server. Administers the global
database, environment settings, courses and users |
| Announcements |
Information displayed on my WebCT
from the administrator. |
| Background Image |
Modifying the background image allows
you to have a suitable picture as the background for that particular
page of your course. (E.g. rainbow stripes for the diffraction
of light). |
| Backup |
You can create a backup of your course
for future reference or for restoring should the need arise.
A maximum of two backups can be stored on WebCT but they can
be downloaded and uploaded to allow for historical archiving
and retrieval. |
| Banner |
An image (default or self-selected)
or text selected to appear at the top of the Course Area, above
the upper text block. |
| Breadcrumbs |
Horizontal listing of the path of
screens that a user has visited. All previous items in the breadcrumb
are links back to those pages. |
| Bookmarks |
Links to locations. Global ones are
set by the administrator, personal ones are set by users. |
| Chat Facilities |
Online interactive discussion groups. |
| Clipboard |
Temporary storage area that can be
used to hold information before it is used, e.g. Student name
list from the global database into a mail message |
| Content Area |
Displays the course material. |
| Content Assistant |
Links to the e-learning hub, www.webct.com,
where you can search for course content. |
| Content Resources |
Only available on version 3.1 and
higher, a link to the Online Teaching and Learning community
on the e-learning hub, www.webct.com. |
| Control Panel |
Provides easy access to course creation
and management functions. |
| Course Appearance |
Changing colours, background images
and icon styles can alter the overall visual appearance of the
course |
| Course Map |
This view is available to you and
your students enabling you to see the whole course structure
on one page. The course elements are hyperlinks, allowing you
to go directly to any place in the course. |
| Course Menu |
Provides easy access to the course
elements, available to designers and to students. |
| Deleting |
The removal of information, NB Some
information must be deleted in a specific order, e.g. students
from courses before students from the global database. |
| Deny Access |
Access to students and teaching assistants
to your course can be temporarily disabled while you update
or amend the course. |
| Designer Map |
A single screen displaying links
to all of the tools and utilities available in your WebCT course. |
| Designer Options |
Alternative to View allows you to
modify tools, pages or content. |
| Designers |
Create and modify courses after the
administrator creates them. Designers can also allocate shared
designers to help with course creation. |
| Downloading |
Description & Uploading: Transferring
information from WebCT to disk and from disk to WebCT. This
process can be applied to student records; backups; teaching
assistants. |
| Global Database |
Database of all users, courses and
access levels. |
| Glossary |
Dictionary of specific terminology,
a glossary creator can be found on
www.webct.com. |
| Group Generator |
Wizard to help in the set-up of groups. |
| Help |
A context-sensitive online help facility. |
| Helpdesk users |
Assists the Administrator. |
| Hide/Reveal |
A simple and easy way of denying
certain elements of the course to students. |
| Hit Counter |
A device for recording
the number of times that page has been accessed. |
| Homepage |
An area for students
to customise for displaying information about them selves as
required. |
| Icons |
A pictographic link. |
| Links |
You can customise the
titles of links to tools, pages or URL's. You can also select
whether a link will appear as text, icon or both as well as
being able to select an image for the icon and when it will
become available to students. |
| Mail |
Mail can be sent to individual
students, all students or selected students based on a search. |
| Managing Students |
Organising the student
record table to suit your own preferences, certain field's e.g.
WebCT ID etc cannot be renamed or deleted. |
| Menu Bar |
The menu bar runs across
the very top of your WebCT screen and contains links to my WebCT,
Resume Course, Course Map, Content Resources and Help. It also
shows your current location via the breadcrumbs and indicates
weather you are in View or Designer Options. |
| Modify Page or Tool |
Modify allows you to
make changes to existing pages or tools as your course evolves. |
| My WebCT |
This is the opening page
when you first log-in to WebCT and contains links to all your
courses plus announcements, bookmarks and a link to WebCT's
e-learning hub www.webct.com. |
| Navigating Student Records |
The art of locating the
correct information about one or more students in the student
records. |
| Navigation Bar |
Contains the Show/Hide
Navigation toggle, Control Panel and Course Menu section. |
| Page Format |
Adding a banner, changing
the background image, adding a hit counter or re-arranging the
layout of the links will change the format of the homepage. |
| Presentation Groups |
Students can be grouped
together to create presentation groups, assigning group discussion
topics and sending group mail messages. |
| Registration |
Students need to be entered
into the global database before they can be registered onto
your course. |
| Releasing Information |
When course material
is added to your course it can be set to not visible. Students
will not be able to see or access this information until you
release it. This release of information is usually regarding
grades or test results from the student records. |
| Reset Course |
You can reset certain
aspects of the course through the course design options e.g.
student grades, assignments. |
| Restoring |
If you have created a
backup of your course you can restore a previous version. This
will overwrite all current course contents. |
| Resume Course |
This link allows students
to resume the course where they finished at the last session. |
| Self-Registration |
If enabled a student
can register for our course when they access it. Specific information
can also be requested at registration. |
| Shared Designer Access |
You can grant another
user shared designer access to your course. The shared designer
has the same access as you except they cannot grant shared designer
access rights. |
| Show/Hide Navigation |
A toggle switch that
allows you to hide the Navigation bar and expand the Content
area and vice versa. |
| Student Information |
Contact Information,
grades, presentation information etc is all information that
can be kept in the Student information. |
| Students |
Views course content,
takes quizzes, posts messages and, if allowed, can add or modify
content in the student presentation area. |
| Teaching Assistants |
Assists the Designer
by evaluating and grading assignments and quizzes. They can
also change student grades. |
| Text blocks |
There are two types of
text block, upper and lower. These add blocks of text to the
homepage, upper is like a header and will appear at the top
of the homepage, lower is like a footer and will appear at the
bottom of the homepage. |
| Track Pages |
Track pages gives you
the ability to see how often students have accessed each page
of your course, sent messages to discussion groups etc. This
facility can also be made available to the students. |
| Uploading |
See Downloading |
| View |
Switching to 'View' mode
will allow you to see how the course will appear to a student.
On some screens 'View' only approximates what a student will
see. To see the actual student view, log on to your course as
a student. |
| WebCT Users |
There are five types
of WebCT User. Administrator; Helpdesk User; Designer; Teaching
Assistant; Student. |
| Welcome Page |
A page that can be viewed
by anyone that can be used to describe or relay information
about your course. |
| Whiteboard |
A program that allows
users to create and combine text and images for storing and
retrieval. |
