S001 Strategies for Success: Planning Great Courses!
S002 Structure, Function, Content: Building Great Courses!
S003 Assessment & Gradebook
W001 WebCT Server Administration and Template Build
W002 WebCT Workshops - one or more days
T3 WebCT Certified Train the Trainer Programme

Strategies for Success - Planning Great Courses!

This course is divided into two key sections:

• Exploring a Practical Pedagogy
• Effective Tools Use to Promote Teaching & Learning

Section 1: Exploring a Practical Pedagogy

This section encourages staff to:

• Deconstruct an existing element/module of a course into its component parts (lectures, seminars, discussion, testing, etc)
• Reflect on this deconstruction and relate it to a model of the learning process
• Select WebCT functionality to enable a reconstruction, paying particular attention to the ways in which WebCT tools support good teaching principles
• Reconstruct the element/module in WebCT, synthesising all previous steps

Section 2: Effective Tools Use to Promote Teaching & Learning

This section provides new staff with a thorough overview of the WebCT environment. Staff will gain an awareness of key WebCT functionality and see the impact of student activity on assessment, tracking and administrative tools. Staff will use key Collaborative Tools to explore strategies for engaging an online learner.

Length: 1 day
Maximum group size: 12
Prerequisites: No previous experience with WebCT is assumed.

Outcomes:
Course members will be able to
• analyse existing courses and plan ways in which aspects may be delivered online
• understand the potential of a range of different WebCT tools
• gain experience navigating within a WebCT course
• promote effective collaboration between students
• access the student gradebook to identify tracking and administrative data

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Structure, Function, Content - Building Great Courses!

How to 'assemble' and 're-assemble' WebCT courses.

Promotes the concept that building an online course is not all about html creation, but involves enabling online interaction, research and the facilitation of learning. The course also explains how existing non-html resources such as PowerPoint, Word or PDF files can be efficiently incorporated into WebCT courses.

Progresses to look at and practise building courses with prepared HTML files, using the Content Module and Single Page tools and the impact on tracking of content release choices.

Length: 1 day
Maximum group size: 12
Prerequisites: Course members should have a thorough understanding of the concepts of files, folders, upload, download, zip & unzip and simple file management. A high degree of general web awareness is essential.

Outcomes:
Course members will be able to
• build WebCT courses
• build WebCT course templates
• incorporate existing materials into WebCT courses

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Covers the main WebCT assessment tools: assignment drop-box and the Assessment database. Looks at how assessments are created, released, completed by students, submitted, marked by tutors and then how grade data is released. Looks at how the course database may be used as a Grade Book
for online and offline assessment tracking. Looks at how student tracking data is derived, accessed and downloaded.

Length: 1 day
Maximum group size: 12
Prerequisites: Course members should have a reasonable understanding of WebCT. They should have completed either of courses S001 or S002, or have gained familiarity with WebCT previously.

Outcomes:
Course members will be able to
• create and release self tests
• create and release assessments
• manage the WebCT assignments drop box tool
• use the course database for online and offline assessment tracking

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WebCT Server Administration and Template Build

For selected ILT staff, server administrator, and student database administrator. This will cover student account creation issues and server backup and support requirements.

This is a fairly informal ‘round a table’ session where you can identify issues and we can propose potential solutions.

The second half of the day is spent helping you build a WebCT Template/s for your institution.

Length: 1 day
Maximum group size: 12

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WebCT Workshops

Extra workshop days can be added to any of the above courses. Your staff will bring along actual course materials and are helped through the course building process in a workshop situation. (We advise a maximum of 6 Delegates). We find that these are particularly effective if provided approximately 3 – 4 weeks after the main training and after the staff have commenced their actual course building.

Workshops may be ‘themed’ to provide specific support to staff at different phases of course development. For example, a Content Support theme may be planned to help develop and troubleshoot eLearning content development.

Length: one or more days
Maximum group size: 12

WebCT Train the Trainer Workshops (T3)

The WebCT Certified Train the Trainer Programme is designed for WebCT professionals who are committed to advancing elearning through training and supporting others in their use of WebCT for maximum educational impact. The programme establishes an official set of WebCT-sanctioned trainer performance standards around teaching the pedagogical foundation of WebCT. The programme is based on a professional training framework that promotes best practices and core competencies, ensuring that the WebCT user community as a whole has access to the highest quality WebCT training programmes.

There are two different levels of certification, depending upon one's background and experience with WebCT:

• Associate Level Trainer Certification
• Senior Level Trainer Certification.

Programme Format:

To complete the WebCT Certified Trainer programme for both the Associate and Senior Levels, you must successfully perform the following requirements:

1. Submit your application
2. Complete the WebCT Trainer Certification Workshop. The WebCT Trainer Certification Workshop consists of a three-week online course (approximately 20 hours of work), culminating in a one-day face-to-face workshop.
3. Complete the WebCT Trainer Certification Final Evaluation. Two additional face-to-face days immediately follow the face-to-face workshop in order to allow final evaluations to be conducted.
4. Complete the Annual Recertification requirements.

Certification is granted for one year. Recertification is required annually.

Dates:

Online Workshop Opens: June 27th 2005
Online Workshop Closes: July 15th 2005
Face-to-face Workshop: September 5th, 6th, 7th 2005 (each delegate will only need to attend two days). Note: there may be an alternative face-to-face date arranged in addition to this date.

Please contact us for more information.

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