Q. What is WebCT?
A. WebCT is a web-based course management tool. It provides
a password-protected environment for providing course content, calendar,
grade book, e-mail, discussion boards, online quizzes and other course
related materials.
Q. How do I get started?
A. Simply contact Mark Walton,
walton@suu.edu, 586-7919, and give him a list of courses for which
you would like WebCT courses created. If you teach multiple
sections of the same course, please include whether you would like
all sections combined into a single WebCT course, or if you would
like separate WebCT courses for each section. If you use multiple
WebCT sections, please be aware that there isn't currently a way to
post the same information into multiple sections. If you want
the same content available to all sections, you will need to post
that information individually to each WebCT course.
Mark will create a user account and the requested courses and e-mail
you the information.
Q. Mark has created the courses for me, now what?
A. There are two downloadable documents. The WebCT
Tutorial, and the WebCT Reference
Guide. You can also contact the Center for Faculty Excellence
for additional help on getting started.
Q. I have my content published and ready, how
do I get my students into my course?
A. Contact Mark Walton, walton@suu.edu,
586-7919, and give him a list of course numbers, including the section
number, for the WebCT courses that you want populated for the current
semester. For example, IS2800-01. Your students should
be in your course the following morning.
Q. What about adds and drops.
A. Adds are automatically processed every morning from updates
received from SIS. It is the responsibility of the individual
faculty member to remove students from his/her course(s).
Q. How long do the students remain in the course?
A. It is the responsibility of the instructor to remove the
students from the course at the end of each semester. Simply
enter the course, click on "Manage Course", and then click
"Remove", which will remove all students from the course.
Q. When are students added for the next semester?
A. On the day before the semester begins, students will be
added to those courses which have been registered with Mark Walton.
Q. How do my students get access to the course?
A. Once students have been added to your course, they have
access to your course. The server address is http://webct.suu.edu.
There is also a link on the Current Students page on the SUU website.
When they go to the WebCT site, they will be prompted for their username
and password, which is the same as their campus network username and
password (what they use in the computer labs). After a successful
login, the student will be at their myWebCT screen, which will show
all of the WebCT courses in which they are currently enrolled.
For any further questions, please contact Mark Walton, walton@suu.edu,
586-7919.
