Web CT Campus Edition Version 3 8

Web. CT Campus Edition Version 3. 8

Web. CT (Web Course Tools) • Web. CT is the e-Learning platform used by more than millions of students from over 2, 500 universities in more than 80 countries • User institutions including Stanford, Cornell, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Purdue etc • over half of top 50 universities in USA are using Web. CT

Web. CT users in Hong Kong • • • All government funded universities in Hong Kong The Open University of Hong Kong Cyber. U All institutions under Vocational Training Council the Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) The Caritas Institute for Further and Adult Education Civil Services Training and Development Institution Hong Kong Police The Hospital Authority The Housing Authority Information Technology Services Department

Major Publishers and Web. CT The following publishers are creating web sites to support users of their textbooks: Pearson Education, including its Addison Wesley Longman, Allyn & Bacon, Prentice Hall and Pearson Professional, Reference and Technology imprints; Thomson Learning, including its publishing companies Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, South. Western College Publishing, and Wadsworth Publishing; Archipelago; Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group; Cambridge Physics Outlet; Harcourt College; John Wiley & Sons; Mc. Graw-Hill Ryerson and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Compliance with IMS Standard • Web. CT provides support for compliance with IMS standards - the most popular industrial standard for e-Learning in higher education. • The IMS Content Migration Utility of Web. CT allows importing or exporting of course content and assessment information in XML files using IMS Content Packaging 1. 1 and Question & Test Interoperability 1. 1 format. • It also gives institutions the flexibility of sharing industrial standard compliant courses created by publishers or sister institutions.

Web. CT in Poly. U • Poly. U adopted Web. CT as common e-Learning platform in summer 1999 • More than 1, 200 colleagues had attended training workshops on Web. CT • Over 4, 000 web sites have been created on Web. CT server to enhance quality of teaching for different subjects • SAO is also using Web. CT for online counselling (we. CARE net)

Web. CT in Poly. U (cont’d) Information Technology Services Office provides support in the following areas: • provision of training workshops for users • web site creation, fully functional but without content • account management • integration with administrative systems • technical support via email and hotline Email: “ITwebct” via Groupwise (or itwebct@inet. polyu. edu. hk) Tel: 2766 4948

One Stop Web Shop (Mega. Web) • A joint effort of ITS, EDC and MIC • with $4 million from UGC and $2. 7 million from Poly. U central funding for recruiting full-time staff and student helpers to provide multimedia production and instructional design services for e -Learning • Colleagues might contact the following EDC staff to acquire the service : Paula Hodgson (Ext: 6297)

On-line Programme Development Unit • Poly. U has allocated 30 million to develop online version of academic subjects • The On-line Programme Development Unit has been established to coordinate this strategic plan initiative • 35 projects have received funding for development in the first round of invitation for proposals • Colleagues may contact Mr. Geoffrey Wong (OPD) for details

Campus Edition Version 3. 8 One the server side, the new version supports: • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) • Multiple servers clustering to balance loading for high performance • Auto failover for automatically switches to a standby server • Single sign-on from my. Poly. U portal • Unicode (UTF-8) to display multiple languages on a single page within a Web. CT course

Campus Edition Version 3. 8 (con’t) Designer can now use Assignments Tool to do the following: • return corrected assignments • provide feedback to students • manually override the grades for assignments in Manage Students, even if the assignment has not been submitted. • For students, the process to submit assignments has been simplified

Campus Edition Version 3. 8 (con’t) Designers can now use the Quiz Tool to: • randomize the display of answers to multiple choice questions. • set the release of quiz answers to occur when a quiz's availability period expires. • manually override the grades for quizzes not submitted using Web. CT Before students exit a quiz, they are now reminded about answers they have changed but not saved

Campus Edition Version 3. 8 (con’t) Designers can now use Student Presentation Tool to: • make presentations private, public, or available at a specified time and date. • set the default availability for all presentations.

Campus Edition Version 3. 8 (con’t) Support for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (Web. DAV) protocol: • Drag-and-drop upload and retrieval of Web. CT course content using WEb. DAV • Web. DAV protocol allows designers to rapidly move content from their desktops into the Web. CT environment. • Automatically update a web site by using Dreamweaver, the software from Macromedia

Tranfer a web site from 3. 6 SE server • You may transfer the web site on the Standard Edition Version 3. 6 server to the new Campus Edition server • 1. Backup the subject web site on Version 3. 6 server into a "zip" file and download to your computer • 2. Upload the backup "zip" file to Campus Edition Version 3. 8 server and restore it by the function "Restore but keep current student list"

Further information Please visit the following web sites for further information: http: //www. polyu. edu. hk/elearning http: //www. webct. com

Enquiry For enquiry, please contact Web. CT Help Desk of Information Technology Services Office: Tel: 2766 4948 Email: “ITwebct” via Groupwise or itwebct@inet. polyu. edu. hk

Thank You We look forward to serving you in this academic year