NVCC’s
Information Technology Department Newsletter
Mar. 27, 2000
WebCT
News and Training
LongFileNames
Free to the first
100 participants!
LCD Projector ”Shootout"
Need training?
Click here.
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Banner, or network access? Click
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WebCT News and Training
During the first week of April,
our office will begin training faculty (full or part-time) in the use of
WebCT. This product is
catching on at NVCC and our 400-user license is nearly consumed with
student accounts. Faculty
using the software are raving about it’s ease of use and all the tools
it provides for tracking student progress.
Plans are to purchase a
campus-wide license for the Fall term.
WebCT interfaces easily with Banner.
Student ID’s, names and courses can be loaded directly from
Banner to WebCT. That means a
faculty member can create an online course or web-supported course very
easily and have it “populated” automatically with the students
enrolled – a real time-saver!
Training
for faculty will start Wednesday, April 5.
Signups are available at this link:
http://www.nv2.commnet.edu/csv99/Training.htm
Each
session is approximately 2 hours. Needless
to say, you will learn a lot!
Any
faculty member considering the use of WebCT for Fall courses needs to
begin preparation now. A
couple of hints are in order:
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Learn an html editor, such as FrontPage, DreamWeaver, and even Word (save as html).
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Begin converting your student handouts to html format. Create an “organization” of your web materials.
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Learn WinZip. This utility is used to upload course files to WebCT.
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Check with your textbook publisher. Does your publisher provide WebCT “cartridges” that plug into WebCT? If so, a lot of course materials will be readily available without having to “re-create the wheel.” (Prentice Hall is a good example.)
LongFileNames
Some issues have developed
recently with naming files with long names.
Please check the following link for “the pitfalls of using long
file names . . .”
http://www.nv2.commnet.edu/csv99/longfilenames.htm
Office 2000 Training
Free
to the first 100 participants!
“Using
Microsoft Office 2000”
from
SmartComputing Learning Series
Join
us for Office 2000 Overview training during the month of April and receive
a free copy of this guide. Our
training sessions are 1˝
hours and will cover the new Office 2000 features in Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Outlook, FrontPage, Publisher, and PhotoDraw.
And best of all, our training room is now equipped with brand new
Dell computers with both versions of Office loaded and ready to use! Signups are available on our Computer Services website.
Limited to 7 participants per session.
Only 100 copies are available!
Outlook 2000 will be covered in
the Office 2000 Overview, although separate Outlook 2000 sessions are
offered for users who need more training.
Many other courses are available
for training. A new one added
to our agenda is Scanning Documents for PowerPoint, etc.
Banner training sessions are also available.
Sign up now!
LCD Projector Demonstration
Our representative from HB
Communications will visit NVCC to demonstrate the newest LCD projectors on
the market. Our last purchase
of projectors was 2 years ago and new models are now available.
Join us in E605 for a “shootout” comparison of three new models
on the market today. We need
your input. Thanks.
Date: Tuesday, April 4 at 10:00
am in E605.
Visit our
website at http://www.nv2.commnet.edu/csv99/default.htm