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Online
Teaching Checklist
For new
and old online instructors, please complete the following activities for
your online courses in time for students to find the information
for their registration period. Completing this list will better
ensure a smooth entrance for online students into online courses at Diablo
Valley College.
- Complete the Online Course Input Form when
the course is assigned to you and return it to your department or division.
- Book lab space with your department (if used)
and decide on your orientation meetings times (especially useful for new
online teachers).
- Find and use an E-pack when teaching an
online course during the first year, especially useful for new online teachers
who are not able to or do not desire to create a digital classroom from
scratch.
- Utilize a Course Management System (i.e.
WebCT) instead of a substandard yahoo-groups type of set-up. The
communication system of a Course Management System (mail, chat, discussion
board, whiteboard) is far more useful and leads to better pedagogy and should
be the base for any online or hybrid course.
- Request a WebCT account (if you do not use
an E-pack) and seek training opportunities in
Staff
Development, during the
Summer Technology Institute, or with
Neal Skapura. Students will be uploaded 7 days before the semester
begins into the course for you.
- Seek support (contact
Neal Skapura) if you need help with your course (planning 1 semester
before this course is offered is ideal).
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Clear your course with the Instruction Committee (if it's new or is a
modification of an existing course) and have the course submitted to your
department chair in order to be included in the upcoming schedule.
- Take both students and yourself through the
following pages at www.dvc.edu/online
to get a better sense of necessary orientation concerns for students and
technological considerations like how to update a browser.
Carolyn Seefer, Chair of the Distance Learning Task Force, was kind enough
to assemble this information for WebCT users. Below, you will find out how
to:
- Request a New WebCT Account
- Make a Development Course into a Live Course
REQUEST A NEW WEBCT ACCOUNT (Note: Do this if you are creating a
WebCT course for the first time)
1. Go to
http://www.dvc.edu/technology/webct_help.htm.
2. Click on the "New User Account" link.
3. Type in the requested information. Click on the "Submit" link.
4. You will receive a confirmation e-mail when your designer account has
been created. You can then request a development or live course (see
instructions below).
HOW TO MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR COURSE (save to your hard drive)
1. Log into WebCT and open your course.
2. In the Control Panel, click on the "Manage Course" link.
3. Click on "Backup Course" link.
4. Under "Backup Course" column, choose "Create backup" and click "Go"
button.
5. Enter a description of backup (optional); press "Create" button. Wait
for course to be backed up completely. When backup is complete, click
"Continue" button.
6. Select the new backup you just created by clicking on its radio button.
7. Under the "Backup File Functions" column, select "Download" and click
"Go" button.
8. Select "Save this file to disk" and click "OK" button.
9. Choose the folder on your hard drive and give your file a name (or
select default name); do NOT add an extension (this will be done
automatically).
10. Click "Save" button. When download is complete, click the "Close"
button.
Uploading a Backed-up Course (upload a backup file)
1. Go to your WebCT 4.0 myWebCT page.
2. Click on "Course Functions" button.
3. Select the course you want to work with by clicking on its checkbox.
4. Click on "Upload backup" button.
5. Click the "Browse" button and locate the backup file on your hard drive.
Select the file and click the "Open" button. Make sure the filename appears
in the Filename box.
6. Click the "Upload" button. Wait for file to upload completely. Once the
file has been successfully uploaded, click on the "Continue" button to
return to the Course Functions page.
7. Select the uploaded backup file by clicking its checkbox. (Note: Do not
check the course checkbox, only the backup file checkbox.)
8. Click on "Restore backup" button.
9. Select the course into which to restore the backup file by clicking its
checkbox (note: you can check more than one course if you have multiple
sections of the same course).
10. Select whether to replace or keep students by clicking on the
appropriate radio button (note: for a new course you will probably want to
select "keep students").
11. Click on the "Restore" button and click "OK" button. Wait for restore to
finish completely.
12. Click "Continue" button.
13. Click the "myWebCT" link to return to your course listing. You can
access your new course from here.
NOTE: The above two steps (backup and restore) can also be used to transfer
a development course to a live course. You should also make a backup of your
course regularly, especially after making major changes to it.
Once you've done this
procedure one or two times, it's very easy! Please let me know if you have
any questions.
Carolyn Seefer
Distance Learning
Advisory Task Force, Chair
TRANSFER A DEVELOPMENT WEBCT COURSE TO A "LIVE" COURSE (two steps)
STEP ONE: MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT COURSE (save to your hard
drive)
1. Open your Development Course.
2. Click on "Manage Course" link.
3. Click on "Backup Course" link.
4. Under "Backup Course" column, choose "Create backup" and click "Go"
button.
5. Enter a description of backup (optional); press "Create" button. Wait
for course to be backed up completely. When backup is complete, click
"Continue" button.
6. Select the new backup you just created by clicking on its radio button.
7. Under the "Backup File Functions" column, select "Download" and click
"Go" button.
8. Select "Save this file to disk" and click "OK" button.
9. Choose the folder on your hard drive and give your file a name (or
select default name); do NOT add an extension (this will be done
automatically).
10. Click "Save" button. When download is complete, click the "Close"
button.
STEP TWO: TRANSFER YOUR BACKUP OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT COURSE TO YOUR "LIVE"
COURSE (upload a backup file)
1. Open your "Live" course.
2. Click on "Manage Course" link.
3. Click on "Backup Course" link.
4. Under "Backup Course" column, choose "Upload backup" and click "Go"
button.
5. Click the "Browse" button and locate the backup file on your hard
drive. Select the file and click the "Open" button.
6. Click the "Upload" button. Wait for file to upload completely.
7. When upload is complete, select the uploaded file by clicking its radio
button.
Under the "Backup File Functions" column, select "Restore" and click the
"Go" button.
8. Click "OK" button. Wait for restore to finish completely.
9. Click "Continue" button.
NOTE: The above two steps (backup and restore) will be used to transfer a
development course to a live course. You should also make a backup of your
course regularly, especially after making major changes to it.
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