What is my WebCT?
My WebCT is a central page which lists all the WebCT courses you are enrolled in and the WebCT tools available to you. Once you have logged into WebCT and accessed your myWebCT page, you can access any of your courses from this page.
What is WebCT in general and what can it do?
WebCT Campus Edition 6 is the web-based course management system used at Loyalist college.
WebCT was developed at the University of British Columbia and is the
most popular product of its type, with over 5 million student accounts
in use at over 1100 institutions worldwide.
WebCT can be used to create entire online courses, or to simply publish
materials that supplement existing courses. WebCT requires little technical
knowledge on the part of the developer of the educational material, or
on the part of the student.
Using a standard Web browser,WebCT provides instructors and students access to course materials from anywhere at anytime. Instructors and students with little or no knowledge of HTML can easily use this tool. Instructors often adopt WebCT for one or two particular features that it offers and then discover other tools as they become more familiar with online instruction and WebCT. There are many features that comprise WebCT but a quick summary of them includes:
Online Course Information
Syllabus, Assignments, and Course Materials: fill in the blank forms for creating instructor and student Web pages that require little or no knowledge of HTML; course materials might include text, complex equations, images, video, and audio
Manage Files and Information: a file uploader makes it possible to upload any digital information (text, graphic, video, audio) that is then available via a hyperlink; facilitate learning using searchable indexes, glossaries, and image databases; online bibliographies can provide links to other sites Student Projects and Notes: students can build course-related Web sites; there is an online note-taking tool for students
Communication Tools
E-mail: a course-specific in-box for communicating with your class ·
Discussion Board: built-in threaded discussion list capabilities for promoting
out-of-class electronic dialogue and interaction ·
Chat and Whiteboard: real-time communication tools for online dialogues
Feedback and Assessment
Quizzes and Surveys: an online quiz builder which enables quizzes to
be scored immediately with results being available to the instructor and
student; self-tests can be graded or ungraded ·
Grade Book: an online tool for automatically tallying student scores from
quizzes and assignments ·
Progress Tracking: course statistics enable the instructor to determine
which student accessed various aspects of the course, how often they accessed
it, and when
