What is WebCT?

What's New in Campus Edition

Logging On

Adding students 

Resetting your Course

    Computer Setup

• Computer Settings

• Pop-up Software

• Browser Compatibility

• Browser Configuration

     Modifying the homepage

• Banners

• Text Blocks

• Page Colors

• Background Image

• Page Layout

• Hit Counter

     The Navigation Bar

• Adding Links

• Editing Links

• Organizing the Course Menu

• Selective Release

     Managing Files

• Acceptable File Types and Names

• Uploading Using Drag and Drop

• Uploading Using a Zip Utility

• PPT and WebCT

• Downloading Files

• Organizing Files and Folders

• Adding Pages

     The Content Module 

• Adding the Tool

• Headings for the TOC

• Content files in the TOC

• Creating and editing HTML Files

• Renaming files or headings

• Reorganizing TOC 

• Changing the CM Screen

• Adding a Quiz to the CM

• Adding Action Tools 

• Enabling Compiling and Printing

     The Discussions Tool 

• Navigation

• Adding a New Topic

• Private/Anonymous/Locked Topics

• Composing a posting

• Reading a posting

• Viewing and downloading an attachment

• Replying to a message

• Moving a Message 

• Compiling the Discussions Tool Messages

     The Calendar Tool

• Posting an entry to the Calendar

• Specifying Settings and Options

     The Mail Tool

• Reading and composing messages

• Sending group e-mail

     The Chat Tool

• Renaming Chat rooms

• Viewing a Chat room log

• Participating in a Chat

     The Assignment Dropbox

• Posting an assignment

• Viewing and downloading

• Posting and changing grades

     Creating Online Quizzes

• How the Quiz tool works

• Adding the Quiz tool to your course

• Adding questions to the Database

• Adding a blank quiz

• Adding questions to the quiz

• Randomizing quiz questions

• Specifying quiz settings

• Viewing the quiz

• Multiple-choice questions

• Matching questions

• Calculated questions

• Short-answer questions

• Paragraph questions

     Managing online quizzes

• Quiz/Survey Management Screen

• Verifying a Quiz has been Submitted

• Making quiz scores available

• Changing a quiz or item score

• Scores for paragraph questions

• Reset a Quiz

• Class performance on questions

• Evaluating incorrect responses

• Allowing partial-credit answers

     Managing student records

• Recording grades manually

• Making grades available

• Making class statistics available

• Querying by student characteristics

• Calculating Columns and averages

• Tracking student use of a course

     Creating Backups

• Creating a Course Backup

• Creating a Grade Book Backup

Using Drag and Drop

Basic html tags

Printable Version of this Guide

Student Guide for WebCT