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to help faculty become comfortable with using WebCT to deliver course information to students.

Note: Workshops this term have been redesigned for CE6, the upgraded version of the course management system that is now available for faculty. All faculty with accounts on WebCT 4.1 now have accounts on CE6. And all course master copies on WebCT 4.1 have been migrated to CE6. To access and work with your master copies on CE6, go to http://ce6.wilkes.edu and log in with your standard Wilkes username and password. Caveat: While there are a number benefits to the new system, CE6 is visually and structurally different from its predecessor, so faculty are encouraged to attend workshops (both face-to-face and online). To find out more about CE6, we've set up a description, What's New for Faculty in CE6, and are taking requests from faculty who wish to set up new course shells to design and develop additional courses. Simply email your request to elearning@wilkes.edu. Let us know the prefix, number and full catalogue description of your course, and we will get you set up within a day's time.

To sign up for any of these workshops, email your name and the workshop title to elearning@wilkes.edu. All training sessions will be held in the IT Training Classroom in Bedford Hall. Sessions are limited to eight people.

Course Management, an Introduction, 2 hours
This session provides an introduction to using Wilkes’ course management system (CMS), which has been upgraded to Campus Edition 6, or CE6 (the newest version of WebCT now under Blackboard ownership). Participants will learn how to login, set up, and begin using the system. They will become familiar with navigation, designer options, and content creation, and learn to use basic CMS tools, such as the calendar. They will also learn to troubleshoot their courses and get technical assistance.
Prerequisite: None; however, faculty should have basic computing skills and an active CE6 login with at least one course shell.

Communicating Online, 2 hours
Participants learn about CMS communication tools: email, discussion forums, groups and some of the newer CE6 features, such as announcements and “who’s online” (a presence indicator and chat tool). They are exposed to a variety of methods for leveraging quality communication and teamwork.
Prerequisite: Course Management, an Introduction

An Introduction to Website Creation, 2 hours
Want to learn how to leverage that “W” drive on the Wilkes network? That’s “W” for Web. World Wide Web. Learn how to create web content in a “web native” environment! Make your sites more compelling to the eye (and ear). Develop solid habits for world processing, and walk out the door more conversant than ever with the net-alphabet soup: HTTP, FTP, JPG. Participants will use Word to create basic sites and will be introduced to the industry-standard web-authoring and imaging tools Dreamweaver and Fireworks.
Prerequisite: None

Assignment and Gradebook Management, 2 hours
Participants create and grade assignments in the course management system (CMS). They learn about assignment settings and gradebook functions as well as discuss best practices for acquiring student content and providing feedback.
Prerequisite: Course Management, an Introduction

Quiz and Survey Tools, 2 hours
This session covers the intricacies of the quiz and survey tools within the course management system (CMS). Participants will learn different ways to upload quiz data, and how best to manage the data online. They will also learn how to create and grade several different quiz formats, utilize the best methods to develop and draw upon a question database, as well as score and view quizzes.
Prerequisite: Course Management, an Introduction

Grading Faster, Grading Better, 2 hours
This workshop will focus on Word's Autotext and Custom Menu features. The workshop is appropriate for any faculty member who wants to automate paper grading activities. If you regularly put the same kinds of comments on student papers and have often wondered how you might liberate yourself from such drudgery while also enhancing the quality and consistency of your comments, this session's for you.
Prerequisite: None

Designing Effective, Engaging Assessments, 2 hours
Participants are exposed to assessment best practices, techniques for multimedia integration, and applications that facilitate assessment development. Participants will learn how to use Respondus in tandem with the course management system (CMS). Respondus is an assessment creation tool that is easy to use, and imports from and exports to a variety of CMS and file formats.
Prerequisite: Quiz and Survey Tools

Podcasting, a Primer, 2 hours
This workshop will expose faculty to the strategies, tools and technologies required to produce and post-produce (edit) an online lecture. Get ready to lecture from anywhere; learn how to edit out the off-topic parts and cue your words with song or symphony.
Prerequisite: None

Screencasting, a Primer, 2 hours
This workshop will expose faculty to the strategies, tools and technologies required to produce and post-produce (edit) a basic screencast.
Prerequisite: Podcasting, a Primer

Deploying Web Video, 2 hours
Participants learn about web video formats as well as how to download, reformat, deploy and embed video content in online courses. Two delivery techniques are covered: streaming video (via MOV and AVI formats) and progressive streaming (via FLV, the Flash video format).
Prerequisite: An Introduction to Website Creation