how to set up a twen page by alissa black-dorward [email protected] 212-636-7694
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This PowerPoint presentation is designed to help staff members create TWEN course pages for faculty members. The assumption is that you will be creating the page under your own Westlaw username and password and then modifying the course to show only the professor’s information. For the purposes of this presentation, Alissa Black-Dorward will represent the staff member, while Alison Shea will represent the faculty member.
The first step is to sign on to Westlaw at https://lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/signon10.asp?path=%2FDesktopDefault.aspx&, using your own Westlaw username and password.
At the Westlaw sign-in page, choose TWEN.
To create a new course, click on “Create Course”
You can use these links to jump from one step to another.
When you’ve read the instructions, click on “next”.
Create the name of your course and make sure you’ve ticked the box so that the name will be displayed. Choose the semester.
Select “First Year” or “Upper Level” course. Then choose the appropriate sub-topic.
Dates will appear automatically as a result of the semester you choose on the last page.
Westlaw creates defaults for email access/options. You need to review these with the professor to ensure he/she is happy with them.
It is unlikely that your professor will want to receive daily notifications about new course postings.
If you choose “no access”, no other faculty or staff will be able to view this course. This may impair my ability to help you if you have problems.
If you are creating the page under your own account, this is where you enter the professor’s password. Remember, you only need to enter the numeric portion. Here I would enter the numeric portion of Professor Shea’s Westlaw password.
Westlaw allows you to create an interactive forum where you can put up materials and discussion postings.
You should check with the professor to see if forums for the class are necessary. You can create any number of different forums for a class. You can also avoid creating any forums by ticking this box.
You can create document pages to hold a syllabus, class materials or assignments.
Westlaw will automatically set up two document pages for you: Syllabus and Course Materials. You can rename them if you want. If you don’t want any document pages, click on the box that says “Delete page”.
This page allows you to select additional course services, depending on your professor’s choices.
CALI lessons are computer-assisted lessons on a variety of topics that your professor may or may not want to use. TWEN automatically assigns CALI lessons to your page based on your initial selection of the course topic when you began creating the page. In this example, First Year Property was selected. Based on that selection, TWEN automatically assigned 77 CALI lessons to the page.
What if the professor I am assisting does not want any CALI lessons on the page?
You can remove CALI lesson in two ways.
The first method is to click the above box.
As you scroll down the page, you will see checkmarks beside each of the courses TWEN has selected for you. Unfortunately, there is no “de-select all” button so you have to manually remove each checkmark from each class to remove it from the TWEN page.
The second way to remove CALI lessons is a bit easier and I will show it to you in a minute. First, we have to finish creating the course page.
Instead of clicking “Add/Remove CALI Lessons”, click “Finish”, which will take you to the Course Summary page.
This is your opportunity to review the course selections you’ve made and make any changes. To make changes, click on “edit”.
Note that we still have these CALI Lessons. We will take care of that after we have created the course.
Once you have made your edits, click on “Create Course”.
Now you have created your course. Select “View course home page”.
Here is the home page for the course. Because I added Professor Shea as a co-instructor, we both appear on the course. Since Professor Shea is really the instructor, I want to remove myself from the page. To do that, I click on the “Edit” link.
Click on “Arrange Admin Names”.
I don’t want my email address to appear on the page so I’m going to de-select “Show email address”. I also don’t want my name to appear on the page so I’m going to select “Hide User” from the drop down box.
This page is like a Word version of the class home page, which you can edit, just like any Word document.
I only want Professor Shea’s name and email to appear on the homepage of the course so I will delete my name, the link to my email and the link that says “E-mail all of the above”.
As a result of editing, we now have a course page, created under a staff username and password but showing only the professor’s information.
Now, how do we get rid of those CALI Lessons the easy way?
From the main page of the course, click on “Manage Links”.
You want the default which is “Hide/Show Links”. Then hit continue.
Here you can choose to hide the CALI Lessons from the students by clicking on “CALI Lessons” and then “Remove”. It won’t remove the lessons from the page, as the professor will still be able to see them. However, the students won’t see them and it’s easier than de-selecting all those boxes, one by one.
How do I add course materials to the page, like the syllabus?
From the course homepage, choose the page to which you’d like to add the materials. As an example, we’ll add a syllabus to the syllabus page.
Click on “Add” to add an item.
The title you enter here will appear on the page.
Use the browse button to select the appropriate file.
Your loaded document will appear on the list. Note that as long as you post the document to the site using your own username and password, your name will appear in the “Submitted By” column.
How do I delete a course once it has been created?
From the course homepage, select “Modify Course” and scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Select “Delete This Course”.
What if I need help? Contact Alissa Black-Dorward at 212-636-7694 or [email protected] Check out the Professor’s Guide to TWEN at: http://lscontent.westlaw.com/images/banner/documentation/2009/twgdpr06.pdf Contact TWEN Technical Support at 1-800-486-4876