Linda Neff

Vista Basics

Vista Training Vista Basics

Prerequisite to Advanced Workshops Learn fundamentals ID 101-Essential Questions

Vista Training online class Advanced Workshops Labs Notebooks

Migration Process Request to migrate a CE course

E-Learning site form One to two weeks to migrate

Improving Your Migrated Course in notebook

Peoplesoft Integration Peoplesoft is authoritative Students enrolled automatically Students unenrolled automatically TAs & Co-instructors must be in Peoplesoft

Start Date End Date + 2 weeks Combine sections

New Shell Request Rarely used except for:

Non-Credit Course Development for future course

Request a new shell using shell request form found at ELC site

Today’s Workshop Exploring Vista

My Vista Mail Common Functions in Vista Explore a section - tab structure, Course Content Home, Course Menu

Today’s Workshop Designing Your Course: The Basics

Add Course Tools Create Content – use the Course Tools you added to create content items

Organizing Content by adding links, files, and folders to Course Content Home

Customize visual aspects of your course Show Vista Tour you can view later

Learning OutcomesAfter completing this workshop, you will be able to: Navigate and customize My Vista. Compose and organize Mail messages. Perform functions common to many features in Vista. Explore the Build, Teach, and Student View tabs. Design a Course:

• Add tools to the Course Menu• Create content items and files• Organize content by adding content links and creating folders

• Customize the look of the course

Log in to Your Practice Course

The URL is http://build.vista.nau.edu

Use your NAU ID and password to log in.

Activity: Logging In

Activity: My WebCT

Add a To Do Note. Hide the My Grades channel. Rearrange the order in which the channels display.

HTML Creator

HTML Creator is available in these tools: Assessments Assignments Course Content Discussions File Manager Mail Learning Modules

Common Functions Underlined text indicates that an item is clickable

ActionLink menus Sort by column Select items in a list and perform an action

Paging preferences

Activity: Using Mail

From My Vista, open Mail. Create a message. Compose a one-word message of high priority.

Address it to yourself. Sort messages by author, date, or subject. Create a new folder and move a read message

to it. Collapse the folder frame.

Activity: Exploring the Interface

Build tab

Teach tab

Student View tab

Design Features of Build Tab

The Build tab is where you construct a course.

Course Design Process Add Course Tools Create Content Organize Content

Customize the Look of Your Course

Activity: Add Tool and Set Its Visibility

Add the Announcements and Who’s Online tools to your course.

Hide the Who’s Online tool. Go to the Student View tab and note which tools are available.

Creating Content In WebCT CE, you use Course Tools to create content items. The items are added to that tool’s inventory.

Students can access the items by: clicking on the appropriate tool in Course Tools to display its inventory

clicking a link you have added to the items from the Course Content Home, Learning Modules, or folders.

Activity: Creating Content

Create a Chat room called Virtual Office Hours.

Create two Web Links. Make one visible and one hidden. Go to the Student View tab and note which links are visible to students.

Activity: Organizing Content

Using the Add Content Link feature, add the Web Link that you created earlier to Course Content Home.

From Course Tools, use the Chat tool to add the Virtual Office Hours room to Course Content Home.

Add a file to Course Content Home. Add a folder and add a link to a content item.

Activity: Using ActionLinks

Hide a link. Move a link. Customize a link by adding a description for it.

Customizing the Look of Your Course

Global color selections - affect the display of Course Content Home, Folders, and tool pages. They do not affect colors within HTML pages you have uploaded to the course.

Headers and footers – important for conveying information

Layouts – can minimize scrolling

Activity: Selecting Course Colors

Select one of the predetermined color sets for your course.

Select a custom color set for your course.

Activity: Page Options

Edit the header on Course Content Home.

Add a footer to a folder. Change the page layout for Course Content Home to Layout 4.

Activity: Changing Icons

Change the icons for your entire course by selecting a new icon set.

Replace an individual icon with an image file stored in the File Manager.

Learning More Online Help in WebCT www.webct.com

Ask Dr. C (www.webct.com/askdrc) Support (www.webct.com/support )

Campus Resources E-Learning Center Help Line at 928-523-5554 E-Learning Center Help mail at elc-help@nau.edu

Looking Ahead Additional F2F Workshops Online Training Opportunities Brown-bag Sessions

Questions and Answers

Workshop Evaluation and

Feedback