Greetings, Summer 2008 WebCT Faculty.
WebCT course delivery sites for all three Summer 2008 semesters will be available to you on Wednesday, May 14.
DO NOT ENTER YOUR COURSE DELIVERY SITE UNTIL YOU HAVE READ
THIS MESSAGE CAREFULLY, INCLUDING THE ATTACHED INSTRUCTIONS
When you are ready to make your site available to students, use the Copy Content function to copy material
§ from your development site (e.g., John Smith PY 102)
§ to your delivery site (e.g., PY-102-32284). (The instructions for copying content from one WebCT site to another are attached.)
Until you have copied content to your delivery site, students who attempt to access the site will receive a message that the site is not yet ready.
Once you have copied content into your delivery site, students will be able to enter the site. If you do not want students to access your site until the first day of the semester, you may:
1. Copy content and then deny students access, OR
2. Delay copying content until the first day of class.
Special Note #1: If your development site no longer represents your most current design for the semester, we can delete it and recreate it so that you can copy content to it from a more contemporary version. Any one of the on-campus technical support staff can help you with this task. Please allow at least a two-day turn-around time for deletion and recreation of a development site.
Special Note #2: As an alternative method, you may also choose to copy content from an earlier delivery site, e.g., your Summer 2007 site, to your Summer 2008 delivery site.
Special Note #3: Some faculty have found it is more convenient to have a separate development site for each type of semester. For example, you could have a “Joe Smith MG 101 Summer” and a “Joe Smith MG 101 15 Week.” By keeping each of those development sites up to date, you would be able to have appropriate versions of the same course for delivery in semesters of different lengths.
If you need assistance with any of these processes, please contact me or one the technical support staff:
Michele Knight, 240-567-1733 (Rockville)
Lenita Reeves, 240-567-7785 (Germantown)
Rebecca Li, 240-567-1392 (Takoma Park/Silver Spring)
