a2a deadline reminder email went out to all designers this morning.... (note to self: we need to stop calling the system WebCT!)
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To ensure that your students have access to your WebCT site from the first day of semester you will need to complete preparation of your site and submit an Application to Activate by June 27th, 2007.
Would you believe we've already started getting a2as for Semester 2 sites? Not many, but they're starting.
So-- the a2a deadline for Sem 2 sites is a month before lectures start:
Monday 25th June, 2007
Remember, if you get it in earlier than that, your site will be checked & ready well before start of semester. :)
Quite a few of our designers, especially the faculty designers who have many many sites, have been asking whether they'll be able to continue connecting directly to the WebCT server using WebDAV, as they have been with CE 4.
Interested in recording a narrated slideshow of your lecture while you give it? Facilities Management has put Camtasia software in many of the lecture threatre computers. If you're using an MS Powerpoint slideshow for your lecture, you can launch this software and it will record your narration and slideshow as you lecture, then give you an AVI movie file at the end. You can then upload the movie to your WebCT or other teaching site and allow your students to download your lecture and relive the happy hours you've spent together as they revise (or catch up on the lectures they missed).
Read on for more info, a list of eqipped theatres, and details about our WebCT site "Using Multimedia in Online Teaching & Learning".
We're finding CE 6.1 to be pretty picky about which browsers it will cooperate with, and that many browsers are a bit crashy with it. Unfortunately, this goes for a number of browsers that are validated for use with CE 6.1 according to the WebCT / Blackboard themselves.
People have started to ask about Application to Activate dates for the upcoming semesters:
* Summer School 2006-7 (sessions 42, 43, 44, 45)
* Semester 1, 2007 (sessions 1, 6, 7)
ce6.1 migration checklist (for sites migrated from ce4.1)
I have made a checklist for our team to use when checking webct ce 4.1 sites migrated to ce6.1:
http://www.usyd.edu.au/webct/form/ce6upgrade/ce6-migration-checklist.html
It ain't perfect, but it highlights the issues we suspect we're going to find in many of the sites we need to migrate.
