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.
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".
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.
Dear Rebecca,
We are currently experiencing technical problems with our development server.
We anticipate that it will be back online by 5pm this afternoon.
The live server and student access are not affected by these technical problems.
Kind regards,
The WebCT Helpdesk
Dear Rebecca,
This email has been sent to all staff members listed as WebCT designers in one or more currently live WebCT sites. Please read this email only if you are personally responsible for the creation, activation and/or restoration of sites. If your WebCT site(s) are created and/or managed by another designer or by a faculty or department administrator then please ignore this advice as these deadlines will be dealt with by your designer or administrator.
And the 9 new faculties announced are...
• Faculty 1: Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Dentistry
• Faculty 2: Science, Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Veterinary Sciences
• Faculty 3: Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
• Faculty 4: Conservatorium, Sydney College of the Arts, plus University Theatres, exhibition spaces and public Museums
• Faculty of Economics and Business, including the Graduate School of Government
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Education and Social Work
Today VC's All-Staff Forum was a Q&A with Big Gav.
He didn't actually announce in his invitation what the Forum was about (which is a bit dodgy, really, if you're looking to really communicate with people), but of course it was about the current massive Faculty & HR Restructure.
