Course Sites Powerpoint
- 1. 2011 Fall Course Site Early Development Preview
- 2. Graphical Interface One of the immediately noticeable features of the new course site design is the simplified and graphical interface that now greets students and instructors.
- 3. Graphical Interface: Student Students are presented with multiple sets of graphically enhanced menus, each dividing the various course site functions and commands into groupings that mirror their graphical stand- in.
- 4. Graphical Interface: Instructor The instructor also is treated to a customized graphical interface.
- 5. Enhanced Interface: Help Features In addition to having graphical enhancements, the interface now has help features to guide users in creating content for the site.
- 6. Drafting Integration The new course sites integrate drafting as part of their structure, allowing students to nurse a draft from early writing to final product all while keeping track of changes and getting peer review.
- 7. Draft Integration Using the Workflow menu, students are able to set the status of a given draft and update that status to reflect changes as they go along.
- 8. Draft Integration Students will be able to track all of their current drafts, viewing them by Workflow status and by the Assignment they are associated with.
- 9. Draft Integration: the Draft Workflow Once a student has marked an item as up for peer review, it shows up under the Peer Review Interface for other students to see and elect to review.
- 10. Draft Integration: the Draft Workflow Once the draft has been submitted, it will show up on the student’s Gradetracker Interface, as well as on the grading interface used by the instructor.
- 11. Grading Simplification The new course sites make use of a simplified grading system, allow instructors to grade student content on the same page the content is presented, eliminating much of the tedium of past semesters grading.
- 12. Grading Simplification: Grading Simple Content To grade content that merely has an pass/fail for completion, you can now enter grades directly into your gradebook without accessing each particular deliverable.
- 13. Grading Simplification: On-Deliverable Grading As mentioned previously, once student content has been flagged as a Finalized draft, the Grading Interface shows up on that deliverable, allowing for same-screen grading of drafts.
- 14. Grading Simplification: Grade Reporting Once a grade is entered, students are immediately able to see the results in their Gradetracker Interface, or on their actual draft itself with the Gradetracker Block.
- 15. Calendar System Part of the new course site design is a robust calendar system that allows students and instructors to track assignments, weekly itineraries, and set up meetings.
- 16. Calendar System: Itinerary As part of the new Instructor Interface, course site instructors can create weekly calendar itinerary items that will show up on a weekly basis on the Course Calendar.
- 17. Calendar System: Meetings In addition to itineraries, instructors can set up meetings times for students to come and conference. These meetings show up on the Course Calendar, where students can then select a meeting and comment when they will attend.
- 18. Calendar System: Graphical Enhancements The new calendar system makes use of a color-based legend system to differentiate between event types, and also displays events that span multiple days graphically on the calendar page.
- 19. Attendance System: Instructor Tools As a continuation of the current course site technology, the new course sites will continue to offer the Attendance Interface to taking role in classes.
- 20. Attendance System: Student Tools Additionally, as another carry- over from the current technology, students are able to submit absence reports directly to instructors using the Absence Interface.
- 21. Badge Achievements: Following in the footsteps of the current technology, the new sites will offer an achievement system with integrated functions for students to apply for an earn pedagogically-centered writing achievements.
- 22. Badge Achievements: Socially Signified Mirroring the current system, users will be able to see achievement badges earned by their classmates on the Members Interface. Each badge is linked to its explanation page.
- 23. Badge Achievements: Pedagogical Ties You can, if you wish, tie badges to something students can accomplish in your class.
- 24. File System: Podcasting Support For the first time, course sites will support the submission and review of podcast content, using the updated File System Interface.
- 25. Thanks for watching this presentation on the Fall 2011 Course Sites. Please let us know if you have any comments or feedback. We look forward to hearing your suggestions and continuing the development of new and exciting course site technology for the Purdue English Department.