TSL Institute - Mar 12, 2003 - Keeping All That Data Straight

TSL Institute | Rodgers | CSTL | University

Wednesday
March 12, 2003

12:15 - 1:15

Technology Serving Learning Spring 2003 Institute

Keeping All That Data Straight - Managing Your Course Web Site

Dr. Mike Rodgers

Kent Library
Little Theatre
Computer Lab

Description: This workshop will introduce you to course management with OIS Manager: download and installation; creating a course Web site using a template; adding OIS to an existing course Web site; managing students (add, edit, delete, allow/deny access); creating groups; sending emails to students; using the "protected" folder.

Goal: To enable you to set up your course as an OIS course (has all the OIS components available).

Resources:			CSTL Manuals associated with this session: Introduction to OIS A brief introduction to the Online Instructor Suite. Manager Basic Part I of a brief introduction to the Online Instructor Suite Course Manager.
			OIS - Online Instructor Suite. An integrated collection of online course management tools: a gradebook, test facility, calendar, drop box, and discussion forum. Instructors control access to the tools through the Manager.
			Course Manager: The "heart" of the software package, it controls the user database and general properties used by all other modules. The Course Manager can import rosters from another server, database or text file, and allows instructors to divide students in sections of a same class and groups, among other features.
			Microsoft FrontPage. A Web-page authoring tool that is installed on computers available in faculty offices and campus computer labs.

Manuals

Viewlets

Activities:

Download the OIS Suite. Open Internet Explorer and go to: http://cstl.semo.edu/cstl
Resources > Downloads > Online Instructor Suite

(Intro to OIS, pp 7-8)

See how to do it!

Install OIS. Continuation of the OIS download. This process uses wizards, forms that collect information from you, step-by-step, to be used in the installation.

(Intro to OIS, pp 8-10)

See how to do it!

CWP Builder in OIS: The quickest way to establish a course Website. This utility gives you a professionally-designed and hyperlinked set of folders and files. Use Microsoft FrontPage to add your course content to the files.

(Manager I, pp 4-8)

See how to do it!

Linking OIS to Web Pages: A quick look at absolute and relative addressing, followed by a survey of the special links to the OIS servers.

OIS Module	Link
Calendar	/ois-bin/calendarsrv/calendarsrv.dll
Forum	/ois-bin/forumsrv/forumsrv.dll
UTest	/ois-bin/utestsrv/utestsrv.dll
Drop Box	/ois-bin/dropboxsrv/dropboxsrv.dll
GradeA	/ois-bin/gradeasrv/gradeasrv.dll

(Intro to OIS, p 11)

See how to do it!

This Viewlet shows how to add an OIS Calendar to a Web Page, using FrontPage.

Managing Students:

add, edit, delete, allow/deny access
creating groups
sending emails to students

This is how you manage a class roster, and communicate with your students in OIS Manager.

(Manager I, pp 11-15)

See how to do it!

Using the "Protected" Folder: The protected folder allows you to post Web pages that are accessible in a browser only through use of an OIS username & password. Use the protected folder to securely provide copyrighted and otherwise sensitive material to your students.

(Manager I, p 16)

See how to do it!