FP1001 - FrontPage and OIS Manager

Course Description

Title: Course Web Site Design with MS FrontPage and OIS Manager

Description: This workshop will explore course web site authoring using Microsoft FrontPage and OIS Manager. Use OIS Manager to create a basic course web site and then use FrontPage to customize the web site for your specific course needs. Explore web page authoring in FrontPage XP by building a class "splash" page that serves your students by giving them access to online tests, grades, conferencing and other features. We will also adapt existing content, such as Word documents, to web-ready format.

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Class Content

Web Site Design with MS FrontPage and OIS Manager
Thursday, May 18, 2006 from 08:30 AM to 11:30 AM
(Kent Library Little Theatre)

Facilitator: Dr. Mike Rodgers

Tentative Schedule

TIME

ACTIVITY

8:30 - 8:35

Welcome

8:35 - 8:50

Online Instructor Suite: Your resource for course management

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.

What is "course management"?

Link to CSTL manuals

8:50 - 9:00

Download and install Online Instructor Suite

OIS provides you with the software you need to manage a course Website. Today, we will complete the OIS installation for your own course, and then practice using the software.

Why are all those blue-gray icons on my desktop?


OIS Manager: The module everyone needs!	GradeA	DropBox	Forum	UTest	Calendar	Chat

By placing links on course pages within the "protected" folder of the Website

GradeA: /ois-bin/gradeasrv/gradeasrv.dll
DropBox: /ois-bin/dropboxsrv/dropboxsrv.dll
Forum: /ois-bin/forumsrv/forumsrv.dll
UTest: /ois-bin/utestsrv/utestsrv.dll
Calendar: /ois-bin/calendarsrv/calendarsrv.dll
Chat: /ois-bin/chatsrv/chatsrv.dll

9:00 - 9:10

Use OIS Manager to Create a Class http://cstl.semo.edu/cstl/resources/CourseWebDev/index.asp

Create the course Website using Manager's Template: follow the Wizard to put course information on the Web pages that OIS builds for you.

How can you view your new Website?

Using the Template to create a Website (Viewlet)

9:10 - 9:25

How can we add course content (including the OIS links) to our Website?

OIS knows no content! Microsoft FrontPage will help you add content to pages in your site: FrontPage (FP) is a Web-page authoring tool that is installed on computers available in faculty offices and campus computer labs. It's more than a word processor! FP helps you organize your entire class Website, so that students will be able to readily access your course materials from anywhere the Internet reaches. CSTL provides a "How To" site to help you with some FrontPage features.

The FrontPage Web

Starting FP: 1st time, every time
- Find FP on your computer and start it.

FP views
- Explore the various views, ending up with folder view as your “standard” working view: "When a Web is open, this view lets you organize its files and folders."

What is a Web?
- Log on to your personal CSTL Web.
- Explore the basics of Web folder structure.
- Look for an "index.htm" page.

FP lets us check what we've done (Viewlet)

Some Ways to Add Content

Think About it First

9:25 - 10:00

Add and format text
Text is still the workhorse of higher education. FP offers a wide array of formatting, some of which we will investigate here.

Images

If you believe that a picture is worth 1000 words, here is your chance to speak volumes! FP makes it easy to import images to your Web and to add those images to your Web pages.

10:00 - 10:15

- Break -

10:15 - 10:45

Hyperlinks

Use hyperlinks to allow your students to browse to other Web pages, send e-mail, or download other content files.
Introduction to tables
Many disciplines rely on tables to organize large amounts of data. But, the Web's unique working environment makes tables valuable to almost anyone who needs to format information on a Web page. We'll see how to use tables to control placement of data in Web pages.

10:45 - 11:15

What can we do next?

Customize a Web page's background color

Convert Documents to Web Format

Manage Web files

Add rich content to your site: data collection, multimedia, etc. (Examples:

)

Implement additional resources: e.g., Turnitin, wikis, conferencing software

11:15 -11:30

Wrap-up and Evaluations

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