Last Update: 17 August 2007; R. Hill
The University of Wyoming's World-Wide Web intranet, called WyoWeb, provides all kinds of information and general web services for students, faculty, and staff,
departments, divisions, and units. The portal, at
http://wyoweb.uwyo.edu
will be separate from the public website, remaining at
http://www.uwyo.edu
What you see after login is a set of tabs (pages) with several channels
(mini-websites) on each.
To reach the faculty part of WyoWeb, log on, using the standard UWYO domain account values for user ID and password, and then open the Faculty tab. Your Course Studio shells will be found in the "My Courses" channel, on the link labeled "Click Here."
The main effects of WyoWeb for teaching faculty:
Online grade submission through faculty channels (see Faculty
Channels below)
Tracking of advisees and other students through Banner
Self-Service (see Faculty Channels below)
Course Studio shells for each course taught (see Course Studio
below)
Your Faculty Dashboard channel shows your courses, and their enrollees, and your advisees, with data drawn from the Office of the Registrar. This channel is not intended for course materials, but for administrative processing. You can see the same data under Banner Self-Service (which replaces Hole in the Wall). Rosters can be copied from the Summary List and pasted into spreadsheets. These tasks, as well as grade submission and advisee tracking (and other student information retrieval tasks) are explained in the "WyoWeb Facilities for the Paperwork of Teaching" document.
Your "My Courses" channel will provide online course shells for each course for which you are the instructor of record. By default, they are the Course Studio platform, but you can change that. . When you use your UWYO domain account to enter the portal, WyoWeb, you should see a channel entitled "My Courses." (upper left, by default) on the Faculty tab. Click on the link there to see your course list. Then select the academic term from the drop-down list, and, from the list of courses that results, click on a course title to see its website, with the homepage displayed. The tools appear in sections on the left side. See the other documents mentioned on this page for instructions on setting up the course homepage and website.
Your students will see the same homepage, except that they don't have Configuration Tools, and don't have Content Tools unless you grant them privileges.
If you want to use a different course website: To set the reference, in My Courses, to an eCompanion or WebCT shell, or to an external URL, click the EDIT button next to the course title, and select one of the four choices. The first and default choice is the Course Studio option. The fourth choice, "Other," provides a blank field where you can type a website address of your own.
I. Elements you can provide as Course Tools
With no further request or setup, these will be available to for all of the
courses you teach, and all of the students in them.
Homepage Featured images and links (drawn from previously stored items). Announcements Brief text notices, which expire (and disappear) in a week. News,
Photos,
Links“Bulletin board” items that you and students can all submit; you can review and approve. Either plain text or HTML
Files For shared materials of various document formats, for download by students. Hierarchical, with subfolders, and a search function. Message Board For open aynchronous communication (discussion). Calendar For due dates and so forth-- both events and tasks. With print and search. To guaranteed student addresses, based on Registrar's data. Chat For synchronous (instant) communication, one-to-one or among a group.
II. Arrangements to consider
You can add the functions below to your Course Studio components.
III. Elements that will require other platforms
The Course Studio component of the WyoWeb portal will not provide the
following
items, which can be obtained through other online course platforms. For
those, follow the "Online Courses" link at the ECTL page.
For more details, see the "How to Set Up Course Studio" notes. For even more details, see "Instructions for Standard Teaching Tasks Using Course Studio in WyoWeb."
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