Strategies for Building Course Web Sites Edward F. Gehringer Dept. of Computer Science North Carolina State University April 4, 2019 E. F. Gehringer

Course-Management Systems Provide templates and tools Templates serve to organize courses in standard ways. Tools provide the means to accomplish tasks frequently required for courses Online gradebook Online testing Discussion forums Classlist management February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

A WebCT Course Homepage February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

How Widely Used Are CMSs? Almost every institution has adopted one. Institutions report widespread usage. However, many instructors do not use them. When instructors do use CMSs, they usually use only a few modules. February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

Usage of CMSs—1/03 survey Which features have you used? Inside CMS Outside CMS Ratio E-mail to individual students 73 129 0.57 E-mail to class mailing list 83 95 0.87 Class roster 75 40 1.88 Calendar of course assignments 78 55 1.42 Grade reporting to class 81 54 1.50 Lecture generation 52 0.77 Bulletin boards 19 2.74 Discussions 57 14 4.07 Web-based testing 46 13 3.54 February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

Why not Use a CMS? Didn’t have time to adapt existing Web pages. Don’t have enough material in computerized format. I want my Web site to be public! February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

Building Resources thru Peer Review Have each member of the class choose a portion of a large project E.g., “annotate” lecture notes. Then peer-review the work and put the best of these resources on the course Web site. February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

Lecture Notes Page February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

An Annotated Lecture February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer

Page Referred to by Annotation February 14, 2003 E. F. Gehringer