Linda Neff Vista Basics

Vista Training  Vista Basics  Prerequisite to Advanced Workshops  Learn fundamentals  ID 101-Essential Questions  Vista Training online class  Advanced Workshops  Labs  Notebooks

Migration Process  Request to migrate a CE course  E-Learning site form  One to two weeks to migrate  Improving Your Migrated Course in notebook

Peoplesoft Integration  Peoplesoft is authoritative  Students enrolled automatically  Students unenrolled automatically  TAs & Co-instructors must be in Peoplesoft  Start Date  End Date + 2 weeks  Combine sections

New Shell Request  Rarely used except for:  Non-Credit Course  Development for future course  Request a new shell using shell request form found at ELC site

Today’s Workshop  Exploring Vista  My Vista  Mail  Common Functions in Vista  Explore a section - tab structure, Course Content Home, Course Menu

Today’s Workshop  Designing Your Course: The Basics  Add Course Tools  Create Content – use the Course Tools you added to create content items  Organizing Content by adding links, files, and folders to Course Content Home  Customize visual aspects of your course  Show Vista Tour you can view later

Learning Outcomes After completing this workshop, you will be able to:  Navigate and customize My Vista.  Compose and organize Mail messages.  Perform functions common to many features in Vista.  Explore the Build, Teach, and Student View tabs.  Design a Course: Add tools to the Course Menu Create content items and files Organize content by adding content links and creating folders Customize the look of the course

Log in to Your Practice Course The URL is Use your NAU ID and password to log in. Activity: Logging In

Activity: My WebCT  Add a To Do Note.  Hide the My Grades channel.  Rearrange the order in which the channels display.

HTML Creator HTML Creator is available in these tools:  Assessments  Assignments  Course Content  Discussions  File Manager  Mail  Learning Modules

Common Functions  Underlined text indicates that an item is clickable  ActionLink menus  Sort by column  Select items in a list and perform an action  Paging preferences

Activity: Using Mail  From My Vista, open Mail.  Create a message.  Compose a one-word message of high priority. Address it to yourself.  Sort messages by author, date, or subject.  Create a new folder and move a read message to it.  Collapse the folder frame.

Activity: Exploring the Interface  Build tab  Teach tab  Student View tab

Design Features of Build Tab The Build tab is where you construct a course.  Course Design Process  Add Course Tools  Create Content  Organize Content  Customize the Look of Your Course

Activity: Add Tool and Set Its Visibility  Add the Announcements and Who’s Online tools to your course.  Hide the Who’s Online tool.  Go to the Student View tab and note which tools are available.

Creating Content  In WebCT CE, you use Course Tools to create content items. The items are added to that tool’s inventory.  Students can access the items by:  clicking on the appropriate tool in Course Tools to display its inventory  clicking a link you have added to the items from the Course Content Home, Learning Modules, or folders.

Activity: Creating Content  Create a Chat room called Virtual Office Hours.  Create two Web Links. Make one visible and one hidden. Go to the Student View tab and note which links are visible to students.

Activity: Organizing Content  Using the Add Content Link feature, add the Web Link that you created earlier to Course Content Home.  From Course Tools, use the Chat tool to add the Virtual Office Hours room to Course Content Home.  Add a file to Course Content Home.  Add a folder and add a link to a content item.

Activity: Using ActionLinks  Hide a link.  Move a link.  Customize a link by adding a description for it.

Customizing the Look of Your Course  Global color selections - affect the display of Course Content Home, Folders, and tool pages. They do not affect colors within HTML pages you have uploaded to the course.  Headers and footers – important for conveying information  Layouts – can minimize scrolling

Activity: Selecting Course Colors  Select one of the predetermined color sets for your course.  Select a custom color set for your course.

Activity: Page Options  Edit the header on Course Content Home.  Add a footer to a folder.  Change the page layout for Course Content Home to Layout 4.

Activity: Changing Icons  Change the icons for your entire course by selecting a new icon set.  Replace an individual icon with an image file stored in the File Manager.

Learning More  Online Help in WebCT   Ask Dr. C (  Support ( )  Campus Resources  E-Learning Center Help Line at  E-Learning Center Help mail at

Looking Ahead  Additional F2F Workshops  Online Training Opportunities  Brown-bag Sessions

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