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

2. 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
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3. A WebCT Course Homepage
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4. 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.
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5. Usage of CMSs—1/03 survey Which features have you used? Inside CMS
Outside CMS
Ratio
to individual students 73
129
0.57
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
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6. 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!
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E. F. Gehringer

7. 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.
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8. Lecture Notes Page
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9. An Annotated Lecture
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10. Page Referred to by Annotation
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