1. OU Educate: Implementation of a New WYSIWIG Tool for Maintenance of Personal Web Pages Mary Schoeler David McQuin Kathi Dutton Don Michaels May 25, 2005

2. OU Educate - Perspective History Redesign of Campus Web Site Companion product Previously needed unix commands and FTP Hard to maintain department and personal web pages

3. OU Educate - Perspective

4. OU Educate Overview

5. OU Educate WYSIWIG editing tool for web pages similar to FrontPage or DreamWeaver Accounts automatically created for faculty and students

6. OU Educate Browser based available on any computer available at any time use IE 5.5 or higher in Windows other browsers and platforms work

7. OU Educate Compatible with other editors Saves files directly to your public- html directory no ftp no delay

8. OU Educate Skills and Tasks Saving Backups Web Page Editor Inserting Text Inserting Links Inserting Images Spell Checking Editing Tables Pasting from MS Word Uploading Files, not drag and drop Editing in full HTML mode

9. OU Educate Easy to use

10. OU Educate

12. Faculty workshops Training CD Web based training CS101

13. OU Educate Solution for Students

14. CSC 101 – Tools for Computing General Education course Computer Literacy 6 – 100 student sessions per semester Students also enroll in 1-hr lab/week 1,350 students annually

15. Lab#2 Pico, HTML, IE In this lab students learned how to create a simple web-page. Telnet into Rocky Using Unix commands Create public-html directory & set privileges Copy html template into their account & set privileges Use Pico to edit template Open IE to view newly created page

16. Problems Time consuming Students confused & over-whelmed Students find it difficult to maintain a web-presence in subsequent semesters

23. Support  Handouts  Web-based Tutorials  Training Workshops