UW Instructional Computing Services
| Your Teaching Goals | Mapping Details | LMS (Course
Platform) Tools and Facilities |
| All of UW's course platforms provide the first few facilities. | ||
Home pageProvide a welcome message, description of the course, links to recent announcements and activities. |
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AnnouncementsUse Announcements to distribute information and notifications about activities or events relevant to your course. | ||
File Services (or Doc Sharing or Resources)Use the file services to distribute your teaching materials to students. |
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CalendarUse the calendar to post information about deadlines, activities and events in the class. |
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Message Board or Discussion or ForumsUse discussions to set up, moderate, participate, and manage online student discussions. |
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| Email Use the e-mail (or Messages) tool to contact some or all of your students via e-mail. Some platforms' tools will allow the option of internal messaging (in the course site), as well as the standard external e-mail delivery. |
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ChatUse online chat to engage in real-time, unstructured conversations with your students. |
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| The following facilities are provided only by our full course platform, eCompanion. | ||
| Syllabus Use this tool to distinguish one or more special pages as the Syllabus, for easy reference by students. |
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| Organization of Materials Use units and content items to provide structure for your online materials, which can be text or media. | ||
DropboxUse this class-wide conduit for the instructor to post, and students to submit, text-based assignments. | ||
JournalUse this pairwise conduit to exchange documents between individual student and instructor in a personal folder. | ||
GradebookUse the gradebook to record, calculate, store, and distribute grade information to students. | ||
Exams or Tests & QuizzesUse Tests & Quizzes to create, edit and manage online assessments and to set up automatic feedback and grading options. |
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