Faculty Resources

Darton Standards for Online Courses  
Minimal standards for fully online courses at Darton.  The Online Education Committee, comprised of full time faculty teaching online and students taking online, recommended and approved these standards in 2007.  The tool should be used by faculty and academic divisions to review online content.

Wimba Resources

Wimba Committee login
Live Classroom login for Administrators

The link below is an overview.
http://www.wimba.com/products/wimbaclassroom/

The link below is for tutorials.
http://www.wimba.com/support/instructors.php

Free online workshops are available here.
http://www.wimba.com/eventreg/participant/registration.php?eventid=576

Online Resources
Effective Teaching Resources – Free and Online

Archive of links to resources for instructional design for effective online learning and teaching

Active student engagement in online courses is critical to learning, retention, and success.  Read more about this critical topic

Getting to grips with GeorgiaVIEW Vista

• GeorgiaVIEW Vista Support  - for Students and Faculty
• How to show and hide courses in your Vista home page
• http://www.webct.com/oriented  - WebCT Student Resources

GeorgiaView Vista resources for faculty
New Faculty Orientation:  this is a fully online self-directed course that resides on Darton’s GeorgiaView/WebCT server.  All online teachers have 24/7 access to the course.  The course provides a “just enough-just in time” source for reviewing WebCT  Vista functionalities.  Generic logins have been set up – do not attempt to login with your Darton WebCT userid and password.  Use one of the following generic logins:

Ten generic logins have been created which will support 10 simultaneous users.  If you ever experience an inability to login, please contact David Evarts, the WebCT server administrator, and he will establish additional generic logins to support faculty needs.

Forms

• WebCT Course Request Form
• Multi media Request Form
• Web Help

Tools and Tutorials

Complete topical tutorials of WebCT Vista utilizing Camtasia with screen shots and audio (off site)
http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/lms/tutorials/  

• GeorgiaVIEW Vista Tutorials@ GCSU (off site)
• Audacity Tutorial
• Publishing PowerPoints
• Photoshop CS 8.0 4.07MB (created by Jeffrey Hill)
• Using Access 4.47MB (created by Jeffrey Hill)
• Using Excel 5.81MB (created by Jeffrey Hill)
• Using FrontPage 7.05MB (created by Jeffrey Hill)
• Using PowerPoint 3.03MB (created by Jeffrey Hill)
• Using Word 5.62MB (created by Jeffrey Hill)
• Microsoft product and technology tutorials (off site)
• Open Courseware at MIT http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
• Virtual University Design and Technology (at Michigan State University)

Software, Downloads

• Respondus (8.6MB exe download)
• Studymate (7.1MB exe download)