Set Up An Online Course

Online Resources

Learning Management Systems

Sakai & BlackBoard

• Announcements
• Syllabus (can be uploaded and students will always have access to it)
• Links (to textbook material, or other web sites)
• Tests
  • Automatically graded
  • Multiple choice
  • True/False
  • Fill in the blank
  • Hot spot-click on a section of a picture
  • Matching
  • Ordering
  • Essays (need to be manually graded)
• Test pools
  • Questions supplied by the publisher
  • Random questions can be selected so each student has a different test
  • Tests very easy to create and reduces cheating
• Grade Center
  • Tests created in the LMS and automatically graded will automatically enter the grade into the grade book
• Mid-term grade calculation
• Running total in grade book
• Weighted grades
• Comments can be left for the student about each assignment
• Students can check their grades online and view comments by clicking on the grade
• Electronic submission of assignments
• Templates and instructions can be placed in the LMS by the instructor and downloaded by the student
• Instructors can provide multiple files for download
• The student can complete the assignment and submit it through the assignments area or through the drop box
• Collaboration (chat room, white board, shared desktop, chat logs)
• Email directly to students
• Discussion Boards
• Early Warning system
  • Alerts instructors of students who are not participating
  • Receiving low grades
  • Late with assignments
• Course Statistics
  • Monitors when students are logging in
  • What links they are clicking on
  • How long they are online
• Glossary
• Groups (Group project participants can have access to)
  • File shares
  • Discussion boards
  • Collaborative sessions just for their group members
• Course shell is automatically created
• Students are automatically enrolled in the course- mirrored from Cardinal station
• No need to create new accounts, everyone logs in with the CUA login and password

Other Online Resources

Digital Audio Recorders for borrow
Web cameras for borrow
Digital Cameras for borrow
Blogger
AOL web video chat
Camtasia
Slideshare
Facebook
     25 Facebook Apps for Online Education
     Another article
YouTube
    A Teacher's Tour of YouTube
Twitter
    Using Twitter in the classroom
Del.icio.us (social bookmarks)
    Using Delicious in the classroom
Wiki
     Using Wiki in the classroom
     Using Wikis in Higher Education (scroll down and click on the Higher-Ed Wikis link)

Faculty members may request an online course area in Sakai and Blackboard by contacting Dr. Saiid Ganjalizadeh at 202-319-6411 or via email at ganjalizadeh@cua.edu.

For additional information about online tools for pedagogical use, please see our Teaching and Research page, or contact Dr. William Lantry, Director of Academic Technology Services at 202-319-6416.