Faculty Design Tools

Instructional pdfs for Creating your eLearning Classrooms:

• Copying Content from a prior semester
• Starting from Scratch (blank course)
• Adding the Course Content (home) page template
• Changing a picture on your Course Content (home) page
• Creating an Anonymous Survey
• Using a Discussion Board for student BIO's (photos)
• Creating an Extended Time assessment
• Grade Book - How do I delete columns?
• Grade Book - How do I hide grades?
• Safe Assign - How do I submit without student involvement?
• Safe Assign - How do I have students upload their papers?

Creating your Header for your New Classroom:

1. Go into your Classroom


2. Make sure you are in build mode


3. Using the top right tool that is called Page Options, open the drop menu, click on Edit Header


4. Copy and paste all the HTML information below.


5. Edit variables, example of variable is, var photosrc = "campus2"; (Change only what is between quotation marks ie.
   "campus2" do not add or remove any quotation marks


6. Then check mark the Use HTML box and hit save

<!-- START COPYING HERE --> <!-- CE 8 --> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- START CUSTOMIZATION EDITS HERE --> <!-- Enter 3 Letter Department Code Between the Quotes Below --> var dept = "DPT"; <!-- Enter Photo Source Code Between the Quotes Below --> var photosrc = "campus1"; <!-- Enter Course Name Between the Quotes Below --> var coursenum = "Course Name Here"; <!-- Enter Instructor Name Between the Quotes Below --> var instructor = "Instructor Name Here"; <!-- Enter Course Description Between the Quotes Below --> var coursedesc = "Enter your course description here."; <!-- STOP CUSTOMIZATION EDITS HERE --> </script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.cortland.edu/webct/includes/classroom.js"></script> <!-- STOP COPYING HERE -->

• For Codes for the photos go to this page:
  http://www.cortland.edu/webct/classroom/images/photos/

• For codes for the headers go to this page
  http://www.cortland.edu/webct/classroom/images/headers/