Faculty can learn more about the various options available to them at UCSF in placing course materials online.

What kinds of courses can be placed on WebCT at the CIT? What's involved in developing and managing a WebCT course? The information on this page will help you get started.

UCSF faculty and designated instructional technology staff can use this online form to request a new WebCT course.

A series of two-hour, hands-on classes that teach new WebCT course designers how to develop, build and manage online courses using the WebCT course management system.

UCSF faculty and staff involved in WebCT course design can learn about the latest WebCT developments, including downtime, new features, etc.

This manual from WebCT Design Class 1 covers navigating around the WebCT designer interface and course homepage, adding and modifying course tools and settings, communication tools and course management basics. The class presentation slides are also available.

This manual from WebCT Design Class 2 covers transferring content to WebCT using the File Manager, transferring multiple files, adding single pages to courses, and building Content Modules. The class presentation slides are also available.

Step-by-step instructions for WebCT course designers to place a document onto a WebCT course and make it accessible to students.

Step-by-step instructions for WebCT course designers to link to resources on the web.

This 94-page guide from WebCT contains both an overview of WebCT and a tutorial covering five course design scenarios.

This 101-page reference manual from WebCT covers everything there is to know about WebCT (however it may be slightly out of date)

How do students get added to WebCT courses? There are a number of ways students can be added to WebCT courses. This page describes the various methods.

UCSF faculty and designated instructional technology staff can use this online form to request that a group of students be enrolled into a WebCT course.

This manual from WebCT Design Class 3 covers adding and removing students, controlling student access, adding new gradebook columns, transferring grades to Excel, managing TAs and shared designers, and tracking students. The class presentation slides are also available.

This page provides instructions on how to download your WebCT gradebook to your computer.

This page provides instructions on how to move grades from your computer into your WebCT gradebook.

This page provides instructions on how to release a grade column so that each student can access her or his individual grade.

This manual from WebCT Design Class 4 covers adding and managing questions in the Questions Database, using the Quiz Editor to build quizzes or surveys, administering and grading quizzes, analyzing results, and using the Assignment tool. The class presentation slides are also available.

This page provides instructions on how to use a software application called Respondus to create Quizzes in WebCT.

This section provides information on the various methods that course designers can add PowerPoint presentations to their WebCT online course.
-- Creating Narrated, Web-based Presentations

This page provides instructions on how to set up convenient Drag and Drop access to your WebCT files using the WebDAV feature.

This page provides instructions on how to make a backup of all the information in your course.

This page provides instructions on how to reset a WebCT course for a new group of students or at the beginning of a new academic term.