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Oncourse Services & Feedback

  • Request a site - Request project sites or practice course sites; your course sites are automatically generated.
  • Contact us - Make a suggestion or request help

Oncourse Resources (PDF)

 

Oncourse Feature Demonstrations Feature demonstration

2-4 minute videos for student and instructors

 

Oncourse Student Quickstart Guide (movie)

How to Use the Oncourse WIKI (movie)

Online

Tools Descriptions Feature demonstration

General General overview of course and project sites

Request a practice course or project site from Oncourse CL (with audio)

Customize tabs (with audio)

Reorder tools for a site (with audio)

View photos of site participants in roster tool

Add a photo to your profile


Announcements Inform site participants of current items of interest

Post announcements


Post an announcement to a group

Assignments Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments

Create assignments


Download multiple student assignments


Grade an assignment


Submit an assignment (with audio)


Communicate to students about assignments


Check the grade for an assignment


Download assignment grades to a spreadsheet

 

Calendar Post items in calendar format

Post a calendar item

 

Chat Room Chat online with participants in your site

Create multiple chat rooms

 

Drop Box Submit documents to be seen only by your instructor Add an item to the Drop Box
Email Archive Keep track of course or project site email correspondence

Send email from Microsoft Outlook


Create a site distribution email list

 

ePortfolio Manage an electronic portfolio of your coursework

Attach a file

 

Forums Communicate through discussion forum topics

Create a discussion forum and topic


Compose a forum message


Read and reply to a forum message


Grade a forum message


Change default forum settings


Reorder forums and topics


View forum statistics

 

Gradebook Manage grades

View scores by group


Change grade type (with audio)


View cumulative scores


Add an item to the Gradebook (with audio)


Add items in bulk


Edit a Gradebook item


Hide course grade


Remove assignment from calculated grade


Import grades from a spreadsheet

 

Messages Communicate using internal course mail

Send a message


Read and reply to messages

 

News Use RSS to add dynamic news to your site

Add dynamic news to a site

 

Original Test and Survey Administer tests and gather survey information

Create a new test


Enable a test for student participation


Take and submit a test

 

Podcasting Create, store, and distribute multimedia content to site participants via an RSS feed

Post a podcast


Subscribe to a podcast using iTunes


Record a podcast (with audio)

 

Post 'Em Upload a comma delimited (CSV) spreadsheet to present feedback to site participants

Upload an Excel spreadsheet of grades


Upload multiple files to Post'Em


Check participant access to feedback


View feedback

 

Preferences Control how often you are notified of course or project site activity

Edit notification preferences


Customize tabs (with audio)

 

Resources Make any kind of material available online

Post a file (with audio)


Use drag and drop for My Workspace (with audio)


Use drag and drop for a course site (with audio)


Reorder Resources

 

Site Setup Maintain course or project site settings

Add participants


Create a group


Reuse content from other sites


Combine rosters

 

Syllabus Post and maintain your official course outline

Add item to syllabus


Edit the syllabus


Redirect the syllabus to a Word file


Add an attachment to a syllabus

 

Web Content Choose external web sites to display within your worksite

Add a Web Content item to a course or project site


Customize a Web Content item

 

Wiki Create and update wiki pages

Add Wiki to a site (with audio)


Add and edit wiki pages (with audio)


Add links to a wiki page (with audio)


Add an image to a wiki page


View history of a wiki page

Tutorials

What's New in Adobe CS4
  Short 2-5 page PDF documents describing the key new features in several CS4 applications.

Note: IU faculty, staff and students can download free CS4 versions of basic Adobe STEPS workshop materials from IUWare.

 

Email / Communications
 

 

Flip Camera
 

Flip Camera Basics (video demonstration)

 

OneStart
 

OneStart: Navigating the Portal (PDF)

 

Web Publishing
 

Adobe Contribute in the University (Flash)

 

Podcasting
 

 

RSS Feeds
   
Handouts
 

 


IT Training Online

Microsoft Desktop eLearning Courses: Courses and reference materials on Microsoft Office and Windows, free for IU student, faculty and staff.