Tutorial: Managing Students in a WebCT Course

Here are the basic steps in managing students in WebCT.

1. Adding students

3. Gradebook

4. Reset Course

Adding students

Step 1	Click on Control Panel in upper left hand corner.
Step 2	Click on Manage Course column heading and then on Add or Import Students link.
Step 3	Go to “Add multiple students” and type in <DA-(semester)-(course prefix)-course number-course section> Example: DA-SP-ENGL-111-D9. It will look like this: If you are teaching a main campus class, you will type MA instead of DA (MA for main campus and DA for Doña Ana).
Step 4	Click on Select.
Step 5	Once students’ name appear, click on Select again.

Updating Student List

Step 1	Follow instructions above for steps 1 and 2.
Step 2	Instead of typing in the course information in the “Add multiple students” dialogue box, scroll down to the dialogue box that says “To update your existing student list.” Type in the course information in this box (ex: DA-FA-ENGL-111-15). Click on the Synchronize button.
Step 3	Check to make sure that no students will be deleted who are in the class. Toggle off any students that the computer wants to delete but shouldn’t be deleted. Double-check that you are adding and deleting the correct students. THEN click on Synchronize again.

Gradebook

Adding Columns

Step 1	Click on Control Panel in upper left hand corner.
Step 2	Click on Manage Course column heading and then on Manage Column link.
Step 3	To add a column, click on the Add Column button, which is under the Organize heading.
Step 4	Give the column a label.
Step 5	Drop down menu Type, and choose numeric. It will look like this:
Step 6	Click on Add.
Step 7	Set attributes for Hidden, Released and Decimals under the Options heading. For example: Click on the box on the top of columns you want to release. Click on Release column radio button in right hand column and choose YES in the dropdown menu. Click on Update and notice that there is a “yes” in each column for the release attribute. Do the same for the decimals and hidden attributes, and set as you want. You can set attributes for more than one column at a time

Adding Grades

Step 1	Click on the edit link under the column label to which you want to add grades. It will look like this:
Step 2	Fill in how many points are possible in the “out of” box.
Step 3	Input student grade.
Step 4	Click on update.

Adding Formulas

Step 1	Make sure the column has been added as a calculated column, not as a numeric column.
Step 2	Click on the “formula link” on the top of the column into which you want to insert a formula.
Step 3	Drop down menu next to the “insert” button and choose columns (one at a time) that you want to be included in your formula. Then click on insert.
Step 4	Click on the arithmetic function key you want to apply (ex, +, -, *) to the columns.
Step 5	Insert next column and so forth.

Reset Course

Step 1	Click on Control Panel in upper left hand corner.
Step 2	Click on Manage Course column heading and then on Reset Course link. (If you want to backup your course before resetting it, click on the Backup Course link and follow the online instructions.)
Step 3	Click on Select All and then click on reset. Your course no longer has any student data from the past semester and is ready for new students.