Tutorial:  Student Presentations Tool in WebCT

 

If you want your students to present their work in your WebCT site to share with the class, you might consider using the Student Presentations Tool.  Here are the basic steps to using this tool.

 

1. Add the Student Presentations Tool icon

2. Create the student groups (the groups can be as small as one person or as large as your whole class)

3. Instruct students how to create and upload their documents

 

Adding the Student Presentations Tool icon and creating student groups

Step 1

Add the Student Presentations tool to your homepage.

Step 2

Make sure you are in the Designer View, and then click on the Student Presentations tool icon.

Step 3

On the right-hand side of the screen, click on add group link.

Step 4

Give the group a name, select the participants and choose whether or not to assign the group a private discussion group in the bulletin board/discussions tool.

Step 5

Click on Add. 

Step 6

Repeat process until all groups are formed.

 

Instructions for Students

Step 1

Groups must save their files as .htm (or .html), and the first of the files must be saved index.htm or index.html.

Step 2

Each group then clicks on the Student Presentations icon on homepage 

Step 3

Each group finds its name and clicks on the "edit files" hotlink next to it.

Step 4

The group will find click on the Upload button in the right-hand column. 

Step 5

Using the browse button, the group will find and click on the document it created at the beginning of these series of steps.  It will be named index.htm or index.html

Step 6

Click on the "upload" button".

Step 7

Repeat these steps for each of the files if there is more than just the index.htm file (other pages that are linked to the index.htm file).