Faculty Guide to WebCT

WebCT "Help"

• WebCT Academy
• WebCT-UCF Online Manual
• WebCT Software: "Help" Feature
• WebCT Browser Tune-Up
• WebCT and IE SP2 Questions/Issues

WebCT Related Forms:

• Get a WebCT Account
  For UCF faculty members ONLY (including visiting and adjunct faculty). Students should contact their professor for information about WebCT accounts.
• Online Course Guest Access Request Form
  The purpose of Guest Access is to allow an individual, outside the University of Central Florida (UCF) community, into an online course. For example, you might have a guest speaker who is moderating a discussion topic.
  
  

WebCT How-to Instructions & Guides:

• General Guidelines for Submission of Web Course Materials
• Quiz Submission Guidelines
• WebDAV
  To improve security on the Reach server, FTP access has been turned off (as of Friday, December 13th, 2002). If you currently use the FTP process to access your Reach pages (publicly accessible pages), you will need to visit the webDAV site for new instructions.
  
  The following documents are Adobe Acrobat files. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
  
• Instructions for Resetting Your WebCT Account
  We strongly advise that you reset your WebCT account prior to adding students for the next semester. This will help prevent strange errors occurring in your account during the year.
  
• Instructions for Adding Students to Your WebCT Account
  This is how your students will be able to access your WebCT accounts. You will want to perform this several times during the add/drop period.
  
• Maintenance Checklist
  Before, during, and after the semester maintenance list.
• Log In and My WebCT
  Centeralized site where faculty can see a list of their courses. 

WebCT-UCF Online Manual

There are two ways to acquire "Help" when using WebCT. You can access either the manual and tutorials created specifically for instructors at UCF (in PDF format) or the "Help" feature available within WebCT.

UCF's Faculty WebCT Manual is available from the Teaching Online homepage.  You will find the Faculty WebCT Manual icon at the bottom of the page.

WebCT "Help" Feature

There are two ways to acquire "Help" when using WebCT. You can access either the manual and tutorials created specifically for instructors at UCF (in PDF format) or the "Help" feature available within WebCT.

WebCT has a built in, online "Help" index for students and faculty. The Index is organized by Tools (discussions, quizzes, chat, etc.) and then by tool task.

For example:

You would like to know how to delete Course Mail. You would first go to "Help" and locate the tool "Mail" and then search for tutorial on "deleting mail."

There are two ways to access "Help" content.

1. Log into your WebCT account
2. From the WebCT homepage you can click the "Help" link from the Menu Bar and then select the tool from the Index. From the tool tutorial select the task you would like to complete.
   
   Or
3. From the WebCT homepage click the button for the tool you would like to use, then select "Help" from the Menu Bar. The Index for that specific tool will be displayed.