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 FACULTY GUIDE

Introduction
Announcements
Archived Classes
Assignments
Chat
Class Members
Class Menu
Classroom Awareness
Conferences
Content
Course Evaluations
Faculty Center
Gradebook
Import
Portfolio
Private Messaging
Reserved Reading
Roster Student (Archived)
Study Groups
Syllabus (Traditional)
World Wide Syllabus
Time Stamping
Webliography
Workbook
 

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For more information about enhanced features visit http://www.umuc.edu/enhancedwebtycho/i ndex.shtml

Submissions in WebTycho are time stamped 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST).  If you submit from another time zone, your document will display the time converted to EST.

Due Dates
Pre-set dates for availability, due dates, and assignment lock dates are the start of the day, essentially 12:01 AM, and not 11:59 PM. 


Introduction

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This WebTycho Faculty Guide supplements the WebTycho User Guide, and focuses on those functions available only to faculty. This guide assumes you have read the User Guide before consulting these pages.

Access Levels

    Student.  Students have read access to all areas of the classroom and write access in Conferences, Assignments, and Study Groups as determined by the instructor. The instructor rosters students into study groups, and students can see, enter, and participate in only the study groups into which the teacher has placed them.

    Instructor. The term Instructor is used in a very limited sense to mean the lead faculty member in charge of a class. The instructor is responsible for the content and design of the course.

    Faculty.  Faculty have access to compose and edit class announcements; post a biography; add content to the syllabus; create and manage conferences and study groups; and read, edit, and grade all student assignments. Faculty may place additional written materials for the class (in .txt or .html format or as  a Web link) in the Course Content area, although undergraduate faculty are not required to do so.

    Teacher's Assistants (TAs).  TAs have faculty access to all areas except Manage Syllabus and Manage Course Content.

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Faculty Center is located on the Class Menu
The hub of faculty activity is the Faculty Center. To merely participate in a conference, or view course content and other material, click on those links on the Class Menu. However, to manage these areas first click on Faculty Center. From there you may create, edit, delete, and control student access to all eligible areas. Read more...

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Faculty Resources
For information about Faculty WebTycho Training, Faculty Development Workshops and Meetings, publishing on the web, Peer Mentoring Program, FacTalk UMUC's Worldwide Faculty Listserv -- and more, please visit the UMUC Faculty web page.  http://www.umuc.edu/faculty/

Impatica for PowerPoint
Impatica for PowerPoint is desktop software, available for both Windows and Mac, that enables simple delivery of animated, narrated PowerPoint presentations to any user. It reads and interprets PowerPoint files and produces a compressed file that can be streamed over the Internet. Read more about downloading and installing this program.

Faculty Announcements
UMUC posts messages for faculty at the top of the Class Announcements page. Students cannot see these messages.

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WebTycho Support does not support third party software. This includes virus-protection, e-mail services, ISPs, browsers, word processing and any other software not developed by WebTycho. To use the third-party software, you must agree to the terms and conditions imposed by the third party provider and the agreement to use such software will be solely between you and the third party provider. However, because browsers required for use with WebTycho, we provide limited assistance in configuring browsers specifically for that purpose.

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