[VPAAEtal] ITDE Instructional Design Newsletter (TAMU-C) - January 26, 2009

Mon Jan 26 14:33:14 CST 2009

January 26, 2009

.NExT Tips & Helpful Hints

		Email Students from Dropbox if No Submission Has Been
Received

A new .NExT feature allows you to email students from within a dropbox
if they have not submitted their assignment to the dropbox by the due
date. 

1. Click on the dropbox name.

2. Select the students button.

3. Check the box next to each stu-dent's name for those who have not
submitted the assignment.

4. Click send email (located above the list of names).  You will be
taken to the Email tool and the names you selected will be displayed in
the re-cipients box. 

5. Enter your subject and email con-tent.

6. Click send message.

Help Tool

.NExT has an improved 'help' tool. Navi-gate to the area in your course
in which 

	you need help. Then, select the 'help'

tool. Help information will be displayed for the area in the course you
selected.

Assign/Modify All Unit and Item Dates in a Single Location.

1. In the navigation tree, click the Au-thor tab.

2. In the Tools menu, click Course Admin.

3. Click Course Scheduler. Depend-ing on the amount of content in your
course, the Course Scheduler can take up to a minute to open. The first
time you open Course Scheduler, all Unit and content item dates are set
to the same date (i.e., your course dates). This means all Unit start
and end dates default to the start and end dates of your course, and all
content item dates default to the Unit's date.

 4.  Set start and end date access times 

       for your Unit and content items ac-  

Engage Student Attention with the Addition of YouTube Videos 

Students appreciate the use of multimedia materials in faculty
presentations and one of the simplest media to incorporate are videos.
YouTube offers a variety of content that can be utilized to illustrate
any number of points within a presentation. Follow these simple steps to
add YouTube videos to your presentations. It's easy-but there is
definitely a best practice associated with this process. We recommend
you place the video inside a 1X1 table (1 cell = 1 column & 1 row).

1. Create a 1X1 table, using the table wizard.  Make sure your table has
a border color.  Feel free to put text all around this box or nothing at
all.  SAVE your changes!

2. Go to the YouTube video and find the "embed" code.  (Hint: It's in a
gray box to the right of the video.)

3. Copy that embed code.

4. Come back to your course page, click into the HTML and find the table
tag.  It should look like this: <TD></TD>

5. Paste the embed code in between the greater than and less than
symbols like this: >embed code goes here<

6.   SAVE CHANGES!

Formative and Summative Surveys

		Spring 2009-W1(Jan 20-May 8) 

Formative

Students Surveyed: February 4-9

Reports Available to Faculty: Feb. 10

Spring 2009-W1 (Jan 20-May 8) 

Summative

Students Surveyed: April 22-April 27 

Reports Available to Faculty: June 1

	Spring 2009-WI (Jan 20-Mar 13) 

Summative

Students Surveyed: March 4-9

Reports Available to Faculty: March 30

Spring 2009-WJ(Mar 23-May 15) 

Summative

Students Surveyed: April 22-April 27

Reports Available to Faculty: June 1

 Announcements 

	Support Staff

Charlotte Larkin, Ed.D.

Director of ITDE

Julie McElhany, Ed.D.

Coordinator for Instructional Design

Dean Aslinia, M.S.

eLearning Support Specialist

Alan Francis, M.B.A.

eLearning Administrative Specialist

Jess Lamphere, B.S.

eLearning Support Specialist

Web-Enhancing a Spring 2009 Course?

Complete the online course copy request form found at 
www.tamu-commerce.edu/ itde/copyrequest.asp
<http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/copyrequest.asp> .  

Recorded Session of .NExT

View a recorded session of the new fea-tures of .NExT. at:   Jan 14,
2009, [Wed] 09:15 AM Mountain (MST, North America/ Canada)
(03:10:57)[11.7728 MB]
<https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-01-14.0915.M.5AEDBFE46FD4B0
4FEA448038F46EB9.vcr>  (Note: You may be prompted to install JAVA).

**** A PDF version of this newsletter is available at 
www.tamu-commerce.edu/ itde/newslettersArchive.asp.
<http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/itde/newslettersArchive.asp>  

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