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Wednesday, July 12, 2006: 1:30 PM-2:15 PM
Superior B Room (Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers)
C-5: Empowering WebCT Vista with In-House Development of Tools and Technologies
Detailed Description:Instructional Technology Services (ITS) at Texas A&M University supports the University's technology-mediated instruction efforts. Behind the scenes, system administrators and developers are creating technologies that facilitate the use and administration of WebCT Vista on campus. This session will present the tools and technologies ITS has created for WebCT Vista. Join a discussion of the back-end processes and see a demonstration of the user interface.
Presentation Format:Showcase
Topic:Integrating the campus: Technical solutions and extended uses
Target Audience:System Administrators, Senior Administrators, E-learning Managers
Appropriate Audience Level:Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users
Abstract Text:Instructional Technology Services (ITS) at Texas A&M University supports the technology-mediated instructional efforts on campus. While some of these efforts include working with individual faculty, system administrators and developers behind the scenes create technologies that facilitate the use and administration of WebCT Vista on campus. This session will present the tools and technologies ITS created for WebCT Vista. The tools include section management, enrollment management, opscan-gradebook integration, CAS authentication, integration with streaming media services and electronic grade submission. The presentation will include a discussion of the development process, description of the technologies used, demonstration of the user interface and future development efforts.

Session Leader:Sung Lee
Texas A&M University
Co-presenters:Darrell Walker
Texas A&M University

Yakut Gazi
Texas A&M University

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