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PROJECT T.I.E.S.

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Welcome to Targeted Investigations in Environmental Science!

T.I.E.S is designed primarily to be used online.  The initial set-up and communication may be done through a list-serve or a course management program such as WebCT. In T.I.E.S,  WebCT is used because it offers a simple course management program with a range of features like a class calendar, an online discussion for asynchronous conversation among participants, and real-time chat rooms.  Discussions may be easily catalogued.  Instructors may post assignments and students can submit them online. See Ramapo College of New Jersey's TEC support for further information 

Once participants are familiar with a course management program, the real fun begins!  T.I.E.S. participants are first introduced to one another online.   This Welcome Activity allows students to become comfortable with using the course management program, do some online research, and get to know one another. Each participant is assigned to a specific team within an Environmental Consulting Company.  In your welcome letter you were given a Company name and Team name.  Team members have specific expertise that they will share with their Company. Then your Company will decide, as a group, what information will be presented.  For the Welcome Activity, introduce yourself to the whole Company.  If you have any questions, at any time, please email your Company CEO and/or President.

First log on to WebCT and join your Consulting Company. In the Company Directory you will see your company.  Please click on your company and read the Participant Package and Newsletter #1. Second, you may go to the T.I.E.S. website http://www.rst2.edu/ties and begin learning about your webquest.

 Logging into WebCT and adding your Consulting company:  

About WebCT logins and passwords:  Think of WebCT as a building with locked doors.  You have received a key combination to enter the front door of the program : a login and password,  Once you are inside the program, change the password.  You use the WebCT login you are given and the password you choose every time you enter WebCT.

Your CEO and President will give you another key combination, a login and password to open the door to a particular class - TIES.  When you Add courses, you enter the login and password your instructor assigned, and you will be admitted to the course within WebCT. You use this key only once--the first time you add a course and log into it.

LOG INTO WEBCT THE FIRST TIME

  1. Open the browser like Netscape or Explorer. If you are dialing in from outside the campus, enter this URL in the location window:  http://guide.ramapo.edu/ and press Enter.

  1. When the Ramapo intranet page appears, click on WebCT. The WebCT item is in the bar in the upper left of the window.

 

  1. Log on to WebCT. Enter the WebCT login and password your instructor gave you.

 

  1. After you log in, you will see the page called My WebCT with your name in the title bar. Change your password. Click on the Change Password option in the menu at the top of the window and follow on-screen directions. Use a password you use with other programs so it is easy to remember.

 

  1. Click to Add courses (your company).


ADD A COURSE

  1. Click on the general subject heading to find the course for which you are registered like Masters of Science in Ed Tech.  Click on the course name: YOUR COMPANY NAME.
  1. Enter the login name and password your instructor gave you.  This is the key, if you will, that admits you to the course. You use this login and password key combination only one time.
  1. Click Go to course to see the course home page.

  You may also go to the following link to see the WebCT student guide:

http://www.ramapo.edu/content/campus.resources/tec/webctstudentguide.htm

 

Remember!  Now follow the directions for your Company Participant Package and Newsletter #1. 

 

 

 

For more Information please contact:
Dr. Angela Cristini
(201) 684-7724
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Last Update: 06/28/03 18:45