Task 5: Publish Your Course to the World Wide Web
Task Assignment
To make your course materials available to
students 24x7, publish your course on the World Wide Web in a Course
Management System or as an independent website.
Providing a one-stop,
online classroom for your face-to-face students will reinforce
the sense of place for the
scenario, create a virtual conference room where students can
meet outside of class, supply file-exchange tools, allow you to offer
students rapid feedback and access to comments you post on their
grade report, and create a centralized exchange of information,
files, and ideas.
Popular Course Management Systems that provide tools
to support a one-stop online classrooms
include:
Options for publishing your
course site include:
- Create a web-site for the scenario that stands-alone.
See
the De Anza version of Practicum
in Enterprise Security for an example of that method.
- Provide
students with the option to use Google groups or
Yahoo groups and/or
regular email to
communicate.
 
- Create a CMS classroom that incorporates the web-site
for the scenario as an online textbook accessed from the CMS classroom.
See
the ETUDES site for CIS75C:
Practicum in Enterprise Security for an example
of that method. Login using “guest” as the
username and password. Follow the Classroom links
to the Practicum
site. Notice the Practicum site opens in a new window
to allow students to work in the ETUDES and the Practicum
site at the same time.
- Create a CMS classroom that contains the html pages
you created for the scenario within the CMS.
This workshop's
ETUDES site is an example
of that
method. The html pages were created in Dreamweaver, uploaded
to a website and linked to from an ETUDES session page. They can
be accessed from the ETUDES
site or directly.
- Foothill and De Anza Colleges use
ETUDES. ETUDES NG, the newest version, is being launched Fall
2005. Information
on ETUDES
and ETUDES NG
is available online:
Accessibility Considerations
Community colleges and other academic institutions
that receive government funding are required to meet the requirements
of Section 508."Under Section 508 (29 U.S.C. ‘ 794d), agencies
must give disabled employees and members of the public access to information
that is comparable to the access available to others." (www.section508.gov)
The Section
508 Standards as they apply to web sites are based on work done
by the Web Accessibility Initiative
of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Updated:
July 3, 2005
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