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Customized Offerings

CITES offers customized workshop and training to departments and units.  Any of our short courses, workshops, and showcases can be redesigned to fit your needs.  For more information, please contact us at edtech@illinois.edu.  

Course Management

• Illinois Compass Essentials
• Illinois Compass Grade Book
• Illinois Compass: Assessing Student Performance with Online Quizzes
• Managing Large Enrollment and Multi-Section Courses in Illinois Compass
• Use of Online Discussions in Illinois Compassfor Student (and Faculty) Engagement
• Illinois Compass Clinic: Best Strategies for Revising Copied Course Sites
• Illinois Compass Course Makeovers: Taking It to the Next Level
• Illinois Compass Grade Book Clinic
• Illinois Compass Walk-In Clinic
  

Technologies for Teaching

Respondus

Respondus is a powerful tool available for free on our campus for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Illinois Compass.

Using Respondus to Create Assessments

StudyMate Author

StudyMate is a Windows-based tool available for free on our campus that allows easy creation of Flash-based practice exercises and quizzes.

StudyMate Author: An Easy Way to Create Interactive Learning Activities

Podcasts

Getting Started with Podcasts (MAC Users)

Getting Started with Podcasts (PC Users)

Blogs

Getting Started with Blogs

RSS

Getting Started with RSS

Wikis

Getting Started with Wikis

NetFiles for Faculty

NetFiles is a collaborative tool that can help faculty with research, service, and teaching.  It gives all U of I faculty and staff half a gigabyte of storage space, with built-in Web space, available everywhere the Internet reaches. This workshop will teach faculty everything they need to store documents, to distribute them, or to collaborate with peers. We will explore collaborative applications of NetFiles for your research, service, and teaching.

Web Design and Development for Faculty

Designing and building your own web sites allows you to control how students access your course material and makes it easy to share material with instructors (while also saving valuable time and making new assignments possible). This workshop will cover everything faculty need to know to get started building their own web sites to aid in their teaching. Topics to be covered include: an introduction to how Web servers and HTML work, the basics of web design and development, usability and accessibility, creating and editing pages in Dreamweaver, and publishing web sites in Netfiles or Illinois Compass.