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Student Presentations

The Student Presentations tool allows students to post content to the course. Your instructor establishes accounts for each student (or group of students). Students then have the ability to upload documents into Manage Files and add the document to their account(s). Students may only manipulate documents in their account. However, they will be able to view documents posted by other students (or group of students.)

Access Student Presentations

After selecting the presentations icon from the WebCT homepage a list of groups and their projects will appear on the screen (Notice: students may only edit files for their groups).

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To view a group’s presentation, click on the name of their project (in the Project column). Notice, once the files have been added, the project name is underlined (hyperlinked). After the project has been selected, a new window will open with the presentation. You may also click on the group name to see a list of the group members. The name appear under "Group Members" in the right column. To send a message to all members of a group, click on the envelope in the column to the left of the group name. A Compose Mail Message window will open.

Tip: Rather than uploading an html page, you may also select "Create new file" and click the "Go" button. You will need to manually enter or paste in the HTML code.

Additional Notes:

Name the homepage for your presentation index.html. This page should contain the links to the other group documents that make up your project Website. These documents should be linked back to the index.html file. For help in creating a presentation in HTML, check out Websites that have tutorials, such as Geocities or Yahoo, or books such as HTML for Dummies.
When naming a file that you intend to upload, use single-word filenames or insert an underscore between words. WebCT will not recognize filenames with spaces or characters that are not numbers or letters. Always include the appropriate extension to the file types you are using (e.g., .html, .htm, .gif, .jpg).
You can make changes to your presentation after you have uploaded it, but be aware that each member of your group can edit your presentation pages. Your group should establish a protocol for making changes to your presentation, so that you don't overwrite changes that someone else has made.

Creating a Student Presentation

Create the Document:

Create the document in a word processing program.
Add HTML codes to the document. You may use the "Save as HTML" function in Microsoft Word, use an HTML editor, or manually add the HTML codes.
Name the first document "index.html". Additional pages may be added for you presentation but they must be linked from the "index.html" page.

Upload the Document into WebCT:

From the WebCT homepage, click on the "Presentations" icon.
Next, click the "[Edit Files]" hyperlink following the name of your group.
A new page will open. Under File Options, select the radio button next to "Upload file."
Click the "Go" button.
Click the "Browse" button and locate the file you wish to add to upload.
Click on the name of the file and then the "Open" button.
The path to the file will be added to the text box next to "Filename."
If you are a participant in more than one group, you will need to indicate the group you want to upload the file to under "Destination folder."
Click the "Upload" button.
The file you uploaded will appear under the Group name.
Click "Presentations" in the breadcrumbs to return to the list of presentations.
Notice that your project title is now underlined. Click on the project title to see the document.

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Tip: In order to use Clip Art on a web page, it must be converted to a format readable on the Internet such as a .gif or .jpg and uploaded as part of your Website files using the Manage Files function.