Attended Meeting: Diana Breed, Linda Gregg, Anne Mason, Miguel Paz Soldan, Terry Ponder, Thom Schuett, Donna Gaudet, Jeff Anderson, and Peggy Johnson.

Donna had partipants log on to a WebCT course and submit an assignment using the Assignments tool. Then she showed how the instructor views and corrects the submitted assignments.

Detailed instructions for using the Assignments tool can be found on the CTL website at this URL: http://ctl.mc.maricopa.edu/_ctl_SD/resources/WebCTsixo.html Look on the right side of the screen that appears and select from the list of WebCT 6.0 Help Documents.

There are two dates the instructor sets for assignments - the due date and the cutoff date. Assignments submitted after the due date are considered late. The instructor might choose to impose a penalty for the late assignment. Assignments cannot be submitted after the cutoff date.

If the instructor selects the option for students to be able to take back a submitted assignment and edit it, this cannot happen after the due date. The student cannot take back an assignment for editing after it has been graded either.

You can put a direct link on your course homepage for an assignment if you use the "Add Content Link" button and select the assignment. You can then hide the Assignments tool from the list of tools on the left side of the course homepage and the students will access the Assignments tool through the direct link.

To grade an assignment, use the Teach tab. Select the Assignment Dropbox from the list on the left side of the screen.

You can download all documents to your computer at once for grading. Select all the the student submissions and check (select) "Create printable view". Save to file. This puts a zip file in the My Files area (one folder per student).

Comments the instructor puts in as feedback when grading are currently limited in character number (perhaps around 3000 characters). If you want to add more characters, would need to create a document (e.g. in Word) and attach it for sending to student. Use the action link to download the file to the desktop.

You can then add your comments/feedback to the word document. Save it with a different name, such as feedback_assignment1. OPen the student submission and add your feedback attachment. Once you've added the new document, you cannot edit it. If you want to make changes, you have to create another feedback file and add it.

Jeff alerted faculty to the wealth of help documents on the CTL website at http://ctl.mc.maricopa.edu/_ctl_SD/resources/WebCTsixo.html . There are detailed "how to" documents with lots of screen captures for many WebCT activities/features. There are also videos created by Melanie and Monica for other WebCT processes/features.

This site also has some apreso workshops that were captured. These look like Powerpoint slide presentations with the accompanying audio from a workshop that was taught in the CTL. If you use the handouts at this site to accompany the apreso presentation, it simulates attending the workshop.

Peggy showed two other MCC sites. The Distance Learning page at http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/distance/ has faculty and student resources that are very useful for distance learning students.

The DL tutorial site at http://dltutorials.mc.maricopa.edu has instructions you might want to link for your students on setting up an MCC email account, logging onto a WebCT course, navigating in a WebCT course, etc.