Transcript OU Educate
OU Educate: Implementation of a New WYSIWIG Tool for Maintenance of Personal Web Pages Mary Schoeler David McQuin Kathi Dutton Don Michaels May 25, 2005 OU Educate - Perspective History Redesign of Campus Web Site Companion product Previously needed unix commands and FTP Hard to maintain department and personal web pages OU Educate - Perspective OU Educate Overview OU Educate •WYSIWIG editing tool for web pages similar to FrontPage or DreamWeaver •Accounts automatically created for faculty and students OU Educate Browser based available on any computer available at any time •use IE 5.5 or higher in Windows •other browsers and platforms work OU Educate Compatible with other editors Saves files directly to your publichtml directory no ftp no delay OU Educate Skills and Tasks • Saving Backups • Spell Checking • Web Page Editor • Editing Tables • Inserting Text • Pasting from MS Word • Inserting Links • Uploading Files, not drag and drop • Inserting Images • Editing in full HTML mode OU Educate Easy to use OU Educate Faculty workshops Training CD Web based training CS101 OU Educate Solution for Students CSC 101 – Tools for Computing General Education course Computer Literacy 6 – 100 student sessions per semester Students also enroll in 1-hr lab/week 1,350 students annually Lab#2 Pico, HTML, IE In this lab students learned how to create a simple web-page. Telnet into Rocky Using Unix commands • Create public-html directory & set privileges • Copy html template into their account & set privileges • Use Pico to edit template • Open IE to view newly created page Problems Time consuming Students confused & over-whelmed Students find it difficult to maintain a web-presence in subsequent semesters Support Handouts Web-based Tutorials Training Workshops