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Archive for August, 2006

Adding audio to HTML pages in WebCT

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

I havn’t explored all of the suggestions I got when I asked how to load audio files neatly into HTML pages, but I did learn that using the “a href” tag is not a good thing for audio files.

WebDAV and WebCT

Tuesday, August 8th, 2006

When it works well, it rocks. Sometimes it just doesn’t quite work, and I never understand why.
This series of postings on the Ask DrC site provides some answers such as which Dreamweaver is best, how best to use Network Places and what a Goliath download is. I don’t quite understand everything they are talking about, but sounds like good advice to me.

Hidden and Released columns

Friday, August 4th, 2006

The difference between Hidden and Released is something I’ve struggled with a bit. My understanding is that if a column is:

Hidden and Not released: An instructor/TA can see the column in the gradebook (right????) but the student will not see that column in their My Grades. Useful for pop-quizzes, no doubt.

Not Hidden and Not released: The student will see the empty column in their grade book, but the instructor/TA can add the grades over the period of a couple of days. No students will see the grades until the column is released.

Not Hidden, Released: Students see their grades in the My Grades area.

I always give my Demo Student grades for everything, so that I can check visibility in the student tab. Gives me peace of mind.