WebCT news at SFU

I find the selection of icons that WebCT provides to be limiting. You can either find new icons or create your own icons.

1. find icons

Sets on the University of Edinburgh site (a variety of icons, some of them from older versions of WebCT)

City College of San Francisco (a crisp icon set, downloadable in a variety of colours).

When downloading icons from other locations, please be sure to give appropriate acknowledgement to the copyright owner.

2. resize existing photos or images

If you have photographs on your computer that would make suitable visual icons, you can resize them easily using this online software. Your icons should be 70 to 100 pixels in height and or width.

Try Resizr to modify your own images.

When you create an anonymous discussion topic, the option is to “make authors anonymous to students.” This implies that the discussion postings would not be anonymous to designers and instructors. In fact, postings are anonymous to everyone, including designers and instructors.

This is has been reported to WebCT, and will be fixed in the next application pack (January 2007).

When sending email to group members, sometimes not all the members will show up in the mail. This has been reported to WebCT (October 2006), and they are working on this bug (as of February 2007).

In the short term, you can either use private group discussion areas, or manually add the missing group member to a mail message in WebCT.