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- New Faculty Orientation
- Mediaworks
- TRC
- Training Sessions*
- Departmental Presentations
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty Meetings
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Create a SmartSite to meet your unique teaching, research and collaboration needs.
SmartSite can help to:
- Reduce paper work
- Share class materials
- Collect and grade assignments
- Communicate with students
- Organize lectures
- And more!
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One of the strengths of SmartSite is its expanding and diverse tool set. But when you are getting started, this can be a bit overwhelming. The tools you use will depend on tangibles tangible things such as class size, course format and subject as well as intangibles like your teaching style and comfort with technology. We recommend picking one or two reasons for using a site and starting with the default tool set. You can always add or subtract tools as they are needed. Sites are scalable; so establishing how sophisticated or simple your site will be is a matter of assessing your course's particular needs.
Use SmartSite's default course tools to:
Improve and encourage communication with your students
Chat
- Hold real-time, unstructured conversations
- Create an "Online Office Hours" chat room for student questions and answers.
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- Create an unlimited number of discussion forums for your course
- Continue class discussions online
- Build an answer base; keep useful discussions for reference by future students
Assignments
- Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments
- Assignments are private; student submissions are not visible to other users of the site
- Choose from multiple grading options, including letter grades, points, checkmarks, pass/fail, or ungraded.
- Return assignments, with or without grades, for re-submission
- Download all student submissions at once
- Release student grades with comments
Sharing resources with Share materials with students, TAs and colleagues
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- Display an important website within your worksite's menubar.
- Provide a links to your department, personal homepage, research group and other frequently referenced websites
Automating Automate processes and reducing paperworkreduce paperwork
Assignments
- Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments
- Assignments are private; student submissions are not visible to other users of the site
- Choose from multiple grading options, including letter grades, points, checkmarks, pass/fail, or ungraded.
- Return assignments, with or without grades, for re-submission
- Download all student submissions at once
- Release student grades with comments
Gradebook
- Calculate and store grade information and distribute it to students online
- Autocalculate course grades, with the ability to override any letter grade
- Define course letter grades based on a 100% scale
- Add, view, edit, and release point values of assignments and/or assessments to students
- Enter, view, edit, and release to students scores, grades, and comments
- Transmit scores to the Gradebook from other tools such as Assignments to create an entry and record student scores
- Export class rosters, scores and grades to Microsoft Excel (in .xls or .csv format)
- Import assignment scores from a spreadsheet (.csv) files
- Let students view their scores and grades
- Submit final grades to the registrar
Organizing Organize and Managing Manage your course
Syllabus
- Create an official outline for your course
- Enter material directly into SmartSite
- Link to a syllabus you or your department has prepared an online
- Share your course with the general public or just to members of your course
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SmartSite features contextualized help. Click the "?" button in the frame of the tool you're working in and SmartSite Help will open to the correct spotentry. For instance, if you are creating a course site, click the "?" in "WorkSite Setup" to find detailed instructions on this process.
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The Teaching Resources Center (TRC) has as its primary goal the improvement of instruction at UCD UC Davis by enhancing teaching and learning opportunities for faculty and teaching assistants. Visit their calendar and sign up for one of the many different SmartSite training sessions and pedagogical events like the quarterly series on "More Thoughtful Teaching." Space is limited.
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