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Create a SmartSite for your unique teaching needs.
SmartSite can help to:
- Reduce paper workCommunicate with students
- Encourage collaboration
- Share class materialsCollect and grade assignments
- Communicate with students
- Organize lectures
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Also, MyUCDavis' set of course tools will be retired in 2008-09. We encourage all instructors to export content from MyUCDavis' WebSite builder and QuizBuilder tools and import it into SmartSite using a few easy, well-documented steps. Unfortunately, MyUCDavis ' Gradebooks cannot Gradebooks can be exported from the system, but can not be imported into SmartSite 's. Please note that instructors will have access to past course data after MyUCDavis' course tools are retiredat this time. Your data on MyUCDavis will be accessible in the future, but the option to use the course tools will not. Please email smartsite-help@ucdavis.edu with any questions or concerns.
Which tools are right for me?
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 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 of course tools described on the next few pages. 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 communication with your
Communicate with students
Chat
- Have real-time, unstructured conversations
- Hold "Online Office Hours"
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- Collect and view course related emails without searching your in box
- Contact all site participants with one email
- Send attachments to your site without clogging email accounts
Encourage collaboration among students
Wiki
- Easily change and create web pages
- Create Wikipedia-like entries for course terms and topics
- Have students collaborate on writing assignments
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- Create an unlimited number of discussion forums for your course
- Continue class discussions online
- Build an "answerbase" for future students
Share materials with students, TAs and colleagues
Resources
- Securely share course materials
- Upload files like word processing documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations, and videos
- Create and post HTML (web) pages and simple text documents
- Share links to useful web sites
- Use folders to organize your class materials by topic, lecture date, section, etc.
- Control who can access and add to different folders
- Set a start and/or end time to release and hide study guides
- Post weekly readings
- Archive important documents like exams without showing them to students
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- List web links in your worksite's menubar.
- Provide prominent links to your department, personal homepage, etc.
Automate processes and reduce paperwork
Assignments
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Organize Classes
Syllabus
- Create an official outline for your course
- Easily edit and enter a course outline 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
Schedule
- Post items in a calendar format by day, week, month, year, or flat list view
- Post readings for each class on the day they are due to be read
- Set deadlines for research, group, and department projects
- Get an overview of all your course schedules in MyWorkspace
- Add multiple attachments
- Print an Adobe PDF file of any view of a Schedule
Section Info
- Efficiently manage sections of a class that may consist of lectures, labs, discussions, studio work, etc.
- Work with other tools such as Announcements and Gradebook
Manage Grades
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 point based grades 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
Organize and Manage your course
Syllabus
- Create an official outline for your course
- Easily edit and enter a course outline 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
Schedule
- Post items in a calendar format by day, week, month, year, or flat list view
- Post readings for each class on the day they are due to be read
- Set deadlines for research, group, and department projects
- Get an overview of all your course schedules in MyWorkspace
- Add multiple attachments
- Print an Adobe PDF file of any view of a Schedule
Section Info
- Efficiently manage sections of a class that may consist of lectures, labs, discussions, studio work, etc.
- Work with other tools such as Announcements and Gradebook
For a complete list of SmartSite tools, please visit http://smartsite.ucdavis.edu
How do I create a SmartSite?
Use WorkSite setupCollect Assignments
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
Visit smartsite.ucdavis.edu for a complete list of SmartSite tools
How do I create my site?
Use WorkSite setup to:
Worksite Setup
- Create a course or project site
- See the sites you own
- Quickly access "Site Info" to edit your sites
- See the other worksites you belong to
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- Login at smartsite.ucdavis.edu
- Click "WorkSite Setup" in the menu under "MyWorkspace"
Create
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a course
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- Viewing your course's default tool set
- Entering a unique course email address
- Viewing the default "Site Status" page
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How do I update manage my course site?
Use Site Info to:
Site Info
- View and change information about a site
- Select the tools available to the site
- Display a participants list
- Decide who has access to the site
- Publish a course site after its been developed
- Alter your site's appearance and description
What it does
Worksite Setup
- Create a course or project site
- Display a list of all the sites you own
- See the other worksites you belong to
- Quickly access Site Info to edit a site
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- The functions of the Worksite Setup tool mirror those of the Site Info tool; Worksite Setup is available through My Workspace, whereas Site Info is available in each worksite.
- If you don't have the appropriate permissions, in Worksite Setup you will only see the information about the worksite published by the owner.
How do I add TA's to my course site?
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Add
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Where can I find help?
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 entry. 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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