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SmartSite can help simplify your workload by providing useful web-tools for your unique teaching, research and collaboration needs. And for MyUCDavis users (UC Davis' legacy course management system), another, more practical reason to begin using SmartSite is that MyUCDavis' set of course tools will be retired in 2008-09. We encourage all instructors to export their content from MyUCDavis and import it into SmartSite using a few easy, well-documented steps. Please email smartsite-help@ucdavis.edu for assistance in starting this transition.
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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 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. And most importantly, sites Sites are scalable; so establishing how sophisticated or simple your site will be is a matter of assessing your course's particular needs.
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- Sharing resources with students, TAs and colleagues
- Post your reader online with the Resources tool
- Import and host your previously created web pages with Resources
- Automating processes and reducing paperwork
- Keep students informed of their current grade with Gradebook
- Send graded assignments from the Assignments tool to Gradebook
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