...
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 the campus will be retiring its set of retire MyUCDavis' course tools in 2008-09. But don't worry! Your Only MyUCDavis' course tools will be retired, not the portal itself. Also, your legacy content will be accessible past the shutdown date, but the ability to use the tools will not. We encourage all instructors to export it their content from MyUCDavis and import it into SmartSite using a few easy, well-documented steps. Please email smartsite-help@ucdavis.edu for more information.
...
One of the strengths of SmartSite is the variety of tools available to instructors. But, but this can also be a bit overwhelming at first.
The tools you use will depend on tangibles such as class size, format and subject as well as intangibles like your teaching style and comfort with technology. Sites are scalable and ; so each can have different sets of tools for a course or projectto meet the creator's particular needs. We recommend picking one or two reasons for using a site and then find a set of tools to match.
...
- Communicating with students, TAs and colleagues
- Use Chat during your office hours to answer students' questions or in the evening so to stay in contact with your TAs can ask questions when they are grading papers
- Use the Mail Tool to send notes to groups of students or members of your research group
- Encouraging collaboration and communication among students
- Create a wiki with your courses' key terms and concepts and have students collectively create a detailed definition
- Promoting independent and self-paced learning
- Assessment, evaluation and feedback
- Collecting, grading and returning assignments
- Sharing resources with students, TAs and colleagues
- Automating processes and reducing paperwork
- Sharing and organizing classroom presentations
...