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How are other instructors using SmartSite? or How will you use SmartSite?
Faculty Profiles (Photo and Quotes on INE Pubs):
Roger MacDonald
Kristina de Korsak
Susan Keen
Milmon Harrison (Need to get Photo/Quote; use place holder if needed)
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And for MyUCDavis users (UC Davis' legacy course management system), another, more practical reason to begin using SmartSite is that the campus retire because MyUCDavis' course tools will be retired in 2008-09. But don't worry! Only MyUCDavis' course tools will be retired, not the portal itself. Also, your legacy content will be archived and 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.
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The tools you use will depend on tangibles such as class size, course format and course subject as well as intangibles like your teaching style and comfort with technology.
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- Encouraging collaboration and communication among students
- Create a wiki with your courses' key terms and concepts and ; have students collectively create a detailed definitiondefinitions like Wikipedia
- Use an online message board to continue a discussion after your class is over
- Promoting independent and self-paced learning
- Set-up quizzes for students to brush up on prerequisites
- Create a learning sequences that students can complete at their own pace
- Assessment, evaluation and feedback
- Give pop quizzes with the Test and Quizzes tool
- Have students complete a mid-quarter teaching evaluations through the TRC's mid-quarter teaching evaluation SmartSite
- Collecting, grading and returning assignments
- View drafts of term papers with the Assignments Tool
- Create simple, daily assignments to increase and assess student participation
- Sharing resources with students, TAs and colleagues
- Post your reader online with the Resources tool
- Import and host your previously created web pages
- Automating processes and reducing paperwork
- Limit your use of ScanTrons and give an online test with Test & Quizzes
- Keep students informed of their current grade with Gradebook
- Sharing and organizing classroom presentations
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