Theme: Committees and Groups

CamTools is a system used to create websites to support teaching, research, and collaboration. Within a CamTools site, academics, students, administrators and guests can use a collection of online tools to collaborate, communicate and share resources. This demonstration will give you an overview of the system and how it can be used.

CamTools is a system used to create websites to support teaching, research, and collaboration. Within a CamTools site, academics, students, administrators and guests can use a collection of online tools to collaborate, communicate and share resources. Aimed at those intending to use CamTools to support a committee or group, this course will give you hands-on instruction and practice of using CamTools, managing a site, and adding tools and participants. It will show you how to use tools for sharing minutes and other papers, making announcements, creating a calendar, and more. You will leave the course with a fully functioning CamTools site, populated with a standard set of tools to support a committee or group.

This course will introduce you to the various communication tools available in CamTools such as email, forums, chat rooms and announcements.

This course will introduce you to the Swift Survey facility which allows you to survey members of specific CamTools site(s) or an adhoc group of participants.

This course will introduce you to the Wiki tool, which allows you to instantly create a webpage or series of webpages, easily edited and contributed to by the site administrator and, if appropriate, by site members.

You may want to make your site available to everyone across the University or only to invited members; you may want to make some information on the site accessible only to a specific group of your site members; you may want to give different site members permissions to carry out different tasks on your site. This course will introduce you to the ways that can be managed in CamTools.