CamTools for Teaching: Getting Started

Beginners

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 teaching and learning, 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 resources, making announcements, linking to webpages, setting up forums, and more. You will leave the course with a fully functioning CamTools site, populated with a standard set of tools to support teaching.

• University staff
• College staff
• Researchers
• Further details regarding CamTools' eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 1

• Introduction
• Logging in
• Requesting a site
• Course and Project sites
• Navigating
• Adding and managing tools
• Adding and removing users
• Resources tool
• Assignments tool
• Announcements tool
• Web Content tool
• Wiki tool
• Email tool
• Forum tool
• Chat Room tool
• Schedule tool

To be able to:

• Understand the CamTools environment
• Manage participants
• Manage the appropriate tools

To gain hands on experience of using CamTools, specifically for supporting teaching

• Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

One half day session

• Monthly

• CamTools: Communicating
• CamTools: Controlling Access to Your Site
• CamTools for Teaching
• CamTools: Getting Feedback from Your Members
• CamTools: Make the Most of Your Wiki

• Introduction
• Teaching