Class Resources
ITS provides several automatic and semi-automated course-related tools that faculty can choose to use. This page provides a general overview and links to more detailed information.
With most of the tools we provide, courses are identified by a code based on the registrar's naming convention.
dept +course number+section number+term
ie: posc110-00-f04 or econ395-11-f04 or soan114-02-f04
Courses are no longer cross listed so there is really only one course code for each class.
If you have any trouble figuring out which tool or set of tools to use for your classes, talk to a Technologist, and we can help you sort out the best options for your situation.
Moodle
Moodle is our newest addition to the tools available for faculty and students. An online Course Management System, Moodle combines the various aspects of Course folders and Caucus, allowing faculty to post their assignments and syllabi, create interactive assignments like quizzes and wikis, post links to readings, create discussion forums, and have students turn in their assignments on Moodle.
If you want to learn more about Moodle, contact an Academic Technologist or visit our site of Moodle instructions.
Course folders
(for PC users, this is your "K" drive)
Course folders are stored on the network and can be accessed by any member of your course, from on campus or off campus. The advantage Course folders (often just called "Courses") has over many other tools is the large amount of space these folders have for files. Moodle has a limit on the size of files you can upload to your course page, but Courses has much more space, and doesn't care how big a particular file is.
You can use Courses and Moodle in tandem by putting large files into Courses and linking to them from Moodle (ask your Technologist how to use the Webpub in Courses to do this).
The address for all course folders follows the same convention;
Courses/term/dept/course-code
ie: Courses K:\F05\posc\posc110-00-f05
These folders are automatically generated based on course enrollments. Each night, after the registrar processes the drop/adds, student accounts will be automatically dropped or added to your course folder. If they are added, they'll receive a Student Work folder. If they are dropped, they simply lose access to the shared course folders. Their personal Student Work folder will remain behind in case there is material there that needs to be retrieved. Please feel free to contact your Technologist to delete it if you'd like.
- Tip: If you do use the student hand-in folder, and you are interested in staying paper-free, you can add comments directly to the paper in Word without modifying what they'd written.
- Tip: Use the Instructor Work folder to "stage" content for class presentations or future assignments. Students can not see the Instructor Work folder.
- Tip: If you're interested in learning more nuances of folder management for classes, just contact your Technologist!
These folders are removed from the Course folder (and from your access) after the 2nd week of the next term.
Course Mailing Lists
The address for all course mailing lists follow the same convention;
course-code@lists.carleton.edu
ie: posc110-00-fo4@lists.carleton.edu
or econ395-11-f04@lists.carleton.edu
or soan114-02-f04@lists.carleton.edu
Course folders are automatically generated based on course enrollments. Each night, after the registrar processes the drop/adds, student usernames will be automatically dropped or added to your course mailing list. (Auditors & TAs must be added manually.) These mailing lists stop functioning after the 2nd week of the next term.
- Tip: If you wish to add or remove a person from your course folder before the registrar has processed all the paperwork, you may do so using Moodle.
Mailing list membership is mandatory. You can remind students that they must use their Carleton email to receive messages you send to your course mailing list.
Note: Some students prefer to forward their Carleton email to a hotmail or another email address. These accounts tend to "fill up" and then reject mail. You can remind students that if their non-Carleton email account rejects Carleton mail, they will STILL BE RESPONSIBLE for knowing what was in the message.. even if they didn't get it because they didn't read it directly through their Carleton address. We recommend against forwarding email to another address.
- Tip: add list addresses to your addressbook for easy access!
- Tip: use a list and have late adds read the list archive to catch up on class announcements. To do this, they must log in to Sympa, our mailing list server.
- Tip: Your Technologist can help you save the archive of the mailing list at the end of the term. Put it into the Instructor Work folder (see Course Folders above) & then archive the whole thing for future reference.
Course photo rosters
If you log in to the The Hub you can call up your course roster and then get a page with all of your students' pictures.
If you have trouble printing the page, note that there's a "Printable Version" link at the bottom of the whole page.
Having trouble logging in to this service? Call Rapid Response at x5999 for help getting the Hub to work!
Caucus
Caucus conferences are created by you, if you want one. You can name it anything you like, but we recommend having the term identified in the name!
- Tip: You can have the server take care of your drop-adds automatically. Follow the instructions on the "Customize this conference" section, Users link.
- Tip: If you set it up at the beginning, you can have Caucus keep track of when each member actually used the site & see if they just read or posted.
- Tip: If you're interested in learning more about Caucus Conference use for class, just contact your Technologist!
