3. Overview
The designer role in CE 4 has been separated into two new roles in CE6:
Designer Role
Instructor Role
The Auditor role has been added as an additional role too.

4. The Designer Role
The designer can:
Add content in the section
Create Assignments
Create Assessments
Add tools to the course
Create Web links
Use the file manager
Customise the look and feel of the section
The Designer Role
The designer can:
Add content in the section
Create Assignments
Create Assessments
Add tools to the course
Create Web links
Use the file manager
Customise the look and feel of the section

5. The Instructor Role
The instructor can:
present the course
manage the course
evaluate assignments & assessments
change assignment & assessment settings
interact with students in the course

6. The Auditor Role
The auditor has the view of the student, but no marks are recorded for auditors.

8. Announcements
Designers can send a tailored announcement to all
users with a particular role (e.g. all Students or all TA’s).
Designers have the flexibility of choosing where or how
announcements will be delivered (e.g. automatic pop-up
in the course).
Announcements can be created in advance for delivery
at a later time.

10. Who’s Online
This feature allows course participants who are logged
into their course environment to see who else is logged
in at a given time and chat with them.
Designers, instructors and students have the option of
masking their online status if they do not want to be
seen.

12. Media Library
Designers can create a glossary of course terms or
create multimedia collections of terms, definitions, or
images related to specific course topics.
These terms can be automatically hyperlinked to words
throughout the course content. Whenever a student
clicks on these terms, a window will pop up displaying
the “definition” — which can include text, an image,
and/or a media file.

14. Learning Module
Specific activities — such as individual assignments or
discussion topics — can be included in Learning Modules
so that students navigate through them in a defined
sequence.
The designer can create learning modules and
personalise the path students take through these
materials.

16. Web Links
The designer can create Web Links in a course and it is
automatically added to a comprehensive Web Links
page.
This gives instructors and students a central place to
easily access and review all Web Links added within a
course.

18. Scorm Object Support
Instructors can rapidly integrate SCORM content into their courses:
This gives new options for incorporating rich content to
create dynamic learning experiences for students. When
students view SCORM objects in WebCT their activity is
tracked.
Grades for any assessment or assignment included in
the SCORM object are automatically recorded in the
WebCT Grade Book.

20. New Question Types - Combination Multiple Choice

21. New Question Types - jumbled sentence
fill in the blank

22. New Question Types - true or false

25. Assignments
New Assignment Options:
individual assignments
group assignments
custom assignments, with different instructions for each
individual or group receiving the assignment.

26. Assignments
Different response options:
responding only with text
responding with an attachment
responding with a Web link.

27. Assignments
The instructor has the option of returning an assignment to a student or group without a grade but with comments and additional attachments.
Students can then resubmit the same assignment. This process can continue iteratively until the instructor determines that the assignment has been completed.

28. Assignments
Ability to Publish Assignment Submissions
Instructors, and optionally students, have the ability to publish completed assignment submissions so that the entire class can see them and learn from them.

29. Calendar
The calendar integrates the global calendar into each
course.
There is a larger scope of internal link options that you
can link an entry to.

31. Discussion
Gradable Discussion Topics
The designer can create gradable discussions.
Instructors can easily:
assemble and review a student’s posted messages,
review a student’s total participation versus the class
average
assign a grade to each student that is automatically
recorded in the Grade Book.

33. Chat & Whiteboard
Combines Chat and Whiteboard into a single, integrated tool.
Designers can create as many chat rooms as required.
New options:
The ability to mute or deny access or use the new “hand
raise” mode to manage participation.
The option to upload slides, save slides, and create
slide shows using the Whiteboard.

36. Manage Course
The designer can customise the look and feel of the section using the Manage Course options.

38. File Manager
The designer can manage the files in the section using the file manager.

40. Selective Release
The designer can selectively release each component of a learning module. This makes it possible to customise the learning experience for the student.

42. Selective Release
The designer may view what is visible to each student using the member tab.