1. Did you know?
The common WebCT misunderstandings and/or things we’re surprised aren’t widely known.

2. Number 1
Nottingham, China and Malaysia all use the same WebCT system (located in Nottingham).

3. Number 2
A private data link is in place between UK & UNMC for WebCT and other core services. UNNC is coming online later.
WebCT
Other Traffic

4. Number 3
Students from China, Malaysia and Nottingham can be enrolled on the same modules inside WebCT.

5. Number 4
Electronic Essay submission has been possible at the University for 12 years.
It was part of the first version of WebCT here in 1997
Plagiarism matching of submitted work has been available for 2 years.
Turnitin was integrated into WebCT in the spring of 2007

6. Number 5
Every student and member of staff has an account in Webct.
They also have access to at least two modules (Pathways and WebCT for …).
Regardless whether they have any teaching material in WebCT or not.
61618 accounts

7. Number 6
Inside WebCT there is a tool that enables you to upload audio files onto a streamed media server.

8. Number 7 WebCT is connected to the student record system.
Student module enrolments are automatically synchronised to modules in WebCT

9. Number 8 Modules inside WebCT are created on request. There are:
3503 UK Modules
257 UNNC Modules
487 UNMC Modules
Approx 70% of all taught modules have something in WebCT

10. Number 9 A module in WebCT doesn’t have to ‘map’ to a taught module.
You can have a WebCT ‘section’ for a module, degree, school or the whole University.

11. Number 10 Turnitin Plagirism Detection
WebCT has a number of system integrations (powerlinks)
Already Integrated
Available for Integration
Turnitin Plagirism Detection
Equella Learning Content Management System
Podcast Uploader
Xerte Online Toolkits
Elgg
Confluence
QMP

12. Picture Acknowledgements
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