Report from Coventry WebCT Forum (Part 1)
Overall Coventry are very happy with the new product – lots of benefits, like easier file management – but my overall feeling was not so positive by the end of the day. I’ll addreess this in a later post. For now some bits and pieces re WebCT picked up at Coventry:
- Despite overall positivity, Coventry regret buying Vista and wish they had CE6. The extras that Vista offers are not worth the money they feel
- Next WebCT Service Pack will include blogging and journalling tool (developed as part of the Porfolio tool)
- Migration – Coventry have quite a headache this year with new Vista and lots of new staff, new faculty structure, new module codes etc. They are using the Section feature for Cohorts / Years which is not what i thought they were for. Isn’t that the purpose of terms? I’ll explain this further in the next VLE meet, I have some detailed notes. I spotted a potential problem for them with this that they had not noticed…
- They are getting individual designers heavily involved in the upgrade – briefing and half day workshop to upgrade courses
- Powerlinks included in a template do not work in courses generated from that template.
- Using the migration tool so-called “redundant pages” are NOT migrated. A redundant page is, for example, an HTML page that has been linked to from a Single Page for example. Effects those who have uploaded their own sets of pages rather than using content modules to organise them. The course has to be exported / imported manually rather than ‘migrated’ to include these redundant pages.
- Introducing a new very simple template. It includes the word ‘Homepage’ on the Course Content Home (i.e. the homapage). Apparantly WebCT are considering replacing ‘Course Content Home’ with ‘Homepage’ after feedback from edinburgh
