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Gateway to UM Instructional Tools
CTools
https://ctools.umich.edu/portal
CTools (formerly known as CTNG) is a new version which combines um.CourseTools and um.WorkTools functions, designed to help create course and project websites on the World Wide Web. Using a web browser, users choose from CTools features and functions to create a collaborative tool for use in classes, research projects, and other collaborative groups. CTools is an enhanced version of the original UM.CourseTools, with improvements that include individual personal portals (referred to as MyWorkspace) in addition to class portals; an interface that can be customized to a user's preferences; and includes um.WorkTools capabilities as well.
UM.Lessons
http://lessons.ummu.umich.edu/2k/
UM.Lessons enables UM faculty to create and administer online tests and surveys. The site gives you a good way to provide self-testing and practice opportunities for students, and for evaluating course questions. Students are able to receive instant feedback after completing and submitting online tests. Aggregated data tells instructors which questions are good discriminators and which the students are consistently stumbling on. To use this software, go to the above site and request a workspace. Then, follow the tutorials and start building question files.
UM.SiteMaker
UM.SiteMaker is a University-wide system that allows members of the UM community to easily turn ideas and information into websites for any academic purposes. Rather that using web authoring tools such as Dreamweaver or Front Page, UM.SiteMaker functions by allowing users to make simple webpages by filling in a form. Parts of your site can also be restricted to access by the UM community or to members of access groups that you create. You can request a site by going to the “Request a New Site” link on the system home page at the above site.
Conferencing on the Web (COW)
Conferencing on the Web (COW) is a bulletin board service which instructors and students can access from the Internet. The conference owner can set up a structure of topics to discuss, with conversations under each topic. Hyperlinks and images in COW can be displayed much as they are on a regular website. For those who are not familiar with Conferencing on the Web, there is an excellent "Tour" (online tutorial) for you to learn the program.
Listserv or Class List E-Mail Group
http://www.umich.edu/~listsrvr
This site provides instructors with a very simple way to create an email group for a class. You provide the class number and the information that identifies you as the instructor, and the Instructional Technology Division will compile an email group from the Registrar's class list. The process offers more than convenience. First, no one but a (class) member can send emails to this group, so your group can receive no spam from outside. Second, you have two choices of the communication format, and you can change this choice if you want to. You can structure the group so that only you (the instructor) can send emails to the whole group; this is the "announcement-only" form. Or you can choose the "discussion" structure that allows all members to send messages to the whole group. Class listserv service is available only to faculty members and GSIs.
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