The CATE System
Understanding, Building, and Teaching with Class Websites using SRJC's Computer-Assisted Teaching Environment

1. Introduction 2. Basic Concepts 3. Overall Structure 4. Personal Homepages 5. Course Homepages 6. Section Homepages 7. Images 8. Uploading Files 9. File Management Image-Picking Interface Link-Picking Interface 10. Nav Bars 11. Schedules Text-Entry Interface 12. Presentations 13. Tests and Exercises 14. Rosters and Student Management 15. Web Groups 16. Passwords and Authentication 17. Message Boards 18. Other Communications 19. Tools for Students 20. Gradebooks 21. The Next Step

21. The Next Step This lesson provides notes about moving from a practice class website to planning, building, and teaching a real class Where Do You Go from Here? If you've been following along with the lessons and assignments, you've been creating expendable class components strictly for practice purposes. Now that you've completed all the lessons, you probably want to delete all those practice components and begin building your real class. Here are some reminders about what you need to think about along the way. Planning the Class Teaching Online Classes at SRJC: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/howto_teach_online.html Moving a Face-to-Face Class to an Online Environment: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/carnegie.html Getting Started with Online Teaching: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/helpstart.html Building the Class Guide to Accessibility Compliance for CATE Users: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/cate_compliance.html Best Practices for Websites for Online Classes: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/best_practices.html How to...Organize a Class Website: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/howto_organize.html Teaching the Class Enrollment and Retention Tips: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/helpcheckin.html Running an Online Class: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/helprun.html Maintaining the Class: Archive, Purge, and Re-Use Upon conclusion of the class, you need to take a few minutes to clean up everything and prepare to teach again. This process involves archiving, purging, and re-using your class website. With very few exceptions, you should always be able to re-use exactly the same pages and components over and over again, semester after semester, without creating new section homepages, Message Boards, gradebooks, or other components. The following Help document (about which you are reminded via email at the end of every semester and beginning of semester) provides a step-by-step guide to archiving, purging, and re-using. End-of-Semester Maintenance Checklist: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/helpmaint.html Further Assistance and Support The CATE Help Menu is packed with useful documentation, "How To" files, and other materials: http://online.santarosa.edu/catedocs/helpmain.html For personalized assistance, contact Bill Stone in the CATE office: http://online.santarosa.edu/homepage/billstone/ Sample Class Websites WWII 101 A plain-vanilla sample class website Rock 101 A fancier sample class website Feedback Please provide us with comments, corrections, and/or suggestion regarding this material. Be sure to identify the lesson and the material to which you're referring. Thanks for taking the time to help us improve these online training materials. CATE Online Training Feedback

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