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Contents 1 Using the BCC email system 1.1 What is my email address? 2 eLearningBCC 2.1 Getting Started with eLearningBCC 2.1.1 eLearningBCC Quick Start Guide 2.1.2 Copying Course Content into a New Section 2.1.3 Reordering Files 2.1.4 Adding Images 2.2 Communication Tools 2.2.1 Announcements 2.3 Surveys, Quizzes and Self-Tests 2.3.1 Creating Assessments 2.3.2 Creating Assessment Questions 2.3.3 Selective Release 2.4 Backing up Course Materials 3 SafeAssign 4 Working with PowerPoint Files 4.1 Create PDF files from your PowerPoints formatted as handouts 4.2 Format your PowerPoints as Impatica files 5 Copyright 6 Additional Help

[edit] Using the BCC email system

[edit] What is my email address?

All faculty members at BCC have the opportunity to obtain a BCC email account. With the introduction of the new BristolCC.edu domain there is a change in employee email addresses. All employees follow this format:

firstname.lastname@bristolcc.edu

Learn more about the new addressing system and how it will affect you.

Please note that this is different from student email addresses.

[edit] eLearningBCC

Many instructors use eLearningBCC to provide online content and resources for their traditional face-to-face courses or to teach hybrid courses or 100% online. Course spaces are automatically created for every course offered at the college. If you would like to learn more about how to access or set up your course space please view the resources below or contact the Center for Instructional Technology Expertise (CITE) at x2081.

[edit] Getting Started with eLearningBCC

[edit] eLearningBCC Quick Start Guide

Learn how to activate your course space, modify your course homepage, upload your syllabus and add other course content (like course notes, PowerPoint files, etc...)

[edit] Copying Course Content into a New Section

If you used the new version of eLearningBCC to teach during the spring or summer 2007 semesters and need to copy course content into a new sectionfor the fall term it is extremely easy to do so!

[edit] Reordering Files

Once you've added files to your course site you may want to modify the order in which files appear.

[edit] Adding Images

If you want to customize your homepage with an image you'll need to learn how to a bit of HTML coding. It's doable, and this document will show you how.

[edit] Communication Tools

[edit] Announcements

Announcements are a great tool for communicating important information to your students. Learn how to create announcements and keep your students up-to-date with course information, important reminders, college happenings and more!

[edit] Surveys, Quizzes and Self-Tests

[edit] Creating Assessments

You can create three types of assessments in eLearningBCC: surveys, quizzes and self-tests. Surveys are anonymous and are good for obtaining feedback about the course (think of them like online classroom assessment techniques). Quizzes are gradable assessments that show up in the grade book. Any kind of exam that you would give would fall under this category. Self-tests are good for students to practice with but they do not get counted in the grade book.

[edit] Creating Assessment Questions

Learn how to create questions for a survey, test or quiz.

[edit] Selective Release

You can set release criteria to specify the availability of assessments or other types of course content to individuals, groups or the entire class.

[edit] Backing up Course Materials

The college backs up the eLearningBCC system on a nightly basis. We also send backups off-site weekly to ensure the saftey and integrity of the system.

You can back-up your course to your local system to have your own copy of your course structure but in order to restore it to a course space you will need to contact the CITE lab.

[edit] SafeAssign

SafeAssign is a plagiarism detection tool that is built right into eLearningBCC. It SafeAssign, an anti-plagiarism tool, is integrated into eLearningBCC and faculty/students can access it directly through individual course spaces. If you’re concerned about plagiarized work or want to teach your students why citation is important then learn how to set up SafeAssignments in your course.

[edit] Working with PowerPoint Files

Many instructors upload PowerPoint presentations to their eLearning course spaces. However, not all students have PowerPoint (though a viewer is available) and some have difficulty accessing the files due to file size (if you have a dial-up connection, downloading a 2MB PowerPoint file takes a long time...)

There are two strategies that we recommend to make it easier for your students to access your PowerPoint files:

[edit] Create PDF files from your PowerPoints formatted as handouts

Creating your PowerPoint presentations as Portable Document Format (PDF) handouts will provide your students the ability to easily print your presentations, reduce file downloading waiting time from the web, and help conserve resources. In order to create PDF files you will need a PDF creation program.

[edit] Format your PowerPoints as Impatica files

Impatica compresses your presentations into Macromedia Flash files and makes them easily accessible for students. The PowerPoint viewer is not required in order to access the files and the files are also much smaller and accessible for students. This software is available in the CITE lab.

[edit] Copyright

As you prepare to utilize materials in your face-to-face or online courses it is important to make sure that you adhere to copyright and intellectual property guidelines as specified by Fair Use, the TEACH Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable laws.

Below are a number of helpful links dealing with copyright issues:

1. Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers
2. Understanding the TEACH Act
3. Crash Course in Copyright
4. An Introduction to Fair Use
5. Can I tape a program off the TV and use it in the classroom?
6. The Campus Guide to Copyright Compliance
7. Creative Commons

And, you can also view a video created by Cindy Poore-Pariseau to learn about copyright and disabilities.

[edit] Additional Help

If you have additional questions please contact the Center for Instructional Technology Expertise (CITE Lab) by stopping by A201 on the Fall River Campus or calling 508-678-2811 x2081.