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This workshop is a concurrent session of the 2007 Faculty Summer Institute. U of I faculty may attend this session without attending the conference as a registered participant. Faculty teaching for Summer Sessions I & II as well as Fall 2007 are encouraged to receive training prior to teaching with the NEW Illinois Compass. This workshop provides the foundation for “Let Your Fingers Do the Walking: Communicating with Students Using Illinois Compass” and “Making the Grade: Assessing Student Performance Using Illinois Compass” – other workshops faculty may attend without being registered attendees of FSI. Workshop registration is required.

• Getting started with the NEW Illinois Compass powered by Blackboard Enterprise Vista 4 Learning System
• Creating a new course and selecting tools
• Creating a syllabus and using the goals feature
• Uploading and managing lecture notes and other multimedia content
• Selectively releasing course materials
• Adding assignments & grading them
• Making calendar entries
• Administering assessments
• Communicating with students using announcements, mail, discussion, and chat.
• Tracking student usage
• Managing the grade book.

  This session will be taught by Heidi Jung and J.P. Dunn of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. They are Faculty Summer Institute speakers.

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