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COMMUNICATION TOOLS

Mail-WebCT mail is an internal email tool for you and your students. You can read and send mail with or without attached text or image files.

Chat-Chat allows you, and your students to have real-time conversations. There are four general purpose chat rooms and one general forum for the course. There is also a general chat room for all courses. Conversations in the four general purpose rooms are recorded.  You are the only person in the course who can see the records.    

Whiteboard-Whiteboard is a drawing tool that designers, students, and teaching assistants may use during an online discussion. This tool allows users to type text, draw objects, insert graphics, and make modifications--especially useful for drawing and viewing diagrams in real-time.

Discussions-Discussions allows you and your students to read, send, and search for messages. Discussions is divided into Topics which help you to create discussion groups around particular subjects. Topics can be public or private.

Calendar-Calendar allows students and instructors to exchange information about class events quickly and effectively.

Student Tips-Student Tips allows you to write tips for students on topics such as using WebCT. These tips display randomly each time a student logs onto your course. Students can control whether or not they see the Student Tip of the Day by enabling/disabling Student Tips. Students can use Student Tips only if you have added it to your course.

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