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WebCT Information for Instructors

Instructions for Adopting e-Packs in WebCT
 

Basic Information About e-Packs

  • Free for instructors
  • Can be used for either hybrid teaching or fully online courses
  • 2,000 titles, 50 disciplines, 9,000 instructors, 450,000 students taught worldwide
  • They can include a wide range of WebCT-ready tools such as quizzes, textbooks, discussions, assignments, and lectures.
  • Some require students to purchase access codes averaging $10-$12, while others are entirely free

Adopting e-Packs
Instructors can search for e-Packs on the WebCT.com website. When the instructor has decided to teach a specific course, he/she should request a course shell to be created by the WebCT Coordinator - Keoni Everington. The Instructor then needs to fill out a request for the e-Pack as a downloaded adoption. Once the e-Pack request has been fulfilled and the course shell created, it will be possible to download the e-Pack as a backup and restore it in the course shell. The next step is to order the corresponding textbooks from the publisher’s website.

  1. Instructor can search for and adopt e-Packs by:
    1. Going to www.webct.com
    2. Click on WebCT-ready Content tab
    3. Click on Search for e-Packs
    4. Search by Discipline, Title or Keyword, Author, or Publisher.
    5. Click Start Search
    6. Locate the e-Pack you wish you purchase and click Adopt Now
    7. Click Go next to I would like WebCT to host the e-Pack for me
    8. Fill out the form and click Submit (This in effect will fill out a request for the e-Pack as a downloaded adoption.
  2. Upon submitting the form, the instructor will then receive a confirmation email.
  1. Once an instructor decides on a course, he/she should request the WebCT Coordinator (Keoni Everington) to set up a course shell
  2. Once the adoption request has been fulfilled and the course shell created, it will be possible to upload the e-Pack as a backup and  restore it in the course shell.
  3. Order the textbooks that correspond with the e-Pack from the publisher. For example if the publisher was Thomson Learning, you would do the following:
    1. Go to http://webtutor.thomsonlearning.com/
    2. Click on Product Search
    3. Next to Platform, select WebCT
    4. Enter Author, Title, Publisher, or ISBN#
    5. Click Search
    6. Click on the link corresponding to the edition you are interested in
    7. Make note of the ISBN# that corresponds to the combination Text + WebTutorAdvantage
    8. Use this ISBN# when ordering the textbooks from Bookworm

Uploading the e-Pack to the Course Shell
You will receive an email from the e-Pack publisher with instructions on how to access your new e-Pack including a URL where it is located.

  • Go to URL of e-pack
  • Enter Username and Password provided by the publisher
  • Select Save, and locate folder on local machine you wish to save the file to
  • Open course shell
  • Click on Manage Course
  • Click Backup Course
  • Under Backup Course, select Upload Backup
  • Click Go
  • Click Browse and locate the file on your machine, click Open
  • Click Upload
  • Under Backup File Functions, select Restore Entire Course
  • Select the backup you’ve just uploaded, and click Go
  • When popup window appears saying “Warning: Restoring this backup file will overwrite all data in the current course. Proceed?” Click OK
  • When a message appears saying success: the course has been restored, click Continue

Access Codes
All students including the fake student need an access code to get into the course for the first time. This can be obtained in one of two ways:

  1. Purchased at the bookstore (Bookworm)
  2. Purchased online at: http://www.webct.com/content/viewpage?name=content_student_access_codes

In some cases, there is no access code required, so check with the publisher.

Students Accessing the e-Pack for the First Time
The first time students access an E-pack, they will need to take the following steps:

  1. Go to http://courses6.webct.com

  2. Click Log in to myWebCT. (Don’t click Create myWebCT)

  3. Next to WebCT ID, type wu_ followed by the first half of your Winthrop email before the “@” symbol (example: wu_smithj2).

  4. Next to Password, type wu_ followed by the first half of your Winthrop email before the “@” symbol (example: wu_smithj2).

  5. Click the Log in button.

  6. The first time you log in, you will see a popup window asking you to enter a password hint question and answer, follow the instructions provided.

  7. You should now be able to see your WebCT account and the course(s) you have registered for.

  8. Click on the link corresponding to the course you wish to access.

  9. Enter your access code in the box titled You can enter your access code here

  10. Click Submit  

Click on this link for a printable version of this page.

If you have problems or questions about uploading files into WebCT, contact Suzanne Sprouse (sprouses@winthrop.edu) 
 
WebCT Contact Information
Suzanne Sprouse, E-Learning & Project Coordinator
Distance Learning and AV Services | 803.323.2551 | sprouses@winthrop.edu
Last updated: 02/05/07