Join Vivie Sinou, Executive Director of Etudes, Inc. on the first Tuesday of every month (Noon - 1:00PM, PST) at a webinar (phone and internet with application sharing). These sessions are intended to introduce Etudes users to new features, clarify advanced features, seek input on new tools and functionality, and provide opportunities to our user community, on a monthly basis, to ask questions in person and get clarifications on features, best practices, and uses of Etudes.

To suggest a topic for a webinar, contact us.

The monthly Etudes webinars are open to everyone who is interested in the topic. Each month's topic will be posted a week prior to the webinar. A reminder will be sent to all Etudes users.

There will be NO webinars in July and August as many faculty are on summer break / vacation.

In this webinar, Vivie will demonstrate the designs and requirements of Activity Meter -- a new tool for Etudes under development that captures, stores and displays student activity data by tool and by student. It allows instructors to assess how their students are doing, what they are doing, who is actively involved, and who is not doing anything. The goal is to provide instructors with a quick way to spot who is struggling in class so that they can intervene. The tool includes an "Early Alert" feature.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 -Noon to 1:00PM (PST)
Event: Etudes - Show and Tell
Organization: ETUDES

To join this session (or any subsequent monthly ones), see event details below:

Dial your telephone conference line: (888) 886-3951
Enter your passcode: 656926
Then, go to http://www.cccconfer.org/
Click the Participant Log In button under the Meet & Confer logo
Locate the "Etudes - Show & Tell" meeting and click Go.
Fill out the form and enter the password: 656926

* Please log on 12-15 minutes early to connect, load Elluminate and get set up! * 

PARTICIPANT CONFERENCE FEATURES:

*0 - Contact the operator for assistance with the audio.
*6 - Mute/unmute your individual line with a private announcement.

TECHNICAL QUESTIONS WHEN CONNECTING TO WEBINAR?

CCC Confer Services: Monday through Friday 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
760-744-1150 ext 1537 or 1554

May 4, 2010 (Archive)
Demo of new Etudes Syllabus tool (deployed on 5/4/2010), and an overview of the new features and enhancements in the upcoming releases of the discussions tool and AT&S. Participants will have opportunities to ask questions on the design and business rules of the new functionality.

April 4, 2010 (Archive)
Participants will learn how to break up their classes into groups within Etudes and establish private forums for group work and collaboration. We will also cover how to group forums by section, if multiple sections of a class are loaded in one Etudes site. Approaches about how to establish new groups throughout the term, without affecting prior forums / groups will also be presented.

March 2, 2010 (Archive)
The focus of this session will be on offline authoring of assignments, tests and surveys and bringing them into Etudes with a couple of clicks. We will also review the workflow for assembling assessments from the imported data, and getting them ready for students / delivery.

February, 2, 2010
In this webinar, Vivie Sinou will give a review of the latest features of Etudes that were deployed recently (i.e. download all, grading of discussions, etc.).

January 5, 2010
Overview of grading by category to handle working with multiple groups per topic.