Customising your Welcome Page 
Adding a new Instructor's name 
Welcome message to Bulletins
Forwarding email to your normal address
Editing the contents of any file
Basic HTML
Adding students to your course

 

CUSTOMISING YOUR WEBCT MODULE

Changing the text of any page

WebCT allows you to alter any page by either

  • doing a mini-edit by changing the html code in the File manager or
  • doing a major edit by dowloading a page and redoing in a web editor then uploading again

For minor editing eg

  • links no longer working
  • tasks you don't like
  • topics you want to vary

How to make minor changes (method 1)

 1. From Home Page, click on Advanced Writing
 2. Click on edit page
 3. Make changes in html
 4. Save
 5. Home
 6. Update student view

method 2

 1. Login with your developer/instructor password
 2. Click on File Manager
 3. Click on the directory you want eg essays or summaries
 4. Click on the file you want to edit
 5. Note carefully where you want to change
 6. Select edit mode
 7. Change the html by deleting and inserting etc
 8. Save
 9. Check the changes (update student view)

However you may choose to dowload the file from WebCT before editing if

  • you find html code hard to work in or
  • you want to make lots of changes or
  • you want to make fiddly changes eg to tables

Here's how:
 1. Login with your developer/instructor password
 2. Click on File Manager
 3. Click on the directory you want eg essays or summaries
 4. Select the file you want to edit by clicking in the circle
 5. Click download on bottom toolbar
 6. Save as into a temp file or other appropriate place
 7. Open your editor eg Composer, Front Page, Pagemill etc
 8. Open the file you have downloaded
 9. Make your changes and save changes
 10. Return to WebCT File Manager page
 11. Upload and browse for the newly edited file
 12. Continue as requested
 13. Return Home and update student view

NEXT: basic html code