Catalyst TrainingCATALYST 2: Designing and Building Your Catalyst Course
Wednesday July 23, 2 - 4 PM in LCW 16
Catalystdev "shell" + student accounts > Catalyst semester course
Faculty Collaboration Area for Catalyst
- Catalyst users "course"
Instructor: Diana Alves De Lima
This course is an area where faculty may collaborate by department, topic, or other group on topics pertaining to the use of Catalyst and practice of teaching with Catalyst.
Technology Supported Learning and Retention
- based on 7 principles
CAOS 198Y / CAOS 195Y - 2.0 units each
Show and Tell
- Discussions - topics, views, subscribe, track
- Assignments - text, files, offline activity
- Quizzes - questions, quizzes
- Grades
- Profile - picture, digest
- Settings - format, dates
Questions
Feedback - What do you need? What would you like to do next?
[DeAnza Distance Learning] CATALYST 2: On-campus workshop rescheduled for July 23
We are rescheduling the optional Catalyst 2 on-campus workshop. We will be meeting
New date : Wednesday July 23, 2 - 4 PM in LCW 16
This replaces the originally schedule meeting Wednesday, July 30 meeting.
Next question. Would you attend an on-campus meeting sometime during the week of August 4-7? This is Finals week. We can meet if there is enough interest. Please let me know what time and day would work for you.
..Valerie
Catalyst 1: An Introduction to Catalyst
Thursday, May 29, 1 - 3 PM in LCW 16
Thursday, June 19, 1 - 3 PM in LCW 16
We will review the material covered in Catalyst 1 and provide a sneak preview
of the Catalyst 2 training starting in July.
Moving along, we are starting Catalyst next week.
If you haven't completed all the required activities of Catalyst 1, please do that now.
Getting started
Log in to the Catalystdev server and look for the course
C03 Catalyst 2: Designing & Building Your Catalyst Course (07/02/2008)
You can get started right away.
Catalyst 2: Designing & Building Your Catalyst Course
optional on-campus sessions
Wednesday, July 2, 2 - 4 PM in LCW 16
Wednesday, July 30, 2 - 4 PM in LCW 16
Overview
CATALYST 2: Designing and Building Your Catalyst Course
This is the second of three courses in the Catalyst training series. Here, you will design and build your own Catalyst online course. Additionally, you will learn design techniques and tips that will promote ease of use and course management.
- PLAN Your Catalyst Course
Learn techniques that culminate into a template that you will use to build your Catalyst course. You will learn the Catalyst layout, page navigation and course configuration. You will use your course syllabus as a guide for the Catalyst template. Note that the information contained in this section is very dense and must be approached with care and an eye to detail.
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Add Content
Learn how to use the tools in Catalyst to edit your course. You will learn how to Add Resources and use the WYSIWYG Editor for your course content. You will use the plan that you created in Section 1 to guide your course construction.
You will likely spend the most time working on the activities in this section of this course.
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Communication in Catalyst
Learn the communication tools that are crucial to the success of your Catalyst course: News Forum, Messaging, InternalMail, Chat and the Calendar. You will also learn how to facilitate and foster communication within your course with the resources we have provided. Finally, you will add communication tools to your Catalyst course.
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Add Interactivity and Assessment
Add Activities that will reinforce the content that you added in the previous sections. You will learn how create Forums, Assignments and Quizzes. These tools facilitate student/course interactivity and provide assessment tools for student performance. Additional resources have been added for self-study and exploration of additional tools available in Catalyst. Finally, you will plan a "pre-flight check" for your course and participate in a final assessment and feedback activity.
You will likely spend a lot of time on this section of the course, as well, depending upon which delivery mode you've chosen and how interactive you desire/plan your course to be.
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Optional Activities (On Your Own)
If you want to explore adding activities beyond forums, assignments, and quizzes to your course, the below books will provide you with guidance and resources to get you started.
These activities are provided for your own pace and are NOT covered in this course. Rather, they will likely be the content for future "meetup" mini-trainings on campus.
Catalyst Training
Thanks to everyone who attended the optional on-campus session for
Catalyst 1: An Introduction to Catalyst (05/29/2008)
It is always a pleasure to meet in person if possible, even though most of the course proceeds online. A lot of good points were raised in the workshop session. Most were applicable to actually teaching courses and developing course materials in Catalyst. These will be addressed in greater detail in the
Catalyst 2: Designing & Building Your Catalyst Course
which kicks off in early July. As most of your are registered for both courses, I encourage you to dig into Catalyst 2. as soon as you have completed the requirements for Catalyst 1: An Introduction to Catalyst (05/29/2008)
The requirements for completion of
Catalyst 1: An Introduction to Catalyst (05/29/2008)
included successful completion of the quiz Legal Compliance. This is necessary to ensure that faculty are aware of the legal requirements for dealing with student records, copyright materials and accessibility standards as they apply to online course materials.
If you have questions or suggestions, please let me know.
Best regards,
Valerie Taylor
Instructor, Catalyst Training
DeAnza Distance Learning
Recapping the on-campus session...
Course C03 Catalyst 1: An Introduction to Catalyst (05/29/2008)
Welcome, introductions, your experience and teaching objectives
- What is Catalyst? How is it Being Used?
- course / learning management
- enhanced instruction
- technology supported learning
- How Might I Use Catalyst?
- Expectations and Responsibilities of Use of the Catalyst System
- Accessibility: How to Reach All of Your Students Online
- Intellectual Property, Fair Use, & Copyright Law - Online
- FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
- Getting Started on Your Own
- sandbox, master shell, live course
Getting started
- Log into the course C03_01
- Orientation - layout of the main course page, navigation, course components, activities
- Views - instructor, edit, student
Student experience
- locate and read Resources - instructions, content, links
- participate in a discussion - post in a topic within a Forum
- submit an Assignment
- complete the Quiz and submit for grading
- check Grades
- send a Message
- tips - discussion view, subscription, hide/show
- HELP - access, course-specific, administration, technical
Course completion
- complete the reading and activities
- review one of the Showcase courses and complete the related assignment
- complete the Quiz: Legal Compliance
- prepare outline and plan course materials for development
- optional: submit Distance Learning course requests
Course C03 Catalyst 2: Designing & Building Your Catalyst Course (07/02/2008)
Welcome back, progress, reflection, revised objectives, questions
Course development
- add a Resource - link to an existing web page
- add a Forum and a discussion Topic
- create an Assignment
- write several quiz questions of different types - True/False, short answer, multiple choice, essay
- set up a quiz using the questions
Additional instructor functions
- News forum
- Activities
- Resources - link, author, hide/show
- Grades - assigning, viewing
- Participants - activity, tracking, contact, avatar
- Groups, collaboration
- Course settings - layout, theme
Moodle
Free stuff
This information is available on the web
http://faculty.deanza.edu/taylorvalerie/stories/storyReader$560
Print version...
from Linda Elvin
TECHNOLOGY TRAINING
To register, please email Linda Elvin at elvinlinda@deanza.edu by May 27
The Distance Learning Center is offering training on the Catalyst
learning management system software. Catalyst is used to develop and
deliver coursework online and offers faculty the ability to post
content, create discussion forums, post and grade assignments and
quizzes, create wikis, and more. Instructors can use this software to
further integrate technology into their curriculum or teach fully
online.
This training is a three part series that is offered using the
Catalyst software tools to introduce and model use of the system.
This full-fledged 3-part course will assist you in learning about the
system, creating a course, and running your course successfully.
Catalyst 1 and 2 are required in order to teach using Catalyst.
Catalyst 3 is available to faculty who have taught with Catalyst and
want to learn more about the software.
Catalyst 1: An Introduction to Catalyst
This course is the first in a series of three training courses. It is
an invitation to experiencing Catalyst as a student while planning and
preparing for your own course. In this first course you will learn
about the legalities of teaching with this tool, as well as the
commitment to learning that comes with using this tool.
Format: offered as a hybrid with 2 optional on-campus meetings (3 week course)
Dates/Times:
Thursday, May 29, 1 - 3 PM in LCW 16
Thursday, June 19, 1 - 3 PM in LCW 16
Catalyst 2: Designing & Building Your Catalyst Course
This is the second of three courses in the Catalyst training series.
Here, you will design and build your own Catalyst online course. You
will learn design techniques and tips that will promote ease of use
and course management.
Format: offered as a hybrid with 2 optional on-campus meetings (4 week course)
Dates/Times:
Wednesday, July 2, 2 - 4 PM in LCW 16
Wednesday, July 30, 2 - 4 PM in LCW 16
Catalyst 3: Running Your Catalyst Course
Dates and Times TBD
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