WebCT Online Help
These WebCT tutorials are intended to prepare students who are taking their first online class and to provide immediate help to students who are already enrolled in an online class.

Watch the Intro
If you have never taken an online distance learning class, you should view this general introduction to distance learning and WebCT first. (This intro has audio content.)

Tune-up Your Browser
If you are enrolled in a WebCT class, the first thing you should do is ensure your browser settings are correct.  Visit the WebCT Browser Tune-up pages.  Verify that your browser is compatible with WebCT version 4.1 and prepare your browser.  You will do the following:

• Enable java and javascripting
• Set browser cache
• Turn off anonymous logon
• Enable cookies
• Disable pop-up blockers

Next Download Macromedia Flash Player
You will need to download and install the Macromedia Flash Player to complete the tutorial or view the help topics.

Complete the Tutorial
The tutorials are in the form of animated presentations that explain and demonstrate WebCT procedures.  They include sound as well as written explanations, so you can listen and read along as each step is demonstrated and explained.  They also have play-back controls so you can move forward or backward and pause. 

To begin, click on the first tutorial (below).  If you are connected to the Internet via dial-up connection (56K modem or slower), you should watch the demonstrations without sound. 

When the tutorial ends, use your browser's back button to return here.  Then, go to the demonstration classroom and practice, if you wish.

Complete these in sequence. When you have watched all the presentations, complete the WebCT knowledge check (tutorial number 9).

When you are ready to log in to your online class, go to myWebCT.

Tutorials

With Sound	Without Sound
1. Logging in to WebCT	Logging in to WebCT
2. Navigating a class	Navigating a class
3. Getting Information	Getting Information
4. Reading discussion postings	Reading discussion postings
5.	Posting discussion messages
6. Using WebCT email	Using WebCT email
7. Using the calendar	Using the calendar
8. Taking a quiz	Taking a quiz
9. Knowledge check*	Knowledge check*

*You have to log into the knowledge check.  When prompted, enter your name and password, which is "cbcstudent."

Additional Topics

Assignments tool	Assignments tool
Attaching files to discussion postings or email	Attaching files
Copying and pasting	Copying and pasting
Downloading attached files	Downloading attached files
Equation editor	Equation editor
Quizzes and quiz results	Quizzes and quiz results
Saving discussion postings	Saving discussion postings
Searching for discussion postings	Search for discussion postings