facultyguide

	FACULTY GUIDE

Introduction Announcements Assignments Class Members Class Menu Classroom Awareness Conferences Content Course Evaluations Faculty Center Gradebook Import Portfolio Reserved Reading Roster Student into Archived Classes Study Groups Syllabus Syllabus Edit Access Webliography Workbook

Using Text Introduction to Using Text A ttach Files HTML Microsoft Word Plain Text Spell Check Text Format Editor (TFE)



		Download and install the Flash Player so you may view animated illustrations available within this site. (Optional)

		Time Stamping Note that all submissions are time stamped Eastern Standard Time (EST.) If you are not in that time zone you may identify the current time by clicking on Options and selecting World Clock.

Introduction
Vi ew Student Instructions

This WebTycho Faculty Guide supplements the WebTycho User Guide, and focuses on those functions available only to faculty. This guide assumes you have read the User Guide before consulting these pages.

WebTycho access levels vary for instructors, faculty members, and teaching assistants.

Faculty View of the Classroom

Faculty Center, located on the Class Menu
The hub of faculty activity is the Faculty Center. To merely participate in a conference, or view course content and other material, click on those links on the Class Menu. However, to manage these areas first click on Faculty Center. From there you may create, edit, delete, and control student access to all eligible areas. Read more...

Faculty Resources
For information about Faculty WebTycho Training, Faculty Development Workshops and Meetings, publishing on the web, Peer Mentoring Program, FacTalk UMUC's Worldwide Faculty Listserv -- and more, please visit the UMUC Faculty web page. http://www.umuc.edu/faculty/

Impatica for PowerPoint
Impatica for PowerPoint is desktop software, available for both Windows and Mac, that enables simple delivery of animated, narrated PowerPoint presentations to any user. It reads and interprets PowerPoint files and produces a compressed file that can be streamed over the Internet. Read more about downloading and installing this program.

Technical support for this third party software is available from UMUC Technical Support at helpdesk@umuc.edu or 301-985-7400 between 7:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. After business hours and on weekends, limited help is available from WebTycho Support. Contact infomation (phone, e-mail, chat) is available from http://tychousa.umuc.edu/wtdocs/wthelp/html/contact_us.html.

Faculty Announcements
UMUC posts messages for faculty at the top of the Class Announcements page. Students cannot see these messages.

Tell Me How
Within the WebTycho classroom you will find links called Tell Me How. Clicking on any of these will open a new window displaying the appropriate page from the Help site


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WebTycho Support does not support third party software. This includes virus-protection, e-mail services, ISPs, word processing and any other software not developed internally. We do, however, assist with configuring browsers required for use with WebTycho.