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1.	HuskyCT Course Requests
		Combining Sections
		Restoring content

2.	Roles in HuskyCT

3.	Student enrollments

4.	Important first steps

5.	My Courses page

6.	Default template

7.	Library Resource Tool

8.	New in HuskyCT

9.	Handy Hints

10.	Navigation in HuskyCT

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	HuskyCT Help for Instructors - HuskyCT Basics
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Requesting a HuskyCT site for a class

Request a HuskyCT site:

Instructors use PeopleSoft to request HuskyCT sites for classes. See this (webpage) (pdf) for directions.

NOTE: Only the primary instructor for a class - as listed in PeopleSoft - will be able to request a HuskyCT site for that class

To combine multiple sections of a course:

Request a HuskyCT site for each section in PeopleSoft and then email huskyct@uconn.edu indicating which sections you want combined.

To have content from a previous course restored in a HuskyCT site:

Use this request form to restore old HuskyCT content into a new HuskyCT site. NOTE: Be sure to request the new HuskyCT site in PeopleSoft before making the request to restore.

Roles in HuskyCT

Members in classes with HuskyCT sections can have one or more of the following roles: Instructor, Designer, Teaching Assistant, Student, and Auditing student.

Instructors who request HuskyCT class sites via PeopleSoft will be enrolled as both Instructor and Designer in their HuskyCT sections.

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Enrolling students in HuskyCT

Registered students are enrolled in HuskyCT sections automatically and add/drop updates to a class list are processed automatically as well. In addition, HuskyCT section Instructors can manually enroll members in their sections in the following roles: Student, Auditing student, shared Designer, and Teaching Assistant. The automatic student enrollment process for registered students will not affect students added manually by the Instructor.

Although students are enrolled at the same time the HuskyCT section is created, they do not have access to the site until the first day of classes. Instructors who wish to give their students early access should contact the IRC at 486-5052 or email irchelp@uconn.edu

When a student drops a class he or she will be unenrolled from the HuskyCT gradebook for that section. This process does not completely remove the student's data, however. By clicking on the "Grade Book Options" button and then on "Show Unenrolled Members Data" the gradebook will display both enrolled and unenrolled members. Unenrolled members will appear in red text with a small icon to the right of the member's last name.

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Important first steps

Specific browser configurations are needed for HuskyCT to function properly. Links to HuskyCT's built in browser checker can be found at the top righthand corner of the HuskyCT My Courses page.

Most important settings:

ALL pop-up blockers must be disabled or set to allow pop-ups on vista.uconn.edu.

ONE recent version of Java must also be installed and enabled on your computer.

See this web page for more information.

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My Courses page

The My Courses page lists the courses in HuskyCT that you have a role in. If you place your mouse curser over the title of a course in the list, it will display your role(s).

SMALL icons will appear below the course title when there is new mail, new discussion posts, new assignments, new announcements, new quizzes or surveys, or for students, new grades.

	New Announcement
	New Mail
	New Discussion Post
	New Calendar Post
	New Assessment (Quiz)
	New Assignment

For an explanation of the elements on the My Courses page and how to customize them, see this (Flash movie).

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UConn default HuskyCT template

All newly requested HuskyCT sections will have the default UConn template applied. This template contains links in the Course Tools menu to the following tools: Announcements, Discussion, Calendar, and MyGrades. To remove one of these tools from the tool menu or to add others, see the detailed instructions (web page) (pdf)

The footers on the HomePage and the Course Materials page provide links to UConn's HuskyCT help for both Instructors and Students.

The default template contains a link to the "Library Resources" on the Course Materials page. To remove this link, see these instructions. To hide the link for the LRT link, follow these instructions. For a restored section which may not have this link, please see these directions for adding the link.

The Plagiarism Module is a very special addition to the default template. It was created by Laura Yahn, Instructional Design and Development, in consultation with the University of Connecticut Committee on Plagiarism and Janet Jordan, Instructional Resource Center. Video Design Services, another unit in the Institute for Teaching and Learning, created the video portion of the module. The module can be made available to your students by following these directions (web page) (pdf) (Flash Movie). For a preview of the Plagiarism module, please click here.

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LRT - Library Resource Tool

Students access Electronic Course Reserve (ECR) materials using the "Library Resources" link available on the Course Materials page in the default UConn HuskyCT template. If the link is removed at some point, it can be re-added using the following steps. In the event that a section gets restored without the Library Resource Tool, please use these directions to create and add the tool.

Instructors wishing to have materials delivered to their sections via the LRT should access the library's course reserve information page or contact their departmental library liason.

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New in HuskyCT

The interface for instructors using HuskyCT includes Build Tabs specific to the Design role and Teach Tabs specific to the Instructor role. In addition, there is a Tab for the true Student view.

For a breakdown of these different tabs and what can be done from each, view this (webpage) or (pdf).

Another new feature in HuskyCT is the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML page creator. This tool is a Java applet that provides a word processing like environment for creating pages inside of a HuskyCT site. Students, Instructors and Designers have access to this tool in Mail, Discussion, the Assignment tool, and the Assessment tool. Designers are also able to use this tool to create HTML content pages within HuskyCT. This eliminates the need to convert Word files to HTML outside of HuskyCT and then upload them.

For more detailed information on how the HTML creator works, view this (Flash movie).

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Handy Hints

To stop the page with the explanation of Course Tools and Designer Tools from showing each time you log into a HuskyCT site, check the box below the "Done" button and then click on it.