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Tip Archive
Check out our archived Tips for quick and easy techniques to simplify, organize, and enhance your course site!
Semester Transitions
May 2008This Tip focuses on important tasks that include saving a backup of your gradebook, archiving your course site, activating next semester’s course sites, creating combined sites, and copying course content from a past semester’s course site.
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Sign-up Lists in Online@UT
Apr 2008The Sign-up List, an electronic version of a paper sign-up sheet, allows students to reserve a space in an activity: exam study sessions, class projects, essay topics, office hours, workshops, field trips, and more.
Learn more about Sign-up Lists in Online@UT
SafeAssign in Online@UT
Mar 2008The SafeAssign Tool encourages original writing and proper citation practices by cross-referencing submitted materials against other submitted papers, the Internet, and numerous published journal, newspaper, and magazine articles.
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Blackboard Scholar in Online@UT
Feb 2008Blackboard Scholar allows you to save your bookmarks online, share resources with other Scholar users, discover new links, and tag your bookmarks for sorting and easy retrieval from any computer on the Internet.
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Semester Transitions
Dec 2007 / Jan 2008This Tip focuses on important tasks that include saving a backup of your gradebook, archiving your course site, activating next semester’s course sites, creating combined sites, and copying course content from a past semester’s course site.
Learn more about Semester Transitions
Google Scholar in Online@UT
Nov 2007Google Scholar is a supplemental research tool that allows faculty and students to search, locate, and link to scholarly literature from within Online@UT.
Learn more about Google Scholar in Online@UT
Blogging in Online@UT
Oct 2007A blog page in your Online@UT course is an easy, familiar, and informal way for an instructor and students to communicate and publish their thoughts in a journal style.
Learn more about Blogging in Online@UT
Ready to apply one of these tools to your course?
- Consultation and assistance: call (865) 974-9670.
- Help with creating materials for Online@UT: submit the Request Assistance form on the Innovative Technology Web site.
- Technical support for Online@UT: complete the Get Help form.
- Online@UT tips and tutorials: visit the Faculty How to... page.
- ITC Workshops : visit ITC's workshop registration page.