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Self-Learning Introduction to Vista
Introduction
Table of content
- Provide Self-Learning Introduction for Students
- Provide Self-Learning Introduction for Designers and Instructors
Provide Self-Learning Introduction for Students
It has become a well proven praxis for teachers to introduce their students to the online part of their seminar or training event during a face-to face meeting. That is where they can make certain that all of them have managed to enter it and where they can engage them into a first online activity. This is often a forum discussion, but can also be the test run of an online assignment or group work.
Nevertheless it will be much too time consuming to try out or even explain all of the main features of a Vista course in a face-to-face session. You therefore should complement that first introduction by giving your students access to a online course with some introductory texts and/or alternatively some animations explaining the most important tools in Vista. Such a course has been provided in English by the WebCT-company and is accessible in the form of a template on the domain level in the Swiss National Content Server. You will have to create a new section, assign the template and enroll the students.
Instructions
Your role: Group administrator or higher
 "Click image to see animation")
- Under tab "Administration" navigate in the left hand Learning Environment to the target Course level and do one of two things:"
- Create a new section
- In the form click "Select Template"
- Select the radio button to the template: "VistaStudentDemosTemp" and finish the procedure clicking "Select" below.
- Fill out the rest of the form "Save" and wait for the assigning process to finish.
- Select an existing section
- Select in the "ActionLinks" menu for that section the item "Edit Properties".
- Click on the menu button "Select Template".
- Select the radio button to the template: "VistaStudentDemosTemp" and finish the procedure clicking "Select" below.
- Save and wait for the assigning process to finish.
- save. See also: Template and Sections linked to it
- Enroll users. See: Add (enroll) a student or contact the edutech Vista support.
 "Click image to see animation")
Provide Self-Learning Introduction for Designers and Instructors
Your role: Group administrator or higher
Instruction to provide an interactive Self-Learning Introduction Course to new Vista designer or instructor.
- Under tab "Administration" navigate in the left hand Learning Environment to the target Course level and do one of two things:"
- Create a new section
- In the form click "Select Template"
- Select the radio button to the template: "VistaDesignerTutorialViTemp1" and finish the procedure clicking "Select" below.
- Fill out the rest of the form "Save" and wait for the assigning process to finish.
- Select an existing section
- Select in the "ActionLinks" menu for that section the item "Edit Properties".
- Click on the menu button "Select Template".
- Select the radio button to the template: "VistaDesignerTutorialViTemp1" and finish the procedure clicking "Select" below.
- Save and wait for the assigning process to finish.
- save. See also: Template and Sections linked to it
- Enroll users. See: Add (enroll) a student or contact the edutech Vista support.
Note: As the course contains tasks for the designer (and teachers) to complete she or he need be enrolled in the corresponding roles. Regard these as personal playgrounds for the trainees and only enrol one person per course.