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Solution/example
How?
To give students access to WebCT’s Take Notes follow the steps in this handout.
Students can be guided to the tool with an exercise such as the following:
Activity: Use of the Take Notes tool
Aim: to become familiar with Take Notes
Your task: For information on the tool, go to WebCT Student Guide: Using the Take Notes tool – to do this without losing this screen open another browser window, go to online.mq.edu.au and select Quick Guides.
Read the text on this screen and identify aspects that you might wish to annotate.
On a tool bar above the text in this window you will find the Action Menu. It contains a menu item labelled Take Notes. Open Take Notes.
Click Add, and key your first comment, then Update. Close the notes window.
Move to another area of this main screen that you want to annotate and again open Take Notes. This time Edit your previous entry and add the extra notes.
Move to another page of content (on the Action Menu tool bar are some arrow icons that move you to other screens in this area of content). Find some interesting text and key more notes into Take Notes.
You might want to adjust the format of your entries to include the dates on which you make individual entries, or to specify the headings on screens where you found the original text.
Transfer your notes to a word processed document. For clues on how to do this, follow the instructions in WebCT Student Guide: Using the Take Notes tool.
A Quick Guide exists for helping students who use the tool. To place a link to the guide on your site, follow these steps:
- Enter the WebCT unit and view the Home page with Designer Options
- Select Add page or tool
- Select URL
- Key the title Using the Take Notes Tool
- Cut-and-paste online.mq.edu.au/docs/qgnot.html to the address box
- Select where to display the link, accepting any defaults, then Add
Owners of Adobe Acrobat (for creating PDF files) will be able to use its note-taking tool while they use Adobe Reader to read PDF files.
Why?
Students reading printed material often like to highlight passages and write margin notes. Online note taking provides equivalent opportunities with electronic material. You can introduce students to the WebCT tool by asking them to read Take Notes - online.mq.edu.au then select Quick Guides - and providing a familiarisation exercise.
Students who use Take Notes can compile their accumulated entries by copying notes from various modules to a word processed file, then submit this document for assessment as part of an e-portfolio or e-journal.