OU Educate: Implementation of a New WYSIWIG Tool for Maintenance of Personal Web Pages
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OU Educate: Implementation of a New
WYSIWIG Tool for Maintenance of Personal
Web Pages
Mary SchoelerDavid McQuinKathi DuttonDon Michaels
May 25, 2005
OU Educate - Perspective
HistoryRedesign of Campus Web SiteCompanion productPreviously needed unix commands and FTPHard to maintain department and personal web pages
OU Educate - Perspective
OU Educate Overview
OU Educate
•WYSIWIG editing tool for web pagessimilar to FrontPage or DreamWeaver
•Accounts automatically created for faculty and students
OU Educate
Browser basedavailable on any computeravailable at any time
•use IE 5.5 or higher in Windows
•other browsers and platforms work
OU Educate Compatible with other editors Saves files directly to your public-
html directoryno ftpno delay
OU Educate Skills and Tasks• Saving Backups
• Web Page Editor
• Inserting Text
• Inserting Links
• Inserting Images
• Spell Checking
• Editing Tables
• Pasting from MS Word
• Uploading Files, not drag and drop
• Editing in full HTML mode
OU EducateEasy to use
OU Educate
Faculty workshopsTraining CDWeb based trainingCS101
OU Educate Solution for Students
CSC 101 – Tools for Computing General Education course
Computer Literacy 6 – 100 student sessions per
semester Students also enroll in 1-hr lab/week 1,350 students annually
Lab#2Pico, HTML, IE In this lab students learned how to
create a simple web-page. Telnet into Rocky Using Unix commands
• Create public-html directory & set privileges• Copy html template into their account & set
privileges• Use Pico to edit template• Open IE to view newly created page
Problems Time consuming
Students confused & over-whelmed
Students find it difficult to maintain a web-presence in subsequent semesters
Support
Handouts Web-based Tutorials Training Workshops