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Introduction
View Student Instructions
This WebTycho Faculty Guide supplements the WebTycho User Guide, and focuses on those functions available only to faculty. This guide assumes you have read the User Guide before consulting these pages.
Access Levels
Student. Students have read access to all areas of the classroom and write access in Conferences, Assignments, and Study Groups as determined by the instructor. The instructor rosters students into study groups, and students can see, enter, and participate in only the study groups into which the teacher has placed them.
Instructor. The term Instructor is used in a very limited sense to mean the lead faculty member in charge of a class. The instructor is responsible for the content and design of the course.
Faculty. Faculty have access to compose and edit class announcements; post a biography; add content to the syllabus; create and manage conferences and study groups; and read, edit, and grade all student assignments. Faculty may place additional written materials for the class (in .txt or .html format or as a Web link) in the Course Content area, although undergraduate faculty are not required to do so.
Teacher's Assistants (TAs). TAs have faculty access to all areas except Manage Syllabus and Manage Course Content.
Faculty View of the Classroom animated illustration
 
Faculty Center is located on the Class Menu
The hub of faculty activity is the Faculty Center. To merely participate in a conference, or view course content and other material, click on those links on the Class Menu. However, to manage these areas first click on Faculty Center. From there you may create, edit, delete, and control student access to all eligible areas. Read more...
Faculty Resources
For information about Faculty WebTycho Training, Faculty Development Workshops and Meetings, publishing on the web, Peer Mentoring Program, FacTalk UMUC's Worldwide Faculty Listserv -- and more, please visit the UMUC Faculty web page. http://www.umuc.edu/faculty/
Impatica for PowerPoint
Impatica for PowerPoint is desktop software, available for both Windows and Mac, that enables simple delivery of animated, narrated PowerPoint presentations to any user. It reads and interprets PowerPoint files and produces a compressed file that can be streamed over the Internet. Read more about downloading and installing this program.
Technical support for this third party software is available from UMUC Technical Support at helpdesk@umuc.edu or 301-985-7400 between 7:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. After business hours and on weekends, limited help is available from WebTycho Support.
Faculty Announcements
UMUC posts messages for faculty at the top of the Class Announcements page. Students cannot see these messages.
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