AUDIENCE:
This web site is
for all faculty, staff and administrative personnel at
Georgia College & State University who have an interest
in our transition to the USG-hosted WebCT Vista service.
This transition has already begun and will reach its first
important milestone on 12/31/06 when students and faculty
are all automatically enrolled in Vista Course Sections for
the Spring '07 semester. At that time, trained faculty will
be able to begin teaching their students using Vista's
vastly improved tools and new features. With WebCT Vista,
teaching and learning at GCSU should be more productive and
enjoyable than ever before.
WHAT IS
VISTA? For
those not familiar with WebCT Vista, it is a web-based,
enterprise-level Learning Management and Content Management
System (LMS/CMS). You can learn more about Vista
here. The area of primary
interest to faculty is the Vista Virtual Course
Environment where content is assembled
and organized and where facuty interact with students
and students with one another. Vista can also be used
for non-teaching activities such as collaborative
projects that benefit from being independent of time and
place requirements.