WebCT in the Physiology 130 Course

NOTE: You need to be ONLINE (i.e. connected to the Internet) in order to use WebCT. You also need to know your panther login name and password in order to access WebCT.

Get to the Physiology course in WebCT

To start WebCT, in your browser's Location window (at the top), enter https://webct.uwo.ca/
Click on Courses
Scroll down the list of courses and click on Physiology
Click on Physio 130 Intro - Human Physiology on the right
When the Authentication box is displayed, enter your panther login name (e.g. jdoe) in the User Name box and your panther password in the Password box.

Currently, there are two available icons - Bulletin Board and Chat. To start one of them, click on the appropriate icon.

What are Bulletin Board and Chat?

Bulletin Board

Use this if you want to read or post messages that can be accessed by everyone in the Pilot group, your TA and your course instructor.
For example, you may want to start or participate in a discussion about a topic in the course, or perhaps you have some questions or problems that others in the class may be able to help with.
These messages are always available when you connect to WebCT.

Chat

Use this if you want to talk to someone in REAL time (i.e. like talking to a person online, rather than reading a message that was posted at an earlier time).
Typically, the TA or Instructor (or a person in your class) will announce a time they will be in a chat room, and anyone who wants, can talk to them at that time.
Some rooms will have the conversations recorded so that the instructor can review it later.

How do I use Bulletin Board and Chat?

Bulletin Board:

To read a message just click on the underlined part of the message
To post a new message, click on the Compose bar on the left side menu
To reply to a posted message, click the Reply button (found in the bottom window where the message is displayed)
- Type in your response and click the Preview button to check it
- Then click the Post button
- Click on Update Listing on the left side menu to refresh the screen and show your posting
If you come into the Bulletin Board and instead of seeing a list of postings, you see the following message:
```
	Forum: All   Show: Unread 
	
	No unread messages found 
```
By default, only the unread (new) messages are displayed and if you have read the messages before, you will not see them listed.
To see the old messages, click on Show All on the left side menu.
If the instructor has set up several fora (on different topics), click Forum on the left side menu and click on the name of the forum you want to go to.

A Bulletin Board tutorial is available from http://www.webct.com/webct/tutorial/online1.3/BulletinBoard/bulletin.htm if you would like more details. NOTE: The Bulletin Board is separate from your regular e-mail and is internal to WebCT. In order to read or post messages to these discussion groups, you need to do it from within WebCT.

Chat

To return to the main page, click the Home button.
Click on the room you want to visit (e.g. where someone is available to talk)
On the right (under Users Logged On), you will see all the people who are in the Chat room chat can talk right now.
To start talking, click in the Enter your message below box and type in the message followed by enter. It will appear in the window above.
Other people's responses will appear in that window as well.
When you don't want to talk anymore, click on the Quit bar at the bottom.

Last modified: Sep.28, 1999