<![CDATA[<p>What are the custom course tools that can be added to <STRONG>web</STRONG><EM>Café</EM> rooms for courses?</p><p><span id="bodyfont" style="font-family:Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2">
<p>The following custom course tools are not automatically included in a course room based on the standard <strong>web</strong><em>Café</em> template, but instructors or teaching staff may contact us to have them added to the room:</p>
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<li>The <strong>Grade Book</strong> provides "columns" for exams, assignments, or other graded deliverables, as well as "rows" containing a student's score (numeric, letter grade, or text feedback) for each of those deliverables. The Grade Book is kept in your Instructor Folder; a student may access her own grades using a <em>My Grades</em> link. Scores entered into the Grade Book can be downloaded to Excel for analysis. <em>Note</em>: Final course grade submission is done using a different application, Wharton Online Grading, rather than in <strong>web</strong><em>Café</em> Classic; see <a href="http://inside.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty" target="_blank">Faculty Tools</a> for more information.<br />
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<li>You may e-mail us to request creation of private, individual <strong>Assignment Submission</strong> folders that allow each student to turn in papers or projects without the ability to see others' work. You can also privately give feedback, in the form of a comment or a revised file, within each student's private folder.<br />
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<li>Other formats instead of folders are also available; for example, private <strong>Journals</strong> are personal discussion areas for each student.<br />
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<li>Another available option for Assignment Submission is the <strong>timed assignment</strong> capability, in which <strong>web</strong><em>Café</em> records the exact time a student obtains the file containing a take-home exam or other timed assignment, as well as the time the same student uploads the completed assignment file. (<em>Note: </em>At present this can only be an individual assignment, not a team assignment.)<br />
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<li>Team assignment turn-in is available in conjunction with <strong>Team Signup</strong> or <strong>Core Team Folders</strong>.<br />
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<li>For courses that require students to quickly form mutually exclusive project teams, the usual Project Folders area can be replaced with our <strong>Team Signup</strong> system. Students can use Team Signup to join a team with just a few mouse clicks; private folder access for each team is set up automatically, and "mailto" links in the Team Signup list make it easy to send e-mail to team members. Team Signup is appropriate when the approximate number of teams and maximum members per team are known in advance; for more ad-hoc project group formation, it's better to use the standard Project Folders.<br />
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If you would like to use Team Signup, please e-mail us with:
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<li>the preferred minimum size of each team (or, if it's simpler, the maximum number of teams you want per section)</li>
<li>the maximum number of members per team;</li>
<li>whether teams can span sections or must have all members coming from the same class meeting times;</li>
<li>whether you need team folders to be for assignment turn-in.<br />
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[NOTE: For MBA core courses, if your group projects are done by the standard first-year learning teams or MBA Exec study groups, a signup process may not be needed. Instead, private <strong>Core Team Folders</strong> can be pre-built for each group in place of the standard Project Folders area.]<br />
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<li>A variation of Team Signup, known as <strong>Slot Signup</strong>, can help in cases where students need to sign up for one of several available cases, resources or appointments, each with a limited capacity. Unlike with Team Signup, in which team memberships are mutually exclusive, you may configure a Slot Signup sheet which allows students to sign up for more than one "slot."<br />
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<li>Our new <strong>Assessments</strong><em> </em>tool can be used for self-study quizzes, online homework, surveys and similar outside-of-class-time "question and answer" response assignments. For certain question types, automated grading is possible. Reports on assignment performance, both for instructors and for the students themselves, can be created.</li>
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