Vista Evaluation Results

The goals of the workshop are:

Review components of My Bobcat Den

Explore the student view

	Examine an online quiz
	Selective release
	How the syllabus tool is dynamically linked to the course calendar
	Explore a learning module (table of contents, bookmarks, printable view, notes, imbedding discussion posting or URL in a table of contents, example of using assignment tool, imbedding a video, using .pdf files, and imbedding quizzes into the table of contents).

Explore the instructor view

Adding icons to the Course Toolbar

Adding upper text block to home page

Adding icons/tools to the home page

Using the syllabus tool to create a syllabus

Create a learning module

Uploading files to the computer

Adding files or tools to a learning module

Setting up an assignment using the Assignment tool

	Making dates of an assignment show up in the calendar
	Show how students can revise work and resubmit with the Assignment tool
	Show how students can submit and make public documents using the Assignment tool

Using the grade book

Number of participants = 33 (info about participants) Number of evaluation respondents = 17	Original survey can be viewed at http://hercules.gcsu.edu/agrubb/Vista07Eval.htm
12% of respondents are part-time Instructors (2) 5% of respondents are full-time Instructors (1) 41% of respondents are Assistant Professors (7) 18% of respondents are Associate Professors (3) 24% of respondents are Professors (4)	41% of respondents are in School of Liberal Arts & Sciences (7) 29% of respondents are in School of Health Sciences (5) 6% of respondents are in School of Education (1) 18% of respondents are in School of Business (3) 6% of respondents are librarians (1)

	I love the syllabus feature!
	As I teach online, I will use every aspect of this workshop!
	Online postings.
	For starters: student presentations all in Vista accessible to everybody.
	I will use blended learning in my current class, thanks to the fact that GCSU has already imported the names of my students and to the possibility of getting minimal functions.
	I will use the aspects of WebCT that I find useful.
	Use of syllabus tool.
	Use of Vista to develop syllabus.
	Implementing Vista for my courses.
	Use of Teach section.
	Use of Vista/View.
	Posting notes, discussions, resources.
	I was suprised that Vista looks to be a significant improvement on WebCT. Now all we need is for it to start working! I will still wait until summer before using it for my courses.
	I will be using all of this information in developing a web site and materials for a web site.

	How much easier it is to navigate Vista.
	Strategies for online classes.
	How much boredom and slowness some trainers can incorporate into a workshop. The material covered was not worth 3 hours; it should have been condensed into an hour or less. This joker obviously does not have enough to do, so he decided to waste our time for the day. I hate to think how much we paid him for such SLOW instruction.
	Define assets of Vista in addition to traditional teaching.
	Got good individual help from the presenter.
	Ease of access to student view.
	How crippled the system is when the server is not working well.
	Nothing.
	That Vista does have a full-text search component to it.
	Availability of resources.
	How to upload to the website.
	What the training did for me is this...it showed me that Vista is slower than a snail, grossly unstable and unreliable. There's no way in heck that I'll use it until they get the bugs out. Too bad, it would be a great tool for outside-of-class group work.

	Unsure at present.
	Online test creation.
	Examples of student success that has been enhanced as a result of this technology.
	Foreign language content already available; Horizon Live Classroom/Illuminate Live Classroom.
	Module design.
	Matching teaching strategies to learning objectives.
	Going through the entire process of creating a WebCT VISTA site from beginning to end.
	I would have liked to have had a list of vocabulary - and then definitions (so I could know what Vista calls things).
	Just more practice time.

	The problem with our workshop was the slow response of Vista. This was beyond the trainer's control.
	The computer problems encountered was not in your control - this made learning very difficult. I really expected to have more done in the 3 hour time - I had also completed the online course, so I have spent some considerable time with this subject and still feel inadequate with it. This is somewhat frustrating. Thanks for caring.
	The server was down. :(
	Condense it to one hour.
	Make sure Vista site works. Communicate better to faculty to bring "real" work.
	I was distracted by the number of typos on the screen. At first, I thought it was a teaching technique, so that we would learn how to edit. It wasn't.
	The guest knew how to explain the most important stuff quickly.
	If computer system is not working, abort class and reschedule.
	Needed less of the overview and more time spent with the module concept. We spent too long with the general stuff and have a very rushed last 20 minutes in the session I attended.
	The content was well presented. I believe it was helpful to me to have completed the online sessions before attending.
	Spend more time on the instructor tools and much less time looking at Vista from the student point of view.
	It was well done with many facilitators to help each participant.