Glossary

This is another new feature in version 3.x, which gives the instructor/designer a single page that is designed for two-click access to anything you want to add, edit or update in your course.

In Instructional Design there are many models or filters used to describe learning styles. These filters subscribe to a variety of factors: age, experience, internal psychodynamics, maturity, cognition, physiology, and biochemistry. In this book diverse learning styles refers to any and all possible learning styles including those for people with disabilities.

In WebCT download has two meanings:

1. In Manage Files download sends a copy of a file or a folder unchanged to your hard drive or disk.
2. In Calendar, Manage Students, Question Database, Glossary, Student Tips, etc. download is really an export function because it puts the data into a different format. In almost all cases it is some kind of delimited text (.txt) file. The distinction between these definitions is technical and not essential to working in WebCT.

When using the CD-ROM Tool, you will read references to dummy, empty or mirror files. They all are referring to a file inside the course Manage Files area that has the same file name as an actual file on the CD that you will be accessing using the CD-ROM Tool. This file in Manage Files is usually a file that has only one character in it. The CD-ROM Tool tries to call the empty file into your Content Module. Since the file is essentially empty, the CD-ROM Tool then bounces to the CD drive to find the real or full file. Hence, the terms mirror, dummy and empty all sort of described these files but none completely accurately. See chapter on CD-ROM Tool.