EPP Training
Welcome EPP Faculty! This web page is designed to provide you with the information about EPP Faculty services. EPP offers a wide variety of resources and training opporunities for our faculty- ranging from teaching resources to current publications, and important forms you need for your course.The goal of this training is to help faculty and staff determine the appropriateness of new technologies and to become competent in using them.The majority of these resources are located inside the Faculty Intranet. The Faculty Intranet provides news and important documentation (such as teaching resouces,intructional technology, library information, class roster information, etc) for faculty members.
We will be adding new information and services to this section of our website, so check back often!
How to Log into the Faculty Intranet
To log in to the Faculty Intranet, you will need your JHED ID and password. If you do not have a JHED ID, have forgotten your JHED ID or password, or would like more information about JHED, please see our JHED Instructional Guide or call HITS at 410.516.HELP (4357). APL Staff should contact the APL Online Education Center to obtain JHED Information at 443.778.6510.
Log onto the Faculty Intranet at www.epp.jhu.edu/faculty.
Training Resources
EPP currently offers training sessions for both WebCT and eLive.
Current training offerings are availble for WebCT and eLive are viewable on the Training Calendar at www.epp.jhu.edu/FacultyTraining.
WebCT Traininng Questions may be directed to EPP Training (epptraining@jhu.edu).
If you have questions concerning Elluminate (eLIve), would like to set up an eLive account, or to request training, please send an email to EPP Training (epptraining@jhu.edu).
What is a Course Homepage?
Course Homepages are intended to deliver information about your course that doesn't change significantly from term to term. Your Course Homepage includes a list of topics to be covered, the official course description as it appears in the course catalog, and much more. Course Homepages are created dynamically using information that the instructor enters into a web based form through the Faculty Intranet. Once created, the homepages are accessible from EPP's official web site.
What is WebCT?
WebCT is a web-driven courseware package that provides an environment to organize your online course materials. It also gives you access to a number of course tools and to course and student management utilities so that you don't have to create them from scratch or cobble together different pieces of software for each feature. Using WebCT, all the different parts of a course website or fully online course have a consistent look and feel. This is less confusing for the students and to learn how to use to its fullest potential. WebCT also provides a level of security, because students are required to log into their course using their JHED ID and password. People who aren’t registered for your course can't see the course pages. This helps you satisfy privacy and copyright issues.
What is Elluminate Live?
JHU has licensed a piece of software to serve as a companion to WebCT called Elluminate Live! or eLive for short. It serves as a more full featured alternative to WebCT's built in synchronous communication tools, Chat and Whiteboard. eLive has a much more advanced whiteboard, text chat capability, full duplex audio using voice over the internet, and two-way streaming video capabilities. Sessions may be recorded so that you can view all the content and interactions later if you can't make the session. It is an excellent tool for office hours, student meeting space for group projects, and occasional guest lectures.
What is a Course Website?
Course websites are intended to house information that is specific to a particular term, including syllabus and topics covered, but also announcements, deadlines or calendar information, class notes, example problems, assignments, test scores, etc. The instructor may wish to restrict all or a portion of this site to just the currently registered students. Instructors are completely responsible for the development and maintenance of these course websites and must have or acquire some web development skills in order to do so. In order to obtain server space for a course website instructors must request an account on the http://apl.jhu.edu server, create their course website using the HTML editor of their choice, and the upload the files to the account using FTP. Server access is overseen by Gary Gafke (gary.gafke@jhuapl.edu). Instructors must request an account on http://apl.jhu.edu in order to publish Course Websites, and may do so using this form http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Misc/Acct_Form/unix_acct_form.html.
APL Staff
There are some subtle differences in resources for APL staff who also teach for EPP. For more information please contact the APL Education Center at 443.778.6510 (Faculty Online.)