CLEW Tool Summary
From CLEW Wiki
In CLEW, there are various tools to accomplish task and activities. Links to access tools appear in the left-hand main menu on your CLEW site. To add or remove tools from your site, select Site Editor -> Edit Tools and check or deselect tools as required, select Continue (to view the changes made) and select Finish to complete.
The tools available in CLEW and what they are used for are listed below.
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Interaction Tools
- Announcements: Post current, time-critical information (e.g., to inform users of changes in the schedule or policies of the class).
- Chat: Hold real-time written discussions with other site participants. Chat is faster and less structured than Discussions or Forums. Conversations remain visible on site to all participants.
- Discussions: Create, participate in, and manage asynchronous discussion forums and topics within your site. Integrates with Gradebook, and has Private Messages, and customizable My Profile features.
- Email Instructor: Participants can compose and send an email to instructor/site owner and/or TAs’ UWin email account without leaving CLEW.
- Forums: Create, moderate, participate in, and manage asynchronous forums, topics, and threaded discussions within your site. Integrate into Gradebook with comments and grades.
- Polls: Conduct an anonymous poll or vote of your site participants.
- Sections: Create course sub groupings or sections (e.g., labs, teams) that are revealed in various tools (e.g., Resources, Discussions, Forums, Gradebook, Assignments).
- Site Mailing List: Send email to all site participants and site participants can send email to all site participants. A copy of the email is kept in the Site Mailing List archive.
- Wiki: Collaborate with other participants to create and edit web pages.
Assessment Tools
- Assignments: Post, submit, and grade assignment(s) online.
- Drop Box: Create areas for private file sharing between site leaders and participants or instructors and students.
- Feedback: Post secure, targetted grades or feedback in a .csv file format (which can be created in MS Excel and saved as file type .csv) so that each student/participant sees only his/her own grade or customized feedback.
- Gradebook: Calculate, store, and present your students’ grades. Each student will only see his/her grade. Can integrate with assignments, and forum tools.
- Quizzes & Tests: Create and deliver customized online tests (with assistance of CLEW Team). Can be set up to provide automatic feedback and grading options.
Content Tools
- Calendar: Post and view deadlines and events (e.g., class session dates, assignment due dates, and cancellations). Can subscribe to external calendars.
- Glossary: Create a list of terms and definitions or a handy reference document of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) for your course or project.
- Lessons: Create and publish learning sequences (e.g., several lessons to be presented sequentially, each containing material to be presented in order you determine.)
- News: Allows you to view, within your CLEW site, continuously updated content from another site such as a news source, blog, or events listing. The content must be available as an RSS feed.
- Resources: Upload, store, and share files and URLs.
- Syllabus: Create or upload, and display a course syllabus and / or requirements for a site.
- Web Content: Add web page links to the left-hand menu.
Your Personalized CLEW Site(s)
- Home: This is the course or project site home page. Home can contain a welcome to the site, a list of recent announcements, recent chat messages, a notice of new posts in Forums, and calendar items.
- Roster: (Not viewable by students.) View the list of site participants.
- Site Editor: (Not viewable by students.) Edit site information, add and remove tools from your site, and manage the membership, roles and groups of your site.
- Site Stats: (Not viewable by students.) View information about how often your site has been visited and by whom. Reports available and filtered by user, event or resource.
