CamTools for Research: Getting Started Beginners
CamTools is a system used to create websites to support teaching, research, and collaboration. Within a CamTools site, academics, students, administrators and guests can use a collection of online tools to collaborate, communicate and share resources. Aimed at those intending to use CamTools to support a research project, this course will give you hands-on instruction and practice of using CamTools, managing a site, and adding tools and participants. It will show you how to use tools for sharing resources, making announcements, creating a calendar, setting up forums, using a wiki, and more. You will leave the course with a fully functioning CamTools site, populated with a standard set of tools to support a research project.
- University staff
- College staff
- Researchers
- Further details regarding CamTools' eligibility criteria are available
- Introduction
- Logging in
- Requesting a site
- Course and Project sites
- Navigating
- Adding and managing tools
- Adding and removing users
- Resources tool
- Announcements tool
- Schedule tool
- Email tool
- Site Members tool
- Forums tool
- Chat Room tool
- Schedule tool
- Wiki tool
- Web Content tool
To be able to:
- Understand the CamTools environment
- Manage participants
- Manage the appropriate tools
To gain hands on experience of using CamTools, specifically for supporting research
- Presentations, demonstrations and practicals
One half day session
- Monthly
- CamTools: Communicating
- CamTools: Controlling Access to Your Site
- CamTools: Getting Feedback from Your Members
- CamTools: Make the Most of Your Wiki
Events available