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EBSCOhost Research Databases EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers. The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries. EBSCO Support Site EBSCO's Support Site is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our FAQ database, tutorials, and user guides can provide answers to your technical questions. EBSCO Customer Support Representatives are also available by phone and e-mail 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday, as well as Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (US EST). How to Use Help * When the Help icon Help Question Mark appears, you can click the icon and help for the screen you are on will display. * To obtain help for the database(s) you are searching, click the Help icon Help Question Mark to the right of the Find field and click on the Database name at the bottom of the left-hand side of the Help window. Database help is also available from the Choose Databases window. * To view the entire Help System, click the Help link at the top right-hand corner of the screen. Note: The recommended screen resolution for EBSCOhost is 1024 x 768.

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research more efficiently or creatively. Whether you need software to help you manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help you find what you're looking for. We provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which we not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

DiRT is a wiki that collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars conduct research more efficiently or creatively. It provides a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which they not only describe the tool's features, but also explore how it might be employed most effectively by researchers. Check out the links on the left of the page as well as the links listed on the right side of the screen.

Diigo Help Center

This section is intended to help you find common solutions to video related problems. At first, this section contains streaming video help, but will eventually add video related questions pertaining to Internet 2, Video over IP, ITV, and any other use of video across campus.

This is the main portal for UCF faculty, staff and students

Welcome to myUCF! myUCF provides UCF staff, faculty, and students with a personalized gateway to information and applications from one secure, centralized location. Each user has access to various Web systems and tools based upon their roles within the university community. Users are able to personalize their pages to suit their particular needs. Additional help is available for personalizing your portal page by clicking on "Help" located near the upper right side of myUCF. You can also search for answers in Ask UCF's knowledge base or submit a question. If you need further assistance signing on, please contact the Service Desk at (407) 823-5117.

Delicious is a Social Bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.

One of the more popular social bookmarking sites used is Delicious. To give you an idea of how it works, please visit the UCF library bookmarks at http://delicious.com/ucflibrary .

Blackboard, eCollege, WebCT Quick Start Guides Quick Start Guides are 1-4 pages in length and contain the essential information for getting started with Respondus, Respondus LockDown Browser, StudyMate Class Server, and StudyMate Author. Additional information for Respondus and StudyMate Author can be found in the online help (press the F1 key in Respondus or StudyMate Author) or in the complete user guides.

*Welcome to the Blackboard Exemplary Course Program page. Here you will find a rubric to help you develop and assess engaging online courses, examples of courses rated as exemplary through the review process of the Exemplary Course Program, and information on how to submit your course to the 2009 Blackboard Exemplary Course Program. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at ecp@blackboard.com. *

Learner-centered education places the student at the center of education. It begins with understanding the educational contexts from which a student comes. It continues with the instructor evaluating the student's progress towards learning objectives. By helping the student acquire the basic skills to learn, it ultimately provides a basis for learning throughout life. It therefore places the responsibility for learning on the student, while the instructor assumes responsibility for facilitating the student's education. This approach strives to be individualistic, flexible, competency-based, varied in methodology and not always constrained by time or place.

This is the MySpace Quick Tour. It can be a helpful resource for learning about MySpace.

Welcome to the Sloan-C Effective Practices site. To help make quality online education accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, the Sloan-C community shares techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to both insure quality and to give submitters some documentation for tenure and promotion files.

The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education. Sloan-C supports the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction.

ELI invites your participation to help construct a vision for the future of learning on our campuses. Is lecture dead? Will classrooms have walls? How will students and faculty collaborate in the future? Join the discussion now.

The following standards are excerpted from Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, §1194.22. Everything in the left hand column is a direct quote from Section 508. The other two columns are only meant to serve as helpful guidelines to comply with Section 508. These guidelines are suggestions only, and are not part of the official Section 508 document. For the full text of Section 508, please see the Official government 508 web site - external link.

RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.

Turnitin plays an extremely important role in helping our students understand intellectual honesty...

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Course Management Effective course management planning during design and development can help the instructor to alleviate the potentially increased time spent in managing the online course.

Asynchronous Learning Networks --a term coined by Frank Mayadas of the Sloan Foundation signifies any technology enabled collaborative learning environment using remote resources that can be accessed from anywhere at anytime and yet create a community of learners who are actively interacting, sharing ideas, learning and helping each other learn.

Adobe is dedicated to supporting all customers and has made every effort to make Adobe.com accessible to people with disabilities. In the event you do experience difficulty trying to access Adobe.com with assistive devices, contact Adobe Customer Service and we will make every effort to help you obtain the information you need. Continue to check this page for the latest information on how to best access our website.