All CamTools Training courses

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. This demonstration will give you an overview of the system and how it can be used.

This course will introduce you to the various communication tools available in CamTools such as email, forums, chat rooms and announcements.

You may want to make your site available to everyone across the University or only to invited members; you may want to make some information on the site accessible only to a specific group of your site members; you may want to give different site members permissions to carry out different tasks on your site. This course will introduce you to the ways that can be managed in CamTools.

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 committee or group, 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 minutes and other papers, making announcements, creating a calendar, and more. You will leave the course with a fully functioning CamTools site, populated with a standard set of tools to support a committee or group.

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.

Aimed at those intending to use CamTools to support teaching and learning, this short course will offer you hands-on experience of running a course site. You will practice sharing documents with students, creating events to which students can subscribe, setting up forums, creating assignments and more.

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 teaching and learning, 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, linking to webpages, setting up forums, and more. You will leave the course with a fully functioning CamTools site, populated with a standard set of tools to support teaching.

This course will introduce you to the Swift Survey facility which allows you to survey members of specific CamTools site(s) or an adhoc group of participants.

CamTools is an online system used to create sites 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 looking for a general introduction to the system, this course covers all basic functions of CamTools and offers hands-on experience of running a site as an administrator. You will practice working with the most useful tools (uploading documents, updating a calendar, posting announcements etc), and managing a site (adding site members, creating groups etc). By the end of the course you will have developed a fully functioning CamTools site, populated with a standard set of tools.

This course will introduce you to the Wiki tool, which allows you to instantly create a webpage or series of webpages, easily edited and contributed to by the site administrator and, if appropriate, by site members.