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

Number of sessions: 1

• 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

• Introduction
• Research