Web-based Course Materials

Sakai - https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/

Provides a set of tools for group discussions, on-line quizzes, calendars, course content, student management and communicating grades privately to each student over the web. Sakai integrates with the online roster system to automatically grant your students access to course materials that you put into your course web site. Sakai is supported centrally by OIRT and available to all faculty and instructors university-wide. The Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research provides workshops and assistance in using Sakai. Sakai is the replacement for WebCT and course materials can be easily transferred from the old WebCT system to Sakai.

eCompanion - http://ecompanion.rutgers.edu/

Similar to Sakai, but based on the eCollege system used by the Office of Continuous Education. All courses offered through the Office of Continuous Education or offered fully on-line must use the eCollege or eCompanion system.

Blackboard - http://blackboard.rutgers.edu/

Another set of course tools similar to Sakai, available to the faculty of the Business School and Rutgers Newark.

Online Rosters - https://sims.rutgers.edu/rosters/

Allows instant access to course rosters and official grade reporting tools.

SAS Gradebook - http://gradebook.rutgers.edu/

A tool for privately communicating grades to your students on the web without violating federal privacy laws.

RAMS - http://rams.rutgers.edu/

"Rutgers Automated Mailing System" creates an e-mail lists based on course rosters so that instructors can send mail to all of their students without needing to collect or organize addresses. For general purpose mailing lists that are not dependent on rosters, Mailman may be more appropriate.

Wiki

A tool for collaborative web sites, wikis are ideal for group projects or for quickly and easily creating web sites. No knowledge of web page creation is required to use a wiki. RUCS offers a ready-to-use wiki on RCI <http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/webtools/tiki/> or you can use a simple do-it-yourself version on your own RCI account.

phpBB

A group discussion system that can be used independently of the more complex course management systems such as Sakai, eCompanion and Blackboard. phpBB is a tool that you install yourself into your own RCI account.