[Assistant-faculty] FW: Trunk Spring Course Sites

["Grant, Gayle" <Gayle Grant tufts edu>]

Hi Faculty:

 

Please read the following e-mail form Trunk support for Spring 2012 Courses.

 

Gayle

 

From: Medeiros, Wendy [mailto:wendy medeiros tufts edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3:42 PM
To: asestafffeedback elist tufts edu
Cc: Sholes, Rebecca C
Subject: Trunk Spring Course Sites

 

This message is sent on behalf of the Trunk Support Team.

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Dear Department Administrators and Managers,

With the fall semester well underway, we are now planning for Trunk courses being offered in the spring semester.   The course shells for spring courses will be available in Trunk on Monday, November 21st and ready for faculty to start working on them.  Could you please share the following information with faculty in your department who will be teaching with Trunk in the spring, particularly those that have not yet taught with Trunk.

Trunk Spring Course Sites

Faculty can locate their spring course sites by logging into Trunk, using their Tufts Username and Password, and going to their Quicklinks or MySites tab where they should be listed.  The spring course sites are empty and ready to have content added to them.  They are also unpublished, so no students will be able to see them until they are published by the instructor.

Faculty can follow the same recommended steps for developing spring course sites as was used for fall courses:

• Decide if they want to move course content from Blackboard to their spring course site.  If faculty want help with migrating course content from Blackboard to Trunk, they must submit a request as soon as possible at:  http://go.tufts.edu/trunkmigration
• Copy course content from an existing Trunk site to their new spring course site.
• Attend a Trunk workshop.  Getting Started with Trunk and Advanced Workshops are now being held on ongoing basis as well as Open Lab sessions.  You can register for a workshop here: http://go.tufts.edu/trunkworkshops/.
• Visit the Trunk Support Site at http://sites.tufts.edu/trunksupport to get lots of useful information on Trunk.

Get Support                                         

The Trunk Support Team is here to help you.  You can reach us in the following ways:

• Send an email to trunk tufts edu
• Call during business hours: 617-627-4848 (7-4UIT)
• Meet in person with a Trunk consultant at the ESTS Drop-in Consultation Desk in the Tisch Library Digital Design Studio.

Important Tip for Faculty: Editing Quicklinks

By default, only 4 of your Trunk course or project site links appear in the “Quicklinks” menu at the top of the Trunk display. You can add additional Quicklinks to this menu and you can arrange the order of the Quicklink display.

To add additional Quicklinks:

1. Go to your My Workspace site and click Preferences (or click Edit to the right of the Quicklinks list).
2. In the “My Active Sites” box under “Tabs Displayed” set the number of Quicklinks you would like to display.
3. Click Update Preferences.
4. Click Home (top of the left navigation panel). Your set number of Quicklinks should now be displayed at the top of the Trunk display.

To arrange the Quicklink order:

1. Go to your My Workspace site and click Preferences (or click Edit to the right of the Quicklinks list).
2. Select any of the site links listed in the “My Active Sites” box
3. Use the up and down arrow button to the left to move the selected link up or down in the order.
4. Click Update Preferences.
5. Click Home (top of the left navigation panel). Your Quicklinks should now be displayed in the order you have set.

 

Best,

Trunk Support Team
trunk tufts edu