WebCT

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WebCT

• What is it?
• How do I use it?
• What can it do?

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WebCT-a virtual learning environment

• WebCT has the facilities to allow students and
  staff to interact
• Chat rooms allow students to interact
• Discussion groups allow module-based discussions
  that everyone can see and join in
• Eventually assignments will be submitted via
  WebCT and students can access their marks
• There are many other features such as interactive
  quizzes that can be developed

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Logging on

• Go to
• http//webct.sunderland.ac.uk/
• use you university log-in and usual machine
  password

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What does it look like?
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A module home page
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Communication menu
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http//webct.sunderland.ac.uk/
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Software DevelopmentEvent Driven Language

• COH119

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Module Team

• Lynne Humphries
• Module Leader
• CET - University of Sunderland
• Room 229 Tel [phone]
• Email lynne.humpries_at_sunderland.ac.uk
• Farook Hakim
• Part Time Lecturer
• Works for Syntegra
• Phil Jackson
• Part Time Lecturer
• Works for Sunderland University

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Module Aim

• To apply successfully the stages within the
  Software Development Life Cycle to the design and
  implementation of software-based solutions to
  simple problems
• in an event driven language.
• In this case Microsoft Visual Basic Version 5

COH121 - Follows this module in distance mode in
which you have to complete a software
project using the software lifecycle and Visual
Basic
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Teaching Method

• Classroom based short lectures and group
  exercises
• With feedback sessions to the whole group
• Machine based sessions
• Time to learn to program with Visual Basic
• Time to complete assignment and portfolio tasks
• Self Study

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Assessment

• 100 Coursework
• 70 One comprehensive assignment
• 30 Portfolios
• Four items to be completed by everybody
• You must pass all parts of the coursework to pass
  the module
• failing to meet just a single requirement will
  result in you failing the module

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Key Text

• An Introduction to Programming Using Visual Basic
  6.0 4th Edition
• David I Scneider, 1999, Prentice Hall
• ISBN0-13-936428-5
• It is a requirement of this module that you
  purchase this book-all the support quizzes etc on
  webCT are based on this book.
• Available from John Smiths - St.Peters
• Open until 600 pm

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Todays/This week Session

• Objective
• Machine based session example/exercise based
  tutorial to introduce the Visual Basic
  development environment
• Self Study
• Read handout on the software development
  lifecycle by next week

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VB development environment
Title Bar, Toolbar and Menu Bar
Project
Properties
Toolbox
Form Design