Faculty WebCT Survey

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Faculty WebCT Survey
DRAFT FACULTY Survey

• Ramapo College of New Jersey

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Purposes of Survey

• To discover how faculty utilize WebCT tools
• Learning/scheduling features
• Course management utilities
• To estimate time commitments and workload changes

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Sample size

• 14 faculty, teaching 18 courses
• Fields included chemistry, nursing, art, social
  sciences, computer science, humanities,
  economics, math and social work

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Which of 12 tools were used?

• In the typical course 7 tools were used
• Three most popular
• Discussions (95)
• Syllabus (89)
• Assignments (83)
• Three least popular (33 to 22)
• Student homepages, grades, and presentations

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How often was discussion used?
3/4
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How much initial training time is required for
tools?

• Most time-consuming
• Tests and quizzes 11.1 hours (range from 3 to
  30 hours)
• Discussion tool 3 hours (range from 1 to 10
  hours)
• Rest of tools typically 1 to 2 hours/tool
• Simple mean 2.6 hours/tool

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How are course utilities used?

• Manage students (94 of faculty users)
• Track students (76)
• Track pages (50)
• Reset course (50)
• Share access (31)
• Manage presentation groups (25)
• Back-up course (19)

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Faculty Written Comments Least Liked

• Not a large sample (n 11)
• Time-consuming, esp. tests
• Cumbersome/slow/inflexible
• Unreliable system mentioned by only one faculty
  member

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Faculty Written Comments Best Liked n 14

• Two most common
• Convenience/flexibility
• Discussion feature
• Others
• Scheduling/organizational tools

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