WebCT

WebCT is a tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated Web-based educational environments. It does this in three ways, by providing an interface allowing the design of the presentation of the course (color schemes, page layout, etc), providing a set of educational tools to facilitate learning, communication, and collaboration, and providing a set of administrative tools to assist the instructor in the process of management and continuous improvement of the course. WebCT's goal is to provide a set of tools useful for a broad range of teaching methodologies, yet make it easy to experiment with new techniques. WebCT can be used to create entire online courses or to simply publish materials that supplement existing courses, and requires minimal technical expertise on the part of the developer of the course and on the part of the student.

Faculty can complete and submit the online WebCT Course Account Request Form to request a WebCT course shell for use in their course.

For help with WebCT, complete and submit the WebCT Support Request form.

WebCT is entirely web-based, so there is no software to install (other than a Web browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer) on the computers used by the students or instructors. Requirements are:

• Microsoft® Windows 98 2nd Edition, 2000, or XP and Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, or 6.0 or Netscape Navigator® 6.2. x, 7.0, and 7.1 or AOL® 7.0 and 8 .0 or Mozilla 1.5 and 1.6
• Macintosh OS 9, OS X 10.1.x, 10.2.x, 10.3.x and Internet Explorer 5.1 (OS 9.x and OS X 10.1) or Internet Explorer 5.2 (OS X 10.1, 10.2, 10.3) or Navigator 6.2. x (OS 9.x and OS X) or Navigator 7.0 & 7.1 (OS X) or AOL (OS X) or Mozilla 1.5, 1.6 (OS X) or Safari 1.2

Logging In

1. Open this location in a Web browser:
   http://courses.uark.edu/
2. Click the Log in to WebCT link and log in using your UARK username and password (same as email).
3. Click the Log in button.
   The myWebCT screen shows a listing of your courses using WebCT.
4. Click on the course ID (for example: ANTH 1023) to enter that course's home page.
5. You should now see the home page for your course.

Firewalls

Many employers and companies set up firewalls as security measures against hackers.  Firewalls provide security by closing certain Internet ports, which disables student access to interactive computer applications like WebCT.

In cases where students have been given permission to complete school work at their place of employment, employers have requested the port numbers required to modify their network and provide their employees with greater Internet access.

Here are the ports that need to be opened:

• WebCT Port: (TCP) 8900
• Chat Port: (TCP) 4445
• Whiteboard Port: (TCP) 4567
• Java Servlet Engine Port: (TCP) 8009
• SSL (Secure Socket Layer): TCP 443 & 8443

Domain Name & IP Address: webct.uark.edu / 130.184.5.44

Course Publishers

WebCT has been chosen by many of the largest higher education publishers as their tool to build web-based courses to complement their course textbooks. Most notably, Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group; Cambridge Physics Outlet; Harcourt Higher Learning including Archipelago, Dryden Press, Harcourt College; John Wiley and Sons; McGraw-Hill Higher Education; Pearson Education including Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Prentice Hall; Thomson Learning including Brooks/Cole, Course Technology, Delmar, Heinle & Heinle, South-Western College Publishing, Wadsworth; and W.W. Norton are using WebCT to create online material to supplement their existing textbooks.

Troubleshooting

"Error 1005" message when trying to log in
This error message occurs when users are trying to sign in and enter their WebCT IDs in uppercase letters. WebCT requires a lowercase WebCT ID.

Windows XP Service Pack 2 includes a file download notifier that can prevent downloading of files from content pages, attachments, and other areas of WebCT.

Downloading Files from WebCT

Windows XP Service Pack 2 includes a file download notifier that can prevent downloading of files from content pages, attachments, and other areas of WebCT.

Disabling File Download Notification:

• In an Internet Explorer window, click on the Tools menu
• Now choose Internet Options...
• Click on the Security tab at the top
• Click on the Custom Level button in the middle of the window
• Scroll down until you find the setting Automatic Prompting of Downloads (pictured below) and check ENABLE
• Click OK, then click Yes, then OK one more time to close the Internet Options window

Redirected to perfectnav.com when trying to log in

PerfectNav is a browser helper object that redirects your URL typing errors to PerfectNav's web page. Kazaa Media Desktop comes with a software program called PerfectNav, which is provided by eUniverse, Inc. PerfectNav is designed to redirect your URL typing errors to PerfectNav's web page.

Source - PerfectNav is bundled with Kazaa 2.6.
Classification - Adware
Files - PerfectNavBHO.dll, Tipb.exe
Vendor - eUniverse
Uninstall Procedure - There is not an uninstall entry in "Add/Remove programs".
Manual removal - Please follow the instructions below if you would like to remove PerfectNav manually. Please notice that you must follow the instructions very carefully and delete everything that is mentioned. In most cases the removal will fail if one single item is not deleted. If Bazooka still detects PerfectNav after stepping through the removal instructions, please double check by stepping through them again.

1. Start the registry editor. This is done by clicking Start, Run. (The Run dialog will appear.)
2. Type regedit and click OK. (The registry editor will open.)
3. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \ Classes \ CLSID \ {A045DC85-FC44-45be-8A50-E4F9C62C9A84}', if it exists.
4. Delete 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer\Browser Helper Objects \ {A045DC85-FC44-45be-8A50-E4F9C62C9A84}', if it exists.
5. Exit the registry editor.
6. Restart your computer.
7. Delete the following directory and its content: %ProgramsDir%\PerfectNav\    Note: %ProgramsDir% is a variable. By default, it is C:\Program Files.
8. Start Microsoft Internet Explorer.
9. In Internet Explorer, click Tools,  Internet Options.
10. Click the Programs tab, and  Reset Web Settings.

Redirected to the Ask Jeeves site, Internet Optimizer, or some other site when trying to log in

Installed software such as Kazaa and other programs can also install spyware on your computer which can then redirect your Web browser to various search engines when you attempt to access WebCT. Common ones include Internet Optimizer, Ask Jeeves, BearShare, Grokster, iMesh, and Perfectnav.

Install Symantec AntiVirus to check and clean your system of spyware.