If you are a Mac user, you have Dashboard Widgets of all kinds. I made a nice one that you can slip into your dashboard and keep a very rapid watch on announcements here. Here is the logic behind it:- Announcements is our eyeball on Webcourses. It is cumbersome to log in to the My UCF portal and Webcourses to check for new assignments etc., and Webcourses, lovely though it is, does have reliability issues. Blogspot is never down and it loads rapidly.
- The widget is your computer eyeball on Announcements. Flick into your dashboard, and this widget tells you if any news is posted here on Announcements. Takes 2 seconds.
- Bottom line: extremely efficient communication channel
To get the widget, go into the Wbcourses home page and go down the page to the Widgets folder.
Windows users -- sorry, but I am not an expert of Bill Gates technology, so you might be able to get a good widget, but I can't make one for you. The Widgets area in Webcourses has a link for you, if you want to mess around with Konfabulator.
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