User Guide

Instructor Guide for Teams LX

Teams LX is a special wiki designed to give students and instructors tools for collaboratively creating rich media websites within the course management environment. Users sharing a common online workspace author content, assemble research, and present their work.

Collaborating on Online Projects

Teams LX is a great way for instructors to create group assignments. Students work cooperatively to develop, write, and publish their solutions in the form of websites. This process encourages them to think critically and analytically as they evaluate and organize relevant content.

Creating a Shared Course Resource

Teams LX allows instructors and students to collaboratively build shared knowledge bases within courses. Users can maintain an up-to-date, online course resource by authoring content, linking to external resources, contributing opinions and analysis, and re-framing existing content.

Assessing Group Participation

Teams LX provides a course tool to help instructors assess the group project work they have assigned. This tool allows an instructor to drill down into the individual contributions of each student and to track the evolution of a group's response during the problem-solving process.