ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO TWEN - Westlaw
ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO TWEN - Westlaw
ADMINISTRATOR'S GUIDE TO TWEN - Westlaw
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E-MAIL OPTIONS<br />
You can specify how to use these e-mail options:<br />
• E-mail all course participants.<br />
• Create e-mail groups.<br />
• Send attachments in e-mail messages.<br />
• Show student e-mail addresses.<br />
• Receive a daily course report.<br />
• Send instantaneous e-mail notifications of forum postings.<br />
In addition, you can select whether you want to receive e-mail notifications for new forum postings.<br />
CITESTATION AND LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING <strong>TO</strong>OLS<br />
You can choose whether to display the CiteStation and Legal Research and Writing Tools features on<br />
your course home page.<br />
• Legal Research and Writing Tools provide quick access to West instructional aids, digital pictures,<br />
and other resources. For more information about Legal Research and Writing Tools, see the <strong>TWEN</strong><br />
online Help.<br />
• CiteStation is a series of online exercises designed to help make teaching legal citation more<br />
meaningful and effective. For more information, see “CiteStation” on page 36.<br />
Note CiteStation and Legal Research and Writing Tools are available for your course if you chose<br />
Legal Research & Writing as the topic when you created the course. You can add these<br />
features to any other course.<br />
ACCESS GROUPS<br />
Use the Access Groups section of the Course Information page to set up course participants and coteachers.<br />
You have these options:<br />
• Add course participants as observers or full participants. See“Adding Course Participants” below.<br />
• Add co-teachers for your course. See “Adding Co-Teachers” on page 16.<br />
• Specify faculty access to your course. See “Limiting Faculty Access” on page 16.<br />
Adding Course Participants<br />
You can register students or other <strong>TWEN</strong> users for your course. Users can be full participants or<br />
observers.<br />
• Full participant—The participant can use all of the student features you set up for your course and<br />
can respond to postings in forums. You will usually register your students as full participants.<br />
• Observer—The user can read postings in forums but cannot respond. The observer can also view<br />
other course features, such as document pages and CALI lessons.<br />
You have two options for registering course participants, as shown in Figure 3-2.<br />
• Click Lookup to register a group of participants at your school. For more information, see “Using<br />
the Lookup Feature to Register Course Participants” on page 17.<br />
• Enter the numeric portion of each user’s <strong>Westlaw</strong> password in the Observer or Full Participant text<br />
box. Separate passwords with commas. (You need to obtain the passwords from each participant.)<br />
Understanding Course Elements 15