Catalyst Tools

Overview

Following is an overview of the three most popular Catalyst tools—GoPost, Collect It, and Peer Review.

GoPost—(replaces EPost) With an electronic discussion forum you can give students a place on the Web to exchange ideas outside of class, any time, from any Internet-connected computer. Typically discussion forums allow users to sort messages by thread, subject, author, and date. You can organize discussions with an archive function, and you have the option of letting your students choose pseudonyms for greater privacy and candidness.

Collect It —(replaces E-submit.) Collect It is an electronic turn-in tool. You create a course turn-in area, and then add each of the assignments for your course. Students then turn in their documents electronically over the web. As an instructor or TA, you can view the submitted documents by simply clicking on a link, or you can download all the documents in single zip archive. No more e-mail attachments or FTP! You can also make corrections on the assignments and return them to the students via this tool.

Peer Review—Would you like to encourage more student collaboration? The Peer Review is an online collaboration tool that enables students to review each other's work. You can review anything that has been posted on a web site. Comments are stored in date order for each paper. A framed index page allows easy access to the papers and comments.

For more information on these and other tools, please visit the Catalylst site.

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