Teaching With Technology: Educational Technology Services at MIT  

Class Management Tools

Communicating and collaborating with students; Putting your course on the web

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Course Management Systems

 

Stellar

Stellar, MIT's course management system provides a secure framework to support teaching and learning at MIT. It features:

  • Ready-to-use website
  • Class materials management
  • Homework management
  • Schedule with integrated academic calendar
  • Section setup and management
  • Easy communication with students
  • Membership management and access control
IS&T ISDA
computing-help@mit.edu
617-253-1101
Submit a web request

SloanSpace

SloanSpace is no longer supported as a course management system. See Stellar above.
 

Course web lockers

Course lockers are Athena shared directories that can be used to store class materials, datasets, or specialized applications which can then be accessed or run from Athena workstations. Course lockers can also be used to serve web pages under web.mit.edu.
IS&T User Accounts
Service description
617-253-1325
accounts@mit.edu
Submit a web request

OCW

OpenCourseWare (OCW) makes the educational materials used in the teaching of virtually all of MIT subjects available on the Web, free of charge, to any user, anywhere in the world.
OCW
Service description
ocw@mit.edu
Submit a web request

Communicating with Students

 

Class email lists

Athena mailing lists can be populated with official Registrar's student lists (from WebSIS) to support class communications. Athena lists can also be used to control access to Athena course lockers.
IS&T User Accounts
Service description
617-253-1325
accounts@mit.edu
Submit a web request

Registrar's lists

WebSIS Registrar's lists of registered students. Available to instructors and departmental administrators.
SSIT
websis-notify@mit.edu

Instant Messaging

As an alternative to teleconferencing and email, instant messaging has been growing in popularity. MIT has its own instant messaging services.
IS&T
Service description

Blogs

A weblog (blog) is a web page that is updated on a regular basis. It resembles an online diary or a journal. You can request a blog for your class from IS&T.
IS&T ISDA
Submit a web request

Wikis

Wikis and similar collaborative applications have come to be standard workplace and educational tools. IS&T offers (currently in pilot) a wiki space to groups via a centrally-managed wiki application.
IS&T ISDA
Service description
et-consult@mit.edu
Submit a web request
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