Students may also participate in discussion forums and are provided with an easy to use dropbox for submission of assignments. First, the ProfileBuilder allows faculty to communicate to the Thunderbird student body at large. This section allows faculty to post and update information about upcoming special events and course deadlines easily accessed by students enrolled in the course. Finally, the Faculty Web Site allows faculty to provide students with important information about office hours, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and office locations. Faculty can access course files created in various applications to display during class lectures or discussions.
Students can access course files to review, save and print the information.
Many faculty have used this area to provide students with copies of PowerPoint Presentations, Excel Spreadsheets, Organizational Charts, Class Syllabi and handouts, HTML documents and group project workbooks. Students enrolled in their courses can respond, post, print and search the discussion questions. Many faculty are using a post-lecture question and answer format to provide a forum for students to enhance comprehension of course information. Some faculty has used their course discussion forum to as a follow-up activity for course related audio and videotapes. Additionally, students use this area of the Course PageBuilder to communicate with other students enrolled in the course.