How to set up My WebCT

A) Online IDs and Passwords

When you enroll in any Oakton course, including Online courses, you are automatically assigned a login ID and password for all Oakton technology access. This ID and password may be used to log into computers on campus, email, and log into an Online class. Your login ID consists of the first 4 letters of your last name followed by the last 4 digits of your social security number. Your password is your full 9-digit SS # (no dashes or spaces). All letters must be lower case.

Examples:

Student Login Examples
For student Scott Foster who has social security number 123-45-6789:

In the Login ID field he types: fost6789
In the Password field he types: 123456789
For last names shorter than 4 letters, type in the whole last name followed by the last 4 digits of the ss#.
Note: Usernames and passwords are case-sensitive, so make sure to type in the name and password exactly as they were assigned to you. For example, fost6789, FosT6789, and FOST6789 are different passwords.

(Figure 1. Student Login Examples)

Your instructor will input your login ID and password to your Online course at the beginning of the semester. If you change your Oakton password, you must still continue to use your original password for all WebCT activity.

B) WebCT Global IDs

WebCT is Oakton's Online course management software. The most recent versions of the program (2.0 and higher) require each individual student to create his own "Global ID" to set up "my WebCT."

The purpose of a global ID is to allow a student to use a single ID and Password to access all WebCT classes in which he is enrolled and to make certain program features shareable between courses.

When you log in to WebCT for your Oakton Online course, you will be prompted to enter your ID and password. Use your regular, pre-assigned Oakton ID and password as defined in the previous section. Upon successful first login, you will then be prompted to create your own WebCT global ID. Your Global ID and password must be the same as your regular Oakton ID and password.

Warning: If it is discovered that your WebCT Global ID/password differs from your regular Oakton ID/password, you will be temporarily deleted from the class roster so that your global ID can be properly recreated and you will lose any work you have done.

Follow the directions in the next section to log into your Online course and create your WebCT Global ID:

C) How to set up my WebCT

1. To access the site, use the URL:

http://online.oakton.edu:8900/ and click on "Course Listing (Figure 2)."

(Figure 2. Welcome to WebCT)

2. You will see the Oakton WebCT Course Listing (Figure 3) under Main category.

Note: You notice that there are two categories in the Course Listing: Main and Development.

Main is the default setting when you open the Course Listing page. Main has all Oakton WebCT courses in which you are enrolled.
Development is a temporary category for courses that are under construction. Students should not open the courses under the Development category.

(Figure 3. Course Listing)

3. Scroll to the course in which you are enrolled. Click on the course number.

Note: Make sure that you are looking at the courses under the Main category.

4. When you login to a course, you will see a box like the following and be prompted for a user name and password .

(Figure 4. User Name and Password)

5. Type your regular Oakton login ID in the "Username" field (as explained in Section A).

6. Type your regular Oakton password in the Password field (as explained in Section A).

7. Click on the OK button.

8. The first time you access an Online class, you will see the following page to set up my WebCT (Figure 5).

(Figure 5. Set Up my WebCT)

9. Scroll down to the section "Have you already set up my WebCT?"

10. Click on "No" if you have not yet set up my WebCT. You will see the following page "Getting Started (Figure 6)."

(Figure 6. Getting Started my WebCT)

11. To begin using my webCT, you must configure it for all your webCT courses.

For example, a student, Scott Foster who enrolled in Chm224 will click on Validate if the list of courses is correct (Figure 6).

Click on Select if the list of courses is incorrect or incomplete.
Click on Cancel if you want to discontinue this process.

12. You will see the following page "Validate your courses for my WebCT " when you click on "Validate."

(Figure 7. Validate your courses for my WebCT)

13. Type your regular Oakton password in the Password field to validate your courses for my WebCT (What you type will show up as asterisks).

Note: You do not have to enter the User ID in the User ID field since it is already set up for you.

14. Click on "Validate Passwords (Figure 7)."

(Figure 8. Global ID and Password)

15. A screen similar to the one shown in Figure 7 should now appear. Double check your list of WebCT courses and your ID then fill in the personal information in the five fields provided.

Enter your First name.
Enter your last name.
Enter your Global ID. This MUST be the same as your regular, assigned Oakton Login ID (remember: it's case-sensitive).
Enter your password. This MUST be the same as your regular, assigned Oakton password. (What you type will show up as asterisks.)
Re-enter your password.

16. Click on Submit to continue (Figure 8).

(Figure 9. my WebCT Configuration Message)

17. You will see the message "my WebCT configuration complete" if you enter your ID and password correctly, (Figure 9).

18. Click on "Go to my webCT (Figure 9)."

(Figure 10. my WebCT set up by Scott Foster)

19. When you enter your ID and password correctly, WebCT will present you with your course Homepage (Figure 10). As mentioned above, my WebCT is a central location where students can see a list of courses in which they are registered. The my WebCT area allows you to access all of your courses from one page.

In this example, clicking on Chm 224 would allow you to access that course (Figure 11) without re-entering your username and password.

(Figure 11. Chm224 Homepage-Organic Chemistry)

Information Technology-Oakton Community College

Last update 12/6/00