Development (Student Web Core)
The Student Web Core Service employs students to produce course Web sites and other educational technology projects. These students are available for hire at a reduced fee.
The students, hired and trained by the Digital Media Center (DMC) and Academic and Distributed Computing Services (ADCS), work under the direction of a full-time DMC consultant to produce your educational technology project. The consultant manages the project and provides instructional design assistance to you and to the student worker. The student performs the multimedia production work and demonstrates to you how to maintain your Web site.
Service Fees
Student Web Core Services are available to University faculty members and course instructors creating educational technology projects.
An initial consultation meeting with an instructional multimedia consultant and the student is free. Student work is then billed at a rate of $28 per hour.
Contact Information
If you are interested in using the Student Web Core Service, send email to webcore@umn.edu, or contact the DMC by calling (612) 624-0004.
Student Skills
Students hired to work for the Student Web Core Service have diverse backgrounds in writing, design, and programming. They attend formal courses on how to use a variety of multimedia development software as well as WebVista, a Web-based course management tool.
Specifically, the students learn to perform the following tasks:
- digitize and edit images;
- digitize and edit video;
- create Web documents using Dreamweaver and HTML;
- create a course Web site using WebVista, which can include a syllabus, online communication tools, quizzes, content modules, and more; and
- maintain WebVista and other course Web sites.
