[Socrates] Teaching Tip: Getting Started with a Qwriting Course Site

[Jean Kelly]

Some of you might not know that Qwriting is available to all members of the Queens College community (faculty, students and staff) who may create as many sites as they want and for any purpose that does not violate Queens College and/or CUNY Policies. In this tip, we will focus on getting you started creating your own Qwriting Course Site.  But first, why would you want to in the first place? Let’s take a deeper look!

Qwriting is a website creation platform that uses WordPress (https://wordpress.org/) as its underlying framework.  It contains the tools for creating and publishing many different kinds of websites for a variety of purposes including course-related sites, departmental websites, personal journals for students and faculty, research sharing and collaboration… the list goes on and on.

Some great reasons for using Qwriting sites in your courses include both individual work such as writing practice, sharing thoughts and readings, and group work such as collaborating on research, idea gathering and generating discussion. For more examples and detailed instructions to get started check out the full page: http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/getting-started-with-a-qwriting-course-site.

You can read our past tips at http://ctl.qc.cuny.edu/category/tech-tips/

Best regards,

The Center for Teaching & Learning