TWEN At L&C
TWEN, The West Education Network, is one popular option available at Lewis & Clark Law School for providing course materials online. TWEN enables faculty to quickly and easily "create and manage courses online, access and post course materials in document pages, create assignments that your students can receive and submit, organize and participate in class forum discussions, administer online quizzes, exchange e-mails with other professors and students, and more."
All Lewis & Clark Law School faculty and adjunct faculty may create a TWEN page by logging into TWEN with their Westlaw password and clicking Create New Course. Alternatively, Rob Truman in the Law Library is happy to assist you in creating a TWEN course or in reviewing the other online course options available here at Lewis & Clark Law School. Contact Rob via phone (503-768-6780), email (rtruman@lclark.edu), or on campus (Wood Hall room 215).
Links
Documentation
Professor's Quick Guide to TWEN (8 pages, pdf)
Professor's Guide to TWEN (151 pages, pdf)
Student's Guide to TWEN (4 pages, pdf)
Online Help
TWEN questions: 1-800-486-4876 or email west.support@thomson.com
Instructions for Your Students:
How to Connect to a TWEN Course
- Click on your course at the L&C Law Course Pages site, http://lawlib.lclark.edu/students/course_pages.php
- Login to TWEN using your Westlaw/TWEN password
- If the first time you are using TWEN or Westlaw, you will have to Register your Westlaw password - Once in TWEN click on the Add a Course link in the top navigation bar or on the left side
- If required, ask your professor for the course password - Once added, your course will always appear when you are logged into TWEN
For more info, see this Student's Guide to TWEN (pdf), http://west.thomson.com/store/product.aspx?product_id=RM157045
How to Remove the InstaPoll Icon From Your TWEN Home Page
- Login to TWEN
- From course homepage click
Modify This Course Home Page link near top-left of page
or
Click Modify Course (bottom-left), then Modify Course Home Page (second arrow down) - Find "InstaPoll" heading approximately 2/3 way down page
- Check box next to Hide from course home page
- Scroll down, click Submit Home Page Changes button
TWEN Changes: Recent New Features
2007 - 2008
- Active and Hidden Courses
Courses are now separated into Active Courses and Hidden Courses, which contain inactive or archived courses - Add/Drop a Course
We have separated the Add/Drop Course functionality - Entry Points
You can access a course home page through multiple entry points - Sort Courses
You can sort courses based on term, course name, instructor, and access type.
Note: Big changes are due for the 2008 - 2009 school year, including much better auto-formatting for the web, improved discussion boards and document pages, and more.
2006 - 2007
- Single Sign-On
Login to either Westlaw or TWEN and now there is a link taking you to the other. - InstaPoll
Create on-the-fly polls during class. You ask the question, then have students respond via the InstaPoll link on your TWEN home page. One large drawback: all (or at least most) students must have a computer in class and be logged into TWEN. More info & how-to images. - Customized Polling
More powerful and flexible than InstaPoll. Customized Polling allows you to create specific polls, complete with posted text. You can save the poll, save the results, leave poll open for a set amount of time to your students, and present results in a bar graph or pie chart. More info & how-to images. - Master Calendar
Combines calendar events (exams, assignments, readings, etc.) from all of your TWEN courses. Particularly helpful when you have more than one TWEN course. More info & how-to images. - Sign-Up Sheet Changes
New options have been added to TWEN's sign-up sheet function. You may now automatically receive an e-mail when a student signs up for a slot, restrict students from removing their names once signed up (so that they have to contact you first...), and restrict students from viewing other students' names. More info & how-to images. - Time-Specific Events
Course calendars now display the start and end date of time-specific (versus all-day) events. More info & how-to images. - WestCheck Citation Checking
Faculty may now choose to enable or disable WestCheck citation checking for any individual document page or forum. - Lookup Feature
Quickly register other TWEN users as students or co-teachers for a course.
