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Time Stamping
Submissions in WebTycho are time stamped 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (EST).  If you submit from another time zone, your document will display the time converted to EST.

Due Dates
Pre-set dates for availability, due dates, and assignment lock dates are the start of the day, essentially 12:01 AM, and not 11:59 PM. 

Faculty Center
There are no student instructions for this feature.

Faculty cannot disable Include Topic Note Text in Faculty Center for Class Conferences.  However you can disable it for Study Group conferences.

The hub of faculty activity is the Faculty Center. To merely participate in a conference, or view course content and other material, you can simply click on those links on the Class Menu. However, to manage these areas first click on Faculty Center.  From there you may create, edit, delete, and control student access to all eligible areas, including

• Faculty Biography
• Class Announcements
• Syllabus
• Course Content
• Reserved Readings
• Conferences
• Include Topic Note Text
• Study Groups
• Webliography
• Assignments
• Gradebook
• Workbook
• Chat Room
• Class Members
• Class Awareness
• Class Import

Other links included in the Faculty Center:

• Faculty Guide
• My UMUC
• UMUC Faculty Services
• CTL Faculty Consultant Services
• Download Anti-Virus Software
• Download Java Virtual Machine (~14MB)
• Request a CD containing the Anti-Virus Software and Java Virtual Machine
• Download Impatica for PowerPoint 

Availability

The Availability tool allows faculty to customize the Class Menu for all class members by choosing which items to use and display and which to remove.  You can change Availability settings as often as you wish throughout the semester.  Please make a Class Announcement to alert students when you make changes to the  Class Menu so they need not fear that something is wrong with their computers.

1. Click on Faculty Center on the Class Menu
2. Remove the check from the box for those items you wish to remove from student view.
3. Click Submit.

Availability Supercedes Account Preferences
 In particular, Include topic note text when responding in conferences and Classroom Awareness are features that students enable themselves in Account Preferences.  If a student has enabled these tools and faculty have made them not available, then the student may fear that something is wrong with their computer or personal class access.  A Class Announcement noting your change is helpful.