Beginning with the fall 2004 semester, the Telesis course management system is available for use in all university courses. As of the first week of classes, nearly 150 courses are using Telesis in the Schools of Arts & Sciences, Architecture, Engineering and Social Work. This includes about 50 sections of L13 EComp100, Writing 1 in Arts & Sciences.

To learn more about the capabilities of Telesis please see What is Telesis at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/ASCC/facilities/tl/whatistelesis.html. For a more detailed document about using Telesis, please see Introduction to Telesis for Faculty at http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/ASCC/facilities/tl/helpsheet-faculty-fall04.pdf.  For assistance using Telesis, please send a message to telesis@wustl.edu. To try Telesis, go to https://telesis.wustl.edu and use your WebFAC ID and PIN to log in.

In the first two weeks of the semester there have been nearly 16,000 total logons to the Telesis by 2,800 faculty, student and staff users. To date, the most popular feature is the syllabus area with over 85% of Telesis courses adding syllabus content. Almost 50% of Telesis courses are using Gradebook functionality and 47% are using the Assignments area to post materials for students.

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