The Curricular Technology (CT) team has reviewed many of the course sites and curricular resources developed in Segue and other platforms over the years.

Over 5000 sites have been created in Segue since it was introduced in 2003 at Middlebury.  Many sites are copies of course sites from previous semesters that have been reused/refined over the years.  Many sites are personal sites or “custom” sites, sites that are used for departments or areas or curricular resources.

Below is a summary of the number of  course sites created in Segue and in course folders since 2005.

Users

A total of over 12,000 distinct individuals have created accounts in Segue since 2003.  Most of these are Middlebury faculty, staff and students.  In addition, a sizable number of people outside the Middlebury community have created Segue users accounts (2,155 visitors account were created in Segue v1 between 2003-2008).

Types of Usage

About a third of the sites created in Segue are course sites.  30-40% of the sites created in Segue are personal sites and about remaining sites are created for departments or organizational groups or curricular resources.

Segue has been used primarily to publish text and distribute files.   Many Segue sites also include RSS feeds and embedded audio and video from other sources.  Amongst the most heavily used Segue sites are those containing language instruction resources.  Below are some examples of such sites:

Note: Many of the above resources were initially created in static html sites.  These static html sites referenced media files that were stored on a separate media server.  Some of these language instruction resource sites still refer to the same server location.  Others have had their media files migrated from the media server directly into Segue’s media library.

Online Discussion

Over 43,000 discussion posts were made in Segue v1 since 2003.  Between 25-35% of Segue sites have active online discussions.  In the fall of 2008, there were an average of 27 discussion posts a day.  During this same time period, 400 students and 25 faculty contributed discussion posts.

Online Discussion Statistics
September 1 – December 1, 2008

Access Control

Many Segue sites have access restricted to either the Middlebury College community or particular groups within the community.  In 2009, half the course sites created were restricted to students in the class.  Many course sites specified different levels of access across the site, with different roles defined for different individuals and groups.