Professor Toolbox

The Vice Provost for Academic Affairs wants all faculty to be aware of the "beginning of semester" regulations.

http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_regulations/
beg_of_semester.html

The Vice Provost for Academic Affairs wants all faculty to be aware of the "end of semester" regulations for retesting and exams.

http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/academic_regulations/
end_of_semester.html

Need help putting your vita online? We have four templates for you to use and plenty of help here at the clt to assist you in getting your online vita up an running. Here is a link to help you with your online vita. You can do it yourself, get one of our staff to show you, or just get us to do it.

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/vita/

The computer labs of Poe Hall offer many resources for faculty.

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ops/labs/helpfac.html

Upon request and in accordance with applicable policies and guidelines, the Libraries provide both print and electronic access to certain course materials such as class notes, exams, homework assignments, journal articles, and book excerpts.

http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/rbr/faculty.html

WolfWare is a collection of tools, interfaces, and standards that are designed to make managing and maintenance of course lockers easier for both instructors and system administrators. The instructor designs and creates the Web materials for their course lecture section.

http://wolfware.ncsu.edu

To add a course to WolfWare or for help in general, go to:

http://wolfware.ncsu.edu/help/

WebCT Vista is a Web authoring system which allows the instructor to choose the tools to be used on the website (message board, chat room, class notes etc.) from a point and click environment. If you need immediate assistance, call the NCSU Helpdesk at 515-HELP.

http://vista.ncsu.edu/

http://vista.ncsu.edu/section_management/

It is important that computers be protected from viruses, and never has it been easier to protect every computer you own. Thanks to NC State's agreement with Symantec, Norton Antivirus is now free to any member of the NC State community. If you do not already have antivirus installed on your machine(s), we strongly encourage you, both faculty and students, to please take the time and do so now, so that we can protect the campus computing environment.

http://www.ncsu.edu/it/antivirus/

palmOne Savvy Project

Notes and links from the palmOne workshop provided for faculty & staff in mid-May 2004.

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/palm/

Reservation requests should be made through the Unity Lab Reservation web form at the same time a course is being scheduled through your department scheduling officer. Doing so will provide sufficient time to identify and resolve any conflicts that may arise (i.e., time, software and hardware incompatibilities, etc.).

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ops/labs/forms.html

Faculty who are teaching a class in Poe Hall can use space on Poe's Unicorn server to set up a class folder. This folder can be used as a dropbox in which students can turn in and receive their assignments. To apply for a class folder, go to:

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ops/labs/classfolder.html

To access an existing class folder from a Mac, go to:

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ops/labs/Macclassfolder/
ClassFolders.html

To access an existing class folder from a UnityNT workstation, go to:

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ops/labs/Winclassfolder/pc.htm

Listservs allow a user to send email to a group of people at once rather than on an individual basis. These are useful if you would like the class to have discussions and exchange questions online. The following links will provide you with information ranging from the uses of a listserv, to setting up and managing the list. Hint: you may want to make a text file of your students' emails and names to help speed up the process of subscribing them to the list.

http://lists.ncsu.edu/

inForm is an application for faculty and/or researchers to increase the interactivity of their Web pages through the use of Web-based forms. Information submitted via these forms can then be emailed to you or saved to AFS file space that you designate. Thanks to inFORM, the perl code that operates in the background is already in place for you which means you do not need any to have any programming knowledge. Web forms created with Dreamweaver can be easily set up to work with inFORM.

http://www.ncsu.edu/tools/inform3.html

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/inform3/

http://ncsu.edu/fyc/training/handouts/dw_adv_form.pdf

Prior to actually creating the website, some thought should be given as to the objective of the site. Do you simply wish to convey information or will the students be actively involved with the site? The following link gives some information about instructional design.

http://my.ncsu.edu/index.cfm?category=
375&tab=1&nocol=1&select=375

All Web pages representing NC State must comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Accessible web design is universal web design, so it is important as you are developing web content to consider who will be accessing your information and how they will be accessing it. Much of NC State's information and services are now available on-line. For this reason, it is increasingly important that the information and services be presented in ways that makes them accessible to everyone, including persons with disabilities. Designing accessible web pages is neither difficult nor costly, particularly when accessible design is considered up front, rather than after the page is already complete.

http://www.ncsu.edu/it/dss/webaccess/

To test your Web page, go to:

Bobby - http://www.cast.org/bobby or

WAVE - http://wave.webaim.org/index.jsp

A locker is a Unity/Eos directory or file space. To post pages on the Web, pages must reside on the NC State Unity server. The locker space provides the page with an address or URL. The first link takes you to the application form for locker space and also gives you policy information. The second link takes you to a page that will automatically set up your locker space. The third link provides you with information that will be helpful concerning lockers.

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/cc/pub/policies/locker_app.html

http://sysnews.ncsu.edu/tools-bin/www-setup/

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/lockersetup.html

When creating a page, the page must be created in such a way that it can be read by the browser. In our College, some common tools for making Web pages are: HTML coding with a text editor, Netscape Composer, Dreamweaver, and Mozilla. Follow the link below for a basic guide on creating your own Web pages .

http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/web_pages/

Once you have created your web pages, you must upload them to your locker space. To complete this task, you will need to use some type of FTP program which will transfer your work to the locker space. Cyberduck (Mac OS) and WinSCP (Windows) are two commonly used FTP programs. The first link allows you to download WinSCP. The following links provide tutorials to WinSCP and Cyberduck, respectively.

Download WinSCP
http://www.eos.ncsu.edu/remoteaccess/winscp.html

WinSCP Tutorial
http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/ftp/winscp/

Download Cyberduck
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
internet_utilities/cyberduck.html

Cyberduck Tutorial
http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/ftp/cyberduck/

Once you have created your website and uploaded your pages, you will need to grant access rights so that people can view your site. The following site will explain this process and take you through the necessary steps.

http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/
web_pages/7grant_access.html

http://ced.ncsu.edu/ltrc/studio/workshops/accessrights

Web conferencing systems allow users to have online group discussions that use the World.Wide Web as the interface. Participants can read, post, and reply to messages in a particular topic group. The messages remain online as long as you like. Students can use the forum from any computer that has Web access and do not need email. Forums allow asynchronous discussion.

http://www2.ncsu.edu/cc/edu/
webconferencing/form.html

Another option that allows students to discuss course information is through the use of chat rooms. IRC (Internet Relay Chat) provides a way of communicating in real time with people from all over the world.

http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/
misc/jirc/irchelp.html

http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/faq.html

Resources for making your website interactive.

http://www.ncsu.edu/tools/

Contains links to student organizations within the College of Education and campus-wide as well as the procedure for putting a Registered Student Organization on the Web

http://www.ncsu.edu/sorc/registration.html