Technical Help
Setting the time for your BSCW login
You will want to be sure that your BSCW login is set for the Central Time
Zone. To reset your time, log in to your workspace, click on
"Options" near the top of your workspace. In the drop down list,
select "Details." Here is the page where you can set the time for
your login. You will enter the current time in the local time box, using
military time format. After you make your changes, click on the OK
button near the bottom of the screen.
Setting up Netmeeting with your user
information - NEW PROCEDURES for 2003-2004
Before you try to make a call in Netmeeting, you need to make
sure you are logged onto the Internet and check
your user information.
- Go to the Tools menu and click on
"Options" and select the General tab.
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- On the general tab, enter your name
(this will appear on the chat screen during meetings). Since we
will not be using email addresses to call each other, you don't need
to complete the email address information.
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- In the drop down menu box, your
directory may read "Microsoft Internet Directory". You
do not need to change the directory, and DO
NOT check the box that causes NM to log onto the
directory when you start NM. To avoid unwanted intrusions, we
will not be logging onto any directory. I will send my IP
address to students before each meeting, so that they may call my
computer directly. Students who log onto a NetMeeting directory
are likely to receive unwanted calls and should never accept a call
from an unknown caller.
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Instructor Feedback in Your Essay -
Opportunity for Revised Grade
1. I will download your revised essay from BSCW and
insert comments. Then I will upload the edited file as a new file. Your grade is not included in the
feedback but will be entered into your confidential online grade book.
2. To see my evaluation of the essay, you simply click on the title to read
the new file. You may need to go to the "View" menu
in MSWord and click on "comments" in order to see my comments.
3. Each student must rewrite each essay.
Please give careful consideration to feedback, and make a bona fide attempt to
follow it. I suggest that you edit the essay version you have on your
computer, rather than the feedback version that is full of comments. If
you edit the feedback version, you will need to remove all the comments. Again:
please do not submit a revised essay that still includes my comments. I
will not upgrade a revised essay that includes comments.
4. Next, you post your final, revised essay in the appropriate revision
folder. Only revisions posted to the revision folder will be upgraded.
5. IMPORTANT: Please
do not
delete any files from your essay folder..
Putting a new
document in your BSCW folder
GETTING INTO YOUR FOLDER
- After opening either Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer (or any other
browser), go to class website, listed on your course description, or the class
index at www.legacy-arts.net/frames.htm. After you get to the website, add this site to your bookmarks
(Netscape) or favorites (Internet Explorer).
- When you reach your class website, click on "Go to Shared Workspace"
- Use your BSCW user name and password. This is the name and password you gave
yourself when you registered with BSCW. This is not necessarily the same as your email
address or password.
- Open the appropriate folder in the appropriate class. Be sure the folder is
open when you begin to upload.
FINDING YOUR FILE to upload
- Click on "ADD DOC" in the blue box near the top of your screen.
- Click on the "Browse" button.
- Change the file type to "All files".
- Find your file on your floppy disk or the hard drive of your computer.
- Highlight the file you want to put in your workspace.
- Click on the "Open" button. The name of your file should now
appear in the "Send local file" box. DON’T UPLOAD YET – A FEW
MORE DETAILS FIRST!
TELLING THE WORKSPACE ABOUT YOUR FILE
- You can change the name of your file by typing a new name in the
"Document Name" box, but you don't have to.
- You can add a description of your file in the "Description" box,
but you don't have to.
- Scroll down to see the remaining choices.
- You do not need to choose a rating for your document.
VERY IMPORTANT!
- Click on the down arrow next to the " MIME-type" box.
- Select the type of file you are putting in your workspace folder - probably
"MS Word". This information tells my computer what software to use
when I open your file.
- Ignore the " encoding-type" box.
LAST STEP
Click on "Upload Document". Your document should now appear in your
folder, and it should have a picture next to it to indicate that it is a word
processed file - probably the blue MSWord icon. If you document appears
with a picture that shows a page with x's and o's, you have forgotten to
indicate the MIME (file) type. Use the options to the right of your file
to change the type.
Making sure
your browser updates files
You need to set preferences in your browser to make sure it displays the latest,
most up-to-date information when you revisit the class website. Otherwise
it will try to get an old copy of the file that it has stored on your hard
drive. It thinks it's helping you speed up your Internet browsing, but it
is accidentally giving you old information.
In Netscape 4.6:
On "Edit" menu; select "Preferences" &; select "Advanced"; select "Cache";
Check: "Every time"
In MS Internet Explorer 5:
On "Tools" menu; select "Internet Options"; on "General" tab; select "Temporary Internet files";
select "Settings"; check "Every visit to the page"
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Latin
2 and 3 - Test Correction Rules
Optional, but highly
recommended. |
| 1. |
This
is an optional upgrade opportunity. Students will received 1/3 of
the originally lost points, to be added to the original test grade.
Though the student works a good bit for a few points, these points can
have a large impact on the overall average as the year progresses. |
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This
a great learning opportunity. The richest learning experience occurs
when the student has to analyze why he made an error (didn’t memorize
the vocabulary, didn’t recognize the 3rd declension noun,
etc.), and then must also correct the answer. No corrections will be
accepted without error analysis. |
| 3. |
If
the student corrects his test, he MUST attempt corrections for ALL errors.
No partial corrections will be
accepted on tests. |
| 4. |
Most
test corrections must be made on the corrections worksheet, available in
the online Legacy Arts Test Bank. However, sentence translations
should be made on a separate sheet and attached to the test correction
packet. For each corrected sentence translation, the student must
include a list of analyzed errors on the worksheet. For true/false
questions, student must translate the sentence which includes the answer. |
| 5. |
I
am glad to help! If a student does not understand his error, or how
to correct it, he should send for email help. He should include the
problem number, the exact error made, and a question about how to correct. |
| 6. |
Test must
be returned with the corrections worksheets, with the worksheets
stapled on top of the original test. |
Finding NetMeeting on your computer
| 1. |
Click on the Start Button in your Task
Bar. |
| 2. |
Click on "Search" |
| 3. |
Choose "All files, folders" |
| 4. |
In the file name box, enter "nm.exe"
or "conf.exe" . Make sure you have chosen to look in your
hard drive. |
| 5. |
If you find the file, you should right
click and tell your computer to create a shortcut to the file on your
desktop. |