

Step-by-step COURSE ASSIGNMENT PAGE BUILDER
1. Starting a New Course Assignment Page
- Click here to open an additional browser window. You will be able to switch back and forth between the two browser windows, working on your pages in the other window while you follow the instructions in this window.
- In the other browser window, click on the link for the Course Home Page Builder.
- The Course Home Page has five required fields.
- Name (i.e., Dr. John Doe)
- Department (i.e., Computer Science)
- E-mail Address (i.e., jdoe@nat.uncp.edu)
- Course Abbreviation (i.e., CMA 105)
- Course Title (i.e., Composition I)
- For the remaining fields, entering information is optional. If nothing is entered in the text box, nothing will show on your Web page. Be careful not to press the space bar inside a text box or the category heading will show on your page.
- At any point you may see what your Web page will look like by clicking on the
button. Click on the browser's
button to return to entering your information.
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2. Entering Data for the Course Assignment Page
- Instructor Information:
- Instructor (Required): Instructor's name.
- Department (Required): Instructor's department
- E-mail Address (Required): Instructor's e-mail address
- Course Information:
- Abbreviation (Required): Course abbreviation (i.e., CMA 105)
- Section: Course section. If you put the course section on the Faculty Home Page, you must also enter it here.
- Title (Required): Title of the course.
- Links:
- Assignments: If checked, this will create a link to the Course Assignment Index Page.
- Schedule: If checked, this will create a link to the Course Schedule Page.
- Assignment Information:
- Number (Required): Enter the individual assignment number for this page.
- Title (Required): Enter a title for this assignment.
- Date: Enter the date of this assignment.
- Due Date: Enter the due date for this assignment.
- Grade: Enter any grading information for this assignment.
- User Defined Sections: Up to 12 user defined sections may be entered.
- The text box may contain any descriptive title you wish for the user defined section.
- Section: Enter any detail for this user defined section.
- Checking the
box preserves the line breaks just the way they are shown in the text area. If you do not click on this box, all of the text you have typed will be displayed as one paragraph of text with no line breaks. This allows the length of the lines of text to be adjusted or "wrapped" to fit the size of the viewer's screen.
- Click this
box to align the text in this section at the left margin of the Web page instead of being indented under the user defined section heading.
- Related Links: (up to 12)
- Text: The actual words that constitute the text of the hypertext link.
- URL: Enter the complete Internet address of the link in this box.
i.e., http://www.uncp.edu
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3. Posting the Course Assignment Page
- To see what your Web page will look like, click on the
button. Click on the browser's
button to return to entering your information.
- Important: If you have previously saved a file to your directory on the Web server, posting a page will overwrite the existing file. Be certain this is what you want to do before you click the Post button.
Once all of your information has been entered, you are ready to post your Web page to the server. On the Web Builder Toolbar:
- Enter the
for your Web server account.
- Enter the
.
- Click on the
button.
- The browser will load a page indicating that your page has been posted.
- Click on the browser's
button to return to the Web tool
When you post your page it is published directly to your subdirectory on UNCP's Web server. The Internet address to view your faculty home page is: www.uncp.edu/home/your_username
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4. Editing the Course Assignment Page
- Click here to open an additional browser window. You will be able to switch back and forth between the two browser windows, working on your pages in the other window while you follow the instructions in this window.
- In the other browser window, click on the link for the Course Assignment Page Builder.
- On the Web Builder Toolbar, fill in the
for your Web server account.
- In the Course Information area, enter the abbreviation for the course you would like to edit. (i.e., CMA 105)
- If you included an optional section number when you created your Faculty Home Page, enter the section number in the Section text box.
- Click on the
button.
- The server will fill in the form with all the information you previously entered.
- Make any additions, corrections, or deletions to your page.
- To see what your Web page will look like, click on the
button. Click on the browser's
button to return to editing.
- Important: If you have previously saved a file to your directory on the Web server, posting a page will overwrite the existing file. Be certain this is what you want to do before you click the Post button.
Once all of your information has been entered, you are ready to post your Web page to the server. On the Web Builder Toolbar:
- Enter the
for your Web server account.
- Enter the
.
- Click on the
button.
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Updated:
Thursday, February 25, 2010
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