Overview of Web publishing at KSU… transition, summer ‘03



Overview of Web publishing at KSU… transition, summer ‘03

(from the user’s perspective)

|Students |Students |Students & Faculty |Faculty |

|students.kennesaw.edu |Thru WebCT |atlas.kennesaw.edu |ksuweb.kennesaw.edu |

|(new) | |(formerly pigseye) |(formerly ksumail) |

|Easy to get NetID. Has e-mail and web| |In transition on how to sign up. |Same name acquisition process. |

|space. NEW. Will be supported by IT.| |Right now the old Pigseye account. |Not too user friendly, but only do|

|Directions are available for | |Documentation is not updated. |it once. |

|publishing from Netscape (IT | | | |

|maintains), also FTP instructions. | |Parallel paths for naming | |

|Uses “students.kennesaw.edu” | |conventions do exist. | |

| | | |Parallel paths for naming |

|Links to students’ homepages from main| |Links to students’ homepages from |conventions do exist. |

|student list of KSU maintained sites. | |main student list of KSU maintained| |

| | |sites. |Links to faculties’ homepages from|

| | | |main faculty list of KSU |

| | | |maintained sites. |

|Faculty cannot get this account. Can | |Faculty can have and account and |Can be maintained without student |

|tell, but not test or show. | |put training materials, web pages, |access. More professional place |

| | |etc. |for outside of KSU people to see. |

Other options outside of KSU IT exist. Leigh is willing to create and maintain student/faculty accounts on her EdTech server. Outside free or personal sites for students, such as .

A goal and movement toward one unique name and password to access all KSU accounts. For students, WebCT name = NetID and probably to be also atlas name.

For faculty, KSU IT has a similar goal. Not too far along on this yet, but making progress.

Task to do:

Make some decisions on standardizing teaching of web. Use Netscape? Where to publish, etc. Need decision for EDUC 2201, graduate students, others…

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