Blackboard

There are many resources at OIT to help professors place their class materials online. One of the most popular tools for this purpose is Blackboard, which is used by more than half of the faculty.

Blackboard is a web-based course management system. It provides easy-to-use templates and tools for faculty to put course materials online. It also allows both synchronous and asynchronous online communication between faculty and students.

For more information, faculty should contact their department liaison.

Department Websites

Academic and administrative department web sites are usually stored on the Unix server. You must obtain write-permission to the proper directory to add or updates pages.

Contact Heather Clemow at x4065 for details. Note: there is separate space for files that must be limited to on-campus access only.

Student Clubs and Group Websites

Student clubs and groups can obtain web space on WSO. If your organization wants to have an account, one or more persons who currently have a personal WSO account should be designated as the official contact with WSO. The contact persons are responsible for the content of the organization's pages.

To get a homepage for your organization, send email to wso@wso.williams.edu and give the name of your organization and the names of everyone involved who needs access to edit the homepage. You will be assigned a subdirectory of the /home/www/orgs directory. The address of your org page will be in the form //wso.williams.edu/orgs/orgname/, such as //wso.williams.edu/orgs/woc.

Personal Websites

Files that are in the public.www subdirectory in your directory (F: drive on the PC) on your Novell Netware server (Achilles, Helen, or Hector) are available to anyone who is using the Internet.

You can also get to the same space by connecting to lanfiles.williams.edu with any FTP program.

Your pages can be reached at //lanfiles.williams.edu/~yourUsername/yourFilename.fileExtension. If the entry page is named index.html, the address is simply //lanfiles.williams.edu/~yourUsername/.

Do what you wish with this space, so long as it conforms to the Computing Ethics & Responsibilities policy.

OIT offers workshops and additional assistance to individuals who wish to learn how to create web pages.

Element K: Element K is a web-based software training service available for faculty/staff to use and includes courses on using Dreamweaver, a web page editing program. For more information on how to sign up to use Element K go to: http://cf.williams.edu/oit/workshops/index.cfm