Navigating the Course Website
Steven J Zeil
Old Dominion University
Dept. of Computer Science
| ©2006 Steven J. Zeil, Old Dominion University | | Apr. 9, 2006 |
This course website contains thousands of web pages. It can be a
bit daunting when you are starting out. This document explains the
basic organization of the site.
When you first enter the course, you are presented with one of
several directory pages, easily recognized by the row of
buttons down the left side. The directory pages serve as gateways
to the various documents that make up this web site.
- Upon your initial entry to the course web site, you will be at
the announcements page. Here you will find posts indicating
current news and changes.
- If you are a newcomer to the course, you should probably begin
by checking out the documents in the General Info
section. (In fact, you should probably do that right after completing
this document.) Here you will find the course syllabus and other
documents relating to course policies and procedures and on how to get
started working in the course.
- Most days, after checking the announcements, your next
destination will be the Outline page, where you will find the
outline of the course subject matter together with textbook readings,
assignments, lecture notes, etc.
- The Forum is the collection of comments, discussions, and
questions about the course documents. The Forum is your normal medium
of communication with the instructor(s). You should check the Forum on
(at least) a daily basis.
- The Library page contains links to a variety of reference
materials and software packages that may prove useful to you in this course.
This may not be an exhaustive list of the directory pages. Feel free
to poke around the directory, getting yourself familiar with the
overall structure of the website.
