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    From the portal sign-in page http://my.usf.edu
     
Practice
    Enter your portal (my.usf.edu) and click on the "courses" tab.
      View the courses you are teaching.
      Choose a course and click the link.
      Click on the button at the bottom left marked "control panel".


    View the six areas that you are able to administer from the control panel:

      1. Content areas
        Make an announcement
        Post your syllabus
        Add course materials
      2. Course tools
        Discussion forums
      3. Course options
        Change the look
        Change the features
        Allow guest previews
      4. User management
        Add a user
      5. Assessment
        Monitor student use
      6. Assistance
        Get help
Make a greeting announcement
      Click on the first link under "content area", called "announcements".
      Click on the "add announcement" button (upper left)
         
        1. Type a general greeting and a subject title (in the language of your choice).
        2. Choose your options
        3. Click on "submit"
Post the course syllabus
    From the control panel:
     
      Click on "course information" under "content areas".
      Click on the "add item" button (upper left).
       
        1. Choose a name for your syllabus, e.g., Lehrplan (optional: choose a color for this link).
        2. Click on the "Browse" button in section #2.
        3. Click the down arrow of the drop-down box labeled "Files of Type".
        4. Choose "All Files (*.*).
        5. Click the down arrow of the drop-down box labeled "Look in".
        6. Choose "3½ Floppy (A:)".
        7. Find your syllabus from your floppy disk.
        8. Click "open" or press "Enter" on the keyboard.
        9. Click the "submit" button in section #4.


    NOTE: Click on "reload" or "refresh" at any time to return to the course homepage.

Add Course Content
    From the control panel:
     
      Click on "course material" under "content areas".
      Click on the "add item" button (upper left).
       
        1. Choose a name for your item, e.g., "Comic" (optional: choose a color for this link).
        2. Click on the "Browse" button in section #2.
        3. Click the down arrow of the drop-down box labeled "Files of Type".
        4. Choose "All Files (*.*).
        5. Click the down arrow of the drop-down box labeled "Look in".
        6. Choose "3½ Floppy (A:)".
        7. Find your item from your floppy disc.
        8. Click "open" or press "Enter" on the keyboard.
        9. Click the "submit" button in section #4.
Add a Discussion Forum
    From the control panel:
     
      Click on "Discussion Board" under "Course Tools".
      Click on the "Add Forum" button (upper left).
       
        1. Choose a title for your forum, e.g., "Website Suggestions".
        2. Write a description, e.g., "Post your suggested websites here."
        3. Select your forum settings (the default settings do not allow message authors to remove or edit their own postings).
        4. Scroll to bottom of the page and click the "submit" button.
Add a Guest User
From the control panel:
    Click on "Add User" under "User management".
       
      1.  Click on the link "Enroll Existing User".
      2. Type the new user's name into the search box.
      3. Click the small box to the left of the user's name to 'check' the ADD command.
      4. Scroll to bottom of the page and click the "submit" button.
Change the look of your course page
    From the control panel:

    Click on "Course Images" under "Course Options".

    Button Style

      1.  Click on the link "Button Style".
      2. Choose the button shape from one of the three options. (Button shown will display the 3 styles.)
      3. Click on the link "Gallery of Buttons" to see the choices all at once.
      4. Choose a button style for your course page, by typing its name in the box at the top of the gallery page, or by selecting its name from the drop down box on the submit page.
      5. Click the "submit" button in section #2.


    Banner Art

      1. Choose a name for your item, e.g., "Comic" (optional: choose a color for this link).
      2. Click on the "Browse" button in section #1.
      3. Click the down arrow of the drop-down box labeled "Files of Type".
      4. Choose "All Files (*.*).
      5. Click the down arrow of the drop-down box labeled "Look in".
      6. Choose "3½ Floppy (A:)".
      7. Find your item from your floppy disk.
      8. Click "open" or press "Enter" on the keyboard.
      9. Click the "submit" button in section #2.
Change the features of your course page
    This changes the names and number of buttons on your menu bar at left.

    From the control panel:

    Click on "Course Settings" under "Course Options".

      1. Click the link to "area availability".
      2. In the second drop-down box, select the term "syllabus" instead of "course information".
      3. Disable areas #6 and #10
      4. Scroll to bottom of the page and click the "submit" button.
Allow guests to preview your course pages
    From the control panel:

    Click on "Course Settings" under "Course Options".

      1. Click the link to "guest access".
      2. Select "Yes" to the option "allow guests"
      3. Click the "submit" button in section #2.
Monitor student use
    From the control panel:

    Click on "Assignments" under "Content Areas".

      1. Choose an assignment and click the "modify" button at right.
      2. Scroll down to "Options" in section #3.
      3. Select "Yes" to the question: "Do you want to track number of views?"
      4. Scroll to bottom of the page and click the "submit" button.
      5. Click on the "Tracking" button to view user access records for each activity.


    Click on "Course Statistics" under "Assessment" to view access records for the entire website.

      1. Choose option "Yes" to the question, "Do you wish to refresh the dataset?" in section #3.
      2. Scroll to bottom of the page and click the "submit" button.
Use the online manual to learn more
    From the control panel:

    Click on "Online Manual" under "Assistance".

      1. Click on "Content Areas/Course Content/Add or Modify Content".
      2. Scroll down to see the detailed description of how to add course material.
      3. Please read the section titled "Item Attachments" to find out more about the types of material to post.
Comics

To save the comics below: Click on the links to view the images. Hold the mouse over image and click the right mouse button, select "save image as", and save to your floppy (A:) disk.

Dilbert in Spanish
French comics 1, 2, 3, 4,
Portuguese comics 1, 2
German comic, puzzle

More Foreign Language Comics
 

Banner Logos
To save the images below: Hold the mouse over image and click the right mouse button, select "save image as", and save to your floppy (A:) disk.


 


 

 

Don't like any of these? See my banner page.
 
 

      

    Lizz Caplan-Carbin, Ph.D.