This message includes information about the Spring semester instructional computing:

Changes from previous semesters

New 64-bit Linux computers

The emperor and rockhopper Linux instructional computers in room 1350 CS will be replaced by new 64-bit Linux workstations named mumble-01.cs.wisc.edu through mumble-40.cs.wisc.edu

The mumble computers are Core 2 Quad 9450 CPUs with 8GB of RAM and 22" widescreen monitors

Schedule

Here is a schedule of pre-semester setup dates:

Class rosters:	available Wednesday, September 2
Class volumes:	available now
mumble lab setup:	no later than Monday, August 17
Student accounts:	available Wednesday, September 2
First day of classes:	Wednesday, September 2

Student accounts

New students will be able to activate their accounts on Wednesday, September 2.

Only students registered for classes will be given an account, disk quota and paper quota. Students who have not yet registered, students "sitting in" on the class, etc, will NOT have an account or any additional resources.

There is a delay of at least 1 working day from the time a student registers for a course to the time that the account is ready. This delay is due to the batch nature of data availability from the registration system, and then overnight account creation. Any student who is not registered for a course should register as soon as possible.

Students with accounts from the Spring or Summer semester do not need to re-activate their account. They should login using the same CS username and password from the previous semester.

Class Rosters

Class rosters will be produced from our database nightly. The roster for each class will be in the directory /p/course/rosters/csXXX-instructor

There are two files for each section:

• csXXX-NNN-DDD.logins
• csXXX-NNN-DDD.roster

XXX is the course number, NNN is the lecture number, and DDD is the discussion number.

The logins file contains a list of login names, one per line.

The roster file contains a list of names, University ID numbers, and login names.

The Access Control List for the directory is "read" for the instructor of the course, and for the instructor's ta afs group (instructor:csXXX-tas). The directories are recreated every night.

NOTES:

1. TAs are NOT automatically added to the -tas groups. See below for how to add TAs to the -tas group.
2. The rosters are not yet populated with students, and will not be until just before the start of classes, when we get the registration data from the registrar's database.

Class volumes, accounts and AFS groups:

AFS volumes have been created for every instructor teaching a course on our instructional systems this semester (if you already had a course volume for the course you are teaching this semester, we won't touch it).

Your course volume is /p/course/csXXX-loginname (XXX is the course number, loginname is your login name). During the semester, you can also access the course volume as ~csXXX-N (N is the section number).

You have all permissions on your course volume. AFS groups for your students and tas have been created (loginname:csXXX and loginname:csXXX-tas). The class group will be automatically populated with all enrolled students when we process the registration data. You will have to add your TAs to the ta group by hand.

To add tas to you -tas group, use the "pts" command:

   % pts adduser loginname instructor:csXXX-tas

For more information on AFS groups and the pts command, see AfsHowTo in the CSL FAQ on the web.

If you would like to share course volumes with another section of the class, please send mail to "lab" indicating which section you are teaching, and which course volume you want to use instead (the owner of that volume should also agree).

WWW Home pages for classes

The standard location for course home pages either in:

• ~csXXX-N/public/html/csXXX.html, or in
• ~loginname/public/html/csXXX.html

(where loginname is the login name of the instructor, and XXX is the course number). Note that the home page name does not include the section number.

We encourage you to make a home page for your course. You can look at the existing course home pages for some examples.

Class Mailing Lists Archives

If you choose to use the DoIT Classlists class mailing lists, you can have a mailing list archive on the lists.cs.wisc.edu web server by adding the email address lists@cs.wisc.edu to the subscriber list.

Archives are available at https://www-auth.cs.wisc.edu/lists/classes/ A valid CS username and password is required to access these archives.

Special Needs

If you have any special needs for your class, please send mail to lab@cs.wisc.edu with the information.

Linux Orientation Sessions

Linux Orientation sessions, for new Linux users and novice Lunix users new to the CSL Linuxfacilities will be offered during the first weeks of the semester. Please encourage your students to attend an orientation session as early in the semester as possible. The schedule will be posted as soon as it is final.