W4T Tools Archives

• HyperNews discussion page - setup instructions.

• GTree site navigation aid. This is for more advanced users of the web who have built a fairly large site. Examples can be seen at the Web4Teaching home and at Harvey Greenberg's home page. This aid uses the GTree java classes as the core, but I changed some things and added documentation. The gtree.tar file contains a readme.txt and gtreesetup.html files to guide your setup.

• Mid-Term Evaluation form, adapted from code written by Allen Holder. To have this in your site, download mideval.tar When this is on your math subdirectory, enter   tar xvf mideval.tar,   and you will have the following files:

  midterm-eval.html	- What the student sees (and fills out).
  midterm-eval.out	- The output file (make sure it has write permissions).
  midterm-eval.cgi	- The program that takes form input and produces output file.
  cgi-lib.pl	- A program library needed by the main program.
  midterm-sum.ex	- A program that aggregates the results (in midterm-eval.out) and produces a summary
  	in a file named midterm-eval-report.html that you can view or print with Netscape.

  Then, edit the html file to suite your needs (e.g., put course number and name). If you change the questions, you need to perform compatible edits in midterm-eval.cgi (perl script) as you do in midterm-eval.html.

• Math2html will convert Mathematica Notebooks to HTML format for viewing on the web. To see how it looks, visit Interactive Learning in Calculus and Differential Equations with Applications.

• Search your files to match keyword, programmed by Matt Wright. To have this in your site, download search.tar. When this is on your math subdirectory, enter   tar xvf search.tar, and you will have the following files:

  search.html	- What the student sees (and fills out).
  search.cgi	- The program, called a "search engine."

  You must edit just the first statement in search.html (you will see a comment to direct you). Then, edit the cgi file for your directory/file names. (If necessary, there is a README.DOC at Simple Search.)

• 1-on-1 scheduling template, used for reserving a particular week to have students see you for about 15 minutes each. This could be near the beginning of the term to get to know them better, or it could be later in the term to let them know how they are doing (and for them to let you know how the course is going). It is simply a skeleton html file, which you download to your course page and edit for yourself.

• Roster and group assignments.

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