How can a student change their email address if the system has an old one?

Email addresses will be imported automatically by A & R. However, you can advise students in your first assignment (great idea, eh?) to go to Account >> Modify under MyWorkspace and check their profile to be sure that an accurate email address is included. Students can update it as often as they want. Changing their profile affects the change in all of their courses.

It might be a good idea to make this instruction part of your opening set of ground rules/expectations.

Can students change their passwords in MyWorkspace ? Shouldn't I recommend they do so? But what happens if they lose/forget their password?

ABSOLUTELY! Students should be advised to change their password.

When colleges go live with the system, we give them the information to put in their Distance Learning websites, including steps on how to change the password. See this webpage (at Foothill), steps 3 and on, that folks are given as a model to modify for their local DL sites:

http://www.foothillglobalaccess.org/main/etudesng_login.htm

Your campus may be using SSN instead of SID that we use. The rest should be the same. Everyone will have to shift to SID next year. It's required by law.

We'll be setting up a "Forgot your password?" form on the Gateway soon. They can write to etudes-help@foothill.edu for now for us to reset it to student.

MyWorkspace Insights

Hi all. I have noted some confusion about how assignments works in MyWorkspace , so I wrote the following for your consideration. It is important to differentiate the set of tools in MyWorkspce from those tools with the same names in sites in which you are a member.

In MyWorkspace:

Schedule is your personal calendar viewed only by you. The contents of other calendars are automatically merged to this calendar. The schedule in your other courses shows only the events created there and in those schedules, you have the option to merge two or more course schedules.

Announcements is used to VIEW announcements for all your courses. You CREATE announcements in each course - not in MyWorkspace .

Resources are viewable only by you, whereas resources in your course sites can be viewed by your students.

Account is YOUR account information. Each user has their own account information in this location.

I am not seeing the merge function here. Where is it located? My schedule is already merged.

All calendar entries for courses you have access to (either as a student or as an instructor) are automatically merged into your My Workspace schedule. So you won't see the merge function in MyWorkspace . If you are faculty in more than one course, you have the option to merge schedules in those course sites, not here in MyWorkspace.

Can students block announcement or choose to receive as low priority or this a feature available to instructors only?

All users can set their email notification preferences (under MyWorkspace ) to receive low priority or no email notification about announcements, email, etc. However, you CAN overwrite their settings by selecting "high priority" when posting important announcements and push the announcement to their in-box.

I accidentally joined someone's practice site. How do I unjoin it?

The instructor of record will have to remove you from their course roster (under Site Info). If you are not the instructor, you can't unjoin the class. We'll remove this feature in the next release. It confuses matters.

2/22/06