BarnardRefDesk

Writing filenames for our research guides

Here is the protocol:

The filename is based on the course key, which you can get from the pencil book.
The course key has the year, the semester, the 4-letter department/subject code, the course number, a single letter code, and the section code.

e.g. 20091BIOL2873X001
2009=year
1=semester
BIOL=department
2873=course
X=single letter code
001=section

To write the filename, remove the year and semester and move the single letter code, placing it directly after the 4-letter subject code.
So the filename for this research guide is BIOLX2873001.html
and the URL is http://www.barnard.edu/library/courses/current/BIOL/BIOLX2873001.html

Reminder about how to see the research guides in Courseworks:
We should all have administrative access to Courseworks. Log in and click on "Admin Access" on the lower left. Click on "Courses" at the top - then you can do a search.
There's also a quick link set up by Breck Witte so we can see which guide will appear for a given course in Courseworks - http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/rschloc.

Lois

Labels: courseworks, research guides

CourseWorks, the University's course management system, and the Sakai Pilot will be UNAVAILABLE from 7 to 8 a.m., Sunday, November 2.

per Seth Theriault CUIT Research, Teaching and Learning Technologies

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The "shopping period" for e-reserves has now passed.

Access control files have been generated that restrict access to scanned e-reserves to the following people:

• cul staff involved in uploading and processing this material
  
• those students and instructors registered for the class either as students or instructors (this includes some TAs)
  
• others who have requested and been granted access to the Courseworks pages of a given class.
  

Invariably some students who have been referring to scanned e-reserves will suddenly find themselves locked out. The following options are available for those not registered or not recognized as being registered for a class:

• request access to the courseworks page for the course; we receive a daily feed from Courseworks and process it on receipt. This is the best option for TAs who find that they do not have access to electronic reserves for the course for which they are TAing.
  
• ask for assistance at appropriate reserves desk
  

Readers who feel they are being denied access in error should be referred to the problem report form in the Request-it section of the Libraries' web site.

Labels: courseworks, CUL, e-reserves

use the section key but ignore 20073 and move the X in front of the course number
e.g. A course with the section key 20073POLS3761X004 would have the filename POLSX3761004.html.

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