As of this semester (Spring 2008), ITS will not be creating course web spaces on condor (in the wescourses directory). Instead, we are creating course space, on request, on the new WesFiles system (http://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu).
We have been moving students to the new system over Winter Break, a process they were notified of before break. There was considerable interest from the students about it and so we strongly encourage you to use WesFiles for your course webspace from here on out. However, you may continue to use your condor public_html directory for serving course web sites, if that is a necessity. For most users, the WesFiles system provides the easiest environment for maintaining websites.
The benefits of using course space on WesFiles are:
- you can share read or read/write access with your students
- you can share editing responsibilities with students or others without needing to use Frontpage as your editor (use any editor you like)
- you can make a course space world-readable, or you can easily keep it (or parts of it) closed to just the enrolled students, or to just the Wesleyan campus
- there will be a dropbox functionality available on wesfiles (to be released early next week)
- you can reuse these course spaces from semester to semester
- we have created course groups on the system so that you can choose to share your space with the enrolled students as a group
To request course space on WesFiles, please contact your Academic Computing Manager. Provide them with:
- the courseid
- a list of non-enrolled individuals that need access to the space (e.g., course assistants, TAs)
- state whether you want the space visible on the web initially or not (you can make the space “public” at any time)
Your ACM or Desktop Support Specialist can assist you in using the new system
To access WesFiles, no account setup is necessary. You can access it by logging in (using your email username and password) at http://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu. More information about WesFiles can be found here (http://wesfiles.blogs.wesleyan.edu).
When I go to my root folder, I see many folders. In the home folder, I see two usernames, sdevoto and cleidy. In the courses folder, I see Math122 and Econ316. In the labs folder I see many MB of things unrelated to me. I must admit I am a little bit mystified, and distracted by all of those other files.
What is up?
Stephen
You will find an explanation of why you see what you see and how to get to your own stuff easily on our FAQ page.