E-mail this pageUsing the Plattsburgh Course Web Wizard
This page provides instructions for using the Web Wizard.
If you haven't already installed the wizard, you'll want to do that before going any farther in these instructions (see installing the web wizard ).
The Plattsburgh Course Web Wizard can only be run through FrontPage, so your first step will be to launch FrontPage and log onto you web site. Once you've done so, using the course web wizard is fairly simple.
Step 1: Running the Web Wizard
From FrontPage 's File menu, select New|Web... This will introduce the New...Web Sites dialog as illustrated below. (Don't be alarmed if some options in the illustration are not identical to those on your system.)
Click once on the icon for Plattsburgh Course Web Wizard , and then click on the Add to current web button on the right side of the screen in the Options area.
Then click the OK button to initiate the web wizard's dialogs. The first of these, illustrated below, asks you for some basic background information that will be used in setting up your web pages.
In the Department field, you should enter a single word or an abbreviation for your department.
Important ! Include no spaces or punctuation marks in the Department field.
In the Course Number and Section field, you should indicate the number and section for the course. Again, you should not use any spaces to separate number and section.
By default, the Course Year field will indicate 2000. Change it as appropriate.
Finally, you should specify the appropriate semester in the Semester field.
Once you've supplied the information required on this screen, click the Next button to introduce the second (and last) set of information fields:
In the Course Name field, you can indicate the full name for the course. This time, you may use spaces if you'd like.
In the Instructor Name field, you should specify your name as you'd like it to appear in the copyright notice and mail links on your web pages.
In the Instructor E-mail Address field, you should indicate your full e-mail address at Plattsburgh State.
Once you've supplied the information required on this page, click on the Finish button to set the Wizard to the task of creating a set of web pages. Depending on the amount of server traffic and the number of pages in your web site, this will take several seconds or several minutes. Once it's finished, you'll see the following confirmation notice, advising you that you should add information to the assigns.htm, index.htm, announce.htm, and readings.htm pages.
Clicking on the Close wizard button will dismiss the wizard dialog and return you to a view of your FrontPage website on the faculty server. You should find that a new folder has been added, containing a core set of files that can serve as starting points for your course web site. You can edit or update these pages directly through FrontPage, as you would edit or update any other pages on your website.