Answer: From the "Course Director Gradebook" link choose the button "instructors". You have to add sections here. For example:
DIRECTOR tstelzer
DIRECTOR dkane
DIRECTOR tomory
DIRECTOR e-potter
ALL miller
01 smith
02 jones
Where 01 and 02 are the sections and smith and jones are the respective instructors and miller is an instructor in both sections. You can add as many sections as you want, and they do not need separate instructors.
Question: The "Course Director Gradebook" portion of my gradebook is not working. The link takes me to a blank page. Everything else (instructor gradebook, rescore homework, maintain roster, etc.) is working properly.
Answer: This happens when some incorrect Perl is entered into the "gbeot" file. Undo any changes you made to the "gbeot" file until it is identical to what is was when the Course Director Gradebook link still worked.
Question: My course seems to require double password entry. Whenever I log in, I first hit the login button and respond with my ID and password, it says OK and gives me the "back" button. Then when I try to go to a homework assignment or to the gradebook, it makes me login again.
Answer: On your web pages, you must be consistent with your capitalization for the links to the "login.pl" and "logout.pl" pages. While case (upper vs. lower) doesn't matter in hardly any aspect of Tycho, an exception is cookie processing -- and the Clipper authentication stuff does depend on cookies. The path is stored by the cookie stuff and if a subsequent check of that cookie does not come from a path that matches exactly (including case), the stored cookie is not found. For example, in every link to the login and logout pages, make sure that every part of your URL is in lower case: https://wug-s.physics.uiuc.edu/cgi/cc/shell/parkland/phy121/spring02/login.pl
Question: I edited the "assignment" file to change the due date of a homework assignment. When I do a problem, and get it correct, an * appears by the problem on the assignment page but I get no credit.
Answer: First make sure the deadline for receiving credit has not passed. Second make sure you hit the "refresh" button when at the assignment page. If neither of these options fix the problem, check everything in the assignment file carefully. For example, if the "TIME:" line has a tab character instead of a single space, it will not work correctly. Perl can be very sensitive, so always start with a homework that is working and change only what is necessary!
Question: How do I delete students from the roster? When I click the "Delete Students" button, it tells me that is not implemented.
Answer: In Tycho, you cannot completely get rid of students. The students should be moved to the "DROPPED" section (where all instructors and directors are also located) where they will not appear on any lists of grades, etc. To do this, go to the instructor gradebook and "Enter Grades" for the "Roster Information". Here you can replace their section with "DROPPED".
Question: I tried to create my own new course by just copying over the appropriate folders in "Secure-S" and "WWW" but the new course does not work! What is wrong?
Answer: With tycho, there are some other areas that need to be created to run the scripts and store the records for the students. To copy/create these, you must contact the tycho email address!
Question: I have added some other directors/instructors to my course through the gradebook on the web. Can these people also modify the files in the "Secure-s" and "WWW" folders?
Answer: The permissions for these areas are set here at U of I. We try to give only the main director access to these areas, however if it is necessary to add another person you must contact the tycho email address.
Question: There does not seem to be a place to import student passwords when I import the student roster. How can I do this?
Answer: You are probably trying to import the roster using the gray button in the directors gradebook (which is how we do it here at U of I since we do not set their passwords). However, you need to use the "Maintain the Roster" link right before you get into the directors gradebook. Here there will be an option to import the passwords!
Question: Can I enter students in multiple sections (for example, discussions and labs)?
Answer: YES! When entering in the sections, just leave a space inbetween the two section names. For example, if tycho reads in as the section: "A1 X3" it will read that as discussion section A1 and lab section X3.