Class Accounts Class Accounts
Beginning with the fall 2005 semester, all Engineering classes are created in the University course management system call ICON. Many functions of managing a class, such as posting files and grades, are provided by ICON.
A class computer account provides space and convenience to develop and publish
web pages and computer-based instruction materials, and easily share those materials
with your class.
A web directory and template set of HTML files are automatically created with your class account. The directory is named public_html. This directory contains the template files which are designed as “fill-in-the-blank" documents. You can use these templates to design your own web pages from scratch. The files are:
| index.html | Welcome/home page template. You must name your initial page index.html |
| admin.html | Administrative information: instructor names, office hours, email addresses, grading policies |
| email.html | Form for class members to post email to the TA |
| exam.html | Exam results and/or exam solutions |
| lecture.html | Lecture notes |
| probs.html | Problem sets and solutions |
| schedule.html | Course syllabus |
| supplemental.html | Miscellaneous materials |
| old.html | Past problem sets, quizzes or exams |
\\sharename.drive.engr.uiowa.edu\sharename
where sharename is the name of your class account or web directory share. For example, if the class account is cee045, the path is \\cee045\engr.uiowa.edu\cee045; if your web directory share is cee_050web the path would be \\cee_050web.drive.engr.uiowa.edu\cee_050web.
We recommend that you access and modify files in the class account using the drive mapping as described above because the file permissions will remain such that people can read the web pages. If you login directly to the class account and modify files, those file permissions will need to be reset to give appropriate rights. You must set file permissions from Linux, not from Windows. See creating web pages for information on the commands to set permissions.
As of April 2007, class accounts have a disk quota of 1.5GB.
The University of Iowa has licensed a plagiarism detection tool, Turnitin, available to all instructors. If you are an instructor, visit the support area for instructors. If you are a student, there is a support area for students.
