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To create your course

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For multi-sectioned courses, you can use your email filter to filter out e-mail from students in other instructors' sections based on the subject line (be sure not to filter out your own students).

 
To import (or update) the class list of names from the registrar
  1. Click on this link: Class Lists from ITS ( be sure to select Excel format  and  the proper semester).
  2. Do NOT load into Excel, save directly to disk (even immediately saving from within Excel corrupts the file)
  3. Upload file with File Manager
  4. Rename to have "wfs" extension
  5. Wait a few minutes; a new file with "lst" extension will appear
  6. Load this using Classlist Editor and Import Users (when updating leave the setting as "replacing NO users")
  7. A file with "err" extension was also created of any students that you will have to do manually
    because they did not have proper uncc email addresses.)
 
To create a set of problems
  1. If you are re-using an old problem set, skip to Step 9; for a new set Step 2.
  2. Click on Library Browser in the column to the left.
  3. Enter the name of the set to be created on the 2nd line.
  4. Click on Create a new set in this course.
  5. Click OK on Assign this set to yourself.
  6. To load problems, click on Problem Library or Local problems. Choose some problems and add them to your set.
  7. Click on Edit Target set on the 1st line to set up the open and due dates, and to make it visible to the students.
  8. Step 9 is for re-using an old problem set.
  9. You must "Export" your problem sets in your previous course by clicking on Hmwk Sets Editor and exporting visible sets; this creates "set definition files" that start with "set" and end with ".def" in your templates directory (click on Filemanager). If your new course was created using this a template they will already be there.
  10. To import the old problem sets, click on Hmwk Sets Editor; select "Import" and "multiple sets"; and select all the sets you would like to import. You might elect also to assign them to all users (or not).
  11. Click on Take Action.
 
To add students to my class
  1. Click on Class List Editor to the left
  2. Choose Add Students.
  3. make note of the student's userid from their @uncc.edu e-mail address
  4. enter that userid in BOTH the userid spot and the student_id spot -- do not enter their "800 number" as student_id.  Their password should now be set the same as their userid -- you have to inform them of this.
  5. for multi-section courses be sure to enter the section number
 
To delete the name of a student that dropped the course
  1. Click on Class List Editor to the left
  2. On the first line, type your section number in the second box, choose Section in the 3rd box, then click on Take Action to see the list of all the students in your class.
  3. Select the students to be deleted, then click Take Action. For Common Webwork, it is advisable not to delete any student because they may have moved to another section. In this case, it is better to delete your section number from the student information by clicking on Edit selected students.
 
To edit students information
  1. Click on Instructor Tools. Select student name from the list.
  2. Click on Edit class list data for selected users. Make changes and save
 
To change the password of a student
  1. Click on Instructor Tools. Select student name from the list.
  2. Click on Change Password for one user
 
To assign a set of problems to my students only
  1. Click on Instructor Tools
    you will see two columns in the main page labeled Users and Sets
  2. Under Sets, select the problem set you wish to assign
  3. Under Users, Select "Display section ..." (your section)
    Click on Change Display Settings right under that
  4. You should now see the list of students from your section.
    Select the name of all your students by using the Shift key to select an interval and Ctrl key to select more randomly
  5. Now a little further down in the middle column, click on Assign selected users to selected sets
 
To change the due dates of many sets for only one student
  1. Click on Instructor Tools
  2. Under Users: Select the name of your student
  3. Click View/Edit all sets for one user.
  4. Change the due dates, select the box beside the entries and save changes

 

 
To reopen a set for a student

If the answers are not available yet, just change the due dates. But if the answers are out , unassign the set for this user then reassign it and change the due dates. This way the student will get a new set of the problems. To reassign a set:

  1. Click on Instructor Tools
  2. Under Users: Select the name of your student
  3. Click View/Edit all sets for one user.
  4. Delete the green check from the box beside the set to be unassigned. Save changes.
  5. Check the box near that set and save changes to reassign it.
  6. Change the due dates and save.

 

 
To check the progress or grades of a particular student
  1. Click on Student Progress
  2. Select the student name
 
To check the progress of my class only on a particular set of problems
  1. Click on Student Progress
  2. Select the Set of problems
  3. Click on the Header called Section to sort the table of student progress
 
To get an excel file of my class grades
  1. Click on Scoring Tools
  2. Select the Sets to be scored
  3. Click on Score selected sets
  4. Open the link under Total to get an Excel file
  5. In Excel, click on Data, Sort, to sort the grades by sections.
 


 

Contact Us

University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
Mathematics and Statistics
Fretwell 376
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: 704-687-2580
Fax: 704-687-6415

 

Department Chair

Alan Dow
Fretwell 360E
Phone: 704-687-4560
Email: adow@uncc.edu

 

Associate Chairperson

Mohammad A. Kazemi
Fretwell 376C
Phone: 704-687-4578
Email: mkazemi@uncc.edu

 

Graduate Coordinator

Joel Avrin
Fretwell 360C
Phone: 704-687-4929
Email: jdavrin@uncc.edu

 

Undergraduate Coordinator

Kim Harris
Fretwell 360C
Phone: 704-687-4565
Email: mkharris@uncc.edu