In the next page change "NAME/Semester" to your course name and semester, like "MAT100/F2000". The slash "/" is important; it can not be left out. You should also enter your name (it will appear in the signature line of all of your WEB pages), and your E-mail address. We do not check the E-mail address, and will not send you E-mail regularly. However, if the address is invalid, we will not be able to reach you when we really have to. For example, we may want to confirm if you are an active user, when (sooner or later) our server runs out of disc space and we have to remove files.
Later, when you return to this page, you will see all of your classes. You can create new ones, or work on old ones.
Press NEW CLASS to start working on your new class.
There is not much to do on the second page. Tell us how many sections are in the course. Most important is to enter the names of grading units that you want to handle with separate spreadsheets. For example, if you leave "main,lab,hwk" in this entry, then three spreadsheet files will be used: main.csv, lab.csv and hwk.csv. Numbers in the "total" column of lab.csv are automatically transfered to the "lab" column of main.csv. Similarly, numbers in the "total" column of hwk.csv are transfered to the "hwk" column of main.csv.
If you delete the text there, only the main.csv is used. Press DONE to move on to the next page.
Page 3 is about the teachers and graders of the course. Each teacher should have a username and a password. Your name is added here, and it can not be removed. Look at the roll-down menus in the authorization column, and pick the right ones. If you are in doubt, pick "teacher".
Remove an instructor by deleting the username and pressing UPDATE. Add instructors to the empty fields as you wish. Press DONE to move on.
On the last page the teachers are assigned to various tasks in the course. When you click on a box, the teacher will be able to change the grades of the sudents in the corresponding section.
Instructors with "teacher" authorization will be able to access the "main" spreadsheet. If you do not have "teacher", there is no need to change anything in the gray matrix below the line.
Press DONE.
The confirmation screen tells you where to find the WEB pages created for you, and how to inform the instructors of the course about their username and password.
Try the real thing! Good luck.