| Name (Last, First): | ________________________ |
| StudentID: | __________________ |
| Section: | ________ |
Key Words: course web site, course web site, course web site
You are required to have completed the objectives in Lab 1 before doing this assignment.
This assignment is intended to help you become familiar with the course web site and all of the help and resources that are available for the course. This assignment will not be weighted heavily in the final grade, however, it does count and you will be expected to be comfortable with all of the items mentioned for future assignments.
You should submit a paper copy of the questions and your answers at the beginning of class on Friday, October 1. Be sure to write your name, student ID, and section number at the top of the page.
| Info about your UW Network Resources. If you have trouble with this section, review the material in lab 1. | |
| 1. | What is your email address at the University of Washington? |
| 2. | What is the URL (web address) of your UW student home page? |
| 3. | When you log on to the MyUW site, you supply your UWNetID and password, and you are then taken to a screen titled "MyUW Main Page". This page has several tabs shown in a row near the top of the page. The first tab is named "MyFrontPage". On the line right below that tab is a short message. What is the message shown on your page? |
| 4. | You have an account on the computer system dante. Log on to that account and find out your "disk use status." This information is available using the "Other Choices" : "Disk" menu selections starting from the main log on screen. How much disk space you have been allocated and how much disk space are you currently using? |
| Info about the course web site. All important information for this course can be found on the course home page. Always check there first if you have a question about the course. | |
| 5. | What is the URL (web address) for the course web site? |
| 6. | On most of the web site pages, there are links to the other pages in the site in a column down the left hand side of the page. This is called the site navigation area. One of the links goes to the Announcements Archive. Who wrote the first message that appears in the archive? |
| 7. | In addition to the archive link discussed in problem 6, the navigation area includes a link to the class Bulletin Board. The first message posted on the board is title "Welcome homework 1 solvers". What is the web address (the Uniform Resource Locator or URL) of the Geocaching site mentioned in that message? |
| 8. | Does the section that you are enrolled in meet on Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday? |
| 9. | You will be able to view your current scores on-line during the quarter. Are there any scores displayed on that web page now? |
| 10. | The file message.pdf is in the Portable Document Format (or "pdf"). Your computer should be able to read that file. If the file doesn't open when you click on the link, then you probably need to install Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer. What is the 4-word message given in the file? |