Caucus information

ENSC 151
DIGITAL AND COMPUTER DESIGN LABORATORY

Caucus information:

By Frances Atkinson
frances@sfu.ca

Information to give students:

They must use their SFU account to access Caucus.

When they use Caucus for the first time, they will be asked to fill in their personal profile.

They can find the conference using any of these methods:

1. under a direct link to http://caucus.sfu.ca/caucus/ensc151/ from a web page for the class (if such a web page exists)
2. via the URL http://caucus.sfu.ca to go to the SFU Caucus Centre, then select "see a list of all conferences".
3. via the SFU home page, then select Conferences, then the link SFU Caucus Centre, then select "see a list of all conferences".

When accessing the conference by any of these means for the first time, people will be invited to "make me a member of the conference and add it to my personal conference list". They should click Yes.

Henceforth, option 1 will put people directly into the conference. Using options 2 or 3, they would see bus448 as soon as they connect to the SFU Caucus Centre.

If you haven't already found it, Caucus startup help is available at http://www.sfu.ca/acs/conference/caucus.htm

In the conference you can create multiple discussion "Items" each of which can have multiple "Responses". It's usually a good idea to foster use by starting some discussion Items.

Note that there's a conference called Practice people wish to experiment in a safe place where it doesn't matter if you mess up.

Last modified: Fri Sep 11 15:40:59 PDT 1998.

ENSC 151 DIGITAL AND COMPUTER DESIGN LABORATORY

ENSC 151
DIGITAL AND COMPUTER DESIGN LABORATORY