COIN74A - How to Submit Homework Assignments and Other Tips
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- How to Submit Homework
Please follow the instructions carefully when submitting your homework assignments.
Assignments may be submitted at any time prior to a due date.
Once an assignment is due, the assignment window will remain open for one week (to the minute). Once an assignment window has closed it cannot be reopened. If the window has closed do not submit assignments links by email.
What's the Best Way to Organize my Homework Files?
Each Week you will be adding to your homework from the previous week. You can structure your directories on the server anyway you like; however, please make them a mirror the structure on your local harddrive. Make any changes to your files within the Files Panel in order to maintain all the links and image paths.
Some students like to create a folder for each week's homework: hw2, hw3, hw4, hw5, etc.
Before they modify their homework practice sites, they simply save the pages to the next lesson's folder creating duplicate copies and then work on the files in the homework folder for the assigned week. Once your homework has been graded from the previous week, you can remove that folder from the server and just keep the latest week's folder.
Another option is to create one content folder for all html files and one images folder for all images/media. Each week, keep adding to your documents within the folders and upload the modified files to the html folder in your public_html directory on the server.
Either way works for me - it's a matter or personal preference.
How to Submit Homework Assignments
You will use a page called HW.htm where you will put links to your assignment where each of the homework requirements is demonstrated. First,
- Copy HW.htm template or create a page called HW.htm (or HW.html). If you create your own HW.htm then make sure it has all of the requirements that the template has. You only have to do this once because it will be expanded upon with each assignment.
- Create links from the requirement to a named anchor in your assignment where the requirement is being demonstrated.
HW.htm lists every assignment as a heading, and the requirements for that assignment as an unordered list underneath that heading. For each assignment build links from each of the requirements directly to the page in your web page that shows evidence of that skill. Use named anchors. If you do not know how to create named anchors visit the tutorial. The easier you make the navigation of your website to see each of those items, the easier it will be for me to grade your work. It also is much easier for your code reviewers to look through your work if you have created a simpel way to connect the assignment requirments to your website.
- Submit your homework in Etudes
Before you submit your assignment in Etudes you must have someone perform a code review. In the Discussion and Private Messages tab in Etudes go to the Code Reviews forum and post a request for someone to review your code for the assignment you need to have reviewed. Post a link to your HW.htm so that someone will be able to review your work. When doing a code review make sure all of the requirements have been met and make sure that there are no broken links and that each page has a title. Provide all of your feedback in the forum where the request was made so that the requestor may find it easily and may fix anything that has been found.
If you use the school's UNIX server, your URL will be found on the krypton index page:
http://krypton.fhda.edu/Find the course number, it will be similar to COIN074.01 or COIN074.04w. Click on that link which will display the user accounts for your class. Click on your user account name. Click on the public_html folder link. Copy the URL, as that will be the URL for your index page on the UNIX account. An example of this might be:
http://krypton.fhda.edu/COIN74.04w/yourname/public_html/A shortcut to this URL is:
http://krypton.fhda.edu/~yournameIn ETUDES select the tab for COIN74A and then go to the Tasks, Tests and Surveys link located in the navigation column on the left side of the screen. Check your assignment due dates and details. Click on the proper assignment then press the Begin button to bring up the assignment. Scroll down to the submission box. Paste the URL of your HW.htm for your homework assignment and the name(s) of those who reviewed your code in the assignment box. The link you paste into the box should look like this:
http://krypton.fhda.edu/~yourname/HW.htm
Next, you will list the name(s) of your code reviewer(s) in the submission box.
When you have done this press the Finish button located below the box to complete the submission process.
For a more detailed description of submitting homework in ETUDES go to the homework submission page.
Screen Shots
Some students want to know how to take screen shots to send to classmates for review when troubleshooting. Here are some ways to take screenshots.
- Windows - Alt + Print Screen captures the active screen and places it on your clipboard. Open an image editing program like MS Paint and paste the image. You may have to create a new document first and the paste. You can also paste into MS Word.
- Mac - Command + Shift + 3 captures everything and Command + Shift + 4 captures the active screen on some OS.
- You can also use 3rd party software - usually shareware for $30. Do a search to find screen capture utilities. In Windows, the print screen puts a copy of the image capture on your computer's clipboard. MacOS differs for OS9 and OS X. I use SnapZ ProX on Mac OS X and Snag-It on Windows.
Here is how you can get a screenshot to me with or without having photoshop, etc.
- From your Files Panel in Dreamweaver, connect to your remote site.
- You can use the ALT+PRINT SCREEN keys to capture the active window. This puts a COPY of your SCREENSHOT on your computer's clipboard.
- This copy needs to be pasted into some program. SO...if you have an image editing program such as photoshop, fireworks, MS Paint, etc...you can open a new file and paste the contents of the clipboard into your new file. Save as .jpg (or export as .jpg).
- If you don't have image editing software, you can open MS Word and paste into a word document HOWEVER>...you will then save the word doc as an html document. You can save it as:screenshot.html for instance.
- Then open dreamweaver and open the word html document called screenshot.html within Dreamweaver.
Go to the Commands Menu - Commands>Clean Up Word HTML....Save the html document and link it to and from your main homework pages. When you save the word doc, the graphic is automatically saved for a file format that is web-ready. This method is not the best way to optimize a graphic image for the web as word will not use the most appropriate compression for your image file...but it will work fine for our purposes in this assignment. To optimize your graphics for the web, use a program such as photoshop/imageready, fireworks, corel, etc. and save for web as either .jpg or .gif depending upon the type of image. You can enroll in my photoshop course to find out more images and the web.
