MRKG2349
The Electronic Classroom In WebCT

The electronic classroom serving this course resides in a World Wide Web site that is accessible anywhere a student can enter the web. This class will be using these WebCT tools:

To get into the class, a student must follow the instructions below. It opens the gate to the course files which reside on WebCT.

This section outlines how to get into the electronic classroom. If you have trouble with this or anything on the web, make at least three attempts, then try again later.

1. Open an Internet browser and access the World Wide Web.
2. Click on this link to access the WebCT front login page.
3. In the User Name box, in lower case letters, type the first two letters of your last name plus the last six numbers of your Social Security number, with no spaces, no hyphens. WebCT is case sensitive. If Russell Crowe's SS# were 123-45-6789 and he was in our class, his would be cr456789
4. In the Password box, type in four numbers -- the first two are the numbers of your birth month and the last two are the last two numbers of your birth year. For example, if Russell Crowe, born April 7, 1964, were in our class, his password would be 0464
   
   If Ed Harris, born November 28, 1950, were in this class, his password would be 1150. Again, type no spaces, no hyphens.
5. Click on OK or hit Enter.

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These steps should take you to the front page of the WebCT classroom. If something does not work, try troubleshooting with the information below.

Once in, go to the area needed to do the work assigned.

• If you follow a link and the Back key becomes disabled, it's probably because the page has opened in a new browser window. Close it by clicking on the X-box in the top right corner, and your last page should show up.
• Once you've done the studying for each week, click on Online Quizzes and Surveys to take the quiz or test.
• When you have a message to post to the bulletin board, click there.
• To exit, close the browser.

I can't log on to WebCT. What's wrong?

The problem can have several sources.

1. Be sure to access the correct page. It is available as listed above, and also by going to www.accd.edu, and clicking on the Internet Courses link and those that follow.

2. The student may have the caps lock key on or be typing in capital and lowercase letters. WebCT is case sensitive and the user name and ids have been set up in only lowercase.

When the prompts for the user name and password come up, type them in lower case as directed in #s 5 and 6 above:

3. If a student has changed the PIN (password) via Telephone/Web registration, that could be the problem. The mainframe does not automatically share this information with the WebCT computer, so WebCT is still using the old password.

Anyone who has forgotten the PIN, may call Support Central at 220-1616.

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4. If a student has changed or is using a last name different from the one by which the SAC mainframe lists him or her, that could be the problem. The mainframe does not automatically share this information with the WebCT computer, so WebCT is still using the first two letters of the old name as part of the user id.

For example, people with hyphenated names such as Billings-Garza, often will pronounce and use both or only the last one, Garza. WebCT, however, goes for Billings in the example in number two above. The first two initials of the last name it recognizes are not ga, but rather, bi. As long as the student types ga020378, s/he will not get in. The computer recognizes only bi020378.

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