Jan 20, 2004

Dear CPS user,

Welcome to another semester's use of the CPS system. For the benefit of those of you who missed the cps orientation sessions, we would like to remind you the nitty-gritty information to get you started using cps.

• Homepage: Please book-mark UT-cps homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~ctalk/. Notice that the "bulletin"-link is at the top of the homepage. For instance this email message is item #33 on our bulletin.
• First class: Download student's cps-instructions (sec I.3 on the homepage). Fill in the classkey of your class, which can be found in the classdata(spring04) in Sec I.2. Duplicate and distribute this instruction page with classkey to your class. Each student needs to buy a remote from UT-coop (a remote from previous semesters works also, except the change of batteries) and follow the instruction to do the online registration. For online tech-support see below. Announce to your class the date when you will begin to use cps ( the second class or the third class are recommended). See Instructor's instructions at Sec. I.1 for further details.
• Lectern instruction (See Sec. I.1 for further details).

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Go to mydocument/cpsfiles/instructor_name

Double-click on the class-icon (a blue remote- wrapped with a green ribbon.) The cps-engage bar appears.

Click verbal. to display the question board.

4 steps in Question/Answer cycle.

1. Choose the multiple choice. (Use "Grid" to expand the Grid size. Click Grid to reduce the expanded Grid)

2. Click End --Histogram appears.

3. Select the correct answer.

4. Close the histogram window.

Repeat as many times as needed.

At the end of the class, "Close" the question board.

"Exit" CPS.

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• Tech support: Refer your students to eInstruction (see the toll free number on student's instruction sheet) for all online cps registration related questions. Mr. Bin Zhang have left our project. We thank him for his professional help in the past year. Our new cps-administrator is Victoria Mariupolskaya (Vicki). Her office hours are MWF 11-12, TTh 4:30-5:30, RLM10.206. Also count on the help of Morrie Schulman from CIT who is knowledgeable in most aspects of cps. We appreciate the support of CIT. Please Refer students to Tech-support page (Sec. I.4) for more information.

· Inclass support on first use of cps: In case you need the in-class support when you first use the cps-system this semester, either Vicki, Morrie Schulman of CIT or a member from our voluntary team will be glad to visit your class, at the beginning of the class when you first use of cps. (The visit probably will last about 10 minutes) Send us your request with the date of first use as soon as possible.

§ email to: Victoria Mariupolskaya (Vicki) <ctalk@physics.utexas.edu>

§ and cc: chiu@physics.utexas.edu.

This will help us to coordinate the support for you. If you would like to avail yourself to be a volunteer to help your colleague (i.e. volunteer help called for here is restricted to one 10 minutes session), please let us know also.

• Send us your request with the date of first use as soon as possible. (email to: Victoria Mariupolskaya (Vicki) ctalk@physics.utexas.edu and cc: chiu@physics.utexas.edu). This will help us to arrange the support for you.
• Your cps-password and your UTEID: We have created an account at eInstruction for each cps-user using your cps-password, which you entered at the time of your signup. For uniformity, later on we plan to change the user name of each account to the corresponding instructor's UTEID. For security reason it is advisable to have your cps-password differ from the password you used for your real UTEID account at UT. Please email Vicki at ctalk@physics.utexas.edu your UTEID, along with your new cps-password( i.e. if you want to change it) asap.

With our best wishes,

Charles and Vicki (Victorial Mariupolskaya, CPS administrator)