Student Homepages



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About Student Homepages | Top

Student Homepages allows you to create a personalized Homepage that contains information about yourself, the projects you are working on, links to your favorite websites, and perhaps biographical information about your favorite pet. The Student Homepages screen displays a list of students. If a student has created a Homepage, their name displays as a hyperlink.

Note: Depending on administrator settings, the list may contain all students registered in the course, only those students who have created a Homepage, or only your name.

Some of the options you can add to your Student Homepages are:

  • links to your favorite websites
  • customize page colors and layout
  • background image
  • banner, upper textblock, and lower textblock
  • hit counter

Adding a link | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. Under Other Actions, select Modify or add links.
  3. Click Go. The Modify or Add Links screen appears.
  4. Under Add Link, click Add. The Add URL screen appears.
  5. In the Title text box, type a title for the link.
  6. In the URL text box, type the complete web address.
  7. As an option, you can replace the icon that displays with the link. To select a different icon image:
    1. Click Upload Icon. The File Upload screen appears.
    2. Click Browse. Your computer's file manager appears.
    3. Select the file and then click Open. The File Upload screen appears with the filename.
    4. Click Continue. The Add URL screen appears.
  8. Click Add. The Modify or Add Links screen appears.
  9. To return to your Homepage, click your name in the breadcrumbs.

Customizing colors | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name. Your Homepage appears.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Customize page colors.
  3. Click Go. The Customize Page Colors screen appears. You can choose from four color sets.
  4. To select a color set, click a Set No. option.
  5. To display your page in the browser default colors set in your browser preferences, click Browser Default. The text, links, and background will appear the same as in your browser.
  6. Click Update.

Adding a banner | Top

Adding a text banner

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Modify/Add banner image.
  3. Click Go. The Modify/Add Banner Image for Page screen appears.
  4. Under Banner options, select Use text.
  5. In the Text box, type the banner message.
  6. Click Continue.

Adding an image banner

You can create a banner image or download an image from the web. The banner image must be in .gif or .jpg format.
  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Modify/Add banner image.
  3. Click Go. The Modify/Add Banner Image for Page screen appears.
  4. Under Banner options, select Upload a file.
  5. Click Continue. The File Upload screen appears.
  6. To locate the file, click Browse. Your computer's file manager appears.
  7. Select the file and then click Open. The File Upload screen appears with the filename.
  8. Click Continue.

Adding an upper textblock | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Edit/Add upper textblock.
  3. Click Go. The Edit/Add Upper Textblock screen appears.
  4. In the text box, type the text. Note: You can hyperlink the header by using HTML. Text formatting such as italics must be written in HTML.
  5. Click Update.

Adding a lower textblock | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Edit/Add lower textblock.
  3. Click Go. The Edit/Add Lower Textblock screen appears.
  4. In the text box, type the text. Note: You can hyperlink the footer by using HTML. Text formatting such as italics must be written in HTML.
  5. Click Update.

Adding a background image | Top

You can create a background image, or download an image from the web. The image must be in .gif or .jpg format.

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Modify/Add background image.
  3. Click Go. The Modify/Add Background Image for Page screen appears.
  4. Under Select a background image, select Upload a file.
  5. Click Continue. The File Upload screen appears.
  6. To locate the file, click Browse. Your computer's file manager appears.
  7. Select the file and then click Open. The File Upload screen appears with the filename.
  8. Click Continue.

Adding a hit counter | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Modify/Add hit counter.
  3. Click Go. The Modify/Add Hit Counter for Page screen appears. There are three counter display options:
    • To display the hit counter below the banner and above the upper textblock, select Top.
    • To display the hit counter below the lower textblock, select Bottom.
    • If you don't want to display the hit counter, select None.
  4. If you want to customize the hit counter display style, click Configure. The Counter Editor screen appears.
    1. Select the hit counter display style:
      • Select a digit style.
      • From the Frame thickness drop-down list, select the frame thickness. Thickness values range from 0 to 9, where zero indicates no frame around the digits and 9 indicates the thickest frame possible.
      • From the Frame color drop-down list, select the color to frame the digits.
      • From the Number of digits drop-down list, select the number of digits for the counter. If the selected number of digits exceeds the number of digits in the hit count, zeros will be added at the beginning.
      • In the Text before box, type the text that will appear to the left of the counter. If desired, use HTML to format the text.
      • In the Text after box, type the text that will appear to the right of the counter. If desired, use HTML to format the text.
    2. Click Update. The Modify/Add Hit Counter screen appears.
  5. Click Update.

Modifying the layout | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name. Your Homepage appears.
  2. From the Customize drop-down list, select Modify layout.
  3. Click Go. The Modify Layout of Links on Page screen appears.
  4. Select the number of columns and then click Update.

Modifying a link | Top

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name. Your Homepage appears.
  2. Under Other Actions, select Modify or add links.
  3. Click Go. The Modify or Add Links screen appears.
  4. Select the radio button for the link that you want to modify.
  5. From the Modify Link(s) drop-down list, select one of the following:
    • Edit allows you to change the title, image, or URL that is associated with an icon.
    • Delete removes the link and icon from your Homepage.
    • Move Forward moves the link forward by one position. In a one-column layout, the link moves down one row. If the link is the last item on your Homepage, there is no change.
    • Move Backward moves the link backward by one position. In a one-column layout, the link moves up one row. If the link is the first item on your Homepage, there is no change.
  6. Click Go. The link appears in the new position.
  7. To return to your Homepage, click your name in the breadcrumbs.

Clearing your Homepage | Top

This feature deletes everything on your Homepage.

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name. Your Homepage appears.
  2. Under Other Actions, select Clear the page.
  3. Click Go. A confirmation message appears.
  4. Click OK. Your Homepage is cleared.

Backing up your Homepage | Top

You can create a back up file of your Homepage so that you will always have a copy. To restore a Homepage, see Restoring your Homepage.

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name. Your Homepage appears.
  2. Under File Options, select Backup a homepage.
  3. Click Go. A dialogue box appears that asks you what to do with the file.
  4. Select to save the file to disk and click OK.
  5. Select where you want to save the file and click Save.

Note: Once the back up file is downloaded, do not modify it. The file is encoded by WebCT; any change will permanently destroy the file.

Restoring your Homepage | Top

To restore your Homepage, you must have first made a back up file. To back up a file, see Backing up your Homepage.

  1. From Student Homepages, click your name.
  2. Under File Options, select Restore a homepage.
  3. Click Go. The File Upload screen appears.
  4. To locate the file, click Browse. Your computer's file manager appears.
  5. Select the file and then click Open. The File Upload screen appears with the filename.
  6. Click Continue. The restored Homepage appears.

Viewing another student's Homepage | Top

The Student Homepages screen displays a list of students. If a student has created a Homepage, their name displays as a hyperlink.

Note: Depending on administrator settings, the list may contain all students registered in the course, only those students who have created a Homepage, or only your name.

  1. To view a student's Homepage, click their name. Their Student Homepages screen appears, displaying the student's Homepage.


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