SMARTSITE

We will make very limited use of SmartSite. Three things of interest
will be the Chat Room for your use, the Gradebook, and documents for 
the discussion/lab. The main page for the course,
http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/kiskis/courses/phy9hc-s12/phy9hc_hp.html,
is not inside of SmartSite. It is your central resource for the course.

To access SmartSite, go to http://smartsite.ucdavis.edu, click on "login" in
the upper right, and authenticate via UCD kerberos. Over on the left
of the banner below the word SmartSite will be "My workspace." This is
for your own use and is not our main concern now. In the same banner,
there should be a list of classes, and PHY 009HC A01-A02 SQ 2012
should appear or be shown in My Active Sites. Click on that to get
into the workspace for our course.

Once in our PHY 9HC site, you will see a list of active tools in the
left column. Chat room, Graebook, and Help will be there initially. We
may add others.

You will be able to see your problem set and exam scores in the
gradebook.

The Chat Room is for your use and convenience in communicating with
other members of the class. I will not be looking at it very often. To
ask me a question, you should send email or ask in class or in office
hours.

Things you should know about the Chat Room: Messages you post can be
read by all members of the class and by me. They are not private at
all. Also the history of chats is stored and available for a long
time. Thus in the use of the chat room, it will be best to stick to
subjects related to the class and to be mindful University policies
concerning appropriate language.

The information for the discussion/lab has its separate Smartsite called
"PHY9HC Lab/Discussion." 

GUI glitches:

Although they probably won't be an issue for us, there a couple things
to look out for in the SmartSite GUI. The first comes from the fact
that there are windows inside of windows. You will notice that there
are sometimes two vertical sliders. There can even be three, and one
of them can be hidden in a misleading way. For example, if you are
viewing a document and your browser window is not very wide, there can
be three vertical sliders and one horizontal one. Only when the
horizontal one is moved to the right can you see the innermost
vertical one. This is a problem because it can seem that one is at the
end of a document when there is really more. Also when long lists
appear, only part of the list is displayed. You have to be sure look
at the total number of items and use the arrow buttons to display them
all. You can reorder the items by clicking on the column headings.