Instructor Accounts

1. Creating a QuizSite Account
2. Naming a Course Account
3. Selecting a Course Account
4. Displaying Course Statistics
5. Deleting Courses

1. Creating a QuizSite Account

1. Connect to QuizSite
   QuizSite is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from the following URL:

   https://www.indiana.edu/~best/cgi-bin/quizsite/instructors.pl

   In some cases, when you first connect to the site a warning message appears notifying you that the communication with the server is secure. Click Continue and the login screen will come to your browser.

2. Type your username, network password, and click Login.

3. On the new screen, check the radio button next to Create First Account and then click Proceed.

   (If you are an AI or secretary who has been granted authoring privileges by an instructor, you should instead select the course from the pull-down menu and click Proceed to view the Main Menu.)

4. Read the notice on the screen that follows and, if you agree with it, type your course number (for example Z201) and click I Agree.

5. You now have a first account. On the next screen you are given two options:
   • to select an account to work with it
   • to create a new course account

   This will be the screen that you will see when you login from now on. If you select the first option you will be taken to the Main Menu screen.

2. Naming a Course Account

• Course names at Indiana University Bloomington consist of a single letter followed by three digits, for example a101. You must follow this convention for naming QuizSite course accounts.
• QuizSite does not check to see if the name you enter is an official course. Whatever letter and digits you enter will be used to name the account.
• You may want to create a test course to experiment with QuizSite. If so, use a name of a course that you will never teach, such as z999.
• The course name is case-sensitive. For example, Z999 and z999 will be treated as different courses.
• In your menu of courses, uppercase course names will appear before lowercase names. For example, Z999 will appear before a000.
• Course accounts are uniquely determined by the owner's username plus course number, so it is possible for two different instructors to each have a Z201 account without any conflict.

3. Selecting a Course Account

1. Select one of the radio buttons to work as:
   • the owner of your course account,
   • an author of someone else's account (if you are an associate instructor or secretary who has been granted authoring rights by an instructor), or
   • a co-owner of a departmental account (if you are a departmental secretary administering course evaluations).
2. Select the course (or departmental account) from the menu next to that radio button.
3. Click Proceed. You will then see the Main Menu.

4. Displaying Course Statistics

1. Select "Delete course accounts or display course statistics" and click Proceed. You will see a table of your courses, with the following column headings:
   • Delete: This course will be deleted if the checkbox is checked.
   • Course: The course number, for example a101.
   • Semester and Year: a one-digit semester and two-digit year. The semester codes are as follows: 1=fall, 2=spring, 3=summer I, 4=summer II. For example, 199=fall 1999, 200=spring 2000, 300=summer I 2000.
   • Students in Roster: The number of students listed in the roster which is currently in the course account.
   • Question Items: The number of questions in the course account.
   • Activity Settings: The number of different activities defined for the course.
   • Participating Students: The number of different students who have completed at least one activity. Note that this may include students from previous semesters or students who dropped the course.
   • Last Changed: The date of the most recently changed roster, items or activities file or the most recent student submission.
   • Months Not Used: The number of months since the Last Changed date, rounded down to the nearest month. (A month is considered 30 days.) Accounts that have not been used for over a year are highlighted in red and are probably good candidates for deletion.
2. Select courses to delete and click the Delete button.
3. To go back, click Cancel.

5. Deleting Courses

1. You should see the courses which you selected from the previous screen.
   • Note that deleting a course completely removes all files and data.
   • You should only delete courses that you are sure you will never reuse in a future semester.
   • Make sure you have backup copies of all important files and information.
2. To delete these courses, click Delete.
3. To go back, click Cancel.