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1. ccceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeeseeenes 16 9 Managing FOruUMS ssssssnneeunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnnm nnn 17 10 QUEE S mnn beecsucucvadveasteaseaceas seca tascsees 20 10 1 An introduction to the KOM2000 Query Wizard 200 20 10 2 How to start a query sssssnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ennn 21 10 3 Step 1 Define Query Target Group Ty pe ccsceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 21 10 4 Step 2 Choose Publication Forum or a List of FESDONGEING ovccsicacepaaicaccaustesgapennb tetanus NARE 22 10 5 Howto Create a New FOrui cccccceeceeceeceeeceseeeeeseeseesenseeseesees 23 10 6 Step Ss Create Query TEX asiaa a a e aaa aaa 23 10 7 Step4 Query Preview iiinn aa aai ia aaa 25 10 8 Step 5 Invite reSpONdents ccccccceeceeeeeeeeeeeceeeeseeseeseesenseesees 26 10 9 Using the Start Query Command to Create a Query 26 10 10 How to Create a Simple yes no abstain Query ccsseeeeeeees 28 10 11 How to Create an Evaluation QueLrY cccccseeseceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 28 10 12 Responding to a QUETPY ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeseeseeseeseeseeseeseeeees 31 10 13 Seeing the Results of a Query cccceceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeseeeeeeeeeees 31 11 Format of Query QUESTIONS sssssssssunennnnnnnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnne 32 11 1 Hints on Producing HTML for a Query Form c ccsseeseeeeeeees 32 12 Distance2. KOM 2000 User Manual Version 4 0 File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 1 Table of Contents 1 PART 1 WRITING AND READING 0 ccsssesceeesssnsesceesennnsees 3 2 Starting to Use KOM2000 cesseessseeeeensseeensseeeenseeeenseeeeenees 3 2 1 Registering aS a New User ccccceeeeceeeeeeeeeeseeeescnseeeeeeesenseeeeeones 4 2 2 LOG GUNG IN sssaaa aclseauml dune 6 3 Navigation finding your WaY cssssecsssseessstesensseeesseeesnseeneenes 6 A POUM S iai anii a ea a aaa 7 4 1 Finding OPUS sios 7 4 2 Rapidly Reading what is N W cccccseeseseeeeseneeeeeeeeeeeeseeneeeeeeaes 9 4 3 Writing Contributions to FOrUMS ccccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeseeeeeeeeeeees 9 4 4 Fancy Messages With Pictures Styles Text PTLACMMERIS ClC ann a hace teet et utocevavadest 10 5 CHalSinnnnnaen oO one ae oo eee ee 12 E mail and Personal Me SSaQeB sss ssccsssssssssseessssssseeeeeeess 14 6 1 Writing Personal M SSaQ 3s cceceseeseeeeeeeseeneeeenseeenensenseseeeees 14 6 2 Reading personal messages cesceceeceeeeceneeeenseeseeeeeeneeeeneenees 14 6 3 Receiving e mail from the Internet cccsceseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 14 7 PART 2 MANAGMENT QUERIES COURSEG 15 8 Creating FOrumMS sssnnnneennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnmnnn nnmnnn nnan 15 8 1 Start Creating FOUMI Sesu 15 8 2 Special Properties of FOFUMS
3. The query is open to anyone with Internet access There is no checking of the identity of the people who respond You list the e mail addresses of all who are allowed to respond Each respondent gets a personal password by e mail to use when responding This alternative gives the highest security by starting the query in a closed forum Then only members of that forum can respond and they have to identify themselves before answering the query Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 21 c Only people You specify a single password common to all respondents You can who know a send an invitation to a mailing list and you need not specify the e mail password can addresses of all the respondents Everyone who knows the password can respond respond Since the same password is shared by all respondents the security 1s not very high but may be acceptable in many cases Choose a assword and o l p The password for this query is paged type it in the text box When you are done click on which will take you to Step 2 of the Quert Wizard 10 4 Step 2 Choose Publication Forum or a List of Respondents You can either select an existing forum or create a new one If you choose to create a closed forum paste a list of the e mail addresses of all the respondents in the text box at the bottom of the query wizard step 2 Use an existing group of respondents Use one or more of the following groups of respondents KOM2000 forums
4. 11 Start Query command 26 Submissions accepting 17 File name manual doc Submit a message to a forum 9 personal messages and e mail 14 reply 10 Subscriptions finding your 7 Talk 12 Teaching 35 Thread list of in forum 8 9 new starting of 9 Top menu bar 6 Unread and read 8 scanning 9 Unread and read 9 Unseen scanning 9 Unseen and seen 8 9 URL of KOM servers 3 Users in a forum 8 Uses registration of 4 web browser 3 Withdraw from forums 18 Workspaces See forums Voting See Queries Writeable forum 16 Write protected forum 17 Writing a personal message 14 e mail 14 messages 9 reply 10 Yes no abstain queries 28 yourself 6 presentation of 6 Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 39
5. Daniel Fallberg 1 Guys Christan Sandberg In tut case Londen gt Entered Daniel Walberg Men 22 Ape 12 05 2001 Rass Evensen Where to meast nest fe Pans ot Londen Christan Sandberg Hy shave Fasci Christan Sandberg 20 what shoid we tak about Rass Evensen Hi Sverytody gt Ereti Hama Evensen Mon 23 Ape 130 200 Erer i Christan Sandberg kion 23 Apr 1304 200 File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 12 Everything is saved but only the last lines are shown Start with an empty chat area Full output Set user name List present Multi line input Leave chat File name manual doc Banus Pvensen L The top frame shows the ongoing discussion and when people join and leave the chat With Netscape the discussion is shown with the latest at the bottom With Explorer for technical reasons the discussion is shown with the latest at the top Everything written in a chat is saved and can be read later If you want to start with an empty chat area create a new chat But if a chat is inactive for more than 24 hours it will get a new subarea when it starts again The top frame only shows the last 50 lines of what was written To see everything written use the command FF Note The top frame will stop refreshing itself until you push PEMDA If you want to start with an empty chat area create a new chat or enter a chat which has been inactive for more than 24 hours
6. very good scale Alternatively you can use an HTML editor to edit an arbitrary form for your particular query The only requirement is that each form element is put in a separate HTML table cell and that each form element has a different HTML name value 10 2 How to start a query Registering yourself as a KOM2000 user If you have not used the KOM2000 server before you have to register yourself first If you already are registered you have to login To get to the Query Wizard you should then use the command Forum amp Chat or the command JRF and then the command RRR For the English KOM2000 server at DSV you can also use the URL http sol dsv su se KOM20002k sol1 query wizard to get to the query wizard This URL will prompt you to login or register if you are not yet logged in If you are logged in it will take you directly to the query wizard Alternatively you choose Forum amp Chat on the top navigation bar This will take you to a list of categories and on the left hand side you will find EWR Click on that navigation button which will take you to the KOM2000 Query Wizard The KOM2000 Query Wizard takes you through the procedure of producing a query in five steps 10 3 Step 1 Define Query Target Group Type Specify who are to be allowed to respond to this query Choose one of the three alternatives below a Anyone can respond b Only specified people can respond File name manual doc
7. Education Features j cccsssseccssssssseeesseseessseseeeees 35 M251 Qraded FORUM Sarosar a eceaaeentenee 35 193 IMAX icm aaa 37 File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 2 What is KOM2000 KOM2000 is a system for sending Internet e mail and for exchanging messages and documents in groups Users access KOM2000 through an ordinary web browser Messages in KOM2000 can contain text pictures and attachments KOM2000 has special features for closed open and write protected groups personal messages multi language usage version handling and distance education usage In this manual the groups in KOM2000 are named forums KOM2000 can be used to send and receive e mail In addition to personal e mail e mail can also be sent to forums and e mail addresses can subscribe to forums A KOM2000 user can also get regular news notifications by e mail which lists for example once a day all new contributions in the forums they subscribe to with URLs to click on the read the contributions KOM2000 has special features to support distance education More information about KOM2000 at het ps7 cme 0svV Siese KOMZ000 7 1 PART 1 WRITING AND READING 2 Starting to Use KOM2000 Selecting a web browser Connecting to KOM2000 File name manual doc If you have a choice between Netscape and Explorer there is a slight advantage with Netscape Chat listings are in cronological order with Netscape and some vers
8. bad Bad OK Good Click on if you want space for more alternatives Liey bad O OO PIG JOR AlGood C C O amaa SiVeygood OOO More altematwes Fewer altematreas HTML text 2 Paste HTML text for the query form here F the text containg textarea ficlds ts lt and gt delimiters will bo replaced wth dy ands temporarily so they can be read back from the form Cancel the query Prnadue t Pred gu r form When you are done click on which will take you to Step 4 of the Quert Wizard 10 7 Step 4 Query Preview The query is shown so that you can check that it is OK Below you see how the query will be presented to the participants Click on if you want to edit the query or click on Submit if you want to publish the query You can also remove the query by clicking on ance Query You are creating a password controlled query File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 25 Next meeting location In what city would wou like to meat WS next timer enna Very bad amp Bade OR PT Geod e very good London Very bad Bade JOK Good Very good paris Very badr Bede Oker Geodt vern goode Rom Very bade Bade OKC Goode vern goode Badgastain Vere bad Baad co oan Cao e Weary god amp Cit HFI CyN n wits Go back lance Quen Submit If you continue to step 5 the query is started even if you never submit step 5 10 8 Step 5 Invite respondents A draft le
9. common name if they belong to a set of which only one can File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 32 be lit And each form object must have a different value from all the other form objects Do not include any Submit button lt INPUT TYPE submit gt in your form Only copy the HTML from lt TABLE gt to lt TABLE gt into the KOM2000 edit window not the lt FORM gt and lt FORM gt tags and not the SUBMIT button Test the query in a KOM2000 forum intended for testing of queries before publishing the official version Suitable forums for testing are for example in English the forum Test meeting at URL http cmc dsv su se KOM20002k sol 3 2 And in Swedish the forum Forum for test av rundfragor at URL http KOM2000 nu sv KOM2000 4 19 Do not send the invitation letter produced in step 5 of the Query Wizard to many people before you have tested the query yourself To make it easier to produce a new query you can edit this sample query Below is shown the HTML behind the example above lt table border 1 gt Note that no the text up to the lt head gt and lt form gt lt tr gt element are not included lt td gt Did you go to the Lectures lt 7 td gt lt td gt Yes lt input type radio Note that the descriptive text comes before the name lectures value yes gt interactive element in each cell Note that no two radio buttons have the same name an
10. main areas Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 6 News To get an overview of new messages which you have not yet read Private To read and write personal messages and e mail Forum amp Chat To participate in forums and chats Help To read or browse this user manual Logout To leave KOM2000 and prevent someone else from continuing to use KOM2000 with your name One of these choices is light text on dark background This shows which of the four areas you are in at present For example the following top level menu shows that you are in the Forum amp Chat area Left column The left column shows where you are and gives commands you can menu use For example Shows that you are in the forum Upwind which belongs to the category Sailing You can click on RSF to find all forums and click on BA to find a list of the forums in the ES category 4 Forums 4 1 Finding Forums Your forums The command ROATA will give a list of only those forums which you have previously visited Finding all If you are not in the Forum amp Chat area then click forums Forum amp Chat to get to this area File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 7 Entering a new forum Reading contributions Finding members Who has seen what File name manual doc Click on E unless you already are in this area You will then get to a list of forum categories Click on the name of a category You
11. nd answer File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 27 10 10 How to Create a Simple yes no abstain Query Just write a When you have entered the information you can either go ahead and plain text submit your query which will place the subject of your query in the question to discussion list of the chosen forum You can also click on a answer This will enable you to preview the yes no abstain query and if you need to modify the query This is an example of how it could look like Tihs Query ia On Le ve names Of af respondents are shown Paapond a query Yes No Abstain Poe waa Pecipients T zj Er PF E And below the query you click on any of the following links Modify In order to change the recipients Recipients Text If you want to change the text of the query Add Attachment If you want to add an attachment or a picture or Picture Submit In order to publish the query Cancel this If you want to cancel the message Message 10 11 How to Create an Evaluation Query Create an This will take you directly to the third step of the Query Wizard File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 28 Either OF File name manual doc Here you create a query that allows the participant to grade some alternatives You can for example ask the participants to grade what they think about different cities London average Vienna above average etc Fill in th
12. will then get to a list of forums in that category gt Click on the name of a forum You will then get a list of the discussions in this forum The list may look like this ABS F info ida Music Discussions From Date Entries Quack Quack Donald Duck Mon Oct 23 lei2s 1 1994 What you are accustomed to Donald Reagan Mon Orct 25 12 25 1 1 1994 Subject of the discussion The The name of When the dis The number p I the user who cussion was of contribu red flag marks a discus l started the started tions in the sion in which you have not discussion discussion read all contributions Some times there will be a red flag on discussions you have very recently read In this case push Reload Netscape or Refresh Explorer to get up to date red flags Click on the under scored subject of a discussion to read the contributions in that discussion You will normally get on one web page all the contributions in one discussion thread The contributions which you have not seen before are marked with a red flag If you want to see all contributions in an entire forum on a single web page for searching or printing give the command MEESTE This can take some time Every user who has visited a forum is regarded as a member of that forum If you go to a forum then you can use the command PETATE to find out which other users are members of this forum The MESI command will in a forum produce a li
13. 20 moderated 17 modify 20 name 16 rated 17 writeable 16 write protected 17 Forums changing 20 21 creating 15 educational 35 entering 8 excluding members from 20 Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 37 finding all 7 graded 35 managing 17 member list for 8 withdrawing from 18 Grade overview command 35 Graded Forums 35 Guestbook 17 Home page 6 HTML editing queries with 32 in message texts 11 Inquiries See Queries Internet e mail address finding 15 receiving 14 to forums 15 Internet mail writing 14 Introduction 3 KOM 2000 overview 3 Language in user interface 6 Leave forums 18 Leave chat command 13 16 Log in 6 Log in why 4 Login id 5 Logout 7 Mail newsletter by 5 Mailing List 17 adding members to 20 Main areas 6 Managing Forums 17 Marking of educational forums 35 Meetings See forums creating See Forums entering 8 finding all 7 finding your 7 Members adding to forum 18 exclude 20 listing 17 Menu bar on the left 7 top 6 Messages See also Contributions in HTML format 11 File name manual doc reading in forums 8 reading new 9 with pictures 11 writing 9 Moderated forum 17 Moderator See also Organizer See also Organizer See also Organizer accepting submissions 17 Modify forum 20 Multi line input in chats 13 Name of a forum 16 Names of users 5 Navigation 6 Netscape use in chats 13 New
14. 9 Managing Forums Organiser Moderator List of participants File name manual doc Every forum has one or more organisers Initially the creator of a forum is its first organiser The organisers have special rights to change a forum and to add members to it Messages to be moderated will be shown in use each time you log in to KOM2000 under News Click on the message and this dialogue will show up Spinnacker z if P z mi e rF THF AF TS Pe ea ed Ei m E xj m e Bmt L b n Al 1 D 7 Salling downwind is preferred Accept Reject amp ster SU barra Under list of participant you can check who has created the forum who has access to the forum and who has the right to make changes the creator and organiser s Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 17 History All messages Start Query Exclude myself Delete Forum Adding members to forums Add Member Org File name manual doc Kommando ES ger en lista pa alla tr dar i ett forum och visar hur manga inl gg som lasts for varje trad 1 forumet The command MES gives a list of all threads in a forum showing how many entries have been read for each thread The figure in each cell indicates the number of unread messages in each thread The first line of numbers is the total number of messages in the thread column This command will first give you a list of all discussions in a Forum and all messages below You can either clic
15. ARC JOK AlG ood S iMeygood Hore altematwes Fewer altematreas Paste HTML text 2 Paste HTML text for the query form here F the text cantsing textarea fick tc lt and gt delimiters will be replaced won and J temoorarily so they can be read back fram the form Ej Cancelthe query Frevioussep Previewguenytoem File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 30 10 12 Responding to a Query 1 Locate the query in one of two ways a Log in toa KOM2000 server and browse the forums to find the query b Use the URL for the query which was given to you by the person who started the query 2 If the query URL ends with login or if this is a closed query not open for anyone to respond to then you will have to specify your name and password before responding to the query 3 Otherwise just respond to the query and end by pushing the button 10 13 Seeing the Results of a Query Three ways to get to see the results of a query a Respond to the query You will see the result window after submitting your response b Locate the query and click on the Result command in the left hand menu bar c Use the URL of the query but replace the part after the in the URL with the string result Here are some examples of how query results may look Simple yes no abstain non anonymous query result Da yau think the manida made of green chasse es i to Ailpshaey l i u 7 fea ef B a
16. The bottom frame contains a field where you can type your own messages This field has five choices The top frame only shows the last 50 lines of the chat If you wan to see everything which has been written in the chat push SH To get back to normal chat interaction push A This command lets you choose a pseudonym The computer will however know who you are even if this is not shown A pseudonym which you set in a chat will also be valid when you leave the chat unless you switch back to your own name Possibly pseudonymous contributions have the text Guest in front of the user name Lists those who are at this moment of time in the chat Allows you to write longer multi line messages If you choose this option you geta button to send your message Tells the server and other users that you are not any longer present in the chat Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 13 6 E mail and Personal Messages 6 1 Writing Personal Messages For information on how to edit the text of your message see the section about writing contributions to forums section 4 3 on page 9 Writing To write a personal message to another KOM2000 user click on personal Private and then on MMORE After that check the names of messages to the recipients or write their e mail addresses in the recipient field other KOM2000 users Writing e mail This is the same as writing personal messages to other KOM2000 users but you write one or more e mail
17. To start a new discussion enter the forum and scroll to the bottom of the page You will then get to an area where you can write a contribution Write Message Sublet E Enter the text Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 9 Saving partially finished messages Replying to forum con tributions or personal messages or e mail If you push the button you can continue writing the message at some later time To find such saved partially finished messages push the News command in the top menu bar To reply to a previous message first locate the message you want to reply to Then push the R ay button in the heading of the message You will then see the following window Feel free to type whatever you want to about sailing Write Reply Bey tothe forum toall aua only e Subject F Col weal 2 ET Bniter thre text Note that you can choose to send your reply to either all who read the message which you are replying to or with a personal message only to its author 4 4 Fancy Messages With Pictures Styles Text Attachments etc Types of fancy messages File name manual doc You can write KOM 2000 messages with pictures styled text attachments etc This is described below except writing queries which is explained in chapter 10 9 on page 26 Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 10 Including pictures in messages Including an attachment HTML messages File name ma
18. _ Forum Names F Advanced Dungeons amp Dragons E Alla varianter mailing list r Allma ii l Allm nt om sport r llmaAn i rt im Bed mt File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 22 10 5 How to Create a New Forum If no suitable forum exists you can create one here after choosing an available category Choose a unique name If the short name is not unique you will be asked to choose a new name Create Forum Name Short name of forum Description i Specal Propertes F Closed PF iriteabla T Moderated PGraded PRated POlce T Mailing list F Guestbook Genealogy Suir If you choose to hava a closed query you can enter e mail addresses of mailing lists or individuals that you wish to include in the query Please append ml to mailing list addresses like my mailing list my domain ml If you or someone else wrongly has written ml after an e mail address you can correct this with noml When submitting the query form you will be shown a form letter If you submit that letter after possible editing it will be sent to these addresses rasmus day 2u S ml tomasi kom dsv ae danielidsy 2su 26 zj When you are done click on which will take you to Step 3 of the Quert Wizard 10 6 Step 3 Create Query Text File name manual doc Here you create a query that allows the participant to grade some alternatives You can for example ask the participants to grade
19. addresses as the recipients of your message 6 2 Reading personal messages Your personal To find your personal mailbox click on Private and then on BERSA mailbox RTE Your personal mailbox contains all personal messages to and from yourself 6 3 Receiving e mail from the Internet Your e mail If when you register yourself in KOM2000 you specify an e mail address address then KOM2000 assumes that this is your e mail address in some other system You will then not be able to receive e mail in KOM2000 If however you do not specify an e mail address when you register yourself then KOM2000 will assign you an e mail address and you can receive e mail to that address File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 14 Finding your Go to Private and then to ERARE You will then see the e mail address following page News Private Forum amp Chat Help Logout Personal ijinfo foes Jacob Palme Discussions From Date Entries Write a Wed Nav 10 TERETOM hejsan Jacob Palme 14 96 19909 1 Personal n Wed Nov 03 steers Jag r inte inloggad 13 55 1090 1 Sat Oct 30 Hello reggie Jacob Palme 13 15 1999 2 i info Jacob Palme E mail jpalmemdsy su se Teacher at Stockholm University and KTH You are logged in as Jacob Palme Today s date Wed Noy 10 14 27 1999 Under the heading E mail you can see your e mail address in the example above jpalme dsv su se E mail to You can also send e mail from t
20. d value Note that each radio button is in a separate table cell a Loe lt co gt No lt input type radio name lectures value no gt lt td gt 2 EP See r gt lt td gt Did you perform the work task lt td gt lt td gt Yes lt input type radio hame Cask Vealue vyes gt File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 33 lt tO gt lt tda gt No lt input type radio name task value no gt lt td gt S CE gt SCI gt lt td gt What is your name lt br gt lt input type text name textfield gt lt ta gt std colspan 2 gt Gaiman tO COUNEEV SDr K lt SeLect Name Country gt lt option selected gt Any lt option gt lt option gt Austria lt option gt ODE 1On gt a eS py lt lt Opt ON lt option gt United Kingdom lt option gt lt select gt LI ed LICE lt table gt File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Note that the final lt form gt element is not included and that there is no submit button in the HTML code to be pasted into KOM2000 Page 34 12 Distance Education Features Traditional academic courses end with a written exam where the students meet in a room and answer a number of questions under supervision to stop cheating This kind of examination tends to favour cramming of facts and is not very suitable for collaborative education where students are tought to think exchange informat
21. discussion 9 user 4 New forums creating 15 New user registration 4 News finding 9 scanning 9 News control 8 9 Newsgroup 17 Newsletter by e mail 5 Newsletters by e mail 5 Next unread 9 Overview 3 Partially finished messages 10 Participants See Members See Members See Members See Members in a forum 8 password choosing 5 Personal home page 6 Personal mailbox 14 personal reply 10 Pictures in messages 11 Presentation of yoursel 6 Private forum See Closed forum Pseudonym on contributions 13 Queries arbitrary HTML 32 evaluation type 21 28 own HTML forms 30 password protected 20 secret anonymous and non secret 20 Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 38 start query command 26 starting with query wizard 21 yes no abstain 28 Query Wizard 20 Rated forum 17 Rating 17 Read and unread 8 9 Reading personal messages 14 Read only forum 17 Receiving e mail from the Internet 14 Red flag 8 9 Registration as a new user 4 of new user 4 Remove forum 20 Reply to a previous message 10 Reply to all 10 Responding to a Query 31 Results of a Query 31 Same time communication 12 Saving partially finished messages 10 Scaling queries 21 Scanning new items 9 Scoring 17 Seen and unseen 8 9 Sending queries 26 Servers at DSV 3 Shortname for a user 5 of a forum 16 of users 5 Simultaneous communication 12 Smart text 12 Snapshots in messages
22. e form below and then click to generate the query Enter the subject of the query This should be short and descriptive For example Next meeting location Subject Next meeting location Enter an introductory text specifying what the participants will grade For example Grade the following cities This text will be placed first in the query Enter the text Ead the Eallawing cities Specify whether the query should be secret anonymous Checking this box will prevent individual answers from being shown to other users Note that if you put a secret ballot into a forum to which people can go without logging in then you will not have any security against multiple replies by the same person With non secret queries the list of who replied what gives some security against such misuse Secret ballot more info Enter alternatives and value scale in the fields below Insert full HTML text for the query form Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 29 Specify Specify the different alternatives that the participants will grade For alternatives and example London Vienna value scale Click on More alternatives if you want more alternatives 1 vienna London 2 3 Fans 4 Porm 5 Badgastein 00 Fewer allernatves Value scale Specify grade values that will be presented to the participants For example bad average good Click on if you want more alternatives Liey bad OOOO P
23. he Internet to forums in KOM2000 forums Below the list of the contributions for the forum you can see the e mail address for the forum 7 PART 2 MANAGMENT QUERIES COURSES 8 Creating Forums 8 1 Start Creating Forums Locate a To create a forum you must first locate a category Categories are set up category by your KOM2000 Administrator You can always send in suggestions for new categories to your KOM2000 administrator The left column will then show for example File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 15 Create a forum within that category List of participants is described in chapter X and Query Wizard Chats and Newsgroups and Exclude myself are described in the next following chapters Click on EE to start a new forum You will then see the following form for creating new forums i Specal Propertes F C FiWriteable T Moderated C Guestbook F Genealogy The Name of a forum is the name first shown to users The Shortname is used in the e mail address for a forum preferably less than 10 characters The presentation is a short description of the forum 8 2 Special Properties of Forums When you have added a brief presentation you can choose different properties for your Forum Closed Writeable File name manual doc To create a closed forum you can either just click on EERE and click on the checkbox next to Closed A closed forum is
24. ion with each other discuss and learn from each other Because of this KOM2000 has built in facilities which can replace traditional exams Instead the teacher continuously grades the performance of the students during the whole courses and built in tools make it easy to summarize these grades KOM2000 does not compute any averages of student scores The reason for this is that grading based on averages will discourage students from simpler contribution which might pull down their averages Instead the teacher gets an overview of the student results when deciding on the final grades for the course An open course in KOM2000 is similar to a public activity and a closed course is similar to a private activity but both have additional course facilities An open course in KOM2000 is similar to a public activity and a closed course is similar to a private activity but both have additional course facilities 12 1 Graded Forums File name manual doc A teacher can specify that an educational forum is graded A graded forum works in the following way When the teacher reads contributions in the forum the teacher can submit a short one line evaluation of the contribution This evaluation is only visible for the teacher and for the author of the graded contribution If the evaluation begins with a number between and 9 this information is used to report the aggregate gradings Fill in an evaluation and then click on the button Eva
25. ions of Explorer reverse cronological order with the newest first with some versions of Explorer Do not use Explorer version 4 or older Start your Web browser and write the web address for your KOM2000 server In May 2001 DSV was running three public KOM2000 servers at A server for messaging in Swedish at the web address http KOM2000 nu A server for messaging in other languages than Swedish at the web address http sol dsv su se A server for the SALUT EU project at the web address http salut nu forum uno Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 3 Why you should log in It is possible to use some features of KOM2000 anonymously We recommend however that you always log in before using KOM2000 Log in is necessary to write messages And if you log in KOM2000 will help you by remembering what you have seen and not seen and helping you find just what is new 2 1 Registering as a New User File name manual doc If you do not yet have any account in KOM2000 you must register before logging in If the top of the web page looks like this Then if you want a new account in KOM click on Register You will then get to a web page which looks like this Register in KOM 2000 at DSW Flin the form and click on the Pegeter Dutton Eire TIP Use tha TAB Button ta jump between tha fialds Your name fo Choose a short Leela agiri id Tour ema address bt poui iif you do not specify any sddress Ect wil gma o
26. irst user Password of first user E mail address of first user When you have choosen or filled in all members or organizers either click on Add Members Add Organizers File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 19 Adding e mail addresses as members of mailing lists Exclude Member Org Changing forums Modify forum 10 Queries Note If a person has specified that he or she wants entries in mailing lists sent to them via e mail or you write their e mail address in the box at the top of the page then KOM will send a reminder to them by e mail saying that they have been added to this mailing list and giving them the login id and password needed to change this subscription If the address you write in the text field is the e mail address of a mailing list not the e mail address of a person then you probably will not want this In such a case add ml after the e mail address of each such person This will work even if the e mail address is also listed in the list lower on the page If you or someone else wrongly has written ml after an e mail address you can correct this with noml You can exclude one or more members or organisers or remove them from Open for by checking the boxes adjacent to their names and clicking on EEE You can modify the name type and description of a forum with the SEEING command and erase it with the FTN command In this area you may modify a f
27. k on the discussion in question or scroll down top see all messages Choose this command to start a query For more information about queries go to chapter 8 You can exclude yourself as member or organiser by checking the relevant box and clicking on BRERA Choose this command if you want to delete the forum you are in The ETAT command can be used to add members to closed forums You can also add people as organisers The command will actually only invite them to the forum they will not become regular members until they themselves go to the forum You can either add member s or organiser s this is chosen by the button at the bottom of the dialogue To add a new member or organiser either Fill in the e mail addresses in the text area Ae member Or ia organizer Orf Choose from the list of Registered users Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 18 ames inthe dictionary User Nemes r ae r Andromeda m r Christian Sandberg T Frederik Pileborg r Jacob Palme r Jane Doe OF Choose all members of a whole forum Forum Names E F F Alla varianter mailing list F Allm nt om Allt F Allm nt om sport F Allm nt om xtrem spe M BASE Jumping Be ed mt OF further down the dialogue import a file of addresses File with list of users PO Bree e The file must have the following format with a dot between users Full name of the first user Login name of f
28. luation 5 Wot quite right but not quite false either Add Grades Students can see when looking at their own messages how they have been graded by the teacher Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 35 The teacher can give the command Grade overview to see a listing of all the gradings of all the students in a graded forum If the gradings Started with a number this is summarised for the teacher The teacher can then use this information to submit an aggregate grading for all contributions by this student in this forum Students can also give the command Grade overview but will then only see their own gradings Here is an example how the Grade overview can look like for all the contributions of one student to a graded forum Grade Subject oA very Good answer Kiruna g Correct again you will pass this course Manchester E Quite correct you are a clever boy London 5 Not quite right but not quite false either Buenos Aires Grade Missing 1 23 14 5 6718 9 aar L T it of entries A variant of graded forums is under development called Rated forums With Rated forums all the students in the course can rate the quality of each other s contributions This saves time for the teacher compared to graded forums File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 36 13 Index Access control closed forums 16 Account registration of 4 Administration of forums 17 Anonymous contributions 13 An
29. nual doc Prepare your picture in one of the standard web formats for pictures usually GIF or JPEG Write your message up to the place where you want the picture inserted Push the Preview Modify button Scroll down to r Add a Picture Click on Browse to locate the image as a file on your computer or tyoe in the file path in the box here Browse Push the button and select the file with the image Write your message Push the button Scroll down to rA Add an Attachment Click on Browse to locate the fille on your computer or type in the file path in the box here Browse Short description of the attachment r SSS Si it Preview Cancel Push the button and select the file with the attachment If you want to add more than one attachment push the button between adding the attachments The basis of fancy messages is HTML the format used for formatting and putting pictures into web pages Three methods of producing HTML messages 1 If you know HTML you can put HTML tags into the text you write for example you type This is lt b gt very lt b gt important which will be shown to recipients as This is very important 2 Use an HTML editor like Frontpage Golive or Dreamweaver cut the HTML from the editor and paste it into the message you are writing Do not include the lt HEAD gt section and lt HEAD gt lt BODY gt or lt FORMS tags into the text you copy and pas
30. only open to people who have been added as members by the organiser of the forum Closed forums are managed by their organisers A writeable forum is a forum to which also non members can send contributions A closed writeable forum can be used to collect information from people or for a help desk function Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 16 Moderated Rated Dice Mailing List Guestbook Newsgroup A moderated forum is a forum where only the moderator s can write Contributions by other members must be approved by the moderators before they are shown to other members When the moderator s goes to their News pages they will see the new not yet accepted contributions listed there It is therefore important that moderators regularly goes to the News page and checks for new contributions In a Rated Forum participants are encouraged to evaluate messages in a discussion The organiser can either choose to 5 predefined settings for the evaluations or let the reader write a brief comment in free text User can rate the quality of messages on a 1 5 scale average rating is shown when reading in forums Those members of the forum who so prefer can get the full text of contributions to the forum sent to them via e mail The forum will thus as seen from e mail look like a mailing list Forum where anonymous contributions by people not logged in are allowed Forum wich is connected to a Usenet News Newsgroup
31. orum The name of a forum is the name first shown to users The shortname is used in the e mail address for a Chat It should thus not contain spaces or special characters best is to only use the letters a z and digits If you do not put a name here a short name will be constructed from the full name You may also change the Special properties of a forum such as being open for anyone or Closed for members only 10 1 An Introduction to the KOM2000 Query Wizard Open queries and secret ballots Password protected queries File name manual doc For non secret queries the results show by name how each respondent has responded For secret anonymous ballots the information about who answered in what way is not shown to anyone Only people who know the password of the query can responds Since the password is the same for all respondents this does not give high security The advantage is that you can restrict the right to respond without having to enumerate all respondents Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 20 Queries in closed forums Query format You have to list the e mail address of all the respondents Each of them will get a personal message with a personal login id and password This gives the highest security but requires you to list the e mail addresses of all the respondents There is built in support for evaluation queries queries where respondents evaluate a number of alternatives on a very bad to
32. presenta tion of yourself Change your registration Date Mon 28 May 2001 11 01 42 0200 From KOM 2000 at DSV lt gt To jpalme dsv su se Subject News from KOM 2000 at DSV for Jacob Palme Forum Discussions By Date Entry London group Reburbishing our office John Doe 27 May 2001 9 9 Office is closed Mary Moe 27 May 2001 1 1 Madrid group Do we need a new coffee maker Mary Moe 27 May 2001 1 1 The underlined text below are hyperlinks which you can click to get from e mail to the forum or the message listed The default language used by the user interface when you connect to this KOM2000 server If you have a personal home page on the web you can write its address here You can if you so wish write a few words about yourself here When all this is done push the Register button If at a later time you want to change the information registered about yourself then use the command ESRF in the Private folder 2 2 Logging in If you already have registered you can log in as follows If the mee of the web o page looks like this Then first click on Login and then fill in the form with your name and password It is best to use your shortname but if you have forgotten your shortname your long name may also work 3 Navigation finding your way Top menu bar File name manual doc After cha have o in the top of the page will show The five buttons allow you to select five
33. rald Cuck Parr Frere Se ee N tLe a la a in andl fi 7 E Simple yes no abstain anonymous query result Have you ever led Yes 3 No Abstain 4 Anonymous evaluation query result File name manual doc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 31 Whatdo you think the british goverment should have done with Pinochet were bad Bad 4ooptsbe Good Ye jood Abstain 1 _ i Aly 11 Format of Query Questions 11 1 Hints on Producing HTML for a Query Form This help text describes how to format almost arbitrary HTML forms for use in KOM2000 Produce the query in HTML format You can use HTML editors like Dreamweaver Netscape Communicator Adobe Golive or Microsoft Frontpage to do this You will get the best results if you put the query in a table with every form artifact text field radio button check box etc in a separate table cell Preferably make the table cells with unspecified WIDTH Example of a well formed query Did you go to the lectures Yes No Did you perform the work task Yes No What is your name Limit to Country Any T a Put each interactive element is in a separate table cell b Put the descriptive text like Yes and No in the example above before the form interactive element like the radio buttons in the example above within each table cell c Ensure that the properties of all form objects are distinct For example two radio buttons can only share a
34. res bo yous Chota amp pHi aeri kapeat the passeard G Male J Female J fant malling list contritutions via mai E I want a nawslattar by a mali owt a day F Command Language Eregiish all langi pes are f Peramal homepage mot re prei hipi Hho gemin of yourself Fill in this web page as follows Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 4 Your name Choose a short unique login in Your e mail address Choose a password Repeat the password I want a news letter by e mail File name manual doc Write your name the way you would normally write it If many other people have the same name include enough to make it unlikely that someone else has the same name For example John Smith might be changed to John T Smith or John Smith Nottingham and Maria Andersen might be changed to Maria Anderson Partosch Jr or Maria Anderson Saab Here you should choose a short version of your name which you will use in the future when logging in This name is called shortname If you want e mail sent to your KOM2000 account this shortname will also be the beginning of your e mail address The name should not contain blank space or national or special characters like A A O or Examples If your name is John P Smith then your shortname might be jpsmith or johnps gt If you already have an e mail address and want your e mail sent to this addre
35. ss then write it here If you want to receive your e mail in KOM2000 then leave this field empty KOM2000 will then assign an e mail address to you The e mail address assigned by KOM2000 will for the KOM2000 server in Swedish at DSV be your shortname followed by kom2000 nu and will for the non Swedish KOM2000 server at DSV be your shortname followed by sol dsv su se The password is used when you log in in the future to stop other people from logging in to your account Choose something easy to remember for yourself but not easy to guess for other people Passwords which are not normal words are less easy to guess Examples of good passwords 2bonn or bludog Examples of bad passwords mary or hello or XX Since the password is not shown when you type it for security reasons you are instead asked to write the same password once more This is only for those who read their e mail in another system than KOM2000 By checking this box you will get a single message once a day or more seldom if you so prefer from KOM2000 This e mail will contain a list of new contributions in KOM2000 since the previous similar message You need only click on the link in such an e mail to read the new contributions in KOM2000 Here is an example of how such a new notification may look like when you get it by e mail Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 5 Command Language Personal homepage Short
36. st of all threads in the forum and for each thread indicate how many contributions have been read by each member of the forum in that thread Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 8 4 2 Rapidly Reading what is New Finding news Scanning new items When you regularly use KOM2000 you will push the News button in the top row to find forums with news This is faster than finding forums through the Forum amp Chat area The News area contains a list of all you have not yet seen in the following order 1 Personal message to you 2 Messages which you have started writing but not sent in 3 Messages to moderated forum if you are the moderator 4 New messages in forums which you have bookmarked 5 New forums If there are many conversations threads with unseen messages in a forum you can rapidly skip to the next thread with unseen messages by using the command PEE 4 3 Writing Contributions to Forums Writing messages which are not replies File name manual doc Depending on the configuration of KOM2000 you may have to login before writing messages To check if you are logged in click on the refresh reload button in your web browser Explorer and Netscape and then look at the bottom left hand corner of the screen If you are not logged in click on the login command in the upper right hand corner of the KOM window A message in a forum can either start a new discussion or be a reply to an existing discussion
37. swer See also Reply Answer to a previous message 10 Answering queries 31 Areas main 6 Attachments 11 Balloting See Queries Bookmarks finding your 7 Categories 8 Change forum 20 Changie forums 20 21 Chats 12 multi line input 13 Closed forum 16 Commands See also Menu in chats 13 Conference finding your 7 Conferences See forums creating See Forums entering 8 finding all 7 reading in 8 reading news in 9 Contributions reading 8 reading new 9 writing 9 Conversations list of in forum 8 9 Courses 35 Creating Forums 15 Creating queries 26 Default language in user interface 6 Delete forum 20 Diagrams in messages 11 Dice 17 Discussion new starting of 9 Discussions list of in a forum 8 9 File name manual doc Distance Education Features 35 Dropbox 16 Education 35 Educational forum 35 E mail newsletter by 5 newsletters 5 receiving 14 to forums 15 writing 14 E mail address finding 15 for a forum 15 of a forum 16 of users 5 your 5 E mail mailing list adding members to 20 Entering a new forum 8 contributions 9 into KOM 2000 6 Erase forum 20 Evaluation queries 28 Explorer use in chats 13 File attachments 11 Finding members of a forum 8 navigating 6 news and unseen 9 your e mail address 15 First time user registration 4 Folders See forums Forum adding members to 18 closed 16 erasing 20 mailing list
38. te 3 For adding pictures and attachments use the features of KOM2000 described above Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 11 Telling KOM When you write a message you see the following KOM window that your message is in Subject Message in HTML format Submit HTML format Enter the text Plain Text Smart HTML This Is sh yeryeib gt important a HTML Means that KOM will always assume that your text is in HTML format This means that line breaks in what you type will not become line breaks when read For example This is the first line This is the second line Will be shown to readers as This is the first line This is the second line If you want line breaks you have to use lt BR gt or lt P gt HTML tags Plain Text KOM will not interpret HTML tags at all If you type lt FONT colour red gt this will be shown to recipients they way you type it KOM will also preserve your line breaks in what it shows to readers of your messages Smart KOM will guess whether your text is in HTML or plain text format by looking for HTML features in what you type 5 Chats What is a chat A chat is a special kind of forum suited for same time communication In a chat the window is split into two frames an output area above and an input area below Christian Sandberg Ho be i out at the minai bot dandi be back afer Dench Christian Sandherge Fa there Dane Hasmus Evensen Aight Fave you spoker to MEVE
39. tter to send to respondents is shown You can choose to have KOM2000 send this letter as 1s modify it or notify respondents in some other way For a query of type 1 or 3 the respondents can be mailing lists for a query of type 2 the respondents must be the members of the forum as specified in step 2 You can send this message to a mailing list unless the query requires a personal password for each recipient then each of them will get a personal invitation e mail with his login id and password 10 9 Using the Start Query Command to Create a Query File name manual doc An alternative to the Query Wizard is to start the query using the KOM2000 Start Query command That command will only create a query not create a respondent group or notify respondents Hence this command is only accessible from a specific forum who has defined members who will automatically will be notified when the query is published First you have to Log in or register on a KOM2000 server When you have logged in click on Forum amp Chat and choose a category Choose a forum in the category where you would like to place your query Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 26 When you have chosen a forum click on BERITE on the left hand side of the screen This will take you to the following screen Start Query Subject Loo Anonymous ballot F Either 1 Paste te bile for the om or i info or 3 Just ea ge ch lain ext uestion fo Create ayes
40. what they think about different cities London average Vienna above average etc Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 23 Either File name manual doc Fill in the form below and then click to generate the query Enter the subject of the query This should be short and descriptive Subject Ned meeting location Submit Enter an introductory text specifying what the participants will grade This text will be placed first in the query Th what City would you like t peert WS PEKE Cine Specify whether the query should be anonymous Checking this box will prevent individual answers from being shown to other users Note that if you put a secret ballot into a forum to which people can go without logging in then you will not have any security against multiple replies by the same person With open queries the list of who replied what gives some security against such misuse Secret ballot more info 1 Enter alternatives and value scale in the fields below or 2 insert full HTML text for the query form Specify alternatives and value scale Specify the different alternatives that the participants will grade For example Vienna London Paris Click on More alternatives if you want more alternatives ion More alemetives Fewer altemeatves Cal Fj a E J Last change 01 06 06 14 01 Page 24 Value scale Specify grade values that will be presented to the participants For example Very
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