Faculty Guide to using Iode in Math 385/386

• Day 1 - Create EWS accounts for non-Engineering students in your Iode classes, as follows:
  • Log into TATools.
  • Open a different tab on your browser and obtain your online class list detail (through Banner).
  • Go down the class list to see which students are not in the Engineering College.
  • For each non-Engineering student, click on the "email" icon (on the right) to get the student's Net ID, and then enter the Net ID into TATools to create their account.
  • Remind all students in your class that they need to know their "Active Directory (AD)" password, in order to use the EWS system. They can set it or re-set it at the CITES passwords page. It may take up to an hour before the new password works at the EWS labs.
  Note we do not need to send passwords to students, or re-set their passwords, because students can re-set the Active Directory password themselves.
• Day 1 - Reserve suitable EWS lab/s for Day 4 (Iode Lab 1). Note the DCL Linux and Sun labs are adjacent, and so these are good choices if you have more than 40 students in your class. I discourage students from sharing a computer, because in my experience they learn a lot better if they are sitting at the computer doing the work themselves, rather than watching another student do it.
• Day 2 - Announce to your class both in person and by email that all students should go directly to the computer labs on Day 4.
• Day 3 - Print and distribute copies of the First day guide for students, telling them how to set their Active Directory password and get Iode installed and running at EWS. Students must know their Active Directory password before the first day in the lab. If possible, they should also install Iode before the lab day, so that the lab goes more smoothly. possible.
• Day 4 - Print sufficient copies of Lab 1 (from the "Course Materials" link on the Iode website), and give them out at the lab on Day 4. Encourage students to start working on Project 1 after they finish working through Lab 1. Project 1 is available on the Iode website and should be assigned as homework.
• Day 4 - Reserve suitable EWS lab/s for office hours, leading up to the Project 1 due date.
• Day 5 - Reserve suitable EWS lab/s for Day 9 (Iode Lab 2).
• Day 9 - Print sufficient copies of Lab 2 (from the "Course Materials" link on the Iode website), and give them out at the lab on Day 9. Encourage students to start working on Project 2 after they finish working through Lab 2. (I find Lab 2 only takes about 40 minutes, for most students.) Project 2 is available on the Iode website and should be assigned as homework.
  During the lab, I encourage students to take their time, and write observations as they work through the lab. I challenge them to write a description of the Euler method in their own words, before leaving the lab.
• Day 9 - Reserve suitable EWS lab/s for office hours, leading up to the Project 2 due date.
• To be continued...