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As a faculty at Cal Poly Pomona I've enjoyed access to Intranet services although sometimes things have taken help and time to figure out. My goal for these pages is to be of assistance to peer colleagues. Please feel free to call on me for help at any time.

Setting Permissions on Cal Poly Pomona Intranet Files - The Cal Poly Intranet is an ingenious invention allowing security and features not widely available on the Internet. User instructions for establishing and maintaining accounts are available through the Intranet Users Guide. This particular commentary aims to provide guidance to new users of the system. Tips and hints here are relevant to student and faculty users establishing new accounts.. The clear and specific advice for those interested in providing advanced CGI resources may be particularly helpful.

The Colors of Cal Poly Pomona - resources for web authors wanting to adopt university standards regarding graphics, and in particular the harmonious definition of colors and shades featured in print publications and on offical Cal Poly Pomnona pages.

Forum Software - Craig Rich has made it very easy for faculty to install the WWWboard in their home directories for class conferencing. This has been used extensively by many faculty. Kenny Gardner of Gap Development has developed a version of HyperBBS tailored for our Intranet. This option has many features which faculty may want to explore. Faculty can quickly develop multiple forums and access them directly and uniquely through links from other site pages. All graphics and presentation are customizable. Code is available for non-commercial purposes to any faculty member who chooses to use it. The link to the left will take you to an inventory of current forums.

Pier Beatrizotti's Brain Test - As a senior project, this student developed a fine example of on-line assessment test where page viewers receive immediate score processing and are directed to self-learning material. Here javascript requiring capable browsers is integrated with database server storage of results for research analysis.

Non-HTML Student Pages - I've found a CGI script which is very flexible in providing students an opportunity to complete forms and produce home pages or shared assignments. All pages reside in a searchable database rather than having unique URL addresses. Students may edit and revise their pages at any time without any knowledge of HTML.I'm not currently using this cgi, but if you're interested, please contact me.

CGIemail Forms - Web developers often want to use forms where student inputs can be saved to a database and later downloaded for analysis and research or data processing. Several cgi solutions exist for such purposes. CGIemail is one of the most standard such applications and this version has been tailored for use with Cal Poly Pomona intranet permission standards. In addition to parsing and storing form data, this cgi is flexible in a variey of emailing and forwarding options for redirecting form users. It's yours for free, and I'd be happy to help you set it up at CPP.