ATTIC

ATTIC is Drew's integrated system for course information and collaboration. ATTIC provides preconfigured resources for every resource offered at Drew, with user's assignments to those resources tracking registration data accurately. ATTIC was designed by Academic Technology in 1998, is maintained by Computing and Network Services, and is supported by Instructional Technology Services.

ATTIC services include:

Mailing Lists @ courses.drew.edu

Format: DEPT-NUM-SEC@courses.drew.edu
Example: ANTH-4-001@courses.drew.edu

Mailing lists are, by default, created for private group discussion between students and faculty in these courses and automatically configured with nightly data from course rosters. Please note that the CampusWeb link to email a course does not send email to the ATTIC course mailing list.

Default settings for these lists allow registered members to send and receive messages. Course discussions remain private to the group. For private correspondence between faculty and an individual student, use individual email addresses, not the course mailing list.

Mailing lists are archived automatically as web-based archives available in the maillist subdirectory under the course WWW directory. By default, this directory is protected so that only people in the course can access it, thus insuring privacy of course discussions.

A Web-based archive of all messages is available in the course's www folder, in a subfolder named maillist. This file can be accessed in Netscape via the network

Format: k:\courseno\www\maillist\index.html
Example: k:\math-3-001\www\maillist\index.html

or the Web:

Format: http://www.courses.drew.edu/courseno/maillist/
Example: http://www.courses.drew.edu/math-3-001/maillist/

Network Drive K

All students and faculty connected to the network have a drive K. Off campus access to the K: Drive is available through webfiles and ftpfiles.

Your K: drive consists of one directory for each course you take or teach that semester. All assignments are based upon automated nightly updates from registration data. Other students and faculty not assigned to a course will not have access to the course unless it is deliberately assigned by the faculty member teaching that course. Features of the K: drive include, but are not limited to:

• Course web pages: A www directory in the K: drive is enabled for faculty to create web pages for courses. Faculty can also use the space to create collaborative webpages edited by all students in their course. Course web pages are automatically indexed with descriptions, showing a comprehensive view of online courses across the University.
• Online reserves: Faculty, under fair use provisions, can put electronic copies of reserve readings in the reserve folder on the K: drive. Students can either read these on line or print them out for their own use. For information on scanning in reserve items, please call the Faculty Lab.
• Electronic assignment hand-in and return: ATTIC creates ToFaculty and FromFaculty folders for each student in a class, that are set up like electronic dropboxes. When a student turns in an assignment, it's like slipping it under an office door. Faculty can, if they wish, grade assignments online, and returned graded and commented copies in subdirectories set aside for each student.
• Additional directories: Faculty can also create additional work or document directories in their K: drive space as they see fit, and control access to students, to create collaborative work spaces if necessary.
• Mailing lists: ATTIC mailing list archives are stored in a folder within your K: drive. By default, this directory is protected so that only people in the course can access it,thus insuring privacy of course discussions. Please note that the CampusWeb link to email a course does not send email to the ATTIC course mailing list.

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New and Future Services

Continued work is being done on our web-based forms management project and Real Audio/Video services. We expect to be announcing more details about these this semester.

ATTIC only exists because of comments from faculty and students about how they use it and what features they would like. It is our goal to continually enhance ATTIC and make it be what faculty and students need to enable teaching and learning. We are extremely thankful for all the feedback and enhancement requests we have received, and the hard work faculty and students have done to make ATTIC successful. If you have any ideas for additional features, please email cns@drew.edu, or stop by the Faculty Lab.