- Q. Do I need to enter anything else as a new user?
A. Yes, you can add the following by clicking on your name to go to your Personal Information Page:
- email address
- home page URL
- telephone number
- short description of yourself
(You can go into your Personal Information Page at any time and make changes. You have other options that you might want to change, including the size of your text box - and you can upload a picture of yourself)
- Q. I had trouble getting in to CAUCUS. I received the error message: Authorization Failed - Retry? What did I do wrong?
A. Make sure your 'caps lock' key is off. Your username and password should be in lower-case, not capital letters. Use your tab key or mouse to go to the password box (pressing the enter/return key will give you an error message). Use your username - not your entire email address.
- Q. How do I find new conferences and subscribe?
A. Click on the 'list of conferences' button - join conference by clicking on the conference, or type in the name of the conference in the box, and press the 'join' button.
- Q. HOW do you go to the END OF ALL ENTRIES TO GET TO EDIT BOX?
A. When you see a list of items, click under the "last" column. That takes you directly to the last response in an item. Or you can click on "new" and just read the new messages.
- Q. I just joined a topic - now I decided I don't want to read any more messages in this topic - what do I do?
A. Look at the bottom of the screen - you can click on the 'ignore' or 'forget' button. This will let you read all the other items, but will ignore this particular item.
- Q. How do I use the HTML feature?
A. When you are entering text, you will see a box with word-wrapped. Pull down on it and you will see the HTML feature. If you just want to put a link to another home page, just type in the URL. It will automatically be underlined and you can click on it to link. You can use the HTML feature to add a heading to your message, use the list UL command, etc. All the HTML features are available. You can also include graphics in your messages.
- Q. I need to add something to my response - how can I do this?
A. On the right side of the screen you will see the 'edit' button. You have the option of changing your response.
- Q. I joined a conference, now I want out of it, what do I do?
A. You can remove it from your personal conference list - you will not see responses from the conference. You can manage your personal conference list by clicking on the edit button, add or remove conferences from your list. There is also a 'resign' button that will remove you from the conference member list.
- Q. How do I change my password?
A. Click on your name to enter your Personal Information page, then follow directions. (You will also be changing your u.arizona.edu password too - so you will have one userid and password to remember)
- Q. I want to start a new conference. - what do I do?
A. Click on the 'start a new conference' button that is at the bottom of the CAUCUS CENTER homepage. You can access all the documentation needed to become an Organizer.
- Q. What other features are available in CAUCUS?
A. Caucus allows much more than just text in your items or responses. In fact, anything whatever that can be on a Web page can be in a Caucus item or response:
- photographs and other graphic images
- HTML text or an HTML page
- a video or audio clip
- an animation
- a Java applet
- a live link to someplace on the Web
- a live link to another location in Caucus
- a live link to download a file
and much more. Because Caucus is completely Web-compatible, you can have multi-media conversations.
- Q. How can I do some of the 'fancy' features in CAUCUS?
A. Here are some simple things you can try:
- A Live URL: If you want to put a live link into Caucus - to any location on the Web - just type (or cut and paste) the URL into your item or response text box. Caucus does the rest. People reading your item or response can just click right on the URL and go where you send them.
- A link to another place in Caucus: just type http:/caucus into your item or response. Someone clicking on that Caucus URL (notice 1 slash - / - in place of the usual two slashes - //) will go right to the Caucus Center.
- Or, for another example, http:/caucus/big_meeting/7:32 will take someone who clicks on it to Item 7, response 32 of a conference called "Big Meeting."
- A File: Sharing information is a great use of Caucus. Simply upload a file into your item or response, then post it just as you usually would.
- HTML: It's a lot easier than you might think. You can learn the HTML "tags" to create centered, bold, italic, colorful, large or small, bulleted, indented, or other text styles very quickly. (free classes are available at the Main Library)
- Q. How can I read just new messages in my conferences without having to go back to the CAUCUS page. I want it to act more like CoSy - where I could just press the return key to read new messages?
A. You can click on the 'read all new discussion' button on the CAUCUS page - when finished with a message, click the 'pass' button to go to the next unread 'new' message.
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