If you are accessing WebCT from your office or from another college or public library, you may run into problems with their specific network. If you have difficulty logging into your course, contact your information technology office at work or the information technology officer at the public library or other college and discuss the issue with them.

The help link in WebCT is context-sensitive, i.e. the content of the help is based on what you are currently viewing and using in WebCT. For instance, if you are using the discussion tool, the help link will show topics on the discussion tool. From the Menu Bar, click Help. A help topic appears that is related to the part of WebCT you are using.

a rule you ought to work with the 0.1 inch grid (which is the same as 100mil or 2.54mm) in the schematic. All the Symbols in the default libraries use the default grid setting. The net must end exactly on the pin's connection point (visible in the Pins layer) in order to get a connection. The slightest difference here and there won't be a connection.

A common mistake when starting the client is to give the wrong server host name. The last synergyc command line option (Unix) or the "Server Host Name" edit field (Windows) should be the host name (or IP address) of the server not the client's host name.

It is possible that you have additional security set on your home computer. There is a “Check Browser” link on the WebCT entry page which should help you access WebCT. If you are still unable to access WebCT, please contact the Service Desk.

If you have a computer, an Internet connection from home, and a Web browser, you can access your WebCT class. We recommend that you use Netscape Navigator 4.5 or higher, or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher for best results.

WebCT is the course management system used to deliver course content. It is an intuitive program allowing those students with minimal computer experience to participate in on-line learning. For more information on WebCT, please visit: http://www.webct.com or http://webct.uga.edu. During the Program Orientation, the Regulatory Affairs office provides training and instructions on WebCT to those students without experience.

Yes, especially if you are required to submit assignments by WebCT's Mail or Discussion features, you should always create the documents offline. This will ensure that you don't lose your work if the network experiences technical problems. Create the documents using your own word processor and save the document to your hard drive. You may either attach your document to a mail or discussion message, or copy your document and then paste it into your mail or discussion message.

Some firewalls may have to be disabled temporarily to give us access. If we still cannot connect, the problems on your computer may be so severe that it requires that a technician have physical access to it. In this case you will not be charged.

NWACC has provided online tutorial documents for logging into WebCT. There are tutorials in both HTML and PDF format:

If you have everything set up right on the remote computer, and you are sure you wrote down the correct IP address, you need to check and see if you have any firewall software or network hardware between your home computer and the Internet. If you do, you need to configure it to allow port 3389 to pass through.

After adding a message, you must always click on the "Update listing" button so that you can view the new message.

The LG5350 and Sanyo 6400 are reported to have serial port circuitry. The other Vision phones only support a USB connection, so they cannot connect to a PDA's serial connection. Despite the fact that USB stands for "Universal Serial Bus," the USB standard is quite different from a serial connection. The critical distinction for the cell phone situation is that USB requires both a host (aka a "root hub") and one or more clients.

Remember, SOCKS support in SpoonProxy expires after 30 days and ICQ relies on SOCKS. So first make sure you are using either a non-expired demo, or that you have registered SpoonProxy or ICQ will not work. times out of 10, problems with ICQ are due to an invalid DNS configuration. Verify that DNS is mapped properly by attempting to ping something like www.microsoft.com from one of your client machines. It will time out, but it should resolve to an IP address.

k compatible modems do thousands of line checks to determine the maximum speed that your connection to your local phone company will allow. Due to FCC regulations, standard phone lines are limited to a maximum speed of 53kbps -- but most phone lines are not even able to allow connections at that speed. Most typically, 56k users will see speeds in the high 30's and low 40's, depending entirely on the quality of their phone lines.

WebCT is a web-based, interactive, e-learning system used by NMSU. It enables instructors to integrate the Internet into course delivery. More information about using and troubleshooting WebCT is available on our WebCT Basics page.