New Academic Year - Important Information

When you log in, you should find your courses for the upcoming semester in the drop-down menu under your name. If you do not see the courses you are teaching please email classes@yale.edu with the following information:

• Your NetID
• Course Number
• Course Name

We will create the course for you within one working day.

Accessing files created in previous years

When you log in, there is a drop-down menu under your name. You'll find a list of courses from previous semesters. Select one of those courses and in the lower left portion of the screen you'll a red box with the semester you are viewing and the option to copy to the current year. It will look like the image below (with different years).

Click the link to "Copy to xx-xx course" and follow the directions. It will take only a few minutes to "promote" a web site or set of materials to the current semester.

Hint: If you plan to use most of the files from a previous year, simply copy them all and delete those you don't need. Any new files you may have created recently can be uploaded in the usual way. If you upload, for example, a new index.html file it will overwrite the old one.

URLs for web pages and materials from previous years

Your web pages and materials will be kept on the server indefinitely. To define a URL for these pages, please be aware of the following (using hist123a as an example)

The URL for your webpage in the current year is http://classes.yale.edu/hist123a

For classes from previous years the academic year must be included in the URL. For example:

The URL for hist123a in the 1999/2000 year is

http://classes.yale.edu/99-00/hist123a

The URL for a file called dickens.html in the Materials section of that year would be
http://classes.yale.edu/99-00/materials/hist123a/dickens.html

(For classes from the 1998/1999 academic year "99-00" would be replaced by "98-99")

HINT: if you wish to publish a "permanent" URL for a course in the current academic year simply add the year to the URL, e.g. for the 2000-2001 year your URL would be http://classes.yale.edu/00-01/hist123a. This information is especially useful if this URL will appear in a printed publication which may be published after the current academic year is over.