Logging In
Each classroom has a generic username for
students and a generic username for instructors.
The usernames and passwords will be emailed
to you before the start of the semester.
If you do not receive the email, contact
CAS Computing by emailing cascomp@albany.edu
or call 442-2651. If you have a UAlbany
account, you can log in with that instead
of the generic username. Just be sure to
log out before you leave the classroom.
Logging in with the student ID or instructor
ID will map the T drive. There is an icon
in the applications folder called Classroom
Folders that will take you to the T drive.
The T drive has a folder for each class.
The folders are named by the course title
and call number. Please use the correct
folder for your class. In each folder there
is a student folder and an instructor folder.
If you log on with the instructor username
or your own UAlbany account, you will have
read/write access to both of the folders.
Students who log on have read access to
the instructor folder and read/write access
to the student folders.
If you have a UAlbany account, the appropriate
T drive for the classroom that you teach
in will be added to your login script. This
means that when you log on to your computer
in your office, the T drive will be mapped
and available for you to use to prepare
for your classes. Please do not save any
confidential information here.
Please be aware that all instructors have
read/write access to all class folders and
all students have read/write access to all
student folders. Make sure that you have
backups of all files that you put in these
folders and make sure that your students
do the same. We haven’t had trouble in the
past but there is no guarantee that your
files will be there from class to class.
The same goes for the hard drives on the
computers. If a computer has software problems,
the computer is reformatted and the software
reinstalled. Any files that were not on
the original installation will no longer
be on the computer. All of the computers
have floppy drives and some have Zip drives
for saving files. USB flash drives can also
be used.
All files on the T drives will be deleted
soon after the end of the semester. Please
make sure that you and your students save
copies if necessary.
