Organisation and structure of the CMR

Directory Structure

The CMR is organised by department, then by module code:

• Each department or centre is represented by a folder named with a two letter code, so for example the Department of Law is LW.
• Within each of these folders, each module hosted in the CMR will be allocated a folder, on request. This gives a typical URL of something like http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lw/lw101/
• There are a few extra folders at each level which contain support materials, etc.

When accessing a course with either FrontPage or as a drag and drop shared drive, within each module folder:

• You will see a number of existing sub-folders:
  • Any folders that begin with an underscore character (eg _private) have been automatically generated when the web space was created. You should ignore these folders
  • A folder called images is automatically generated - if you are using FrontPage you may choose to organise your files by putting all image files into this folder.
  • A folder called restricted will be provided. By default, access to this folder is limited to members of the university, so that anything placed in this folder will only be accessible from the University network; other options for restricting access are available. For more information see Copyright issues and restricting access (campus only).
  • You should not delete these folders, however you may delete any files you save within them.
• You will see a default homepage with the filename of default.asp (or default.aspx). If you are using drag and drop publishing, then you should not delete this file, it is responsible for displaying a list of your files on the web. If you are using FrontPage publishing, then default.asp, default.html, or index.html are all valid default page names.

Further options

On request, we can add a folder called 'shared' at the top level for each module-code area, eg courses.essex.ac.uk/wa/shared  

Editing rights to this area can be assigned to all staff in a department or to selected individuals and it can be used for files shared between several courses such as reading lists, administrative information for students, stylesheets, etc.

Keeping things up to date

Each department should have a CMR Administrator, normally the Departmental Administrator or Computer Officer. Please keep them informed about your use of the CMR. In particular, let them know when you wish the CMR to include links to your materials and if, at a later date, you wish the links to be removed, either permanently or temporarily.