CFADW Assignment 1

CONCEPTS FOR A DIGITAL WORLD

ASSIGNMENT 1

Setup of Your own CFADW Course Website and Email Account

Due by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, January 16, 2008

This assignment will be evaluated as 10% of your final mark.

Late or un-submitted assignments will receive a grade of zero.

Read the following information thoroughly before beginning this assignment and complete each step in consecutive order.

This assignment must be completed in order to be able to do further course assignments.

All parts of this assignment must be completed by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, January 16, 2008.

This assignment will be evaluated as 10% of your final mark.
Late or un-submitted assignments will receive a grade of zero.

There are multiple parts to this assignment, complete them in sequential order.

After this assignment’s submission deadline, email to the Concepts For a Digital World (CFADW) course email account will only be accepted from the Yahoo.ca email account you establish in this assignment, all email from other sources are not read and are discarded.

It is a lot easier to complete this assignment if you follow the instructions from a printed copy. Complete the assignment sequentially, step-by-step, pay close attention to the instructions and, as you do them, put a checkmark next to each completed step.

Marks will be deducted for errors/incompleteness/not completing this assignment as required.

Some of the things you will lose marks for are: Incorrect website and/or email account name; Missing information; Incomplete information; Inaccurate Information; Erroneous information but not for erroneous information you are specifically directed to use to set up your own CFADW course website and email account; Not using your own name and/or student number; Unanswered questions; Incompletely answered questions; Inadequately/poorly answered questions; Spelling errors; Grammar errors; Formatting errors; Incorrect email subject line.

Some of the information you will be asked to enter such as postal code, birth date, etc., is not your own in order to avoid giving out personally identifying information which could be used by hackers for identity theft.

Because Yahoo makes changes, some of the details or responses you receive while completing this assignment may have changed since these instructions were developed; it is your responsibility to accommodate those changes to successfully complete the assignment.

DO NOT SEND ANY EMAIL WITH ATTACHMENTS. ANY EMAIL RECEIVED WITH ATTACHMENTS WILL NOT BE VIEWED AND WILL BE DELETED and IF THE ASSIGNMENT IS NOT RE-SUBMTTED WITHOUT ATTACHMENT(S) BY THE ASSIGNMENT’S DEADLINE IT WILL RESULT IN A GRADE OF ZERO FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.

PART 1:

When you have completed Part 1, you will have established a Yahoo! Geocities website address and created a home page (index.html) and, during the process of establishing your course website, an associated yahoo.ca email account will be automatically created for you.

For example, if your last name is Chan and your student number is 100234567, your Geocities website address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 and your Yahoo! email address will be in the following format: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca.

To view an example of what your website will look like when you have completed it, in your web browser, enter: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567

(1) Enter the Yahoo! Geocities web site’s address/URL directly into your web browser’s address field: http://ca.oocities.com

(A new web page will appear.)

(2) At the bottom right of the rectangular box, below where it states “Don’t have a Yahoo ID?”, Click on: Sign UP

(This will cause the Yahoo! Geocities Sign-up web page to appear. The next step is extremely important!)

(3.1) At the right side of the web page, near the top, change “I prefer content from” to: Yahoo! Canada

(The web page should change to “Yahoo! Canada” at the top left of the page. )

(3.2) Enter: Your own First name

(3.3) Enter: Your own Last name

(3.4) Enter Your Gender

(3.5) For Birthday, use: January 01, 1950 (This is easy to remember and is not your real birthday)

(3.6) For Zip/Postal code, use: M5R1M3 (This is one of the College’s postal codes.)

(3.7) Enter a Yahoo! ID with the following format: Lastname_Studentnumber

(Substitute your own last name for “Lastname” and your own student number for “Studentnumber”.

(3.8) Enter a password which is easily remembered and, for good security, is at least 6 letters and numbers long. Don’t forget this password!

(3.9) Enter an alternate email which you use.

(3.10) Select a security question and enter the answer. Don’t forget the answer!

(3.11) Next to “Marketing Preferences”, click on the check mark to uncheck the checkbox.

(The check box should be empty.)

(3.12) Enter the code shown.

(3.13) Next to “Do you agree?” click on the empty box so that a checkmark appears.

(The check box should now have a check mark in it.)

(3.14) Click on: Create My Account.

(A new web page will appear)

(4) Click on: Continue

(A new web page titled “YAHOO! GeoCities Canada” will appear)

(5) Click on: Start Building Now

(This will cause the “Sign up for your Home Page”, “Choose a Topic” web page to appear.)

(6.1) Choose: Computers & Internet

(6.2) Enter the code shown.

(6.3) Click on: Submit This Form

(This will cause the “Congratulations” web page to appear.)

(7.1) Print and/or write down your: Yahoo! ID; Alternate Email Address; Home Page URL.

(You should have an ID in the following format: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca

And a website home page URL in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber

For example, if your last name is Chan and your student number is 100234567, Your Yahoo! ID (which is also your Yahoo email address) will be in the following format: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca and your Geocities website address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 )

(7.2) Click on: Build your page now!

(This will cause your Yahoo! Geocities web site account page to appear. Your website is now open for adding, editing, and deleting web pages and web page content.)

(8) Click on: Yahoo! PageWizards

(This will cause the “Yahoo! PageWizards” web page to appear.)

(9) Click on: Personal Page

(This will cause the “Yahoo! Personal PageWizard” web page to appear.)

(10) Click on: Launch Yahoo! PageWizard

(This will cause the “Build your Personal Page” window to appear.)

(11) Click on: Begin

(This will cause the “Choose a look for your page” window to appear.)

(12) Click on: Next

(This will cause the “(1) Enter your info” window to appear.)

(13.1) In “Your name:”, enter: your own First name then your own Last name.

(13.2) In “Your email address:”, enter: your own, full, yahoo.ca email address

(Your email address is your Yahoo ID you wrote down from step 7.1 (For example, if your last name is Chan and your student number is 100234567 then your email address would be: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca.))

(13.3) Click on: Preview

(This will cause a new web browser window to appear with your web page in it. Your web page should now contain your own first name and last name.)

(13.4) Pass the mouse cursor over “E-mail me!” (do not click) and, at the bottom of the window, you will see your Yahoo.ca email address appear.

(13.5) Click the Preview window’s “close box” (the box at the right corner of your preview web page’s window) and make the window disappear.

(The “(1) Enter your info” window should now be present.)

(13.6) Click on: Next

(The “(2) Pick your picture” web browser window should appear. You may now choose .jpg image of your own to use, use the default image, or no image.)

(14.1) When you are done with picking your picture and previewing it, Click on: Next

(The “(3) Describe yourself” window should appear.)

(14.2) In the “About Me” textbox, enter:

I am a student in the Winter 2008 Concepts For A Digital World, (CFADW), course at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I am enrolled in the … Program.

(Replace the “…” with the name of the Program you are enrolled in at the College and the program code. For example: Graphic Design G102 )
(14.3) In the “Hobbies and Interests” textbox, begin your first paragraph with:

I am taking the CFADW course ...

(Replace the “...” with a paragraph (at least 2 complete sentences) about why you are taking the CFADW course and what you would like to learn.)

(14.4) Press enter/return twice at the end of the last sentence you entered.

(14.5) Follow the first paragraph with a second paragraph (at least 2 complete sentences) in which you state why you are interested generally in information technology and state the specific information technologies you are interested in.

(14.6) Press enter/return twice at the end of the last sentence you entered.

Follow the second paragraph with a third paragraph (at least 2 complete sentences) in which you state and describe your present knowledge and experience with information technology.

(14.7) Click on: Preview and make sure that there are 4 separate paragraphs on your web page. If not, close the preview page and edit the information you entered so that it conforms to steps 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, and 14.6 and preview your web page again.

(14.8) When you are certain that the content of your web page is correct and complete, Click on: Next
(The “(4) Enter your favourite links” web browser window should now appear.)

(15.1) In the textbox for the #1 link Name, enter: Concepts For A Digital World

(Make sure that it is typed correctly.)
(15.2) In the textbox for Web Address #1, enter: ca.oocities.com/cfadw48590

(Make sure it is typed correctly.)

(15.3) Preview your web page. If the information appears is incorrect, re-enter it correctly. When it appears correctly, proceed to the next step.

(15.4) Preview your web page again and click on the “Concepts For A Digital World” hyperlink you created.

(This should cause the CFADW course website to appear. If the CFADW course website didn’t appear it is because you did not do step 15.2 correctly (fix it).)

(15.5) Close the preview web page.
(15.6) Click on: Next
(The “(5) Describe your friends and family” web browser window should now appear.)
(16) Do not enter anything, Click on: Next
(The “(6) Enter your friends and family links” web browser window should now appear.)
(17) Do not enter anything, Click on: Next
(The “Name your page” web browser window should now appear.)
(18.1) In the textbox for Page name, replace the page name given; enter: index
(Very Important!! The page name must be “index” and the text “index” must all be in lower case.)

(18.2) Click on: Preview

(This will cause a window to appear with your web page in it. Your web page should now contain all of the information your were required to enter and it should be correct. If the content isn’t correct, close the Preview window and use the Back button in the “Build your Personal Page” window(s) to go back to the “Build your Personal Page” window where the correction(s) can be made, make corrections, and use the Next button to get back to the “Name your page” web browser window (this step).)

(18.3) Close the Preview window.

(The “Name your page” window should now be present.)

(18.4) Click on: Next
(The “Congratulations” web browser window should now appear.)

(19.1) Write down your website’s full address for future reference.

(It should be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/lastname_studentnumber/index.html in which your own last name and student number is present.)

(19.2) Click on: Done
(The “Congratulations” web browser window will disappear and the “Now that you have finished…”, “Spread the word”, web page will appear.)

(20) Click on the hyperlink/URL for your website.
(Your newly created Yahoo! Geocities index.html web page should appear.)
(21) On your website’s index.html page, click on the “Concepts For A Digital World” hyperlink and determine if it works. It should cause the CFADW course website’s index.html page to appear.
(22) If everything looks and works as required, proceed to Part 2.
If something doesn’t look or work as required, you may have to start over from the very beginning and redo your work according to the instructions. You will have to start all over again if your website name and/or email address doesn’t contain your own last name and student number. If that’s correct, you will have to access your website by signing in at: http://ca.oocities.com and, starting again at step 8, use “Page Wizards” to recreate a new web site index.html page with the correct information.
If you are still not successful, Yahoo/Geocities may have altered the method of creating an index.html page which will require you to determine what has changed to complete this part of the assignment.

(23) You can click on the web browser’s “Back” arrow to return to the Yahoo! Geocities “Now that you have finished…” web page where you can Sign Out/Logout of your web site.

(24) Sign Out/Logout of your website. If you don't Sign Out/Logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.

PART 2:

Before you continue with part 2:

Make sure that your own CFADW website can be accessed at your Yahoo! Geocities website address. Your website’s address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber For example, if your Lastname is Chan and your student number is 100234567, your Yahoo! Geocities website address will be in the following format: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 and your Yahoo! email address will be in the following format: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca )

For comparison to your own website’s index.html page, you may view an example of what your website should look like when you have completed it at: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567

If your website’s address is correct, and the website has been established and is working properly, your newly website’s home page (index.html) will appear on the screen. If it doesn't work, determine why, fix it (you may have to redo all/part of part 1), then continue.

FIRST 2A:

You will setup your own CFADW email account with a message signature, an automatic response, and to forward messages as inline text (not as attachments).
The message signature will appear at the bottom of every email you send.
The automatic response will automatically notify an email sender that their email has been received by your CFADW email account.
When you forward an email, it will appear in the body of the email as inline text (not as an attachment).

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.oocities.com

(2) Sign into your Yahoo! GeoCities website.

(Use your Yahoo email account name and password.)

(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with underlined words and, Click on: Mail

(A web page welcoming you to your new email account will appear and your inbox should have a few messages from Yahoo!. A dialog box will appear “Welcome to Yahoo Mail.”)

(4) In the “Welcome to Yahoo Mail” dialog box, click on: Continue

(5) Complete the “Getting Started” process.

(At the end of the “Getting Started” process, your email account page will reappear normally.)

(6) At the top left of the email account page, click on: Mail Classic

(A “Switch to Yahoo! Mail Classic? dialog box should appear.)

(7) Click on: Switch to Yahoo! Mail Classic

(The process of switching will begin and result in the appearance of a new, simpler looking, email account web page.)

(8)At the top right corner of the email account web page, click on: Options

(The Mail Options page should appear which has a menu on the left side and the main part of the page should be for setting General options.)

Turning off “SpamGuard”:

(9.1) From the “Spam” menu, click on: Spam Protection

(9.2) Click on: Turn SpamGuard OFF

(9.3) Click on: Continue

(Step 2 of 3 will appear.)

(9.4) Click on: Continue

(Step 3 of 3 will appear.)

(9.5) Click on: Set Up Spam Protection

(The Spam Protection setup summary should be displayed.)

(9.6) Click on: Continue to Options

(The Mail Options web page should appear.)

Setting up “General Preferences”:

(10.1) From the “Management” menu, click on: General Preferences

(The “General Preferences” web page should appear.)

(10.2) In the “From name:” text box, type your own First name and Last name

(10.3)Scroll down the page and, next to “Forwarding Messages”, select: “Forward as inline text”

(10.4) Next to “Replying”, select: “Include full original message when replying”

(10.5) Next to CC: and BCC:, select: “Always show as fields”

(10.6) At the bottom left of the web page, click on: Save

(The Mail Options web page should appear.)

Setting up your “Signature”:

11.1) Click on: Signature

(The “Signature” page should appear.)

(11.2) In the textbox, enter an identifying signature as follows:

Concepts For A Digital World

Winter 2008

Your own Firstname Lastname

Your own Student number

Your own CFADW website address

Your own CFADW email address

(Substitute your own information where appropriate.)

(11.3) Click on the checkbox next to “Add signature to all outgoing messages” so there’s a checkmark in the checkbox.

(11.4) Click on: Save

(The “Mail Options” page should appear and should state: “Your changes have been saved”)

Setting up your “Vacation Response”:

(The “Vacation Response” will be used as an automated response to notify anyone who sent you email that their email was received in your email account.)

(12.1) Click on: Vacation Response

(The “Vacation Response” page should appear.)

(12.2) Change the “Start Date” to: January 16, 2008

(12.3) Change the “End Date” to: June 30, 2008

(12.4) In the “Generic Response” textbox, enter the following (without the quotes):

Your email has been received at Lastname_Studentnumber. (Use your own Last name and Student number)

This email response is automatically generated.

Do not respond to this email message.

(Substitute your own information where appropriate.)

(12.5) Click the checkbox: “Send a sample copy of this message to my inbox” so that a check mark appears in the checkbox.

(12.6) Click on: Turn Auto-Response On

(The “Mail Options” page should appear and should state: “Your changes have been saved”)

Finishing up and Signing Out of your email:

(13) Click on: “Check Mail”

(Your email account “Inbox” should appear which will have messages in it)

(14) Open the “Yahoo! Auto Response” email message.

(That “Yahoo! Auto Response” message should contain the text you entered for your “Vacation Response”. If that information does not appear, determine what is wrong and fix it before continuing.)

(15) Sign Out/Logout of your email and website. If you don't Sign Out/Logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.

AFTER 2A, THEN 2B:

You will send a test email from your own CFADW course Yahoo!GeoCities email account, to that same account, according to the following instructions.
This will confirm, to yourself, that you are are correctly completing the assignment’s instructions.
After you have successfully completed this part of the assignment, you will use the resulting email from part 2B (this part) in part 2C (the next part).

(1) Access your own CFADW website at: http://ca.oocities.com

(2) Sign into your Yahoo! GeoCities website.
(3) Scroll down to the bottom of the page where there is a box filled with underlined words and click on: mail
(4) At the left of your email account web page, click on: Compose
(5) Enter your own CFADW email address in To: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca
(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)
(6) Enter the email Subject: Lastname_Studentnumber website index page completed

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567 website index page completed)
(7) Enter your own CFADW email address in the Cc textbox: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: Chan_100234567)
(8) In the textbox where the message goes, on the first line, type:

Message from Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca regarding completion of my course website’s home page at http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber.

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca with your actual Yahoo! email address, for example: chan_100234567@yahoo.ca and replace http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! Geocities website address, for example: http://ca.oocities.com/chan_100234567 Make sure your email address and the URL of your website are correct!)

(9) Press the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard. (This must be done to turn your email address and your website’s URL in your email into a hyperlink.)
(10) Again, press the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard.

(11) Enter the following text: My password is: xxxxxxxxx

(Submit your real/actual password, not xxxxxxxxx)

(12) Press the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard.

(13) Again, press the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard.

(14) Copy the questions listed below and, on the second line under where you have entered your password, paste them into your email’s textbox.

1. Was this assignment easy or difficult?

2. Why was this assignment easy or difficult?

3. Is/are there any error(s) or omission(s) in the assignment’s instructions or steps?

4. Is there anything which would improve this assignment?

(15) Type your answers below each question.

(16) In the Yahoo email composer page, Click on: Send
(A confirmation page should appear.)
(17) Find the line that states: View messages in your Inbox and click on: “Inbox”
(You should have 2 messages from your own email account, the To: message and the Cc: message.
If the Internet is slow, you may have to wait a while for the messages to be received.)
(18) Open one of those messages and determine if the URL you typed into your message works as a hyperlink to your own CFADW website.

(It should work.)
(19) If there is a problem, try and figure out what went wrong and retry. (It may just be a typographical error.) If all is well, Sign Out/Logout.

(20) Sign Out/Logout of your email and website. If you don't Sign Out/Logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.

AFTER 2B, THEN 2C:

You will forward an email from your own CFADW Yahoo! email account to the CFADW course email account: cfadw48590@yahoo.ca according to the following instructions:

(1) Access your own CFADW Yahoo! email account at: http://login.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=ca

(2) Sign into your CFADW Yahoo! email account.
(3) At the left of your Yahoo! email account web page, Click on: Inbox

(The email “Inbox” page should appear.)

Under “Subject” you should see the message: “Lastname_Studentnumber website index page completed”

(Lastname_Studentnumber should be your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)

(4) Click on: Lastname_Studentnumber website index page completed

(Lastname_Studentnumber should be your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)

(The email message should appear.)

(5) Click on: Forward

(The “Forward” page should appear.)
(6) Enter the CFADW course email address in To: cfadw48590@yahoo.ca
(7) Enter your CFADW email address in Cc: Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca

(Replace Lastname_Studentnumber with your actual Yahoo! GeoCities ID, for example: chan_100234567)
(8) In the textbox where the message you are forwarding is displayed, on the first line, type:

Forwarded message from Lastname_Studentnumber@yahoo.ca regarding completion of website index page at http://ca.oocities.com/Lastname_Studentnumber.

(9) Press the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard. (This must be done to turn your email address and your website’s URL in your email into a hyperlink.)
(10) Click on: Send
(The “Message Forwarded” page should appear.)
(11) Find the line that states: “View messages in your Inbox” and click on: Inbox
(You should have a new message, the Cc'd message.
If the Internet is slow, you may have to wait a while for the message to be received.)
(12) Open the Cc'd message and determine if the URL of your website, which you typed into your email message, works as a hyperlink to your CFADW website. (It should work).
(13) If there is a problem, try and figure out what went wrong (It could be caused by not pressing enter/return at the end of the line which contains your website’s URL.) and retry. If all is well, Sign Out/Logout.
(14) Sign Out/Logout of your email and website. If you don't Sign Out/Logout, your email and website will be open for others to use.

Congratulations, you have finished assignment 1.