Course Areas are directories that are created for each College of Engineering course for instructors, TAs, and students. Instructors and TAs are able to write to directories in the Course Areas, while students are only able to read. Course Areas provide a means for instructors and TAs to hand out course information and materials to students.
You can access the Course Areas by browsing to the following UNC path (see the above section entitled ‘Terminology and Usage’ for more information):
\\coe-fs.engr.tamu.edu\StudentShares
Organization
Course Areas are organized as Follows:
[Subject]
Classes
[Subject]-[Course Number]
Class
Instructor
Teaching_Assistant
[Subject] refers to the course subject (i.e. AERO, PETE, etc).
Class
The Class directory is where students go to access course materials that the instructors and TAs wish to share.
Instructors and TA's are able to write to this directory, students are able to read it.
Instructor
The Instructor directory is a private area for instructors to prepare course materials.
Instructors are able to write to this directory, no one else can read or write to it.
Teaching_Assistant
The Teaching_Assistant directory is a private area for TAs and instructors to jointly prepare course materials.
TAs and Instructors are able to write to this directory, no one else can read from it.