UMUC Web Account provides faculty server space to support their teaching. Individual instructors may use this web account to create a virtual presence on the web. Any UMUC Asia faculty member is entitled to have a web account. Some possibilities of using a web account: linking multimedia course materials such as graphics, video, and sound to the WebTycho classroom, storing documents, building a home page, etc.

Faculty may keep the web account as long as they teach for UMUC. The size of each individual web space will be limited. If you have questions regarding the size of the web account, contact Dan Vogel at dvogel@asia.umuc.edu.

Obtaining a web account
Contact Dan Wieland at dwieland@asia.umuc.eduto request your web account. Dan will assist you with opening your web account and will provide some basic information for initial use of your web account.

Download FTP program and the Instructions
In order to link a file to your WebTycho classroom and enable viewing by all the class members, the file must be on your web server. You will need an FTP program to move the file from your computer to the server. The purpose of an FTP program is to upload and download programs and files from and to your computer, and to and from other computers.

Most UMUC labs have an FTP program installed on the computers . If you need an FTP program for your personal computer, go to the following site and download the SmartFTP program. This software is free of charge and easy to use.

SmartFTP Download site: http://smartftp.com/download/

• The instructions for using SmartFTP are shown here: SmartFTP Instructions
• If you have WS_FTP on your computer, see the instruction here: WS_FTP Instructions

  Your computer needs to have Macromedia Shockwave installed to view the WS_FTP Instructions.

  • Free Macromedia Shockwave Player download site: http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?

If you are teaching a class(es) that requires students to use a web server as part of the class work, UMUC Asia provides web accounts for students. Check the following self-service web page for information regarding obtaining web accounts for your students. http://intranet.asia.umuc.edu/faculty/accounts.cfm

In order to access the above link, you need to login to the UMUC Asia intranet first . Use your Web Mail login name and password to access the UMUC Asia intranet.

Student web accounts will be removed after the term is over.

Tech Assistance:
Contact Dan Vogel at dvogel@asia.umuc.edu if you have questions.