Electronic Communication for CS429H

Subscribe to the CS429H Mailing List

To receive CS429H class announcements, you must subscribe to the course mailing list. There are two ways to do this:

Send an email message to the listserv email address

sympa@lists.cc.utexas.edu

with the following line in the body of the message:

subscribe cs429h_spring2011

or point your web browser at the list webpage

https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/subscribe/cs429h_spring2011/,

click on Subscribe in the menu on the left of the page, and provide your email address at the prompt.

If you wish to remove yourself from the email list:

Send the following message to the listserv email address
unsubscribe cs429h_spring2011
or point your browser at the list webpage, click Unsubscribe on the menu at the left and follow the directions.

Please do not send subscribe or unsubscribe messages to the course list directly!!!

You can view the course email archive by going to the list webpage and clicking on Archive on the menu to the left once you have subscribed.

Using Blackboard

In addition to information posted on the class webpage, supplementary course announcements, notes, and papers will be made available via Blackboard. Blackboard also provides a forum for you and your classmates to correspond about anything CS429H related: looking for study partners, asking questions about confusing handouts, missed classes, etc. If you are not familiar with blackboard, instructions for using it are available here. The discussion forum can be accessed by clicking on "Discussion Board" on the taskbar along the left border of the page, and then clicking on "Discussion Room". This is very thread-oriented forum, if you wish to start a new thread you can post one by selecting "Thread" from the horizontal taskbar above the list of threads. Otherwise, if you wish to reply to a message in an existing thread, select "Reply" from the taskbar above the message content display. The Blackboard discussion group is available for you and your classmates to correspond about anything CS429H related: looking for study partners, asking questions about confusing handouts, missed classes, etc.

Note that the instructor and TAs will not always be able to monitor the discussion group on a timely basis, so do not use this for urgent communications. If you have an urgent question, please send the TA an email with a SUBJECT line of:

Subject: CS429H?:

or come visit during office hours. Face-to-face meetings are still recommended, even in this high-tech world.