The iclicker software needs a file
Roster.txt
with your
student registration list.
The shell script getreg
will make a
file clickregXXX
suitable to be renamed Roster.txt
, as needed
for use with the iClicker system. (But see below for why you should not
just rename it.)
It gets the information from files sent
to us nightly from the central administration.
If you will be taking the roster file to a PC, execute
getregpc
instead of getreg
in the following
instructions.
On the Department Suns,
go to the directory where you want the
output file, and executegetreg 273
(or other three-digit undergraduate course number), and you should be left
with a file clickreg273
.
Only those in group crsadmin
have
the necessary access to the necessary file
/home/crsadmin/data/rosterXXX
.
All faculty have been placed in that group.
As the registrar sometimes deregisters students temporarily for reasons
we would not want to support, it is probably better not to replace
the Roster.txt
file by
clickregXXX
,
but rather to add new entries.
The first time, of course, just
But subsequent updates might be better done with