Problem: Where do I put material that can be accessed across semesters, even if the course is not currently being taught? Solution: WolfWare was designed with three states of a course in mind: in preparation (PREP), current, and in archive (PARK). However, it is possible for content to remain available across semesters, even if the course is not currently being taught. That content should reside in the course "common" area: http://courses.ncsu.edu/xxxyyy/common/ e.g., http://courses.ncsu.edu/csc200/common/ The location in AFS for these materials is: /afs/eos/courses/xxx/xxxyyy/common/www/ e.g., /afs/eos/courses/csc/csc200/common/www/ All course instructors (and support people they assign) may write in this file space and create a common home page (index.html) and web materials for the course. Shared media files should be placed in: /afs/eos/courses/xxx/xxxyyy/common/www/media/ URL: http://courses.ncsu.edu/xxxyyy/common/media/ If the course is multi-section with many instructors, there may be problems sharing the space. We recommend that these instructors create subdirectories under their names, e.g., /afs/eos/courses/xxx/xxxyyy/common/www/instructor/ URL: http://courses.ncsu.edu/xxxyyy/common/instructor/ Although the course URLs will remain readable across semesters, who may write to the space may change if other instructors are assigned to teach the course. Only instructors assigned by Registration and Records to teach the class have access to write to course "common," so access permissions can change from semester to semester. Locker Quota Check on the Admin Tools page allows the instructor to monitor common and common/media space and to request more quota if needed. Although automatic warning messages are sent out if the section quota is filling, no messages are sent on common and media quotas. Also, there is no wrap subdirectory in common/www/ as there is for a section locker. WolfWare development is aware that permanence of some course content is needed and is working on ways to handle that better in the next version of WolfWare. For more information on WolfWare, see http://wolfware.ncsu.edu/help/ and http://courses.ncsu.edu/