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Mae.L. INSTITUTION Callfornia Educauona DOCUMENT RESUME ED 325 094 IR 014 682 AUTHOR Hecht, Jeffrey B. TITLE The CERC Electronic Bulletin Board System. Users Mae.l. INSTITUTION Callfornia EducaUona. Research Cooperative, Riverside. PUB DATE 15 Aug 89 NOTE 55p. PUB TYPE Guides General (050) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Computer Networks; Computer System Design; *Electronic Mail; *Information Networks; *Telecommunications; Teleconferencing; Telephone Communications Systems ABSTRACT This guide is intended as a brief orientation to the Bulletin Board System (BBS) used by the California Educational Research Cooperative (CERC) in a continuing effort to expand support services to its member districts and ancillary providers through operation of an electronic networking system. This facility provides a means throwjh which participating individuals may exchange ideas both between themselves and with the staff of the CERC office. The text outlines the dif:erent options available on the CERC BBS including: (1) for beginners: establishing a user-ID and password;(2) teleconferencing: two or more simultaneous users exchanging information in a conference-like setting; (3) information about the 'AS itself, its operations, and a list of users currently logged into the system; (4) forums: users exchanging information about stmilar interests by reading and writing messages; (5) classified ads that allow users to list items of interest, not only items or services for sale, but also specific needs for information; (6) electronic mail: users sending messages to another user or group of users;(7) the account: users updating information on the BBS fi1Es on their accounts and determining how much of their account has been used in terms of BBS credits; (8) library of files: users downloa'ing and uploading files from library information banks;(9) polls: users expressing their opinions on a variety of different topics; and (10) the regis,-ry: a catalog of additional information about the users traemselves and their school districts. Specific keyboard commands are listed for each option, as well as a reference guide for quick access. (eis) ************************************1:********f ************************ Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** -1 u S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATiON al.e,a Re Sea-_, anc ,p,.emert E:...,CA'" :NA, RE SC uRCES ,NFORMAT;ON CENTER ,ERIC s .as bee, ,eornduced as eceeC '0 re Pers0^ nr :nanZat.oP M ^anves ^ae nee, Tade mp,o,e ,e0,?d,c1:e da P e r _On Ons slatedt.Sdocp lo ^0, oecessar Iy ,epresent ottpc,a1 p,s,on Pc: ca oar System Users Manual 'PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Jane L. Zvkowsk TO THE ECUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Jeffrey B. Hecht, Ph.D. Visiting Professor of Education and C4o CERC Research Educationist August 15, 1989 CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH COOPERATIVE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE H, 2 THE CALIFORNIA EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH COOPERATIVE CERC is a unique partnership between county and local school systems and the School of Education at the University :if California, Rivcrside.It is designed to serve as a resoirch and development center for sponsoring county offices uf education and locul school districtscombining the professional experience and practical wisdom of practicing professionals with the theoretical interests and researcL talents of the UCR School of Education faculty. CERC is organized to pursue sLx broad goals.Th...se goals serve the needs and interests of ccoperating public school members and the University by providing: Tangible practical support fur school improvement. o Support for data-based decision-making among school leaders. Proven strategies for resolving instruc Iona], o Research, planning and evaluation activities management, policy and planning issues facing public that are meaningUly iiiterpreted End applied edocation. to school district problems, and Valuable professional development opportunities o Data analysis to assist in generating public for current and future school leaders. supr irt for effective school programs. In addition to c,.nduct.r.,.; ;Ls._,i.,11 in areas, CERC publishes reports and briefs on a variety of educational issues. CERC also -ponsors regional workshops for local edocational leaders. CERC Executive Staff Cal ifornia Educat ional Douglas E. MitcheP Research Cooperat:ve Professor of Education School oi l!,ducation Director Univ,-rsity of California _Riverside. CA 92521-019S Jane L. Zykowski C 1LIFOR Mt_ C ADO' ,AL Phone:(714> 787-3026 Assoc. Sper.alist in Ed. RESEARCH COOPERATIVE FA.X.(714787.3942 Manager \.ERSIT1 1)F ALIP('RN,A Dana Sowers Administrative Assistant ERC MEMBERS SPONSORING OFFICES OF EDUCATION Riverside County Office of Education Office of the County Superintendent of Schools San Bernardino County Office of Education SPONSORING SCHOOL DISTRICTS East San Gdbriel Valley ROP Perris I'mon High School District Fontana Unified School District Redlands Unified Schi- District Hemet Umfied S hool District Rialto Unified School District Hesperia Unified School District Riverside Unified Sehlol District Jurupa Uiied School District Romoland School District Lak: Elsinore Unified School District Temecula Valley Unii-^d School District Moreno Valle), Umfied Schmil Distil"! Val Verde School District Murriet a U.nfied School District Victor Elementary S'shool District Ontario-Montclair School District Victor Union High School District Perris Elementary School District Yucaipa Joint Ui'ed School District 3 Table of Contents Introduction 1 Connection Requirements 2 Creating a New User ID 4 Main Menu 7 Teleconferencing Menu 8 Information Menu 12 Forum Menu 13 R - Reading Messages 14 RK - Keyword-search for Messages 14 Message Summary 15 Threading through Messages 16 Downloading Attachments 16 Mter Reading a Message 17 RS - Scan through Messages 17 RL - List Message Titles 18 RQ - Quickscan Menu 18 The Quickscan Threshoid 19 RQK - Quickscan Keyword-Search 20 RQS - Quickscan Scan 20 RQL - Quickscan List 20 RQC - Quickscan Configure 20 W - Writing Messages 21 D - Downloading a File 22 U - Uploading a File 23 T - Teleconference 23 S - Selecting a New forum 23 Classified Ads Menu 24 G - General Information 25 5 - Scan or Read Ads 25 P - Place an Ad 27 M - Modify an Ad 27 D - Delete an Ad 27 C - Check Reader Responses 27 Electronic Mail Menu 28 R - Read Messages 29 W - Write a Message 30 CERC BBS Users Manual Page i Revised August 15, 1989 4 M - Modify a Message 31 E - Erase a Message 32 Accoimt Menu 33 File Library Menu 34 Library Information Bfinks 34 Keywords and Indexes 35 Card Catalog (Reference Aids) 35 Library Services 36 General Information 37 Selecting a LIB 37 File Directory 37 Download 38 Recovering an Aborted Download 40 Multiple File Download 40 Upload 41 Resuming an Aborted Upload 42 Multiple File Upload 42 r olls Menu 43 Registry Menu 44 The On-Line Editor 45 Entry Mode 46 Command Mode 46 List of Editor Commands 47 Exiting from the BBS 49 Quick Reference Guide (Shortcuts) 50 CERC BBS Users Maaual Page ii Revised August 15, 1989 Introduction The California Educational Research Cooperative,in a continuing effort to expand support services to its memberdistricts and ancillary providers, operates an electronic networkingsystem.This facility provides a means through which participating individuals may exchange ideasboth between themselves and with the staff of the CERC office.Real time discussions, as well as electronicmail and other teleconferencing services, can occur on avariety of different topics. A facility also exists through which interactive polls cantake place on a variety of interesting topics. This Bulletin Board System (BBS) alsoallows for the transfer of computer information file between users. Overall, this system movesCERC and its member districts into the twenty-first century ofcomputerized communications. CERC gratefully acknowledges the ZenithCorporation for providing the basic computer hardware necessary to makethis undertaking possible.Zenith has equipped the CERC BBS with an "AT" class micro-computerhaving one megabyte of memory and a forty-megabyte hard disk.This computer is connected to several 2400 baud modems allowing for multipledial-up users to simultaneously use the system. Several additional direct-connectlines provide linkages for the CERC staff and other members of the U.C. RiversideSchool of Education Faculty.The Bulletin Board Software being used is TheMajor BBS (version 5) from Galacticomm, Inrorporated. Information and textualexamples for this manual was drawn extensively from documentation providedby Galacticomm, Incorporated. This guide is intended as a brief orientation tothe BBS. Users unfamiliar with the operation of a 13u1letin BoardSystem should begin on page two, which describes how to connect to the B1sS and establish a newUser-1D and password. The remainder of the text outlines thedifferent options available on the CERC BBS. To aid in a quick understanding of thedialogue, certain typographic conventions have been adopted.Regular type has been used for instructions, italicized type represents BBS displays and prompts,and boldfaced type denotes possible user responses to BBS queries. Questions or problems about the system should beaddressed to: The CERC BBS Systems Operator California Educational Research Cooperative School of Education University of California Riverside, CA 92521-0128 The BBS usually operates twenty-four hours aday, seven days a week. The Systems
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