ECE Computer and Technology Services

Editing Your Course's Website

Permission to Edit a Website

Professors and Teaching Assistants for ECE classes have permission to edit the website for the class. If you are the professor for a course, you may give additional TA's or staff the permission to edit the website by going to MyECE and clicking "Edit Staff" under the Class Administration module (you may need to add this from the list at the bottom of the page). Alternatively, the Computer and Technology Services (CTS) staff in room 323 Everit can grant permission as well. Use your NetID and Active Directory password to edit the website.

Secure and Private Folders

Any material you place in your website's Secure folder will only be visible to students currently registered for the class. This is particularly useful for homework, exams, and copyrighted material. Material placed in the Private folder is only visible to staff members for the course, such as professors and TA's. If you need a Secure or Private folder created, please notify CTS so we can create a folder with the correct permissions.

Methods for Editing a Website

  1. SFTP to courses.ece.uiuc.edu using any SSH FTP client and change directories to eceXXX. The CITES Remote Computing page has clients available for download.
  2. Portal: Edit your site from within MyECE by clicking "Edit web page" under the Class Administration module (you may need to add this from the list at the bottom of the page).
  3. On a Windows machine: Access your web folder using the \\ece-serv-02.ece.uiuc.edu\eceXXX share. Provided that your computer's tcp/ip infiguration is correct, you should be able to click Start > Run, type in \\ece-serv-02.ece.uiuc.edu\eceXXX, and an explorer window will open containing your website.
  4. On a Mac OS X machine: From Finder, click on the "Go" menu and select "Connect to Server." In the "Server Address" field, type the following (case-sensitive): smb://username@ece-serv-02.ece.uiuc.edu/eceXXX. You will be prompted for your AD password.
  5. On a Linux machine with root level access: Create a folder where you would like to map the directory (/mnt/ece-serv-02 for example). Then open a terminal and log in as root (or su -), and run the following command: mount -t smbfs -o username=netid,workgroup=uiuc //ece-serv-02.ece.uiuc.edu/eceXXX /mnt/ece-serv-02. You will be prompted for your password, and then your shared folder will be mounted on your drive at /mnt/ece-serv-02. You can move files on and off it just like any other folder on your system.
  6. On a Linux machine without root level access: Using your default file manager software (such as nautilus, konqueror, or xffm), go to the file menu and select the option, "Open Location." Type "smb://username@ece-serv-02.ece.uiuc.edu/eceXXX" and click "Open" to access the files. The first time you connect, you will have to authenticate using your AD password.

**If you experience difficulty, you may first need to connect to the ECE VPN.