<![CDATA[<p>How do students join, change or leave teams using the Roster database in Team Signup?</p><p><P><FONT size=2>Our Team Signup custom course tool consists of a <STRONG>join or change teams</STRONG> button above an eRoom database of teams shown in rows and columns. This database, usually entitled <STRONG>Roster (Sign Up Here)</STRONG>, will be inside a folder that also contains hidden subfolders for each team.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>The purpose of Team Signup is to help all students in a course quickly divide into mutually exclusive project teams (where each student is a member of only one of the available teams), each with a maximum size.</FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT size=2>JOINING A TEAM</FONT></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT size=2>When a student visits the <STRONG>Roster</STRONG>, he or she may either be looking for fellow team members who have already joined one of the listed teams, or to "claim" an empty team that others will later join via their own signups. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>Some teams (or, early on, all teams) in the <STRONG>Roster </STRONG>will not have any members. Others will have a few members already signed up, and some of those may be full (already comprising the number of members shown in the <EM>Max. Members</EM> column).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>There are two ways to join a team:</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT size=2><STRONG><EM>Express signup:</EM> <BR></STRONG></FONT><FONT size=2>Check the checkbox of the team you wish to join, then press the <STRONG>join or change teams</STRONG> button. An <EM>Express Team Signup Results</EM> screen will appear, confirming either than you joined the team successfully or that it was already full. Press <STRONG>OK</STRONG> to leave the confirmation screen.<BR></FONT></LI>
<LI><FONT size=2></FONT><FONT size=2><EM><STRONG>Standard signup:</STRONG><BR></EM>Press the <STRONG>join or change teams</STRONG> button. A <EM>Sign Up for a Team</EM> screen will appear listing all of the teams that are currently not full. Select a team using the provided button, then press <STRONG>OK</STRONG>. The next screen will confirm whether you joined the team successfully. Press <STRONG>OK</STRONG> again to exit the confirmation screen.</FONT></LI></UL>
<P><FONT size=2>After joining a team successfully, you will see a folder appear in the left-side navigation map of the <STRONG>web</STRONG><EM>Café</EM> room; this also appears under <EM>Your Hidden Items</EM> in the folder containing the Roster. This is the team's private folder; students on other teams will not see the folder or have access to its contents. In some courses, the team's private folder can be used for everyday working document sharing by the team members; in other courses, that folder should be used for submission of team assignments (in which case team members should click <STRONG>Create</STRONG> to set up a sub-folder for the working documents).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2><FONT size=2><STRONG>LEAVING YOUR CURRENT TEAM</STRONG></P></FONT></FONT>
<P><FONT size=2>To change from one team to another, use the same steps shown above under <STRONG>JOINING A TEAM</STRONG>. In a Standard signup, the list of available teams will include the words <EM>"By making a change through this screen, you will be leaving your current team."</EM></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>A student may leave a team without joining another one by doing a <EM>Standard </EM>signup without selecting a team:</FONT></P>
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<LI><FONT size=2>In the <A href="https://webcafe.wharton.upenn.edu/eRoom/mgmt/782-fa05-1/0_23c29">Roster</A>, press the <STRONG>join or change teams</STRONG> button without first checking off a team. <BR></FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2>A <EM>Sign Up for a Team</EM> screen will appear, ; don't select a team, but just press the <STRONG>OK</STRONG> button.<BR></FONT>
<LI><FONT size=2>The next screen will confirm that you left the team you were on. Press <STRONG>OK</STRONG> again to exit the confirmation screen.</FONT></LI></UL></p><h3>Alternate Questions/Keywords</h3><p></p><br><br><br><br><a target='_new' href='http://www.parature.com' style='font-family:Verdana;font-size:10px;color:999999;'>Help Desk and Customer Support Software by Parature</a>]]>