FronterPal Kristian Moe, Østfold University College

Contents

1 How to find Fronter 1

2 How to find rooms 22.1 How to access old rooms . . . . . . . 2

3 How to submit a paper 23.1 Find and upload . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3.2 Group Assignments . . . . . . . . . . 2

1 How to find Fronter

When you want to find Fronter you need to go tothe address, hiof.no.

Then you have to click on For studenter.

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Among some other tools you will find Fronter. Thenext step is to click on Fronter, see figure 2.

By now you should see the screen pictured below.First click English, and then select Østfold Uni-versity College from the drop down meny. PressContinue to confirm.

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You then need to type in your username and yourpassword in the spaces, and then click Login.

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You then have to accept that you want to useFronter. If you click on the check box you don’t haveto do this again.

When you first log in to Fronter with your creden-tials you may find that Fronter is in Norwegian. Youcan change this by selecting English as shown infigure 6.

For technical support please email - itvakt@hiof.no.

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2 How to find rooms

Rooms in Fronter are like your classes. You haveaccess to all the rooms you are enrolled in. If youmiss a particular room, or for some other reason needaccess to one, you need to talk to the administration,see table 1.

The box “’Access/Entrance Hall’ gives you a listof all your rooms. One example of what this maylook like is shown in figure 7. Remember that accessdepends on which courses you are currently taking.The list will change from semester to semester.

Access/Entrance Hall displays all rooms, but notall professors use Fronter. A closed room is a roomwith no content, and there is nothing there for youto miss.

2.1 How to access old rooms

Fronter is not suited to be a file archive, and thereforeyou should only keep copies of documents in Fronter.Nevertheless, you have the option to find old andobsolete rooms.

See figure 8, click first on “Rooms”, when the newmenu appears click on “Display all rooms”.

You will then find a whole list of all rooms likeThe Access/Entrance Hall, see figure 9. By clickingon “Archived Rooms” you will find your rooms oflast semester.

Table 1: Administration

Campus Fredrikstad studier-fred@hiof.noCampus Halden studier-halden@hiof.no

Figure 7: The Access/Entrance Hall

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3 How to submit a paper

This section covers Fronter’s traditional hand-in tool.

When you upload a file to Fronter, the name ofthe file is important. Place your initials or yoursurname in the name of the file. For example; JohnDoe’s hand in for the assignment Practice 01 couldbe, JohnDoe-Practice01 or JD-Practice01.

3.1 Find and upload

The Fronter room contains the assignment tool. Goto the room. In the left tool menu, click on thesymbol for Hand-in. The text may be different butthe icon is always the same, see figure 10.

You also need to select the correct one since therecould be more than one active at the same time.Click on the text you want to submit. For example,in figure 11 there are two active assignments, andyou have to click on the one you are going to use.

In the new window hit Bla gjennom, it is thesame as browse file. The command will start a boxand you browse your file. The file needs to be acces-sible from your computer. When you are done pressthe save button, see figure 12. When you want todo something in Fronter you must always rememberto save, and the save button is always down to theright on the page.

3.2 Group Assignments

It is not necessary for a group of authors to uploadtheir papers individually. On the contrary it is betterto upload the assignment as a group. All membersof the group will have access to the same submittedfile.

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You do it this way, see figure 13: Click on Cus-tomize Owners. By selecting the radio button forGroup hand-in a list of all students will show up.You then have to select each member in the group.When you are done hit the Save button down lefton the page. Anyone in the group can do this.

The last step is to check that it is OK. Every paperthat has been submitted can be viewed by clickingon the Assignment. A paper has been successfullyuploaded if you can see it. Figure 14 shows anexample of how a correctly delivered document withthe name JohnDoe-Assignment01.pdf should looklike in Fronter.

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