To get into your class on ConnectWeb, go to the following address:

www.connectweb.com/your_school_name_here.asp

We can't tell you the exact address, but try the obvious.

Edison Community is:

www.connectweb.com/edison.asp

College of DuPage is:

www.connectweb.com/cod.asp

Wright State University is:

www.connectweb.com/wrightstate.asp.

If you can't figure it out, your teacher, or a classmate, has the information.

No. You can use either Netscape or Internet Explorer, but both must be at least version 4.0. As with most things, the newer the better. If you do not know what version your Windows browser is, check under your browser's Help menu. You'll see About Netscape or Internet Explorer. On the Mac, with the browser active, go to the Apple menu, and the top item will be About Netscape or Internet Explorer. If you want a newer version of your browser:

Internet Explorer: Go to http://microsoft.com/downloads/and choose your operating system and Internet Explorer from pulldown menus. You can download at no cost.

Netscape: Go to http://netscape.com/. At the top of your screen is a series of tabs. The next to the last one is New Download. Click on it, and Netscape will determine the computer you're using. You can then download the latest version of Netscape. The download begins with a small file that, when installed, takes over and downloads and installs the complete program. This is a free download.

Teachers and students create their own passwords. When you log in to ConnectWeb using your login name, there is a blank password field. If you put nothing there, you don't have a password, until you type one in the box. Anything you type ConnectWeb remembers.

Not in ConnectWeb per se, because you can't work on a Word file in a browser. Once a student uploads a Word file (or any word-processed file), the paper can be worked on only by the word processor. When revised, it should be uploaded again.

Literally "as they work on them"? No. But you can read their writing as soon as it is posted. Go to Papers. Choose the assignment from the pulldown menu. You'll see a list of all students in your class and if and when they have posted a paper. Click on the Read paper icon. To comment on them, use the private Message function.

If you post a paper when in you're in student mode, everyone in the class or group can read it. If you are working in small groups, and you want everyone in the group to read one another's papers, post a new assignment for that group.

ConnectWeb does not have a logoff function, because the temporary cookie that it uses to keep track of you, your class, your papers, and your comments is active until you quit the browser. So the way to logoff is to quit the browser.