<p>I've been trying to use toolkit and have been successful for the most part, however, the professor for one of my courses posted the below message: </p>
<p>I copied/pasted exactly what is written. My question is how does a student see these previous quizzes and such? I'm not seeing how to do this. I see general information and his syllabus, and how to e-mail him.
Thanks in advance, oh and I'm happier now, but didn't much enjoy the Crawl.</p>
<p>Go to the Toolkit home. There should be a search with a semester setting. Change that to any previous semester and search for that class by its mnemonic and look under the section’s Quizzes or Materials for the tests, quizzes, and/or their solutions if they are available.</p>
<p>I have the same question, and followed UVAMalex’s instructions, but it didn’t work for me. It says that I’m not enrolled in that class (previous years) and I can’t get in. I guess I’ll call the help line tomorrow. If anyone has suggestions, I’d appreciate hearing them.
I’ve been so busy in various ways these past few days! It’s been good!</p>
<p>Crud. It’s started. There were rumors that Toolkit would have blocks put in place to prevent people from getting to old exams and homework, and they were true. There is nothing we can do now. We can no longer get old exams.</p>
<p>Oh crud is right, if the professor is telling students that there are old tests out there for review, it seems like there should be a mechanism to see those old tests?
I had my first class today and loved it!! Tuesdays mornings are light for me, but that’s ok. Tomorrow will be heavier.</p>
<p>My question is why the University should even be involved in this. If the teacher wants to let students access old exams, they should be allowed. If they don’t, there should be an easy option for that. My guess is a majority of professors complained, so they removed it for all.</p>
<p>Many professors have policies against using material from previous semester. Some use the same exam every semester so they try to prevent the solutions from being passed around in later semesters. If ITC placed those blocks for that kind of reason, then it just wrong. Professors can just put the old exams on the class’s page. ITC does not need to put a blanket on everything when many professors encourage students to look at material in previous semesters. I guess there’s always the test files that don’t exist.</p>
<p>Not quite. It’s a copyright issue, not a professor complaint one. ITC can’t screen every material posted in the sense of whether it’s appropriate to let others see it. Therefore it’s up to each professor to enable either the university, or some broader group, to see that assuming there is no materials that would infrindge on copyrights of its owners.</p>
<p>Ah, good point. Hadn’t even thought of that. And while your point is not only very good, but valid as well, you would think that the university would assume professors will uphold the honor code and would only include tests that don’t violate the honor code, and then would post other materials as they deem necessary. I dunno, I guess they just need to support professors adding things to Toolkit and make it easier so that more teachers will find the time to do so.</p>
<p>Professors don’t copyright their tests. All of their materials are basically public domain in the legal sense. There is nothing against the honor code to post old exams. It’s more on professor’s preference as some are too lazy to make up new tests. There are settings on Toolkit to make a special username and password for access to certain sections on toolkit just for those students taking the class at that semester; so those stingy professors can make their exams inaccessible if they want to without complaining to the University. Once ITC completes the transition to Collab, we will not have to worry about this nonsense.</p>