How does Automatic Generation of Class Aliases work?
ITS receives class information from PeopleSoft for each student and instructor per class section. We then use this information to extract all of the classes being taught and generate queries for each of the classes to build the address list. The resulting data files are stored in a system area on the UNIX mail server. A second file called an “include” file is created in a sub-directory of the departmental library account. Its contents are added to the built alias file so faculty/departmental staff can add themselves, graders, grader accounts, etc. to the actual alias when it’s processed. Data added to the “include” file is dynamically added to the alias at the time the alias is used. Back to the top of this document.
