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WebFace Submission via FTP

Usually, submission of assignments to WebFace is done by email. However there are a few problems with that method, including file sizes, and the fact that some web-mail systems such as HotMail remove some of the header information that WebFace looks for.

In response to this issue, WebFace has been modified to also allow assignments to be submitted via File Transfer Protocol (FTP). FTP has been in use for many years (yes even longer than the web), and there are many FTP clients available for a variety of different operating systems, the majority of which can be used to submit your assignment.

A bonus of using FTP, is that no coversheet is needed, unlike the email method. There are however problems too. When submitting via email, a copy is kept on alternate system, and then both the WebFace system and the other system are backed up 5 nights a week. This means that once WebFace gets your assignment, it is extremely unlikely that it will be lost, even if the WebFace hardware breaks down. This is not the case when using FTP. Its not until one of the 5 weekly backups has been made before things are relatively safe. For this reason, its important that you keep a copy of your assignment in case the WebFace system is lost.

Ok, now how to do it.

  1. Login to wfsubmit.its.monash.edu.au via FTP with an FTP client using your AuthCate username and password. Note: you can't login "anonymously", you have to login using AuthCate details.
  2. Navigate to your assignment directory. For example to submit files for Assignment 1 in GCO1810 running in Semester 1 in 2003, you would go to "/2003/sem1/GCO1810/AA1"
  3. Upload your files to WebFace. Depending on your FTP client this might involve pressing upload buttons, or drap-and-dropping files, or using file browsers, or using "put" commands. Its important that you set your client to binary transfer mode, unless you are sending ".txt files, otherwise zip files, picture files etc will be corrupted.
  4. Close your FTP client. At the end of the session WebFace will email you telling you what transactions occured.