This section of the website should help you get oriented to the new site and learn how to use it to maximum effect. We will be adding to this section as new features are added and member feedback is received. If you have questions you would like to see addressed, please email Geraldene Darden.

To Log in

• Go to the Members Only box in the lower left corner of the site.
• Enter your username and password
• If you forgot your log in, please click here.
• Once you are logged in, you will see your personal home page, with access to some of your contact and program information, and the groups you belong to.

Personal Homepage

Through your homepage, you can

• Change your username and password as often as you like
• Access your groups
• Change your contact information
• Access your personal bookmarks on the site
• Access workspaces for your committees and other groups (coming soon!)

Groups

One of the most significant upgrades the new site offers is its range of communications tools. Many of these are accessed via groups. For now, groups are defined by program and PAEA functions. We have set up 11 groups to start with — one each for all faculty, program directors, medical directors, academic coordinators, and clinical coordinators, and one for each consortium. We anticipate creating additional groups, and allowing members to create them, for many other constituencies once these initial groups are established and running well.

To access your groups and participate in Forum discussions:

• Log in and go to your personal home page
• Click on the Groups tab
• Go to one of your groups and click Forum
• Start a thread or add a comment to an existing thread
• See instructions below

Forum/Listserve Discussions

Forum discussions work simultaneously through the web-based Forum and through email. Thus, a comment posted on a Forum will be emailed to all other members of the group, and a comment made by email will be added to the list of comments on the web Forum. As seen through email, the Forums should function exactly as the former Iowa Faculty Forum did. The articulation of the email threads with the Web-based threads is the only real difference. For more information on using PAEA forums, click here. 

One important note: Please "clip" your responses to email threads so that you are not including the whole thread in your reply, by deleting as much of the previous thread as you can and only quoting relevant comments. This will keep the length of the web postings down.