Creating cases is as easy as filling out a web form. Be sure that you have an account and are logged in, and that you have some images ready to be uploaded (see Getting Images into the Teaching File Server).

To create a new case, simply click "Create New Case" which appears in the My Cases title bar:

To edit an existing case, navigate to the case and click "Edit" in the case title bar:

Creating a new case or editing an existing case will launch the Case Editor. The Editor may take several seconds to load, during which time you'll be instructed to wait: (* If you do not have javascript enabled on your computer or are using a web browser other than Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.0.4 or higher then you will be shown a scaled down version of the Case Editor.)

The editor consists of four tabs: Case Properties, Case Text, Case Images, and File Upload. Some of the tabs may take several seconds to load. When each tab finishes loading, the writing on the tab label switches from grey to black. You can start entering Case Properties as soon as the first tab is loaded; you don't have to wait for all the tabs to finish loading. Once the other tabs are loaded, you can visit them by clicking on the tab labels. There is no prescribed order for entering case information; feel free to jump back and forth between the tabs at will.