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LOGON ID & PASSWORD When you log on for the first time, a box will appear asking you for your USER ID and your PASSWORD. Your initial USER ID is a synthesis of your first and last names, and your student ID number: use the first letter of your first name, the first 4 letters of your last name and the last 3 digits of your student ID number. Note—all text must be in lower case for your first logon (e.g., nheyw789). The first time you log on you will use a default PASSWORD, which is a synthesis of your social security number and your birth year: use the LAST 4 digits of your student ID number, followed by 2 exclamation marks, followed by the last 2 digits of your birth year (e.g., 4321!!85). The system will then ask you to change your password. Do it--NOW! Choose a word or number sequence that you can remember that is at least six characters long. You may use a combination of letters and numbers, and the password is case sensitive; if you use a combination of upper and lower case letters, you must continue using that same combination until you change passwords again. After you have typed in your new password, Mr. Machine asks you to retype it to verify that the network server has recorded it correctly. Each time you use any campus computer, whether for browsing or for personal e-mail, you must log on with your USER ID and password. DO NOT FORGET TO LOG OFF WHEN YOU FINISH, OR SOMEONE ELSE COULD WREAK HAVOC USING YOUR ACCOUNT! If you forget your password, contact Information Technology in the basement of the LRC (better known as the library) to regain access to your account. Once you have logged on, 1) click on the Windows "Start" button (lower left corner of screen), then 2) put the cursor on "Programs". 3) Move your cursor over any icon on the right-hand menu, then leftclick to start that program. Lab attendants can help if you have problems. Click the icon for Microsoft Outlook for your campus e-mail. If Outlook is new to you, you might find that opening the "Public Access" folder, and then the Outlook folder, will have very useful instructions and tips. Start practicing with e-mail now, because it makes me more accessible to you and because e-mail is the ONLY way I will report quiz and exam scores to you. You also must submit ALL assignments by e-mail; I DO NOT ACCEPT PAPER COPIES of anything anymore (you'll see why later). A very nice capability at UWSP is the availability of "Outlook Web Access", which enables you to check your e-mail from off-campus locations. When using a web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) type https://email.uwsp.edu into the location (URL address) box, click your return (or enter) key, and follow the series of instruction panels. I recommend that you bookmark this URL, and also the course calendar page. Under NO circumstances should you ever broadcast any message to a distribution list that you do not "own", or through any user ID other than your own. Please do NOT save any settings changes, including any wallpaper graphics, onto any campus workstation. Deliberate abusers will lose e-mail and/or lab access privileges, even for a first offense. WORLDWIDE WEB You can access the class home page at www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/heywood/geog101/101home.htm You can e-mail me by just clicking on my colored name at the bottom of each class web page, and typing away on the "pop-up" form. When you e-mail me, ALWAYS include a subject heading, as I automatically delete all un-subjected e- mail as spam. Note also the left-side "banner"; these are links to external (meaning, not this class) web sites, and one near the top gives instructions for changing my dark backgrounds to print pages with minimal ink (and drying time). I stress, however, that you do not need to print a copy of everything, since you can always access it again. All those left-side banner links take you "places". The first one I want you familiar with is "Calendar"; clicking it takes you to an on-line copy of the calendar, with the important advantage that it has many clickable links. Try out a few! Any colored and underscored phase on a web page is probably a "clickable" link to another page. Through our calendar page you have access to all lecture graphics and lab keys, and to (via the green button at the top). Bookmark this page (when it is in view on the browser, click “Favorites” at the top and then click “Add to Favorites”); you will need the calendar page a lot during this semester. EVERY time you finish, you must log-off the network.
N. C. Heywood maintains this page, last updated 27AUG07. |