MHMS eMac Lab Student Orientation How to Login, Use, Create, & Save Your Stuff! How to Login, Use, Create, & Save Your Stuff!

Welcome to the NEW! eMac Lab and MHMS Server! Are you Ready to Login?

But WAIT! Please Do NOT…do ANYthing Until after you Watch and Listen to the directions….because if you mess it up… you won’t get in. But WAIT! Please Do NOT…do ANYthing Until after you Watch and Listen to the directions….because if you mess it up… you won’t get in.

A Few More Warnings! NO of any kind may be checked or looked at in this school. That means: Yahoo! Gmail, Hotmail, etc. No Personal BLOGGING w/out permission NO Social Networking: Facebook, Twitter, Plurk Xanga, Blogger, or MySpace, Friendster,....EVER! No FREE GOOGLE Web or Image searching -- Use our Databases!

Aww, c’mon…Why No Google? We don’t have time to look through 30 million hits and they’re not all academic or appropriate. We don’t have time to look through 30 million hits and they’re not all academic or appropriate. Time + Academic & Appropriate = Not Reliable

Our Databases are FASTER & more Reliable! (and appropriate) Fewer Hits but Better Hits….All in one place! Reference, Magazine, Academic, & News Articles…AND Multimedia! Fewer Hits but Better Hits….All in one place! Reference, Magazine, Academic, & News Articles…AND Multimedia!

eMac Lab Rules No Food or Drinks in the eMac Lab Report Problems Promptly Always use spell check and print preview, and THEN ask permission before printing. Always go to FILE>PRINT rather than the printer icon so that you can check that the RIGHT printer is selected: eMAC lab printer is: ( ) Always wait for instructions. Always follow correct procedure. Leave the room better than you found it. Always Log Out> Apple> logout your name

Consequences Using a Computer in school is a privilege and not a right. If you violate the HCPSS Acceptable Computer Use Policy and Agreement you will lose your computer privileges for the ENTIRE SCHOOL year and have a meeting with Mr. Dickey, your classroom teacher, and MHMS technology leader & Media Specialist Ms. Jones. All work that otherwise would have been done on a computer IN school will have to be done by hand or out of school. Old School Style!

Sign It, or Else! NOW ….Sign the document that says: Expectations for Computer Usage Guidelines for Middle School Students And pass it into your teacher … Ok, NOW! We ’ re Ready! :-) YAY!

Ok….Got that now? Are you Ready to Login?

Your login is: gradyearfirstinitiallastname ex: 10gjones Your password is: birthdate ex: 09/26/97 Slashes are important! Use ZEROS and not “ O ’ s ” Use the numbers ABOVE the keyboard and NOT on the side of the keyboard. Your login is: gradyearfirstinitiallastname ex: 10gjones Your password is: birthdate ex: 09/26/97 Slashes are important! Use ZEROS and not “ O ’ s ” Use the numbers ABOVE the keyboard and NOT on the side of the keyboard.

STUDENTS! BIG NETWORK CHANGES!

OTHERWISE KNOWN AS... WHERE & How Do I Save?

Your real NETWORK FOLDER is BLUE and in the DOCK. Your real NETWORK FOLDER is BLUE and in the DOCK. Find it! Your real NETWORK FOLDER is BLUE and in the DOCK. Your real NETWORK FOLDER is BLUE and in the DOCK. Find it!

From now on, you will need to MANUALLY save your files to YOUR NETWORK FOLDER From now on, you will need to MANUALLY save your files to YOUR NETWORK FOLDER

First SAVE your files to the computer’s DESKTOP First SAVE your files to the computer’s DESKTOP

At the end of the class, DRAG your new files to your network folder At the end of the class, DRAG your new files to your network folder

Your files will NOT SAVE on the network unless you DRAG them to your network folder Your files will NOT SAVE on the network unless you DRAG them to your network folder Your Your files will NOT NOT SAVE on the network unless unless you DRAG them to your network folder

If you switch computers, retrieve your files from your network folder If you switch computers, retrieve your files from your network folder If If you switch computers, retrieve your files from your network folder

Now…try and login After you put in your name & password it will go BLANK and “think” about it for like 45 seconds… Be PATIENT! WAIT….it’s talking to the server for the first time this year. Now…try and login After you put in your name & password it will go BLANK and “think” about it for like 45 seconds… Be PATIENT! WAIT….it’s talking to the server for the first time this year.

Good Job! Remember your Login and Birthday Password! Do NOT share it with your friends! And……….

Now you can logout! Congratulations MHMS Technology Users! Congratulations MHMS Technology Users!

Finis

Students with duplicate names will be issued logins with: first initial middle initial last name Ex: gajones Third duplicate will be first name middle initial last name Ex: gwynethajones Passwords will be the student ’ s birthdate which is an eight character login. xx/xx/xx Students with duplicate names will be issued logins with: first initial middle initial last name Ex: gajones Third duplicate will be first name middle initial last name Ex: gwynethajones Passwords will be the student ’ s birthdate which is an eight character login. xx/xx/xx

Hyphenated names are first initial hyphenated name smooshed together firstinitalhypehnatedname Ex: ejeanlouis Passwords will be the student ’ s birthdate which is an eight character login. xx/xx/xx Hyphenated names are first initial hyphenated name smooshed together firstinitalhypehnatedname Ex: ejeanlouis Passwords will be the student ’ s birthdate which is an eight character login. xx/xx/xx

If all Else Fails: Teachers, please Ms. Gwyneth Jones the name and graduation date of the malfunctioning student and their birthday and then try this: If all Else Fails: Teachers, please Ms. Gwyneth Jones the name and graduation date of the malfunctioning student and their birthday and then try this: Middle School Student Guest Accounts Each Middle School has a set of guest student accounts. The accounts are numbered (s0001 – s0040) The account password is the same as the login number Example – student guest account s0004 – login s0004 password s0004