Title: KEEP YOUR COMPUTER HEALTHY
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2KEEP YOUR COMPUTER HEALTHY
3KEEP YOUR COMPUTER HEALTHY
- Keep your computer healthy and your internet
speed fast - Install McAfee (for PC) or Virex (for Mac) Virus
Protection Software (free for Concordia students) - Install/Update Windows Service Packs/Updates
- Keeping current is very important
- Comodo Firewall/Anti-Virus (Auto Updates)
- SpyBot Spyware Blaster (removes spyware and
tracking software) - - Do not use file sharing
programsthey slow everyone
down!
4UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE
5CAMPUS INTERNET
Academic Buildings
Residence Halls
6 should be
your FIRSTcontact if you experience problems
with your residence hall internet connection.
Concordia Computer Services will help you if 702
Communications can not resolve your problem.
7STOREINFORMATION SAFELY
8STORE YOUR DATA SAFELY
NO FLOPPY DISKS
9THE X DRIVE
- The X drive on the Concordia Network, is your
personal space to store files and documents. - When you log in on in a public lab, the X drive
will already be mapped for you if you click on
My Computer.
10THE X DRIVE (Dorm or Off-Campus)
- To access your X drive from your dorm, or from
any place off campus, type the following into
your address bar - ftp//username_at_space.cord.edu
11USE A FLASH DRIVE
- Also called jump drives, memory sticks, pen
drives, etc - 52MB-4GB drive can hold a lot of information.
- Available at all electronics stores and Target,
Wal-Mart, etc (newegg.com or tigerdirect.com) - Start at 10 and go up based on memory size.
- Work on Macs and PCs
- Please label with your name or have a file with
your name on it. Better yet encrypt it. Better
still do everything not to lose it. Use a chord.
12USE A FLASH DRIVE
13E-MAIL
14CONCORDIA WEBMAIL
webmail.cord.edu
15LOGGING ON
- USERNAME jtcobber
- PASSWORD
- Use strong passwords, like cobber4ever. Letters
and numbers together are difficult to guess or
steal. - Password resets are available during your
registration. - If you forget your password, Computer Services
will reset it for you. Visit them in the basement
of Lorentzen with your Cobber ID!
16BARRACUDA SPAM FILTER
17FORWARDING YOUR E-MAIL
cord.edu
- It is important that you check your Concordia
College e-mail! - The College uses your e-mail to send you
important information, and inform you of
events. - Your professors will use this e-mail address to
send you important notes about class,
assignments, or deadlines. - Some professors will ask if u have a preferred
email account.
If you choose to not use your Concordia e-mail,
have it forwarded to an e-mail address you check
more frequently.
Directions are available http//filter.cord.edu80
00/cgi-bin/index.cgi.
18BEWARE OF THE E-MAIL HOAX
- Increasingly, e-mails that look like they are
coming from Concordia e-mail addresses are
entering e-mail boxes. - These are NOT from Concordia employees or PC
Support administrators. They are coming from
computers infected with viruses. - Check the signature at the bottom of all e-mails,
they must contain a name, title and phone number
of the person sending you an e-mail. - -----------------------------------------Dennis
DuncanPC Support Technician299-4000------------
------------------------------ - Concordia Computing personnel will never send you
attachments for you to open!
19CONNECTING
20USE THE RIGHT CABLE!
Cables for internet connection are commonly
referred to at Cat 5 or Ethernet cables.
21LOGGING ON TO THE NETWORK
Your log in information is the same as your
username and password for your Concordia E-Mail
22SYNCHRONIZEPASSWORDS
- Your password may not work everywhere right now
- Go to computersupport.cord.edu, and click
Synchronize Password, or visit the synch stations
in the library
23LOGGING ON TO THE NETWORK
Before you log on to a Mac computer on campus,
you will need to synchronize your username and
password with the Mac server on campus. After you
synchronize, your username and password will be
the same for PCs and Macs.
24YOUR PASSWORD
- Change your Password
- If you want to change your password, visit the
online web form to have your password changed. - Forgot your Password?
- Visit Computer Services, with your Student ID
and they can help you.
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27COMPUTING FACILITIES
28BASIC APPLICATIONS
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Word
- Power Point
- Excel
- Access
- (some) Front Page
29Open Office OFFICE.org
- Open Office Suite
- Cost Free
- http//www.openoffice.org
- OpenOffice.org Writer (.doc)
- OpenOffice.org Impress (.ppt)
- OpenOffice.org Calc (.xls)
- Windows and Linux compatible
30STAR OFFICE 7
- Includes word processor, spreadsheet,
presentation tool, drawing tool and database. - Read, edit and save files to file formats from
other office suites, such as Microsoft Office - Runs on Linux, Solaris OS and Windows
- Cost Free for students
- Download off Technology at Concordia web site.
31FACILITIES
- Highlights
- Grant Center Lab, below the Grant Kitchen
- 7 Express E-Mail stations in Knutson
- 3 near the P.O.s, 4 above.
- Instructional Technology Services(located in
Theater building) - Labs in most Residence Halls
- Library Labs (Wi-Fi and ethernet connection)
- Department Labs
- Music (Mac lab), CTSA, Art, Physics, Chemistry,
English, Biology, Psychology
32WIRELESS ACCESS
- Wireless access to the Concordia network is
available at the following locationsBirkeland
Lounge Hvidsten Reception Corridor Ivers 3rd
Floor Jones 212 Knutson courtyard Library 1st
Floor West, 2nd Floor West, 3rd Floor West, 3rd
Floor South, 4th Floor West, East Balcony
Lorentzsen Instructional Technology Center. - Setting up your own wireless router is advised
against unless you know how to secure the
connection and not broadcast it to everyone. - Each room Ethernet port has an IP and if it is
used to cause trouble your access will be
blocked.
33RESOURCES
34- Computer Support
- computersupport.cord.edu
- Contains information on Concordia technology
updates and security concerns. - Student Government Association Technology
Commissioner(me) - Suggestions, technology problems, or
information about Concordia Technology - Visit the web site we have set up for you, it
provides you information on who to contact if
you are having technology problems.
35http//www4.cord.edu/student/tech