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AHS COMPUTING
Introduction to Computing
Userid...
- You have been given a unique userid so
that you can logon to Quest (course selection)
- This is the only userid you will use while
AHS COMPUTING Userid... You have been given a unique userid so - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
AHS COMPUTING Userid... You have been given a unique userid so - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Introduction to Computing AHS COMPUTING Userid... You have been given a unique userid so that you can logon to Quest (course selection) This is the only userid you will use while you are at UW! Know your userid! WATIAM
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WATIAM
- Logon to WATIAM
– http://watiam.uwaterloo.ca – verify your personal information
- Answer your security
questions to activate your account
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To Setup Your Account
- Use your WATIAM
userid and password
- If you are having
issues, please visit BMH 1037
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Your Password
- You will have 1
password for all resources at UW
- Use a complicated
password
- Guard your password
- Change your
password often
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Your Responsibility!
- You have an email account at UW!
– userid@uwaterloo.ca
- It is your responsibility to ‘activate’ and to
regularly ‘check’ your account!!!
- This can be done by either by using
http://mywaterloo.ca or by forwarding your email to another account
- Your email server is mailservices
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- Your email account is,
– username@mailservices.uwaterloo.ca
- The best way to check your email is to use
mywaterloo.ca
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Checking WATIAM
- To forward your email
to another account fill in the Email Forward field in WATIAM
- You can also setup a
Friendly Email address
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mywaterloo.ca
- mywaterloo.ca is a multi-faceted web
portal
- One of it’s main purposes is read and
respond to email
- Works essentially like hotmail or gmail
– More secure – More professional
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About Nexus
- Nexus is a domain, it is not software!
– A group of computers and devices on a network that are administered as a unit with common rules and procedures.
- You can logon to your account from any of
the Nexus labs on campus
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Nexus Software
- Office 2010
– Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher & Access
- Internet Explorer 9
- Stats Software
– PASW 19 – SAS 9.2 – R 2.11
- Other course specific software on selected
workstations
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Student Computing Labs
- AHS has two undergraduate NEXUS labs, containing
17 PCs, located in B.C. Mathews Hall (BMH).
- BMH 1034
– 12 workstations – ahsprt2 – 24 hours/7 days
- BMH 2324
– 5 workstations – ahsprt1 – M-F 8:30-4:30
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The N:\ Drive
- Your 250Mb file space is located on the N:\ drive
– Make sure to save your files to either the N:\ drive or to a USB Key
- Use your N:\ drive to store your files
- It is a safe, secure and reliable network resource
– It is backed up every 4 hours – There is an archive of nightly backups for the previous 5 days and 2 weekly backups from the previous Sunday night
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Printing
- Ahsprt1
- Ahsprt2
- Printing 15 cents per double sided page
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Printing
- If you have problems
with printing, please contact:
- AHS Helpdesk, BMH
1037 or ahshelp@uwaterloo.ca
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Wireless
- BMH and LHI has
wireless coverage
- 2 networks will
appear
– uw-unsecured –
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Shopping on Campus
- Campus Tech Shop (SLC)
– PC’s – laptops – printers – software – more
- http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/msdn
- CHIP
– MC 1052
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Questions
- http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/ahsco/firstyearstudents/
- Lowell Williamson, IT Specialist