AHS Computing

AHS COMPUTING

Introduction to Computing

AHS Computing Personnel

IT Director

Terry Stewart

IT Specialist

Craig McDonald

IT Specialist

Brent Clerk

IT Specialist

Lowell Williamson

Co-op Student

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 for official business while you are at UW!

WATIAM

• Logon to WATIAM– http://watiam.uwaterloo.ca– verify your personal

information

• Answer your security questions to activate your account

To Setup Your Account

• Use your WATIAM userid and password

• If you are having issues, please visit BMH 1037

Your Password

• You will have 1 password for all resources at UW

• Use a complicated password

• Guard your password• Change your

password often

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

Email

• Your email account is,– username@mailservices.uwaterloo.ca

• The most common way to check your email is to use mywaterloo.ca

• You can setup an email client like Outlook to read your email

– http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/mailservices/emailclient.html

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

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

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 computing labs on campus

Nexus Software

• Office 2010– Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher & Access

• Internet Explorer 9• Stats Software

– SPSS 20– SAS 9.2– R 2.11

• Other course specific software on selected workstations

Student Computing Labs

• RLS Grad Lab– BMH 1034

• 6 workstations • recprt2• 7 days a week• Access by Department

Key after hours

• SPHHS Grad Lab– BMH 2324

• 6 workstations• hsgprt2• 7 days a week• Access by Department

Key after hours

The N:\ Drive

• Your 10GB 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

VPN

• To connect to your N: drive from off campus you will need to connect to the VPN

• Instructions• http://cn-vpn.uwaterloo.ca

Printing

• If you have problems with printing, please contact:

• AHS Helpdesk, BMH 1037 or ahshelp@uwaterloo.ca

Wireless

• BMH and LHI has wireless coverage

• 2 networks will appear– uw-unsecured–

• username@uwaterloo.ca

Shopping on Campus

• (SLC)• Located in the SLC

– PCs & Macs– laptops– printers– software

• http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/msdn– 173 software titles including Windows 8

• CHIP – MC 1052

Questions

• http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/ahsco/firstyearstudents/

• Lowell Williamson, IT Specialist– BMH 2111, x32326, llwillia@uwaterloo.ca