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!– [email protected]
• 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
• Your email account is,– [email protected]
• 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 [email protected]
Wireless
• BMH and LHI has wireless coverage
• 2 networks will appear– uw-unsecured–
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, [email protected]
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