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IT Tips

IT Tips

by Paul Cutten -
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Here are a few tips to help you get the most out of the IT services at College: 

Reset Password

If you forget your password, you can get a reset link sent to your personal email address.

From a college computer click on the ‘Reset Password’ button at the bottom-left of the logon screen. Click the ‘Reset Password’ button in the new window and then enter your college username.

You can also reset your password from http://moodle.wakefield.ac.uk by clicking on the ‘Forgot your Password?’ tile.

Saving work

We have students coming in to see us every day about lost or corrupt files on USB pens/hard drives – please try and avoid storing work on these devices if you can.

Instead try and save your work to either your H drive (files stored on College servers) or OneDrive (files stored in the Office 365 cloud). On College PCs OneDrive can be accessed in the following ways: 

  • Via the Moodle ‘OneDrive’ tile
  • The ‘OneDrive’ desktop icon
  • The O drive under File Explorer
  • Access directly from within Microsoft Office apps

Files in your OneDrive can be accessed from any PC, phone or tablet either from Moodle (Go to http://moodle.wakefield.ac.uk and click on the ‘OneDrive’ tile), or from Office mobile apps.

Free Microsoft Office

With Office 365 every student can install Microsoft Office software at home on up to five devices (Windows PCs/Apple Macs, tablets and smartphones). To install your free copy on your personal computer go to: http://office365.wakefield.ac.uk, sign in with your College username and password, and then click on the ‘Install Office 2016’ button.

You can also download free apps for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneDrive from your mobile devices app store. When prompted to sign in to these apps use your ‘student ID + wakecoll.net’ e.g. ABC15161234@wakecoll.net

College WiFi

The College’s student WiFi network is ‘WakefieldCollege’. After connecting you will be prompted for your College username and password. You may also be prompted to trust a certificate. Please accept this if prompted.

The College WiFi is subject to the same web filtering as found on College PCs.

Email

You can add your College email to your mobile device. We would recommend downloading the free Outlook app for this and choose the Office 365 option when first run. When prompted to sign in use your ‘student ID + wakecoll.net’ e.g. ABC15161234@wakecoll.net

 

For more information about these and other services please go to Moodle – Support – IT Services