SES ICT Skills

Week 2 Portal Tour and Intro to University

System
Go to http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/students/induction/portal/index.htm

You will get a screen like this

Go on the portal tour

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You login to the portal using your University username and password using the login
box on the staff or student homepage.

Portal login on the Student homepage: at http://www.liv.ac.uk/students/

Then you will see this screen

Follow these screens and take the Portal Tour.

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You MAY use any of the Computer Centres if they are not book
on Campus.

Check where the centres are at :-

http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/pccentres/pccentrelocations.htm

or check seat availability at:-

http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/pcseats/

OR Accessing the University at home

Your modem must have connection speeds from 56Kbps (dial up modem) upwards. However
printing and file transfer may be slow across dial up links.

Your computer will need to have certain specifications to be powerful enough to support
the applications that you may want to use.

To run Office 2007 on the Managed Windows Service (MWS) you must ensure you
have:-

Component Requirement
Computer and processor 500 megahertz (MHz) processor or higher .
2 gigahertz (GHz) processor or higher and 1 GB RAM or
higher recommended for OneNote Audio Search.
Close-talking microphone required.
Memory 256 megabyte (MB) RAM or higher
512 MB RAM or higher recommended for Outlook Instant
Search. Grammar and contextual spelling in Word is not
turned on unless the machine has 1 GB memory.
Hard disk 2 gigabyte (GB); a portion of this disk space will be freed
after installation if the original download package is removed
from the hard drive.
Drive CD-ROM or DVD drive
Display 1024 x 768 or higher resolution monitor
Operating system Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 2, Windows
Server 2003 with SP1, or later operating system

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How to Access the University system at home.

Go to your internet web browser, you will find it by double left clicking your mouse.

It could be a an image like these

But the most common ones are

Explorer

Firefox

Opera

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Go to the Student homepage: at http://www.liv.ac.uk/students/

Go to the Windows Terminal Service under LOGIN TO

and double left click your mouse

This will take you to the Login in page.

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The First time you use this system remotely (at home) you will have to set your Citrix
Java connection. You only have to do this once.

Firstly you will see this image

From the Connection Centre click the 'File Security' button.

Click on

Full Access

and Never ask me again

Then click

OK

Any further queries can be answered at http://www.liv.ac.uk/csd/wts/faqs.htm

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This will allow you to use the following applications

For your academic courses you will need

 Acrobat Reader

 Internet Explorer 7

 Excel 2007

 Word 2007

 Powerpoint 2007

Just click on any of the icons and it will connect you to the application WHILE YOU
ARE ONLINE.

You cannot download these applications; you can only use them while you are
connected to the University.

You can then say the work you do to your M: drive, or if you are working from home
you can go to My Computer and connect to your home drives.

Please be aware that it will rename your home drives, so your hard-drive which is
normally C: may become H:.

Do not open any document file created in Word 2007 in an earlier version of the
programme or in OpenOffice software as it will change the file. Word 2007 documents
have a .docx file name extension.

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Email, Part II
How to attach files to e-mails

OR

Go to Microsoft Outlook Office Outlook Web-Access

Either create a new e-mail , just click on new

or reply to a previously sent e-mail.

Do not forget to put the

address of the recipient

And a title in the

subject line

Plus a few words in

the e-mail itself

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After this you can attach the file

Notice the paperclip

Click on the paperclip to attach a file

An Inset File menu will appear

Go to the drive where you have saved

your file.

C: is your computers own hard drive

M: is usually the University system

allocation of your space on its mainframes

And F: or H: are usually external drives,

like your pen drive

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Go to whatever drive you have saved your file on.

Click on whatever file you wish to

insert

And that file will now be shown in the attached box.

You can send

Music
Word document files PDF files Pictures

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If you are worried about the spelling in

your e-mail
(not in the document you are attaching)
you can check it here

If you what to check how your e-mail

is doing (like tracking a letter)

Go to the follow-up menu

and ask for a read receipt

Only set the High Importance if it is

a REAL emergency
It sends the e-mail title in red (but it
does not get there any quicker)

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Homework

Read Chapter2 from Walvin, J. (1993) Black Ivory A History of British Slavery London,

Fontana, and answer the following questions:

1. What is the name of the chapter

2. Who were the different nationalities in London in the late eighteenth century

3. What did Lord Mansfield stipulate should happen to Elizabeth Dido after his death?

4. What was the importance of Granville Sharp and the Jonathan Strong case?

5. Did Mansfield’s victory mean freedom for all slaves in Britain?

6. What was the importance of the Zong?

Write only a few lines for each answer .

If you want to use any words for the chapter you may quote by using “inverted commas.”

Please attempt to word process these answers as it will give us a better understanding of

your capabilities and needs. Please answer them yourself because we need to get a

baseline of your individual learning profile.

If you wish you may contact me any time before Monday evening at 10 p.m. at

meclinton@btinternet.com

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