Usage instructions

For more information about student IT services and support at The University of Auckland see the Student IT essentials guide.

Logging on:

1. Follow the instructions on-screen to press the keyboard keys, Ctrl+Alt+Delete together.
2. The window opens on screen with fields for a Username and a Password.
3. Your Username is your NetID
4. You can find out your NetID by swiping your ID card at a Print Station computer in the labs. It appears on-screen.
5. Your Password is your Netpassword
6. Your NetPassword is a randomly generated password, and new students will find it waiting to be printed at a Print Station computer in the labs. For a new NetPassword see an Electronic Campus Helpdesk such as the Arts Labs Helpdesk. Printing a NetPassword is free.
7. The third field, the domain, should have EC selected.
8. Click on OK or click Enter.
9. Your NetLogin will then automatically logon and your personal Home Drive (the H: drive named with your NetID) will appear on-screen. The programs for you to use are within the Start menu at the bottom left of the screen.

Logging out:

1. Click on the Start menu on the bottom left of the screen
2. Click on the Shut Down selection in the menu.
3. A window will appear with Log off [NetID] selected.
4. Click on Yes.
5. You are now logged out.
    

Logging in connects you to your student Home (H:) Drive where you can save your work.

This drive or a removable disk (for example: a USB Flash drive) are the only places on the computer you can save you work in Arts Labs, so if your home drive does not appear on screen you must save to a removable disk.

To save your work:

1. Click on the File menu.
2. Select Save As.
3. The Save As window appears. Save in shows the current drive your file is to save to.
4. By default, your personal drives appears to save to. Your personal Home Drive (your H: drive, named with your NetID).
5. To change the drive to save to select a location in the Save drop-down menu. For example: To save to your Home Drive select the H: drive named with your NetID.
6. You can change your file’s name in the File Name field.
7. To replace a file on the drive or disk, save it with the same name.
8. Click on Save.

To Open your files:

1. Click on Open on the File menu or toolbar.
2. Look in the drive or disk where it is saved.
3. Click on the file, and click Open or double-click on the file.

Some saving points:

• Backup your work: Save copies of your work in different places: a copy on your personal H: drive; a copy on a USB Flash drive; or attached to an email. You then have a backup should the drive or file fail.
• You can save to USB Flash drives and CD-ROM in the Arts Labs.
• Your Home Drive size is 100Mb. Once that limit is reached you will need to remove or delete files to save work to your drive.
• Different Faculties' computer labs have different personal drives for you. This H: drive is only accessible in the Faculty of Arts labs and The Kate Edger Information Commons.
• Take some time to organise the files on your drives or disks so different versions of files won't become confusing. You can create folders to help you do this.
   

HBB 151 and HSB 259 have a scanner and colour as well as black and white printing and copying.

University information about printing and copying.
 

The following software requires Administrator assistance: Contact the Arts Labs Helpdesk staff.

• French - Deux Mondes
• Italian - Projetto Italiano
• Russian - Ruslan
• Spanish - Curso Multimedia de español
• Translation - Déjà Vu, Trados, MultiTerm, Passolo, Across

See the instructions in the labs for usage of the Language Lab and Macintosh Multimedia Lab.
 

NetAccount is the system used to access to the University's electronic environment, including your Home H: drive, the internet, printing and copying, and webmail.

For more information about Netaccount, your Net ID and Netpassword see the Student IT Essentials Guide.

See the ICT Acceptable Use Policy document.