The links below provide information or tutorials useful to computer users at Graceland University. If you have questions or ideas for helpful topics send them to jsjones@graceland.edu. This is a work in progress by Computer Science faculty, intended to supplement any other information provided by IT support services or the help desk (x5167).
Tutorial for using the CS Lab Scanner
Basic instructions on how to use the HP Scanjet scanner
in the CS Lab (complete with screen shots).
JCreator and LeJOS
Basic instructions on how to configure JCreator in the CSLab
for students who program LegoMindstorms robots in LeJOS.
Conflicts when using wireless and wired
Users with laptops that have wireless and who also plug into the network
from their office, classroom, or dorm, need to be aware of how to avoid
problems (such as inability to print, no mapped drives, slow restarts).
How to Access Network Drives from On or Off campus
Answers to your questions about accessing the H-Drive and W-Drive in different ways.
This is directed to students, but entirely relevant to faculty and staff except
that only students can access their H-drives from off campus as described.
General and helpful information about websites at Graceland
This is a brief summary of where websites are hosted at Graceland,
their hostnames, how to get to them, and which ones are for you.
It includes answers to some frequently asked questions.
Moving your old website from brutus to neo
On 1/27/2006, the hostname personal.graceland.edu changed
from the old server named brutus to the
new one called neo. If you have an old
personal.graceland.edu website that you want to keep,
copy it to the new server before the old one dies.
It's simple. This describes how.
Listening to Graceland's KBUZ Radio
Basic instructions on how to access and listen to
Graceland's KBUZ Radio over the Internet.
Fixing Broken Bookmarked Favorites
How to organize and edit your list of favorites with screenshots
and instructions. What is shown is how to fix the broken links
after Graceland instituted hostname changes on its network, but
you can generalize this for other needs.
E-mail Lists at Graceland
E-mail Lists are used for communication in classes,
departments, clubs, and announcments at Graceland
(such as announce-L or lamoni-L).
Learn more about them and their use.
Using Outlook Express to handle your e-mail
After a brief intro on Outlook-direct, web-based, and POP-based
e-mail clients, this describes how to set up Outlook Express
to access your Graceland e-mail from off campus.
Screen snapshots are included.