IDIS 110: Lab 1
SB 372

In this lab exercise, we will familiarize ourselves with three basic information technologies at Calvin: Knightvision, electronic mail and Novell network drives. If you have any questions about any of these exercises, don't hesitate to ask me for help.

Start by logging into your windows lab machine using the Novell login and password you received during orientation.

1. Knightvision

For this exercise, I'd like you to use Knightvision to answer some preliminary questions on your knowledge of research and information technology. To fill out the survey:

• login to Knightvision using your KV login and password. You should have these from orientation.
• Once in KV, you can find the survey in Knightvision under "RIT" "pre-test".
• Answer all of the questions based on honest reflection on what you do and do not know. This survey will not be graded.

2. Electronic Mail

For this exercise, you'll use Microsoft Word to create a small information sheet on yourself using Microsoft Word. Do this as follows:

• Open the following Microsoft Word document: mini-autobiography.doc
• Fill in the fields appropriately. If you have nothing to say for one of them, then just leave that field blank.
• Save this file on your local hard drive somewhere, say under "My Documents". We'll move to a more private area in the next exercise, so you don't need worry about laying your personal information around for very long.
• Use Webmail to email your Word document to the grader. To use Webmail, login in using the email login and password you received during orientation, then do the following:
  • Click "Compose" to create a new email.
  • Enter the grader's email into the "To:" field
  • Put a short not in the email body to the effect that "find the lab #1 auto-biography exercise attached.
  • Click "Attachments", browse for your word document, then click "Attach".
  • Click "Send" to send the email message with the attachment.
  • Be sure to log out of webmail when you are finished.

You can find information on how to contact me on my home page and on how to contact the grader on the course administrivia page.

3. Your Novell Network Drive

For this final exercise, move your autobiography Word document from your local hard drive (C:) to your Novell network drive (G: by default in the lab). This will ensure that your file stay private, that it will be automatically backed up by Calvin's standard backup routines, and that you can access the file from any machine on campus.

One easy way to do this is to use the Windows Explorer, as follows:

• Start the Windows Explorer by clicking mouse-right on the Windows "Start" button and choosing "Explore".
• Use the file tree in the left Explorer pane to find the Word autobiography document you just created and saved. It's probably under "My Documents".
• Click mouse-right on the document file in the right Explorer pane, and choose "Cut". Note that choosing "Copy" will leave a version of your personal data on the machine's hard drive, which might still be visible to a suitably motivated future user of that machine.
• Now use the file tree to find the G: drive, and click mouse-right in the directory pane on the right and choose "Paste". MS Windows should move the windows file from "My Documents" to your network drive.

When you are finished with all the exercises, remember to log out of MS Windows. If you don't you session may stand open for anyone else to use.

Checking in: When you've done with the 3 exercises, you are finished with this lab.