How to Manage Your Default Wireless Network

Windows 10 and 11 Instructions Navigate to the bottom right-hand corner of your screen and click on the Wi-Fi icon. Select the wireless network you'd like to set as your default. If using windows 11, you must select the menu option next to the Wi-Fi icon to bring up the wireless network list Check the box that says "Connect Automatically" This will automatically move the network to the top of your priority list. We recommend using Eduroam as the primary network connection on your computer or phone while you are on campus. Mac OS Instructions Navigate to the top left corner of your screen and…

How to install Adobe applications through the Adobe Creative Cloud app

Confirm that the Creative Cloud desktop app is installed on the computer. If it is not, it can be installed from the Adobe help website at the following link, under the section “How to download Creative Cloud desktop app using direct download links”: https://helpx.adobe.com/download-install/kb/creative-cloud-desktop-app-download.html Open the Creative Cloud desktop app On a PC, double click the Creative Cloud icon on the desktop. On a Mac, click the Creative Cloud icon in the taskbar at the top of the screen. Sign into the app using your SLU Email Address and Password If an “Access Denied”…

Give Permission to View a Shared Calendar in Outlook

New Outlook for Windows Open Outlook. On the left side of the screen, click the Calendar icon. On the left side, click the three dots next to the calendar you would like to share. The calendar will show underneath an email address. Click Sharing and Permissions. Enter the email address of the user you would like to share your calendar with. Select which details of the calendar they can view from the drop-down menu. Click Share. Outlook for Web Navigate to outlook.office.com and sign in. Click the Calendar icon on the left side of the screen. Under My Calendars, right click on the calendar you…

How to fix a Polycom Phone if it only rings one time.

What is the Problem? Under certain circumstances, a Polycom phone may only ring once for an incoming call. This is caused by the Ring Splash feature. Ring Splash is designed to ring only once while a call is inbound. Changing the Ring Type will enable the phone to ring for the full duration. Resolution On your Polycom Phone, press the Home button. Select Settings. For non-touch screen phones, use the circular button with arrows in the cardinal directions to move the selection, then press the button in the center to choose your selection. For touch screen phones, tap on the buttons directly…

How to ensure your documents will print successfully

There are currently a few known issues with the copiers on campus. St. Lawrence is working actively with our copier vendor to get these resolved. However, there are a couple of steps you can take to ensure that you can still print successfully. When printing PDFs or Photos from Windows computers The default apps Windows 10 uses for opening PDFs and photos (Edge and Photos respectively) are each currently having an issue where jobs that appear on the copier will not actually print when hitting the print release button. To ensure that these files print successfully, please take the following…

Skype for Business Tutorials

Overview This article provides links to Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on Skype for Business. For Skype for Business Installation, please see this article for Windows or this article for Mac. Tutorials and Documentation Get Started Get Started Documentation Meetings Meetings Documentation Calls Making Calls Documentation Chats Chat Documentation Contacts Contacts Documentation Settings Settings Documentation Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Documentation

Taking a "Post'Em" approach in Canvas

If you used Post'Em in Sakai and want to take a similar approach in Canvas, check out the ability to Export and Import from the Canvas Grades tool. Here are a few things to keep in mind: If you will be doing your Overall Course Grade calculations in Excel, you will want to: Create a "no submission" Assignment that you will use for that Overall Course Grade (do not use 'Final Grade' since Canvas already keeps track of a Final Grade and you can't reuse that term) Weight all Assignments/Groups in Canvas at 0% and your "Overall Course Grade" at 100% so that Canvas' Final Grade calculation is…

Transfer a Call (NEC and Polycom)

Overview There are two types of phones provided: NEC Polycom A user should check which type they have before moving to the next step. For NEC Phones During a received call, press Transfer Enter the four digit extension of the party desired to transfer the call to Either hang up, or let the party know that a call is being transferred to them and then hang up For Polycom Phones Direct Transfer During a received call, press the Menu key below the phone display Use the arrows to navigate to Transfer directly to... Either select a contact or enter the four digit extension of the party desired to…
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