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University email and personal web pages Almost as important as the VLE, when you register the university will provide you with an email address. It is essential you use this. Your tutor, the department and the university will send round-robin instructions to this address and ignorance is no excuse. So even if you want to continue using your existing address, you must get into the habit of checking both. Tip: Joining up email addresses ➢ It is annoying to monitor two email addresses, so arrange to forward mail from your personal email to your university email address. If you are using Microsoft Outlook for running your personal email, go to: ‘Tools’ (on main menu bar) ‘Rules and alerts’ ‘New rules’ ‘Start from a blank rule’ ‘Check messages when they arrive’ ‘Next’ You can then select any particular conditions you want to use. For example, to forward mail to your university email tick: ‘Where my name is in the To or Cc box’ ‘Next’ ‘Forward it to people or distribution list’ Click ‘people or distribution list’ and put in your name with your university email address from your contacts list. Then click: ‘Next’ ‘Finish’ USING IT 71 Another reason for using the university’s email system is that it will give you access to an address book giving the email address and department for all students, useful socially, and addresses and telephone numbers of staff. There will be a number of ways you can access your university email, but the simplest way is usually through a Webmail link on your university portal. You may also be provided with some personal web space for you to use if you are familiar with setting up web pages, but this is will almost certainly be limited to the university’s intranet and will not be visible outside it. One increasing use of
72 STUDY SKILLS FOR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS this facility in psychology is for running web-based experiments and questionnaires as part of final-year projects (see pages 139–140). Site licensed software The university will have purchased the licences to put a wide range of software on all its networked computers and some of this software will be available to put on your own computer. If it is available to download from the university’s intranet, this may be free. Some will simply cost the price of the media, usually CDs. Some you will have to buy through a dealer, but usually at a negotiated rate much cheaper than you could get elsewhere. A typical range of site-licensed software would include the following. • The Microsoft Office suite, of which the three most important to you will be: Word, for word processing, simple drawing, flow diagrams, tables, etc. Excel, for creating spreadsheets of data, drawing graphs and doing some basic statistical analysis PowerPoint, for preparing slides for presentations and preparing figures for putting in Word, etc. • SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences), for doing more sophisticated statistical analysis and for drawing graphs and tables. • Adobe Acrobat, for reading and editing pdf files, the format in which journals and books are most commonly stored electronically. • PaintShop Pro or PhotoShop, for editing photographs and other pictures. • Software for drawing, like Corel Draw. • Bibliographic software, like Endnote or Reference Manager, for storing and organizing references to books and journal articles, and for automatically placing these in what you are writing. • Software for sending and organizing emails, like Outlook. • Virus protection software, like Sophos or McAfee. • A web browser, such as Internet Explorer. Tips: Using software ➢ If you have a laptop that you use on the web it should have virus detection software installed. If not, the university may be able to sell you a suitable package very cheaply or even provide it free. (It is in the university’s interest as well as yours that you are protected.) Get it and install it now. ➢ Look out for courses run by the university or your department on the software packages that you may use. Even if you are reasonably familiar with them, a course often throws up new and better ways of doing things.
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