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Browser Tips
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Internet Explorer (IE)
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Netscape Communicator
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Setting Your Home Page
Set your browser to remember the Web site you want to have appear by default.
When you start your browser or when you click on the Home button, it will go to the page you specify. every time you start your browser
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- Go to the Web page you want to make your home page (www.uottawa.ca)
- From the Tools menu, choose Internet Options
- In the Internet Options window on the General tab, click the “Use Current” button.
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- Go to the page you want to use as your home page (e.g. www.uottawa.ca)
- From the Communicator menu bar, select Edit, Preferences. The Preferences dialog box will appear
- In the Preferences dialog box click
Navigator in the Category list. That panel will move to the front
- In the Navigator panel, click the Use Current Page button to set the page you just visited as your default home page
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Creating Favorites And Bookmarks
These features make it easy for you to return to sites you visit and you want to memorize and return to often. The best part: you don’t need to memorize those long Web address.
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- Go to the Web page that you want to add to your Favorites
- On the Favorites menu, click Add to Favorites
- In the Add Favorite box, type a new name for the page if you want, and click OK. IE usually proposes a perfectly good name, but occasionally you may want to give the page a different name.
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- Go to the page you want to bookmark
- You can bookmark a page for which you typed the URL into the Location field, or you can bookmark a page you visited by clicking a link
- Hold down the Bookmarks button on the location toolbar and select Add Bookmark to add a bookmark for the current page to the bottom of the Bookmarks menu
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How To Clear Your Cache / History
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- In Internet Explorer, click Tools and then click Internet Options
- On the General tab, click Clear History
- Click Delete Files to clear cache
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- Choose Edit and then Preferences
- Click Advanced and select Cache
- Click Clear Disk Cache and Clear Memory Cache
- Click Clear History
- Click OK
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Important Links
| University's home page |
www.uottawa.ca |
| Netscape Calendar |
https://web.uottawa.ca/calendar/ |
| Software site licenses and software available for download |
www.ccs.uottawa.ca/support/software/ |
| PC purchases |
http://www.uottawa.ca/services/ccs/coe/ |
| Computer training |
www.ccs.uottawa.ca/training/ |
| Computing and Communications Services |
www.ccs.uottawa.ca |
| Human Resources Service |
http://www.uottawa.ca/services/hr/english/ |
Human Resources Service
Benefits, Manulife, Pension Reform
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http://www.uottawa.ca/services/hr/newweb/pensionbenefit_e.html |
Major Systems
| InfoWeb |
Secure entry point to access University services for students, professors, employees and alumni: www.infoweb.uottawa.ca |
| Degree Navigator® |
Registered students and guests can view various scenarios and make informed decisions about university studies: www.uottawa.ca/academic/info/index/english/online-reg.html
- visualize current and past courses;
- assess the impact of course selections on a degree program;
- plan a program transfer with regard to equivalencies and retained courses;
- assess progress within a program of study
- print a program of studies status report that includes courses, final grades and advanced standing credits.
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| Registration Navigator® |
Registered students and authorized SIS staff can complete course registration for students using Registration Navigator.: www.uottawa.ca/academic/info/index/english/online-reg.html |
| Coop Navigator® |
Registered students can manage a variety of tasks related to work and academic terms:.
www.coopnavigator.uottawa.ca |
Searching On The University's Web
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Two search engines are available at www.uottawa.ca/search/ that allow you to search specifically the University's Web site. The University's search engine creates an index every week whereas Google creates a new index every month. The key to getting the best results is to wisely choose your keywords:
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Try the obvious first. If you're looking for information on Human Resources, enter " Human Resources " rather than "Jobs" or "Positions Available".
- Use words likely to appear on a page with the information you want. "Manulife " gets better results than "Insurance Information".
Make keywords as specific as possible
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University's search engine
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Google search engine
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- In the Match field, choose All to find the Web pages that contain all of the keywords. Choose Any to find the Web pages that contain one or more keywords. Boolean is used to search using a boolean formula.
- In the Display field, choose Long to display detailed search results. Use Short for brief results.
- In the Sort by field, choose Score to get the search results sorted out by score. Use Time to get them sorted out by time with the last update date stamp beginning with most recent one. Use Title to get the search results sorted out by title.
- In the Per Page field, choose 10, 15 or 20 to have 10, 15 or 20 results per page.
- In the Scope field, choose from the combo list, the specific Web Site you want to search.
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- Searches are NOT case sensitive.
- Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms.
- Type a few descriptive words and press the 'enter' key (or click on the Google Search button) for a list of relevant Web pages. Since Google only returns web pages that contain all the words in your query, refining or narrowing your search is as simple as adding more words to the search terms you have already entered. Your new query will return a smaller subset of the pages Google found for your original "too-broad" query.
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General Information On E-mail
| MAILBOX is the central email service |
Format of accounts is userid@uottawa.ca |
Change your password: www.uottawa.ca/mailadmin |
| Read your e-mail on the web: www.uottawa.ca/e-mail |
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| Report problems with your account at www.ccs.uottawa.ca/cybersos/ |
Use departmental email accounts for publications, web sites, etc.
All correspondance directed at individuals should use personal e-mail addresses and all generic /departmental correspondance should use departmental accounts.
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E-mail Signatures
End all your emails with a business
card.
SUGGESTED FORMAT
- Full name
- Job title
- Institution's name
- Email address
- Telephone number (including area code)
- Fax number (including area code)
- Postal address
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Setting Your Signatures In: |
| Outlook Express |
Netscape Messenger |
- Choose Tools, Options, Signatures.
- Click on New.
- Under Signature Text, click Text and enter your signature information.
Under Signature settings, click on Add signatures to all outgoing messages.
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- From the Edit menu, choose Preferences
- Select Identity from the Mail and Newsgroups preferences category.
- To attach a "signature" to your messages, type the absolute path at Signature File. Click Browse to locate your signature file.
- Create your signature file using Notepad
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| Consider Two Signature Files: One Inside, The Other Outside the University |
| In the University: the service and department you are in is more useful than the institution name; listing the University's Web address (www.uottawa.ca) or your sector's website is valuable; some include their cell or pager numbers; building names may be more useful than street addresses. |
Outside the University: include the URL of your organization (e.g. www.uottawa.ca); pager or cell numbers may not be appropriate here; building names may not be useful - if you do use them, include the street address and postal code too. |
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Outlook Express
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Netscape Messenger
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| Blind carbon copy (bcc) |
Sends a copy of an email to a person invisibly, without their name appearing in the TO or CC field. |
To create a new mail, click on the To or CC field to get the Bcc to appear. |
The Bcc field is accessible through the To pull-down menu.
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| Auto-reply utility |
Automatically sends an email to anyone who sends you a message. |
www.uottawa.ca/mailadmin |
| Spam |
Unsolicited email sent to a person. Internally, to be distinguished from info deemed to be pertinent for you to read. |
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| TIP: |
Use forward instead of reply. Many a person has rued replying personal comments to a listserv instead of to a person. When replying to an e-mail, always verify the To field to insure that you are replying to the intended recipient and not a list.
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| TIP: |
Create yourself an address book in your email package to easily track coordinates of clients and colleagues. |
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Ensure your emails are grammatically correct by copying and pasting your email into Word and performing a grammar check. Once done, paste back the results into your email. |
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Check if your email software has a spell checker. This is particularly useful if you communicate with students and clients outside the University. |
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For information you repeatedly send, consider making a template file that you can copy and paste into your emails, and then make small, personalized changes as required. This will reduce the likelihood of having grammatical or spelling errors. |
| TIP: |
Don't put confidential, personal or emotional content when replying to an email. |
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If you automatically add someone to a listserv (an email address that reaches many people), make sure you give instructions on how they can be removed. |
Latest Electronic Version Of This Handout
This handout will be updated at www.ccs.uottawa.ca/training
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