Friday, November 13, 2015

Student Email

Student Email Access

Hi Wellsboro High School Students did you know that you have an email account from the school? Here is an intro video to what you can do with your account and how to login.

Here are the things that come with your school email account.


  • Google Drive Access (Online storage just like an H-Drive but better.)
  • Email Access
  • YouTube Access 
  • Email Contacts 
  • Google Classroom (This is for both teachers and students.)
  • And More.
click on the link below to go to the log-in website for your school email account.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Google Drive


         To access your Google Drive, first you want to log into your school e-mail. From there, you will find a little Rubik's cube by the search bar at the top of the screen. When you click on that, you will see a bunch of apps that are incorporated with Google. There will be a yellow, green and blue triangle that says Drive under that. When you click it, it will take you to a your drive. Here, you can save items in folders, whether it be assignments for school or pictures. You can download this app onto your phone as well.








Drive will automatically sync between all the devices, and you can even check this by clicking the little arrow by the touch keyboard on your laptops, and looking for a little yellow, green and blue triangle that represents Google Drive. If you just hover your mouse over it, you will see when your last sync was completed. If you click on it, a little box will come up.You can also pause and resume syncs if needed by pressing the overflow button, or the three dots stacked on top of one another, then you will find pause, click it and it will pause the sync. This will cause your Drive symbol to become gray, but if you click it, and then press the overflow button again, you will find that the pause button has been changed to resume, and you can start the sync again. However, you can only sync when you have Internet. 





Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Your Friend the Windows Key

I'm sure all of you have the seen the key in the picture above, some of you have even pressed it before and saw that it brought up the start menu then dismissed it and never touched it again, but I  am here to teach you that it can do so much more.

Using the Windows key to move... well windows

One of my personal favorite WK(Windows Key) shortcuts is the combination of WK and the arrow keys. WK and the up arrow will maximize the current window, while WK and the down arrow will make the window smaller. Using WK with the left and right arrow keys reshapes the window so that it only takes up half the screen. Doing research for a paper? Open Word, hit WK left then open your favorite browser and hit WK right and you can easily have both windows open so you can take notes on whatever sources you find. Another WK shortcut I find useful is WK and M. This shortcut minimizes all windows while adding the shift key to that combo brings them all back.

Using shortcuts for easy access

WK combos aren't just used for moving around windows, they can be used to access all sorts of menus. WK and C brings that annoying little charms bar out from the right side of your screen, or more likely if you just need the settings part of that menu you can just use WK and I. Most of the teachers know about WK and P, it is the project menu and lets you choose between a duplicate, extended, laptop only, or second screen only projection options. But truly the most useful menu WK shortcut is WK and X. This menu not only includes a shortcut to the shutdown menu, it also includes shortcuts to the full control panel when that wimpy settings menu just wont cut it, an easy way to get into the file explorer, a link to the systems setting menu so you can tell the dashing IT tech what your computer's name is, and links to the network connections and power options menu.

Other cool stuff that doesn't really fit in anywhere Else

How is your eyesight? Most of you would respond, "My eyesight is spectacular, I am able to count the hairs on a gnats backside at fifty paces." But for those of you who are less like the previous statement and more stumbling through a world of different colored vaguely human shaped blurs, I have the perfect shortcut for you: WK and the + activates the on screen magnifier and pressing it again will zoom in. pressing WK and - will make it zoom out. WK and any number will open or switch to the corresponding item on the task bar (WK and 3 opens the 3rd item on the task bar or switches to it if already open). Let me weave you a little tale you open your computer to do homework (I know that is a stretch for some of you, but hear me out) you go to open PowerPoint and a strange error pops up, what do you do? For some of you the answer may be, "Run around screaming like the world is ending" but that is not the best answer; the more cool headed among you may be thinking, "I should contact that dashing IT tech from the previous paragraph." Those people are right but, "How will I show the dashing IT tech what is wrong with my computer?" you ask. (BTW, you have a ton of internal monologues; maybe you should get that checked out.) Well I have an answer: WK and PrtScr not only takes a screenshot but also saves a copy of it in the screenshots folder in your Pictures. Then you can send us in the dashing IT department a picture of just what that error was; this will help us to identify your problem and possibly make the repair process go just a little faster.   

In Conclusion

The Windows key can do a lot of cool stuff. This isn't everything it can do; just a few useful ones that I thought you might like. Microsoft is continuously changing what the windows key does -- it even has a few more functions added to it in Windows 10. The Windows key is super useful if used properly, but a lot of people don't realize just how much it can do. So do me a favor next time you use your computer, try out the Windows key. I'm sure it feels neglected and could use a little love, who knows, maybe it will make your life a little easier, or at least save you a little time going forward.


TL;DR:



ComboEffect
WK + ↑Maximize current window
WK + ←Snap current window left
WK + →Snap current window right
WK + ↓Restore down
WK+MMinimize all windows
WK+COpen charms bar
WK+IOpen PC settings
WK+POpen Project menu
WK+XOpen quick links menu
WK + +Activate magnifier (increase magnification if already open)
WK + -Decrease magnification
WK+(0-9)Switch to or open programs on the taskbar
WK+PrtScr     Save a screenshot to the screenshots folder

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Welcome to the Help Desk Club Blog

Welcome to our new blog! The Help Desk Club will be working hard to put useful information on here, so check back often.

 For now check out a couple of videos we've done recently:

For 1:1 Policy Questions, here's the policy video:


Here are some basics on Windows 8.1:
For