Here are many of the "how do I" knowledge base articles that were created by the IT Department covering a wide range of topics. We will continue to add articles as new technology is launched.
How to set up the Authenticator App for CofC Email
While it is true that anyone at the College, faculty, staff or students have access to LinkedIn Learning through Office 365, supervisors have the ability to request courses for departments and/or individuals within Cougar ED (Absorb). If a faculty or staff member has a course assigned to them, in order for Cougar ED to maintain records of the course access will need to be through Cougar ED instead of Office 365. Further more, some of those assigned courses are not LinkedIn Learning courses.
How do I access Kanopy to watch a film for my class?
How to access LinkedIn Learning from Office 365.
Incoming & Transfer students can complete their Placement testing for French, German, Latin & Math via MyCharleston.
Office 365 requires a license. In order to use Office 365, it must first be activated. Activate it using your CofC employee email address.
It is now possible for a Microsoft Teams Desktop user to add an image to the gallery of images to use for a virtual background for a Microsoft Teams meeting. You can use the image before or during the meeting session. It is possible to preview the background, but while doing so, it is not viewable by the other members attending the meeting.
Kaltura is a Youtube-like, online media server for CofC faculty, staff and students only. Unlike other media servers on campus Kaltura is available to students so it can be used to upload video projects. It can be used it to upload tutorials, online lectures or presentation or any original work. Adding closed captions to media files allows many different types of users to access and understand your content.
This article provides steps on how to add Dining Dollars to a student's account in eBill. Must select current semester for Deposit. Takes up to 2 hours.
Links to Microsoft support site to add gmail account to Outlook 365 client.
This article describes how to add a signature for PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Pro.
A new Zoom feature allows you to share multiple screens at once!
This article describes how to change the display name in a Gmail account.
There are several methods employees and students can use to reset their own passwords. This article lists those options.
It is possible to change your security information for your account. View this article for steps on how to update it.
Steps on how to change the computer time
Auto-arranged icons will arrange themselves on your primary monitor. It is possible to change which monitor is set as the primary monitor. Here's how.
How do I Check Grades in MyCharleston?
How to check if your laptop (MAc and PC) have a build-in microphone and webcam.
Shows how to check to see if you have a 32-bit or 64-bit processor.
Steps to quickly clear Chrome browser data
How students can synchronize their Cmail password with their MyCharleston password
Instruction for connecting a device to the edurom and ResNet wireless networks.
Connect to a drive or server on the CofC network on a Mac.
Settings to connect using a Droid, more specifically a Samsung Device as well containing a link to provide information connecting Chromebooks to Eduroam
This article explains how to use the new (as of October 2020) custom photo gallery/slideshow feature built into Cascade CMS. The feature allows you to build a page with an optional photo slideshow or photo gallery that is customizable and more importantly, mobile-responsive, to add interactive media to your site without having to write any code.
You may want to get a limited opinion on something team related in a hurry, but also want to limit the answer choices. This article describes how to place a poll within a Teams post. Keep in mind though, that names are recorded and everyone on the team will see the results.
Creating a Student website on students.cofc.edu and/or connecting to the Student Web Server.
Instructions for creating Outlook email templates using View Temaplse and Save As Templates functionality.
This article explains how to customize the notification settings for Microsoft Teams, so that you will be notified when and how you would like to be notified. Too, many email notifications from Teams in your Outlook inbox? Using these setting changes, you can choose to eliminate the notifications going to email.
Files added to Yammer posts help to get your point across, and grab attention. It is possible to accidentally add the wrong file. This article shows the steps on how to delete a file associated with a Yammer post. Yammer posts or files can only be deleted by the author of the posts or files and a Yammer administrator.
Steps to sign DocuSign documents for recipients
This article describes how to enable Flash on a Windows machine using Google Chrome as the browser.
How to enable or disable pop-ups for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
This article describes what to do if a new student has not received permanent MyCharleston credentials yet.
Where can I find information on the Student Health forms that are required?
How to get started using DocuSign, including information about training and product support
Summary regarding using OneDrive for Business
This short article explains how a meeting organizer can set the permissions in a Zoom meeting to allow multiple participants to screen share at the same time.
Individuals have the ability to update or change their Zoom profile anytime by logging into their account. Make sure that it is the CofC licensed account before you make any changes. This article describes the steps on how to access the profile settings in order to make changes, including changes to your current photo, (selecting the surrounding area included the photo, changing or deleting the photo.
This article walks someone through the steps to proofing, allowing changes to be made to allow new abbreviations, or acronyms. The instructions are for windows computers.
There are times when you receive information via email that really needs to be provided to a Microsoft Teams channel. This article describes how to get the email address for a specific channel, enabling you to send to that address. Channel permissions by the owner may limit the availability to email Teams channels. You may need to contact the team owner and request that settings be changed to allow members to email channels in the team.
Microsoft Teams is an application to assist with collaboration and communication with colleagues and associates across campus or anywhere with internet access. This article explains how to access or host and record a Microsoft Teams meeting.
This article describes the steps needed to create a Yammer post. Yammer is available to faculty and staff. Students do not have access to yammer at this time.
A Live Team Event is a great way to show content to a large audience, while at the same time limiting what capabilities of the audience, or attendees. This article describes the role of a presenter during a Microsoft Live Team Event.
Individuals in a Microsoft Teams Live Event each have a role during the event. The roles are participant or attendee, presenter, producer and/or organizer. The producer is often the one behind the 'camera' making sure that the event runs smoothly, moving the presenters from 'up next', or the queue, to presenting live and is responsible for stopping and starting the event. This article describes the role of producer and how to produce a live event after it has been scheduled.
Microsoft Teams Live Event capability is included in our Office 365 license. Anyone with a College email account has the permission to schedule, present or produce a Live Team Event. This article describes how to schedule a live event.
Microsoft Teams Live Event capability is included in our Office 365 license. Anyone with a College email account has the permission to schedule, present or produce a Live Team Event. By presenting information out to other members of CofC in a Live Event, you are automatically muting attendees microphones and web cameras by which you are reducing permissions to attendees to "watch" the meeting and only provide questions or comments using the meeting chat session.
OneNote is a digital notebook with sections and pages to help you stay organized. Use it to prepare agendas, keep meeting notes, and store important items like screenshots, pictures of whiteboard drawings or handwritten notes. OneNote is available across devices and platforms (Windows 10, Mac, iOS, and Android). Collaborate or share with others quickly and easily with Microsoft OneNote.
This article leads to the housing PDF document that shows how to put in a maintenance request for the dorm.
How to install Adobe Acrobat Pro on a college-owned Windows computer via Software Center.
This article describes how an employee can use CofC resources to install Microsoft Office on their home computer.
College of Charleston students are eligible for free access to Office 365. Follow these simple steps to sign up.
How to install Zoom using the SSO to access.
This article describes how a student or employee can locate their CWID.
This article describes how to look up your username.
You will need the initial password to log into MyCharleston the first time.
When logging into Cmail for the first time, students will need to logon to their MyCharleston account, click on the Cmail Icon & then enter in their student email address & default password (CWID number & 6 digit birth date).
Log onto into OAKS, access OAKS, log in to OAKS, log on to OAKS
Requirements for logging into SecureShare using a shared email address
The Parking Portal uses the same credentials as your MyCharleston login/username.
Add or remove an application shortcut icon from the dock on Mac
If the configuration tool does not allow you to connect, here are the settings you may need to know to connect to Eduroam.
Instructions for mapping a network drive on Windows
How to download and use the Transact Mobile app to order food on campus.
This article describes how to swap the monitor order so that your cursor moves from one monitor to the next on the edge they are beside each other.
This article describes how a student can obtain their 1098T.
How to plug in a device into a computer
Switch to a mobile view in your browser to post a photo to Instagram from your computer.
Facebook has an online Help Center that will answer many of your Facebook questions, including how to post photos.
Instructions on how to make a PDF file using the print function
Students and Alumni can print their Unofficial Transcripts in the following Browsers: IE, Firefox & Safari by printing the Frame within the Printing options.
This is a quick and easy step to access any date when using Outlook 2016 (Windows only) and explains the GoToDate function.
This article describes the steps needed to reduce background noise during a Microsoft Teams meeting.
Where in MyCharleston do students go to register for classes?
Where in MyCharleston do students go to register for classes?
This article outlines troubleshooting steps if a student is unable to request a transcript.
If Faculty or Staff needs a shared user account to login to eduroam for a conference, event, orientation, etc. that isn't bandwidth restricted they can use the Self-service request for a Wifi guest account. A guest wireless account can be requested if you have a visitor or group of visitors (conferences, events) who need uninterrupted internet access without bandwidth limitations.
Employees without a phone may obtain a hard token to authenticate for MFA.
Students or Faculty/Staff members in need of a Cmail/Google Apps Password reset can reset their accounts by Synchronizing their password to their MyCharleston account, or by contacting the IT Helpdesk.
How to create screen captures in Windows and Mac.
Which browser should I use?
How to set up greetings that play before the caller leaves a voicemail message.
This article describes how to set up your email account on a campus computer or on your smart phone.
How to set up the Authenticator App for CofC Email
Setting up an Exchange Email Account on your Apple Device
This article shows you how you can share a photo stored on your iPad.
How to share just your open applications or your entire desktop in Zoom.
Share files securely with SecureShare.
This article describes the steps needed to change settings to show the profile photo during a Zoom meeting if the camera is turned off.
How do I sign into the OneDrive app after it is installed on my computer?
This article describes the steps needed to transfer a call from a CofC phone.
How to edit the beginning and end of a recorded Zoom session.
How to turn off outlook notifications (Windows and Mac)
How to update an application on Mac when the application was installed from the app store using a different Apple ID.
This article describes how to update employee displayed job title information in Outlook and other email clients.
How to update your mailing address in MyCharleston.
This article describes where employees and students can go to update personal information in MyCharleston.
How to guide to upgrade to MacOS Catalina
This article explains how you can use a created PowerPoint presentation as a virtual background for your Zoom meeting. What it will do is layer your webcam image over the PowerPoint allowing the viewer to easily see your facial features and the presentation at the same time.
Using a private browsing window or incognito mode is useful for opening multiple sessions in the same browser (such as multiple Office account logins, or Google Apps logins), as well as providing a "clean" temporary session (not using stored session cookies or data).
How to use Microsoft Bookings to allow students to schedule office hour appointments with faculty.
This article contains a brief summary, download and installation instructions for TextHelp Read&Write software.
Information about Academic Catalogs is available online.
How to preview attachments in Outlook for Mac