Access to Your Norwood Computer Files at Home

There are several ways to move your files back & forth between school and home...

1. Use a Norwood laptop to work on files in "My Documents."
The Norwood laptops synchronize the "My Documents" folder. When you go home with your laptop, you can log on to it, and all your documents are in My Documents. When you come back to school it synchronizes them back to the fileserver when you log on.

2. Use a USB drive or CD-R.
If you don't want to bring your laptop home, you can use these disks to carry your files back and forth. We've stopped using floppy disks because they are prone to failure. The USB drives can be borrowed from teachers or the technology department office. You plug them into the USB port on any computer and it shows up as a drive in "My Computer" named "Removable Disk (E)."  [If you have Windows 98 or a Macintosh you will need to install the drivers in order to use the USB drive.]

3. Email the file to yourself.
You can attach the file to an email, and then open your email at home, work on the file, save it, and then email it back to your school account. When you get back to school, open the email, and save your file back into “My Documents.” If you don't have Microsoft Word at home, copy/paste the contents of your document into the body of the email message, rather than sending the document as an attachment.

4. Use "Web Folders" to access your files over the Internet from any computer.
On your computer at home (or on any computer) go on the Internet to Norwood’s web site: www.norwoodschool.org. On the bottom of the web site is a link to "Set Up Web Folders." When you click this link it will give you a directions page. Once you set up a web folder on a computer, it is accessible through "Network Places."

5. Use VPN to access any network files over the Internet on your Norwood laptop.
On your Norwood laptop, once you are connected to the Internet, click the desktop icon for "VPN." This will initiate a connection to the Norwood servers that will create your mapped network drives inside "My Computer." This will give you access to shared documents, grade level files, etc.