1. For laptop users - accessing your files when you take a laptop home:
It is now safe to use “My Documents” at home! Jerry has fixed the issue with My Documents, so that we no longer need to use the “Offline Files” folder. When you take your laptop home (or anywhere off the network) you now have full access to the “My Documents” folder. You can open files from it and save to it. Your students (middle school) should do the same thing when they want to work on files on their Norwood laptops at home. [This is assuming that your laptop is synchronizing files at school. It synchronizes when you log on and when you log off.]
2. Accessing files in “Shared Documents”
Both faculty and students have a “Shared Documents” folder on the network, and you now have access to both of them from within your “My Computer.” If you look in “My Computer” you should now see a row of icons on the bottom like this:
Notice that there are now two “shareddocuments…” When you highlight one (by clicking or hovering on it), the file name expands to show the full name. One is “shareddocuments on fileserver\faculty(S:)” and the other is “shareddocuments on fileserver\students(X:).” [Students only have the student version].
The faculty shared documents contain things like: schedules, lists, photo archive, etc.
The student shared documents contains things like: all grade level folders for collaborative projects, chapel powerpoints, digital graphics, etc.
Having all these “Network Drives” in “My Computer” is supposed to make it easier for us to find documents, and save documents. The alternative would be to go through Network Neighborhood, which is complicated in XP.
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