ICT Student Guides to Ravensbourne Resources

ICT Resources and Guidebooks

Below you will find all the help pages regarding ICT supported services. Some of the guides will be basic, other advanced. If you have any comments please pop down to the ICT Helpdesk in the LRC. If you have a problem to report that is also the place to go, or you can make a request on the Service Desk.

ICT guidebooks

Here are a list of current ICT guidebooks. They are updated as and when new information or changes in the services take place. Please download and print out at your leisure.

Scan to email and home folder guide

ICT Resources

Below are guides, help pages and information about core ICT services. These are split into several areas depending on how you would normally use the services.

General help

Find general help about web (webmail, wiki, service desk etc) and other general services here.

College printers- This area will contain documentation regarding the college printers from a practical or management point of view. Here you can find links to resources such as manuals and support web sites, procedures for consumable replacement and paper types as well as other more technical documentation that may not be appropriate for the college Intranet.

Group Emails - Information on how to email specific groups at Ravensbourne.

Personal Wiki site - Every one at Ravensbourne has a personal to which the can edit on site or off site from the college.

Mac Keychains - Keychains store passwords on a Mac.

Checking Mail Quota - How to check you aren't running out of mail space
Organising your mailbox - How to keep your mailbox tidy

Attachment or email problems in Mozila

Creating PDFs - Creating PDF files from other file types can be done on PCs and Macs.

Windows updates - How we keep our Windows PCs secure

Help for staff

Information specific to staff members using college desktops or laptops, or about college services only available to staff.

Mail Account Management - Away messages, mail fowarding
How to use Mail Account Management - How to set the above up, plus signatures.

Ravensbourne Oracle Calendar server access

Calibrating the Digital Whiteboards - How to calibrate the whiteboard in Lime Lab

Setup Staff Mac Laptops - When you get your new Mac laptop, what do you have to set up to get running?
Connecting to shared folders on the network from a Mac - If you loose the common share, get it back this way.
Using Ravensbourne Instant Messaging

Help for students

Using the renderfarm

Information specific to students using college desktops or laptops

Student personal web sites - Every student at Ravensbourne has a personal web folder where you can create your own personal web site.

Ravensbourne blogs - How to blog here at Ravensbourne

Help for laptop or home users

Information specific to students and staff using their own laptops in college

Scanning from your Laptop

Wireless Printing to College Printers from Laptops

Email Clients - Information on how to connect to the email system at Ravensbourne College.

Wireless access information and software- Find links to various virus program definition files/software, downloads for the wireless client and other general internet security programs and information.

Bonjour - Zero Configuration Networkingaka Rendezvous - Zero Configuration Networking. General information about Bonjour applications regarding configuration and troubleshooting.

How to find out your MAC address - A guide to grabbing your MAC address for wireless/wired troubleshooting

Install the Ravensbourne CA Certificate- Information on how you can make your access to College network services more secure by installing the Ravensbourne Certificate Authority certificate.

Ravensbourne IM server- Guides for various clients on how to connect to the Ravensbourne Jabber server (external and internal) and a general guide to the service.

Faculty of Communication Guides

Broadcasting Department - Documentation, guides, and general information on equipment and facilities in the Broadcasting Area at Ravensbourne.

Prototyping Resource Guides

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