New Student Guide

• All students can use the computer labs. All students can login to the lab with user id "getmail" and password "getmail" (use all lower case and do not include the quotes) if you forgot your LawWeb/NT id and/or password - then you request a Lawweb/NT password change via email at LawITC@virginia.edu
• The computer lab is a good place to start reading email and printing w/out your notebook.
• If you don't have your U.Va. email account ID then please use the computer lab (login using "getmail" etc) and point your web browser to: http://www.itc.virginia.edu/students/accounts/. If you forgot your U.Va. email password then goto: https://www.people.virginia.edu/cgi-ruby/pwdist

The Basics


• Students with Law Bundles
  • Attend Law ITC "Basic" Workshop on either Monday (8/21) or Tuesday (8/22).
    • Signing up and attending a workshop
      • Signup sheets available during Law School "sign in" Monday, August 21st, 9:00am to 10:00am (location TBA).
      • Signup sheets will remain through orientation.
      • Please sign up for only one workshop.
      • Some workshop sessions are restricted to certain small sections due to other scheduling concerns --- honor orientation, student photos. Workshop sessions are 1) Monday, 8/21, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm and 2) Tuesday, 8/22 from 10:00am to 12:00 noon resuming from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.
      • If you are unable to attend a workshop once you have signed up then please scratch your name of the list.
    • Getting ready for a workshop
      • Workshops last approximately 45 minutes.
      • Each workshop starts on the hour so please arrive a few minutes early (perhaps 10 minutes) and wait quietly outside the assigned room.
      • Each workshop seats 32 students.
      • Please bring the following to the workshop
        • your computing id,
        • your student id,
        • your computer (primarily the notebook, power cord and shrink wrapped MS-Office CD ROM),
        • paper & pencil/pen.
• Students with other computers
  • Security checks: Firewall, WinXP OS updates, Norton Antivirus, File & Print Sharing, change local administrator account password.
  • Wireless installation/configuration. You may need to read the "Fixing Problems: Tips and Problem Solving after your initial setup" section at the bottom of the web page. In particular you may need to start using the open 'wahoo' wireless network first and then move to the secured 'cavalier' network.

What is next


• Printing from notebooks
• Home Directory Services
• Purchase a 'thumbnail" drive or read/write CDs. You need a removable storage device to save your exams, papers, outlines on.



Use of computers during class


• Use of computers for purposes unrelated to the educational mission of the classroom distracts the students directly involved and those around them.
• Accordingly, a faculty committee recommended that use of computers in the classroom be limited to appropriate activities.  Inappropriate activities generally would include sending or receiving e-mail, instant messaging, playing computer games, and accessing websites not specifically related to classroom discussion.
• Ultimate authority rests with the teacher.