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Student Computer Orientation Exercise
Summer 2008
On the attached pages are several exercises designed to familiarize you with law school network services. You may complete them in any order, but do complete as many as possible before classes begin.
Course Information
DukePass
Other Network Activities
Course
Information
Course List
A list of courses and for the current semester is available from the Duke Law homepage <http://www.law.duke.edu>. Open a web browser and go to the homepage URL.
3. Click on the link for one of your
classes
Blackboard Course Sites
Blackboard is a learning management
system in widespread use at Duke University. All law school courses
that have online materials – with very few exceptions – will have
a Blackboard site. These sites will be linked from the Course Page.
You can also access Blackboard directly by going to http://courses.duke.edu .
1. When you have followed the link to a Blackboard Course Site, you will be asked to log in using your ANetID@ and password.
2. You will see ACourse Documents@ in the left menu. Click on it, then click on a particular document to download or view that document.
3. Your professor will tell you what other features of Blackboard will be used in your class.
4. For some classes, some materials
will be on the Duke Law server and will require a separate generic
login. If you see a link that includes the ��eMaterials�� directory
then you should log in using the generic user name ��blue�� and password
��devils.��
Class
E-mail Lists
Nearly every class in the law school
has an e-mail class discussion list. The list may be used by your instructor
to send announcements or distribute materials which are not duplicated
in paper. You can also hold discussions with the instructor and other
students using the list.
You are pre-subscribed to the discussion list for all of the classes
you are enrolled in.
Sending a message to the Class Email
List
Please note: if your class is using ABlackboard,@
you may be asked to use the ASend mail@ function within Blackboard rather than a
Class E-mail List. Please consult with your professor to learn his or
her preferences.
DukePass
DukePass is a Web portal for Duke students
that brings together many of the university��s Web-based services,
as well as outside services. Law students see a specially modified version
of the portal that includes law school information.
Select ��Customize�� for ��Current
Students�� on the law school home page. Click on the link for
DukePass and log in using your NetID and password. You can also go directly
to http://dukepass.duke.edu .
DukePass services are divided into a
number of different groupings by tabs. You will probably see the ��Social��
tab first. You can set up this page to show your university email as
well as your law school email. It also displays pictures from Flickr
and allows you to set up connections to your Facebook and Del.icio.us
accounts.
The ��Academics�� tab displays your
courses in the ��Dashboard,�� along with links to their Blackboard
course sites.
The ��News�� tab provides ��news feeds��
from both general interest publications/websites. Note that you can
add your own RSS newsfeeds (here or under other tabs); click on the
��Help�� icon for more information, if you are interested in this
feature.
The ��Law�� tab includes several newsfeeds,
both here at Duke Law and elsewhere in the legal education community,
to keep you informed.
Viewing a Webcast
Many of the events at Duke Law are recorded
and made available as on-demand videos (webcasts). You need to have
installed the free Real Player to view our webcasts; if you have not
done so, please go to http://www.real.com to locate the link for the free Real Player
and to download and install it (there is no need to download the
Plus player or to engage in a free trial). Note that recordings
of some classes that are requested by faculty members will
only be available as Real video webcasts, so it is highly recommended
that you have Real player installed. Most audio recordings will be in
MP3 format, which is supported by a wide variety of player software;
some video recordings will also be in QuickTime format (available for
free from http://apple.com).
Go to the Law School homepage, click
on ��News & Events�� and then ��Webcasts,
Audio, and Video.�� Select a
webcast that interests you and click on it. The Real player should open
up and play the webcast.
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