Main Services (Across All Platforms)

Macintosh

Windows

Other Documentation

World Wide Web

Ringling College Technology Services

• Account Manager - Information about: Disk Limits; Password Change Request; Vacation Auto-Responders; Print Limits; and Print Services.
  • Your Ringling College Account - What is it?
  • Home Space disk limit - How to check your disk usage and limits.
  • Printing Limits - How to check your remaining print limit balance.
  • Password Information - How to change your password.
  • Your Web Space at Ringling College - How to upload your web site to the college's servers.
• Audio-Visual
  • Portable Solid State Recorder User Guide (PDF) - User Guide for audio recorder that records in digital audio formats onto a Compact Flash™ memory card (CF card) or Microdrive™.
• Calendar
  
  • Event Calendars (PDF) - Institutional Calendar project designee instructions. You can access the designate list here.
• Campus Portal
  • The Campus Portal - Ringling College Portal Documentation and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Campus Connections
  • Create a Course or Worksite - Instructions for faculty on how to create a course or worksite in Campus Connections.
• Email
  • Create Lists in Webmail
  • Gmail - email accounts powered by Google for students and alumni
  • Mobile Email for Portable Devices - This documentation only applies to faculty
  • Signatures - How to create email signatures in supported mail clients.
  • Web Mail FAQ - Ringling College Web Mail Documentation and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Forums
  • Ringling College Forums - Ringling College Discussion Forums.
• Software Discounts
• VoIP Phones
  • Cisco IP Phone 7960 and 7940 Series User Guide
• Web Shares
  • Access Web Shared Space (WebDAV) - for students/faculty/staff with accounts at Ringling. Web Shares are available for all courses as soon as the semester begins.
• Wireless Network
  • Ringling College Wireless Network

Macintosh

• Acrobat Slidedows - Creating a PDF from multiple files in Acrobat.
• Adobe Printing Information (for PDF printing) - Information on how to print from Illustrator and InDesign
• Apple Support - Apple's support web page for all Apple products
• CD Burning in OS X
  • Single-Session
  • Multi-Session
• Art History Server - Connect to the Art History share on campus with a Mac.
• Compress (ZIP) Files on a Mac for Print Services or E-mail Transfers.
• Connect a Mac to a Projector
• DVD Burning in OS X
  • Data DVD
  • iDVD
• Introduction to Mac OSX (PDF)
• iTunes: Finding the Files You Download
• Microsoft Office 2007 Converter - How to open Microsoft Office 2007 documents in Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac.
• Printer Manual Feed and Color Calibration
• Photoshop Printing Using ASCII Encoding
• QuickTime Slideshows - How to create a QuickTime Image Slideshow
• Saving to Your Network Home
• Scanning in OS X
  • Epson, HP, and Polaroid Scanners
  • OCR Setup - OCR Scan and Edit Documents with Acrobat Professional / Mac
• Xerox Pantone Swatches (Printing)
• Wireless Printing - How to connect to the printers and print from a personal notebook.

PC
 

• Citrix Client Installation
• Computer Animation
• Interior Design
• iTunes: Finding the Files You Download
• Microsoft Support - includes FAQ
• OCR with Acrobat - How to scan a text document and make it editable
• Outlook - How to create multiple signatures
• PowerPoint to PDF - Conversion Instructions
• Scanning to PDF - How to scan documents to PDF files

Other Documentation

• Checkout Materials
  • FAQ
  • Documentation
• Domain Name Service for Broadband Users (Comcast)
• Find Your Network Address on a Mac
• Find Your Network Address on Windows
• Instant Messaging Configuration for the Ringling College Network
• Known Issues
• Secure FTP (SSH): Remote Connection to Your Home Space
• Shutting Down Office and Laboratory Computers
• Virtual Private Network for Registered Faculty and Staff
  • IMAP Service for Thunderbird Users within the VPN
• Wireless Network

World Wide Web

• A Beginner's Guide to HTML - This is a great beginners guide to HTML, the language you use to write web pages (don't worry, it is not hard to learn)
• A Word About Search Engines - instructions and advice on search engines.
• Create your own home page - for students/faculty/staff with accounts at Ringling.
• HTML Goodies Domain
• Web Page Counters and Clocks - Counters and clocks available from Ringling.
• Yahoo's Index for HTML Guides and Tutorials