The LGfL Welcome Pack
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1. it would take you to the Literacy homepage d PMI e l sections lgfl s Homepage of A dialogue box will appear asking for the username wr This option is for going directly to a user account that you know the name e g jsmith stmarys greenwich lgfl My portal Your online webspace t The folder with the green arrow will take you up a level in the directory structure of the network Your webspace is behind your homepage and is shown in folder listing mode Think of it as a filing G cabinet or your my documents folder online Once you are in folder listing view you can upload files download them create folders cut copy and paste items just as you would on a memory stick or your hard drive This effectively means that you have your own drive on the internet that you can save work to and then be able to retrieve it from any computer with an internet connection whether at home or in school EEA new edit a Ei copy paste delete upload download a J access a ER A Folder web Item Order select name a es TD maintaining tabs es E Q Goto Help Don t forget If you are stuck remember to click on the help menu The Manual contains lots of online tutorials which are very useful The LGfL Help section includes phone numbers and email addresses for support www lgfl net Using your webspace 1 To upload files to your digitalbrain and so have th2. and files in the Yariable width root directory of your digitalbrain 1 From your homepage select View Folder listing from the toolbar Full page 2 Select the folder you want to apply the restriction to with the checkbox Your webspace is in the folder called web EF BI E il 7 Then click the access button newJedit viewJeut copy paste delete upload download fur access Edit access control for web Administrators Contributors Owners Explanation Choose the Readers of this content 3 Several tabs will appear ignore Readers have the ability to the others and select the Readers tab e view the content but not create edit or delete it The following users are readers Under Readers select the No one option Everyone This content is publicly accessible on the Internet Inherited The readers are defined in the folder above IE O These users Only administrators owners and contributors can view this content baste oo In addition the following readers may list the folder contents You can also prevent others from even listing the contents in the option below Again select No one Everyone Al readers No one Only administrators owners and contributors can view this list of items ee paste oo C prohibit readers from copying Finally click Done at t
3. my a inbox u Inbox f ef Drafts f a Sent Items P l Junk W Bin 5 Ww Wy Folders f 3 Decide whether you want to keep a copy of the mail for this account by using this tick box Top Tip Often teachers may have more than one account An official postholder account and a personal one By setting one account to bounce to the other you need only ever check one account www lgfl net Using MS Outlook It is also possible to send and receive your LGfL mail using other software such as Outlook or Outlook Express There is a specific help file for this online but the important settings to know are as follows Incoming mail server pop3 lgfl net Outgoing mail server smtp lgfl net This means that you could collect and manage all your LGfL mail using your favourite interface with all the advanced features it contains E mail Accounts Internet E mail Settings POP3 Each of these settings are required to get your e mail account working User Information Server Information Your Marne Incoming mail server POPS Chris Wood pop FI met E mail Address chris wood greenwich go Outgoing mail server SMTAY Ismtp Igfl net Logon Information Test Settings User Meanie Ewond greenwich gt After Filling out the information an this screen we cwood greenwich gf recommend vou test vour account by clicking the button Password Be below Requires network connection W Remember
4. password Test Account Settings i Log on using Secure Password Authentication SPA More Settings Herts Cancel N B Note that in order to send mail through LGfL as well as receive it your logon information will need to be specified for both aspects You can access the settings for outgoing mail via the more settings button above www lgfl net Getting Help Help Guides and User Manual All the guides are online in pdf format and accessible from the toolbar under help The help guides are categorised into contextual segments but the entire manual is available for downloading if you so desire LGfL Support Team Igflsupport digitalbrain com 08700 636465 option 2 At the bottom of every page in LGfL is a customer support link The form goes to the LGfL support team but you can also contact them with the email above regarding any difficulties you have using the digitalbrain system They are very professional and polite Any accounts that need deleting are also dealt with by them Synetrix Support desk support synetrix com 08700 636465 option 1 For mail filtering and spam problems to do with your actual broadband provision contact the Synetrix support desk An up to date summary of all the help and support available can be found at www help lgfl net
5. LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING digitalbrain Welcome Pack www ligfi net This welcome pack is intended to get you up and running with your new account as smoothly as possible and contains the following information What is the London Grid for Learning Accessing your new account e Logging in Your Homepage Changing your password Sharing Other Calendars Navigating the System e Using the Start Menu e Explaining the toolbar Using your webspace e Uploading files e Downloading files e Restricting Access Using email e Reading your Mail sending Mail e Your address book e Bouncing your Mail e Using MS Outlook What s next Getting Help My Login Password What is the London Grid for Learning The London Grid for Learning LGfL is actually a consortium of 33 LEAs that purchased a learning platform for London from Digitalbrain They also commission the broadband supply to London schools via Synetrix Formerly known as Equinox Broadband internet access and filtering LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING sog i Web based D digitalbrain PLC content system You have just received a new account in the system that digitalbrain designed and so become part of a London wide educational community The strength of the system is in its ability to customise a wide range of features at the user end This promotes a genuine sense of ownership and empowers users to easily publish material on the i
6. eBay 11 22 3 85KB nn Preferences H RE School Website Matt Matheson 09 39 15 05KB H RE LGFL Content Problem David Mason 09 27 18 97KB SS inbox 7 RE PDG Agenda Mth April Michelle Lincoln 08 47 22 18KB X Dras 7 School Website Deb Brown 08 02 1 64KB nn IE etais N BrianDurrant 06 32 48 21KB N TE eae act N Brian Durrant 06 32 61 01KB SY My Folders p RE London MLE contract ean Durrant 06 32 64 93KB Clicking on the message itself will allow you to read it www lgfl net Writing a new email is similar to other email systems First select the Write Mail option Sending an email Then put the email address in the To box give it a Subject heading and then type your message below When you are ready click the send button Check Mail tS My Contacts Shared Address Book gt ka Preferences u Inbox 4 Drafts 5 sent items 8 Junk W Bin al Wy Folders To add an attachment click on the attachments icon There are 3 stages e First Select the file through the Browse button e Then click Attach to add it to the attachments list e When you are happy click OK Note there is a 15 meg limit for any one file ig AE and Plain Text emails D oF Send Save as Draft Contacts B This email will be sent ag HTML Use the Preferences to choose between HTML Cancel From Chris Woody lt cwood lgfl net p b BCC b Date 23 Apr 2007 11 44 Subject SY f Attach a file
7. em available via the internet go into your webspace from your homepage and then select upload Email Welcome cwood greenwich Igfl You are delegated to work on Groups guest greenwich Igfl s digitalbrain new eS view cut copy paste Folder web Courses select name select name Account Tip Click New to create a new object 2 You can upload up to 5 files at a time with a limit of 15 megs per file Click on browse and then select your file from your computer Any type of file can be uploaded Uploading Choose file What would you like to upload Look in E My Documents 6 amp m Eir File 1 y Be Blictcocd am2 i 4 2 acitt mdb her Imagei psp File 2 My Recent Bromley England United Kingdom axe N Image2 psp File 3 re Documents EE BT Account txt het Image3 psp ui LINSE centerparcs00 doc Re Image4 psp File 4 Browse Browse rowse centerparcs99 doc het ImageS psp nn E chris C txt E ISP accounts txt File 5 oOo Browse yy E cinefilm video txt E jems txt sr Pl mum 70th pub M Endowment2 rtF Pl office labels pub Click on a browse button then choose the file you want to M Endowment3 rtF EIPOEMS PUB Upload Alternatively type its location directly into the text F Endowment rtf M7 bande box When you are ready to upload press the upload button FA future rt E Greenwich England United Kingdom axe E Schoolsw wdb P
8. getting eT EN ar the most from the system Dr W dk WG sections pfs Homepage i og ma Upcoming appointments latest discussion threads news articles and your favourite links Sm es a are all summarised here i ae If your homepage does not look similar to the em rn picture opposite you may be inheriting your Qi school s or the LEA s instead TD Wiser To create your personalised homepage follow steps 2 and 3 lt _ z 2 Make sure you are at your homepage 1a address and have logged in Then click on the I aan gt LONDON pencil Icon to edit the page SR A al Beer no calendar found 3 This creates a new default homepage for you You can discover how to customise it further from the online help or from a training course for now just confirm it by clicking on save amp view EMS ree en Frame this section with A solid background ofthis colour FFFFFF T Your default homepage contains useful links to your web space email and courses as well as your calendar Gi oups Courses Communities Discussions Notes Webspace Account C Si SKER No discussions found Bees in Space a 20 04 07 Space Qualified and LGfL offer a unique opportunity for KS1 4 students to design their more www lgfl net Changing your Password QI Vy 1 One of the first things you will want to do is to change your Email give
9. he bottom of the page Tick this box to prevent readers from copying content such as Learning Modules Please note that other files can be opened and saved with 2 different file name Administrators owners and contributors wil always be able to copy content Now the only person who can enter that folder and see those files will be you when you are logged on www lgfl net Reading your email On your homepage will be a link to your email Your Inbox will tell you how many emails you have and if any are new and waiting to be read You can also access your email from anywhere via the menu bar under the Tools heading Help Email Ne ZEN LONDON EN ale Wi La amp cos van Tenet age Jp ee U Courses Calendar i Make a note oS Make a link ES Infor m fe calendar found EN Communities i cennin amp Get media SER A Get book EN Discussions A gt ehr 7 Data access oe a 3 Cc Le Insert portlet are yee Ho dincenesons found Bens in Space 200407 Space Oude iid LOR dfe a augue opportunity for GT A eerie ar ire i Change language ti Account administration iR Account gt Mail Folder Inbox showing items 1 to 25 of 30 oe NG 25 amp negotiations Check Mail Write Mail Delete Reply Replyto All Forward More Options 7 ay My Contacts Select Subject From Date 2 Size gt Shared Address Book go ea Support
10. lease note that there is a size limit of SMb per file Your ISP Bine re screen savers doc or proxy provider may also enforce limits on the amount of si data you can upload File name Files of type fan Files Cancel cancel C cce new SE EES ES Folder web 3 Finally click OK and your file s will be uploaded to your webspace select name Folder web select name select rame Open select name P Open in Wew Windom 4 When you want to download your file from the internet you only have to click it with the right mouse button and select Save Target As Tip Click a q In thi Tip Click New to cC Tip To see the vier You can then choose where you want the file to be saved to support webmaster pe 1 m E_ re view ER Poole Add to Favorites Properties www lgfl net quires version 4 browsers eni janes ee et Restricting Access By default your email and calendar are private However if you wish to limit or free access to any files you have uploaded to your webspace you can easily do so Note that access rights can be set on any folders including calendars web pages discussion groups and so on However you cannot set access rights to an individual file itself you have to set the access rights on the folder the file is kept in Ms View Goto Help h Folder listing This will show you the folders
11. n password to one that is more personal i On your homepage you should see an Account icon Groups Clicking it will bring up your details areas Communities Discussions Q Notes Webspace Account 2 There is no need to type in your old password Just type your new password in the two boxes Note that your password must have at least 6 characters You can change your password as often as you like firstname lastname nickname fs ema gender nat would you like as your passwo password minimum 6 characters password again to double check MIS ID cancel www lgfl net Sharing Calendars Sharing Calendars in LGfL is really useful It means you can inherit events from a variety of communities and courses that you are interested in and the dates will appear in your own calendar on your front page summary for easy reference To share a calendar 1 View any calendar which contains appointments you would like to inherit e g www events lgfl net and select the Share this Calendar option Note that if you cannot view a calendar you will not be able to share its appointments Be Share this Calendar Show Task List Month Week SDay Day m April 2007 April 2007 JOC 26 fo 10 09 13 13 Deaf 09 10 18 10 Be F 09 30 13 00 1c T P Video Conference JOT Maik Technicians Primary Consultancy Conference ay w 2 You can manage y
12. nternet themselves Online file storage webmail access rights and communities are all aspects users have personal control over The system is based on a hierarchical network design The Structure of LGfL Main LGfL Portal LONDON 33 LEA Portals Primary and Secondary School Portals within each LEA En Indnidual weh areas within school portal for i teachers subjects students P N C i C 2 C www lgfl net Logging in In order to use your email and web space you will need to log in to your new account First you will need to obtain your username and password If you are in a school your ICT co ordinator should have your details Once you are logged in you can customise your own homepage use your email and access your digitalbrain T00 megs of online drive space Fie EdT View Favorites toos Hep 1 Run your web browser Q sak amp l 1G Ay _ Search Sie Favorites gx A ee LJ EH el 3 Address amp http www Igfl net Igfl sections maths In the address bar type in the URL for your homepage saning Me TE which comprises of your user name and the addition of net at the end e g www jsmith stmarys barnet lgfl net ar ee rege Welcome to your homepage It is a good idea to save this address in your favourites when the page has loaded Note that the use of www is optional e Edit this homepage by clicking on the f icon in the top t
13. oolbar yoyfcan change the text and insert your own picture e Click on to the right to access your webspace where you can Ypload and view documents and webpages that you create IKA 2 To log in click on the green log in button What type of account do you have Select the digitalbrain account option Select from this list ListL fAtomwvide USC jsmith 123 LtsfL Digitalbrain portal fsmith lgfli memes eo B Cr L LONDON GRID FOR LEARNING 3 You will be prompted to fill in your username and password If you logged in from your homepage your Username woodi user name will be already filled in for you BEE sh reed to close ail bronzer window Click log in dem Pa this a may access your account using your identity 4 This screen will appear if it is the first time anyone has activated the account Digitalbrain Terms Of Business Please read our Terms of Business carefully By clicking on th to the terms contained in this agreement You can then acce Click on accept online digitalbrain accent don accept digitalbrain plc From now on all you will have to do is select your homepage from your favourites i Terms of Business click login ER Parties We are digitalbrain plc of 1 o and enter your password St Paul s Churchyard London EC4M 55H www lgfl net Your Homepage 1 Using your homepage is the key to
14. our currently shared calendars by going to your personal one and selecting the Shared option This will list all your shared calendars Learning File Tools View Goto E wer ieee se a Calendar Infor m Get media Get book Data access Insert portlet oe nortan nero Stee j re Showroom Change language Lt ii Account administration X Configure shared calendars Your current shared calendars are z igfvaccounts subaccounts developmentsweb PDGroupicalendar Iof accountsisubaccountsileainfowebicommunityicalendar ei Igftweb events_calendar ndug webicommunityicalendar Remover www lgfl net Using the digitalbrain tool bar bw Goto Help Up 3 level The Digitalbrain Toolbar JE This appears at the top of every page in the system and has a variety of shortcuts My homepage and tools available The Go To menu has a list of common links to aid navigation My webspace Homepages amp G My links The person icon will always take you to your own homepage providing My notes you are logged in of course My courses The portal icon takes you to your parent s homepage If you are a My communities teacher or a pupil this will be your school s homepage My discussions a This icon will take you to the homepage of whatever part of the grid you My buddies Tala are currently on So if you were exploring the section for Literacy support
15. to your message in two steps repeating the steps as needed to attach 1 Click Browse to select the file or type the path to the file into the box 2 Move the file to the Attachments box by clicking Attach Note the system imposes a 5 0ME size limit on each upload and a 5 0MB maximum message size Your ISP or proxy provider may also enforce limits on the amount of data you can upload Total Size multiple files 1 2 0E ANANAI IAN fin at Forwarding your email Although your email is obtainable from anywhere with an internet connection you may wish to redirect your mail to another account that you retrieve at home You can set your account to bounce its mail to any address you like EJ 1 Login to your account and go to gt ar a a your inbox Check Mail Write Mail Delete Reply Select your Preferences option EX My Contacts Select Subject eBay Customer Shared Address Book g k Preferences Notification C FE RE School Websi nm EF RE 1 GFI Content 2 Select the Forwarding option tick the box and type in the email address you wish the mail to bounce to Webmail Preferences xg pai Forwarding acation Message Signature Check Mail Write Mail Forward my Mail Display Settings My Contacts Please forward myAtfail To this or these gt Shared Address Book FDP NR Browse woodigaolcom amp Preferences Also keep a copy in
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