The link below will take you to a video that will show you the process for connecting to your home wireless router and turning off the proxy on the web browser.
http://www.screencast.com/t/VmKp3pIjV
If you have issues connecting to your wireless router, you may need to contact your Internet service provider for help.
Remember to turn the proxy back on when you go back to school.
In order to log in using your user name and password, you will need to name your computer (please use your user name) and join the domain. The steps are below:
Joining the Domain
Log in as User name: administrator, Password: leave blank (if that does not work put in password as the password)
Hit start, and right click My Computer
Click Properties (using a regular left click from here to the AGAIN)
Click Computer Name
Click Change
Type your user name in Computer Name box
Click OK, Click OK, Restart computer click OK
Click yes to restart computer
Again log in using administrator with no password (if that does not work put in password as the password)
Hit start and right click My Computer
Click Properties (regular left mouse click from here to end)
Click Computer Name
Click Change
Click Domain and enter pennfield.local
Click OK
Enter your user name and password, click OK
Should say “Welcome to the pennfield domain”
Click OK until it asks to restart your computer
Click yes
After your computer restarts you should be able to login using your user name and password. Make sure that you switch the “log on to” box to PENNFIELD
Just a reminder that Freshman orientation is Tuesday, August 23 at 6:30. The PUL program will be presented at that meeting.
Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors can pick up their laptops during registration. You will need a receipt, a stamped AUP sheet and a computer bag in order to take it home.
Winter Break Information:
If you don’t want to take the computer home, make sure it is in the bag, completely off and locked in your locker.
If you do plan to take the computer home:
1. Make sure you transport your computer in a laptop bag. Don’t leave it in the car where it can get extremely hot or cold. Keep it in a safe place at home where it will not get stepped on or thrown around.
2. If something happens to the computer and it is not working properly, you will need to wait until Monday, January 3 to bring it into the media center for repair. You will not be able to bring them in during break.
3. Parents: Your students will have the computers at home. Please make sure to monitor and be a part of what they are doing on the computers.
4. Students: Be smart about how you are using the computers. Please be very careful as to which sites you visit and what software you download.
5. Malware and Viruses: There have been many computers coming into the media center lately that have a virus or Malware. If you think you have this issue, your best course of action is to reimage the computer. You can reimage your computer at home. The directions on how to reimage your laptop and then what to do after it is reimaged is on the PUL website at http://moodle.pennfield.net/parent/ (click the link on the right that says “How to reimage your computer”. Remember, this will delete your C: drive and reimage it to the way it was when it was handed to you. Your Q drive should not be effected but it is a very good idea to back up important files to a flash drive or somewhere else before you re-image.
I hope you have a safe and relaxing break and we will see you back here on the 3rd.
Tammy Maginity
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Pennfield Schools
Please log on to your computer using your username and password when at school. Do not log in as Home, Home. You will not have full access to the network logged in as home.
If you are having problems joining the domain, try the guide in the handout section. If that does not work, please take it to the Media Center so that it can be fixed.
Welcome back. Now that you have your laptops, there are a couple of things you need to do. You need to name the computer and join the pennfield domain.
Directions on how to do this were on your user name and password sheet. There is also a video at
http://www.screencast.com/t/MzhmOTE4NjYt
Please make sure that you name your computer with your username.
We are piloting the use of guest wireless access with our seniors from now until the end of the school year. Seniors may bring in their own personal laptop and use it at school using our guest access.
To participate, seniors need to fill out the request form, sign it and get a parent or guardian signature as well. Take the request to the office where it will be copied and stamped. Take the stamped sheet to the media center to recieve handouts on how to access the wireless guest access. More information on suggested software and how to access your H drive can be found on the PUL website at http://moodle.pennfield.k12.mi.us/parent/?page_id=76. or by clicking the Guest Wireless Access Page on the PUL website.
Students using the guest access are still under Pennfield’s Acceptable Use policy and are still filtered. The same rules and consequences apply when using a personal computer as when using a school computer.
Request Form: personal-laptop-use-form-2.doc
Spring Break Information:
If you don’t want to take the computer home, make sure it is in the bag, completely off and locked in your locker.
If you do plan to take the computer home:
1. Make sure you transport your computer in a laptop bag. Don’t leave it in the car where it can get extremely hot or cold. Keep it in a safe place at home where it will not get stepped on or thrown around.
2. If something happens to the computer and it is not working properly, you will need to wait until Monday, April 12 to bring it into the media center for repair. You will not be able to bring them in during break.
3. Parents: Your students will have the computers at home. Please make sure to monitor and be a part of what they are doing on the computers.
4. Students: Be smart about how you are using the computers. Please be very careful as to which sites you visit and what software you download.
5. Malware and Viruses: There have been many computers coming into the media center lately that have a virus or Malware. If you think you have this issue, your best course of action is to reimage the computer. You can reimage your computer at home. The directions on how to reimage your laptop and then what to do after it is reimaged is on the PUL website at http://moodle.pennfield.net/parent/ (click the link on the right that says “How to reimage your computer”. Remember, this will delete your C: drive and reimage it to the way it was when it was handed to you. Your Q drive should not be effected but it is a very good idea to back up important files to a flash drive or somewhere else before you re-image.
I hope you have a safe and relaxing spring break and we will see you back here on the 12th.
Tammy Maginity
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Pennfield Schools
We recently experienced a huge slow down in our wireless system. Upon further investigation we found that there is a choice in your wireless networks for a peer to peer network. If you are using that, it will slow down the whole system. Here are some steps to take to make sure that does not happen. Here is a link to an article that explains the issue. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-9941355-33.html
Here are the steps:
You can get to this window with: Control Panel -> Network Connections ->Click (one time to highlight) on the wireless network icon -> On the left, click on “Change settings of this connection” -> Wireless Networks tab -> Advanced button. Click the second box that says: Access point (infrastructure) networks only. Hit close.
Microsoft seems to have fixed the issues with Internet Explorer. Also, if you update to Firefox 3.6 or higher, you will have better success. If you update to that version, you will need to uninstall the add on called Proxy Switch. Do this under Tools, add ons. Then go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and search for Toggle Proxy. Install that. It will create a button in the bottom right corner of the browser. When you click it, it will toggle the proxy between on and off. It should be on at school and off at home.