MyIT Tip of the Week

MyIT Tip of the Week

Accessing OneDrive from a Classroom computer

OneDrive is our university’s solution for personal file storage.  Faculty, students and staff can safely store files on OneDrive, knowing that they will be available wherever they are.

The OneDrive app is available on your computer, and once you have synced your local files to One Drive they will be available on the web.

OneDrive also allows access even if a user is logged into a different account, such as when faculty use the SMART classrooms. It does not matter which account is logged into Windows, through the online portal hornet.emporia.edu users may retrieve their OneDrive files by logging into Hornet365:

1: Go to http://hornet.emporia.edu and select Log In.

2: Select the OneDrive Tile. 

  

From there you can open any document or play a video if it is saved to your OneDrive.  You can also share files with others from OneDrive.  You may share files with other ESU staff, faculty or students, by selecting their email address.  You may also share files with email addresses outside of ESU, but exercise caution that you are not sharing protected information.

More information on this is available at hornet.emporia.edu under MyIT.

Public Wi-Fi - Protect Before You Connect!

According to a BBC article from December 2017, "Starbucks has acknowledged that visitors to one if its branches were unwittingly recruited into a crypto-currency mining operation." Hackers compromised customers' computers and used them to create digital cash. This incident is only one of many to highlight the risk of using public Wi-Fi.

Public Wi-Fi is convenient and great to use, especially when you travel. However, connecting to public Wi-Fi comes with its own risks, especially when transmitting sensitive data. As in the example above, attackers can set up fake Wi-Fi access points or compromise legitimate ones to steal your information. While there is no reason to avoid public Wi-Fi entirely, here are some things to be conscious of.

1. Before connecting to public Wi-Fi, makes sure all systems, browsers and apps are up-to-date. Updated software is much harder to compromise.
   
2. Be aware of what you are sharing while using public Wi-Fi. For sensitive data, such as bank transactions, use tethering off your smartphone whenever possible.
   
3. If available, use encryption for everything you do online and browse secure websites (look for https).
   

A Bad New Snapchat

-A Bad New Snapchat-

With the latest update to the millennial's popular social media app "Snapchat" users now have an app that separates personal content form media sources, however, many users are having an outrage because of the new layout. lets break the UI of Snapchat into three sections: left, middle, and right.

Center

Below is the camera (not the latest edition) that appears when users first open Snapchat, nothing has changed all that much for the camera other than a few icon modifications and reorganization of icons.

Left Side

Swiping to the left will lead users to Chats and Stories from their friends. Each friend of the user is identified by a circle, that has their Story or user icon, followed by a username and status of messages sent or received between you and friends.

Right Side

Moving over to the right side users can find the "Discover" section where popular posts, media sources, and  the community post their Stories. One of the new additions is when a story from a publisher ends you are automatically sent to the next publisher's content to continue viewing content.

Snapchat User's thoughts

Many of the users do not like how their stories have moved from the Stories (now Discover) section to Chat, some are finding it hard to navigate the application and to use the features they love. Will this be a issue for Snapchat, probably not knowing how quick users are at adapting to change.