At the beginning of the school year, the entire College of Education moved into a new building.\u00a0 We share the building with other departments.\u00a0 Our building is large with more than a dozen classrooms.\u00a0 We actually have more classrooms that we can fill each hour.\u00a0 As a result, we have a lot of students from other departments taking classes in our building.<\/p>\n
Within our college we have always tried to have an open door policy.\u00a0 Any time I am in the office, I just leave my door open.\u00a0 This way, if someone stops by to see me, he\/she will know I am\u00a0in the building\u00a0even if I am not in office.\u00a0 With all the students roaming our building, we have had a few security problems.\u00a0 On several occasions, faculty have come back to the office to find a student trying to use the faculty computer to print a paper for a class.\u00a0 Of course, most faculty keep things like student data (grades) and other private information on the office computer.<\/p>\n
Most of our faculty have not had a reason to worry about computer security before now.\u00a0\u00a0Some have used the auto-login feature of the OS to avoid the hassles of typing a password every time the computer turns on.\u00a0 Also, few have used a screen saver with a password.\u00a0 We are now instituting these practices.\u00a0 Here are a couple of tips to help secure your PC, whether using XP of OS X.<\/p>\n
If you are using OS X, here\u00a0is a\u00a0MacWorld article with several ways of\u00a0quickly locking a computer: Quickly Lock Your Screen<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you are using XP there are a couple of ways to quickly lock the computer.\u00a0 Pressing CTRL-ALT-Delete (all at the same time) will bring up the Windows security screen.\u00a0 One of the buttons will say Lock Computer.\u00a0 Pressing that button will do it.\u00a0 An even quicker way of locking the computer is to use the keyboard short-cut: Windows-L.\u00a0 Press and hold the Windows Logo key and the L key.<\/p>\n An extra safety measure that should always be used is a screen saver with a password.\u00a0 This is recommended because you want your computer to automatically lock if it has not been used for a period of time.\u00a0 You may not always remember to lock your computer when you leave the room, especially if you are not using the computer when you leave the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the beginning of the school year, the entire College of Education moved into a new building.\u00a0 We share the building with other departments.\u00a0 Our building is large with more than a dozen classrooms.\u00a0 We actually have more classrooms that … Continue reading