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HELP TOPICS

PERSONAL SETTINGS

  • Changing your password
  • Updating your contact information
  • Setting your email notification preferences
  • Viewing recent information posted on the site
  • Viewing and managing your Clickboard
  • Requesting access to a group
  • Leaving a group

LIBRARY

  • Viewing a document
  • Viewing all recent documents
  • Adding a document to your Clickboard

CALENDAR

  • Viewing an event
  • Adding an event to your Clickboard
  • Responding to an RSVP request

MAPS

  • Viewing a map
  • Zooming in or out
  • Scrolling
  • Identifying items linked to a map
  • Turning map layers on and off
  • Re-centering a map
  • Saving a Map Bookmark
  • Viewing all Map Bookmarks
  • Changing the display size of a map
  • Printing a map

DISCUSSION

  • Viewing a Topics discussion
  • Viewing a Group discussion (only for groups to which you belong)
  • Viewing all recent discussions
  • Posting a comment to a discussion
  • Adding a discussion to your Clickboard

POLLS

  • Participating in a poll
  • Viewing poll results
  • Adding a poll to your Clickboard

PERSONAL SETTINGS

Changing your password

  1. My Settings
  2. Password Settings
  3. Complete form with current password, followed by new password (twice)
  4. Change settings

Updating your contact information

  1. My Settings
  2. Contact Info
  3. Complete form with current contact information
  4. Update info

Setting your email notification preferences

  1. My Settings
  2. Email Notification Settings
  3. Click appropriate buttons and check boxes for desired frequency and type of email updates
  4. Update info

Viewing recent information posted on the site

  1. My Recent Info

Viewing and managing your clickboard

  1. My Clickboard

Requesting access to a group

  1. My Groups
  2. Membership
  3. Check boxes for group(s) you would like to join
  4. Process request

Leaving a group

  1. My Groups
  2. Membership
  3. Check boxes next to group(s) you would like to leave
  4. Process request

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LIBRARY

Viewing a document

  1. Library
  2. Locate document in folder structure and click directly on document name
  3. Get/View

*Note, if you are having trouble downloading a PDF file, you may want to try right-clicking on Get/View and select "Save Target As" (for Mac users “Download linked file as"). Save the document to your hard drive and opening file directly from there. Or, try downloading the latest version of Acrobat Reader. This download is free and can be found at the following web address: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Viewing all recent documents

  1. Library
  2. Recent

OR

  1. My Recent Info (in left-hand sidebar)

Adding a document to your Clickboard

  1. Library
  2. Locate document
  3. Add to Clickboard

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CALENDAR

Viewing an event

  1. Calendar
  2. Navigate to date of event
  3. Click directly on event name to view details

Adding an event to your Clickboard

  1. Calendar
  2. Navigate to event and click add to clickboard

Responding to an RSVP request

  1. From the notification email you receive, click on hyperlink to the RSVP
  2. Enter your password (if you are not already logged in)
  3. Select "Yes", "No" or "Maybe" and add a comment (optional)
  4. Reply
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MAPS

Viewing a map

  1. Maps
  2. Select map to view from drop-down box at bottom left of screen (if there are multiple maps to choose from)

Zooming in or out

  1. While viewing map, click zoom in or zoom out tool at right and click directly on map where you would like to zoom in/out

OR

  1. Click a specific zoom level from 1 to 10 (1 is fully zoomed in, 10 is fully zoomed out)

Scrolling

  1. Click any of the directional buttons (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW)

Identifying or viewing items linked to a map

  1. Click identify tool at right
  2. Click directly on (d) - documents, (e) - events, (t) - discussion threads, (p) - polls, (n) - news
  3. Click on item title under "label" to view

Turning map layers on and off

  1. Check or uncheck boxes next to layers (under Base Map)

Re-centering a map

  1. Click re-center map tool at right

Saving a Map Bookmark (custom map view)

  1. Find a zoom level and combination of layers you would like to view in the future (or share with others),
  2. bookmark map view

Viewing all your Map Bookmarks

  1. Click view map bookmarks

Changing the display size of a map

  1. Click S, M or L for small, medium or large display

Printing a map

  1. printer version of map
  2. print map

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DISCUSSION

Viewing a discussion

  1. Discussions
  2. Navigate to discussion you would like to view and click directly on title

Viewing a Group discussion (only for groups to which you belong)

  1. Discussions
  2. Groups
  3. Navigate to discussion you would like to view and click directly on title

Viewing all recent discussions

  1. Discussions
  2. Recent

Posting a comment to an existing discussion

  1. Discussions
  2. Navigate to discussion and click Post to thread
  3. Add your comment
  4. Link related information from your Clickboard (optional)
  5. Post comment

Adding a discussion to your Clickboard

  1. Discussions
  2. Navigate to discussion and click add to clickboard
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POLLS

Participating in a poll

  1. Polls
  2. Click directly on poll name
  3. Read poll and check your answer choice(s)
  4. Tally my response

Viewing poll results

  1. Polls
  2. Click directly on poll name
  3. View results

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