Teacher Laptop Initiative – how do I get a teacher laptop?

Q1.  Who is eligible to take the laptop course, where you receive a laptop for professional usage?
A1.  All certified staff, including nurses.  Also included are all school and district adminstrators – and most recently, we’ve opened access to supervisor/specialists who are salaried employees.

Q2.  Will hourly employees be eligible to receive a laptop?
A2.  No.

Q3. How often are the classes available? and where are they listed?
A3. Classes are available each semester and are posted on the district’s professional development web site. >>http://www.wdmcs.org/district/staffdev

Q4.  I’m new to the district, how do I get one of the teacher laptops?
A4.  Sign up for the teacher laptop course –  It’s a 15 hour professional development course where you’ll receive 1 credit hour towards license renewal – and you’ll receive a laptop, carry case, mouse, and flash drive.  The laptop will enable you to remotely access your network drives from home!  Classes are listed on the district’s professional development web site.

FOR STAFF: How do I access network drives from my personal laptop?

Q1. I’m a staff member and  I’ve brought my personal laptop to work –   can I access network drives, like my H: drive?
Yes!!    First, you need to make sure you are on the WDM-STAFF wireless network.

 

If you are using a Mac and want to connect to the network drives….

1.  Go > Connect to Server

2. To access the following drives, type…  

If your home school is elementary, and you want your H: drive,  type     smb://lrc-4/username$  (where username = your username)

If your home school is secondary, and you want your H: drive, type    smb://lrc-7/username$ (where username= your username)

If your home location is the LRC or Operations, and you want your H: drive, type   smb://lrc-1/username$ (where username = your username)

To access the K: drive,  type     smb://lrc-5/d-common$

To access the S: drive, type   smb://lrc-11/students$

 

3. Connect as registered users

User name is wdmschools\username (where username equals the user name that you use to log into school computers)

Password is the password that you use to log into school computers

Select the checkbox for “Remember this password”

 

Another option for Mac users:

For the H drive, you can type in..

smb://username:password@server/directory    Using this style will store the password and server information together.

 

 

If you are using a Windows machine…

1. Connect to the WDM-STAFF wireless network

2. Right click on MY COMPUTER, select MAP NETWORK DRIVE

3. To access your H drive, select the letter H and for folder, enter either…

If your home school is elementary, and you want your H: drive,  type     \\lrc-4\username$  (where username = your username)

If your home school is secondary, and you want your H: drive, type   \\lrc-7\username$ (where username= your username)

If your home location is the LRC or Operations, and you want your H: drive, type  \\lrc-1\username$ (where username = your username)

 

4. To access the S drive, select the letter S and for folder type in

 \\lrc-11\students$

 To access the K drive, select letter K and for folder type in..

\\lrc-5\d-common$

5. When prompted for your log in information, use…

wdmschools\username (where username is your name that you log into the school computers with)