Useful UoA stuff that they don't tell you about unless you're really lucky.
Sorry for the hackjob of a website, but I'm lazy and I only know basic HTML. If you have anything to add, you can email me (my NetID is in the url) or post it to the
Overheard @ University of Auckland Facebook group. Thanks to Andrew Chen for making the first list, I just put it together on
here and added a
few things.
CECIL Tools
Stop the inactivity notifications in CECIL (Scott Goodhew).
If you don't have Chrome, check out CECIL Tools (User: cecil-tools, pass: access).
NetLogin
Automatically reconnect to NetLogin when it drops out (Kerey
Watters).
(Note: you still need to sort out connecting to the proxy and changing your Internet settings to get faster internet on the University WiFi, which you can find on .PDF's here. Use NetLoggedIn as a replacement for NetLogin).
Exam Results
Automatically poll for SSO exam/grade results (so you don't have to keep logging back in etc.) (Milos Ivanovic)
UoACal Timetable
Export your semester timetable into Google Calendar, or iCalendar, or whatever.
Free Software
Heaps of free Microsoft stuff on here. Office, Windows, stuff like that.
- Microsoft Dreamspark.
Log in with
your
NetID/password. Pretty sure you need to be studying a science degree to use this.
- OnTheHub. Same thing again,
NetID/password.
Business/Economics paper, LAWCOMM paper, SCIENT paper required to use it (apparently).
- UoA ISOM. No idea what the deal is with this, I just found it through CECIL.
Printing Wirelessly
CAPS Wireless Printing. For when you can't get a
computer because there
are people using their laptops on the computer spots, and you just need to print. Follow the instructions there, or if you're really edgy you can just download the drivers and hope for the
best.
Drivers:
But really, just follow
the main link.
Other kind of useful things I found while trying to get things done.
- List of software on the computers. I found this when trying to find a computer
with the SAP software for
my infosys 110 paper (just use the business school computers. No one else has it).
- Web file access.
- Remote desktop access (Business School). Again, you can't find SAP
on here. What I
did find, however, was that it was considered connecting to the University Internet. I disabled the settings to use NetLogin, and outside connections through the open RDC still loaded just as
fast. I don't think that's a huge secret, though. The Faculty of Science wiki has a page for other
connections, but they
wouldn't work for me. YMMV.
Aww yus it's time to get some sparkles up in dis bitch.