UW Computing Survival Skills

Learning

Getting lost in technology is easy to do at the University of Washington. The UW offers state of the art computer services. Students have a number of options available to them through the Student Technology Fee, including email services, web publishing, file storage, and distributed computing. A detailed list of these services can be found on the UW's Computing and Networking website.

Learn how to survive college with this Computing Essentials Workshop.

Topics include:

• UW Net IDs and what they can do for you
• Using UW email
• File maintenance with a Secure File Transfer Protocol (Secure FTP) program
• Computing services on campus: general-access labs, wireless connectivity
• Lab features: software and basic operating systems