Password & Screensaver

This allows you to customize your accounts. Such as display font, size, color, sounds, background, keyboard, mouse, etc.
(For Windows users, this is the same as Control Panel.)
You may change any of the following items here in the future.

• Desktop—picture or OSX default (not auto change)
• Screen saver—security, screen saver to choose which
• Exposé—hot corners, keys
• Many others

Computer security starts with restricting physical access to your computer. You may not think that you have any “top secret” documents, but it is imperative that you have your account protected by a screen saver and STRONG and SECRET password because of the things that can be accessed using your login account from any machine in the school such as teacher site, grades, comments, EOM voting, confidential records, access to information systems, etc.

Do not write your password on a Post-It near your computer. Choose something that uses letters, numbers, and special characters for better security. (e.g.: pa55word, *struck, 123my#, myBIGpWd) One way to create a good but memorable password is to take, say, a favorite song lyric or movie phrase (as an example, "I like to have a nice strong password."), and use the first letter in each word to create your password (in our example, that would be "ilthansp").

• From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences and choose Security then check this box.

• Click Show All then click on Desktop & Screensavers

• Select the type of Flurry (Please do not choose the other options unless you have a laptop.)

• Next set the time on the slider for the screen saver to activate (suggested 5-10 mins.)

• Click on Hot Corners… then Start Screen Saver

***Please note: If IT Dept needs to access your account to troubleshoot, we will reset your password to your employee number (numero de nomina).

• From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences to open the window.
• Click Accounts to display the preferences.
• Your account is listed under the My Account header in the left pane.
• Click the Password tab to display its pane, and then click Change Password.
• In the resulting dialog, type your current password in the Old Password field.
• Type a new, hard-to-guess (but something you can remember) password in both the New Password and Verify fields, then click Change Password.
• Once you receive a message saying that your password has been changed you have to use your new password the next time you login.
• You may receive a message like this one. Please click OK to change all of your Keychain Passwords.
• Quit System Preferences to finish. Logout and Login to test the new password. If there is any issue, please call Tech Support to reset your password.