$10 (or 100 pages) of Printing Credit

Occasionally, I'm sad to discover that a student at HACC didn't realize that they have $10 of printing credit every semester. 

Yes, you do!!

At the beginning of every semester, you have $10 of printing credit.  This is equal to 100 pages of printing at 10 cents per page.

When you print from a HACC public computer, you will be asked to log in.



The steps that you take after this depend on where you are.

If you're in the library or the learning center:

1.  Enter your HACC ID and PIN, then click send.
2. Wait to be sure that your login was accepted, and click OK.
3. Go to the print release station.
4. Log in again.
5. Select the request(s) that you want to print by putting a check in the boxes.  
6. You will see the amount of money available in your account, and the amount of money that the print request will cost.
7. Click Start Printing to send the request to the printer.

If you are in a computer lab or at another public computer.

1.  Enter your HACC ID and PIN, then click send.
2. If your login is accepted, your request should go directly to the printer.

Out of money? - Visit the library or learning center, where you can add more cash to your account. 

• Please ask for help the first time that you do this!
• Never add more money than you plan to use.  You will not be refunded excess money, and when a new semester begins, you will have $10 in your account, no matter how much money was there at the end of the previous semester.

Flash Drive Disasters - How to back up when you don't have your own computer!

(Sigh)  This has not been a good semester for me and my flash drives.  Two in a row have mysteriously stopped working.  Lucky for me, I only use a flash drive as a temporary storage option, and I had only lost a few hours worth of work.

But - what if you are a student without a computer of your own?  That flash drive holds almost all of your academic work!  What if something happened to it?  You might lose, drive over, flush it or just about anything else!

One option would be to have a second flash drive, and regularly copy the information from one to the other.  However, if you carry these together at all times, you have the risk of losing both of them!

A second option would be to consider a service available online that can be used to store files.  The one that I'm most familiar with is Dropbox.com.  This is primarily used to share files between computers, but I realized that this would be a great second place to store your files if you only had a flash drive.

If you would like to try this, or share with a friend, I've created some step-by-step instructions for setting up an account and backing up your drive regularly.  Keep in mind that there is much more that you can do with Dropbox.  This information is for simply backing up the files on your drive.

Remember, though, a backup is only helpful if you back up your files regularly!  (And definitely after completing a 25-page research paper!)