myday – Student User Guide

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Introduction

At the College, we have various platforms that our student body can interact with.

The myday platform makes it easy for students to manage their student life by centralising all the information they need in one intuitive place.

myday provides single-sign-on functionality, so that you are only required to log in to myday, and in most cases (not all, yet), will not need to log in again to other systems and services that can be accessed via myday

Logging On

myday can be accessed via a web browser on any device with a connection to the internet, at

https://wcs.mydaycloud.com

Or, via a mobile app – see the section towards the end of this user guide for information regarding this

Logon details to use with myday – either via a web browser, or mobile app are:

Username = your college email address (student reference number@live.wcs.ac.uk)

Password = the password you use to logon to college computers

If accessing myday via a college computer that you’re already logged on to, you shouldn’t need to re-enter your logon details (depending on which web browser you are using)

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Home Dashboard

When you logon to myday via a web browser you will be presented with the Home desktop

dashboard

Through myday you can access information and resources including:

• Timetable and attendance details for your classes • Your college (Office 365) email • Availability of college library PCs • Course details you’re enrolled on, on college Moodle • A task list which includes assignments for your Moodle courses, as well as tasks you have

created in your Office 365 account • Items you have loaned out or reserved with the college libraries • Office 365 web resources, including Office Applications, and your One Drive • Feeds and pages for the college’s accounts on Social Media platforms, Twitter, Facebook

and Instagram • Access All Areas & Your Essential Skills – self certification, results, your details (recorded on

Student Records system), and your personal skills profile • Student Intranet • Other online resources provided by the college – Open Athens, ClickView, & Distance

Learning Moodle • More will be coming soon ….

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Timetable

The MyTimetable tile provides access to a view of the schedule of classes you are enrolled upon, as recorded on our Students Records system

The default view is the current week. You can change the view to Day or Month, look at future or past dates, or view upcoming activities in an Agenda list. By clicking on a timetable entry you will be able to see further details on the activity.

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Attendance

The MyAttendance tile provides access to a view of the registration details your lecturers have recorded on our Students Records system

Based on the registration details recorded, indicators and a chart will show a summary of your Attendance and Punctuality, and a list that can be drilled through to see registration entries, with regards to activities that have occurred in the date range selected.

The default date range selection shows information regarding the current week. You can change the date range to show information relating to, This Week, Last Week, This Month, Last Month, or a Custom Date Range.

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Back at the myday Home dashboard, a tile is also available to allow you to submit a Self-Certification form

Email

The college provides each student with an Office 365 email account for use during their studies with WCS. The email addresses are of format = student reference number@live.wcs.ac.uk.

Through the MyEmail tile, emails can be read or sent, and there is also a link to use email directly on Office 365 if that is preferred.

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One Drive

College Office 365 accounts also provide 1TeraByte of cloud storage for every college student and member of staff. Access to this is via the MyOneDrive tile.

Moodle

Through the MyMoodle tile, a list of Moodle course enrolled on can be seen, and following the Go to Moodle will take you directly to the content for the course on Moodle

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Other Tiles and Bookmarks

Links to other useful resources are available through other tiles, and at the bookmarks menu at top of page, the Navigation section on left of page, the footer at the bottom of the page, and within the menu accessed at your name on top right of page

Results – View your Exam Results Your Essential Skills

Personal Details – Update your details Distance Learning Moodle

Athens for Libraries Click View for Libraries

Instagram Student Intranet

Jobs and Placements Survey

Areas on myday dashboard where bookmarks can be created

Note – top ‘bookmarks’ drop down is only area where you can have several groups of bookmarks; bottom area does not appear on mobile app

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Personalising

At the top of each dashboard you’ll find a Personalise option. This allows you change the layout, size & colour of tiles, and remove some tiles that are not important to you – to give you your own personalised dashboard

Note, there are two dashboard views, desktop and mobile – if you change something on one of the views, the change will not carry through to the other view.

You can personalise the Mobile App dashboard via a web browser on a computer as well - from the myday page, select Switch to Mobile from the menu accessed at your name on top right of page, and then the Personalise option at the top of the page.

Mobile Apps

myday can be accessed via a mobile app downloadable from:

The Google Play store for Android phones

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mydaycloud.app&hl=en_GB or

The Apple App store for iPhones

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/myday/id1027451325?mt=8

Note, the generic myday app should be used for West College Scotland:

App name: myday

App icon:

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There are other myday apps available, but these are specific to other organisations

Logon details to use with myday via a mobile app are the same as when using a web browser:

Username = your college email address (for a student this is, student reference number@live.wcs.ac.uk)

Password = the password you use to logon to college computers

All of the resources available through a web browser, are also available through the mobile apps. It is just the layout that’s different

Coming Soon – News, events and Alerts

At the top of the myday page or App, you will see a little bell icon – this will at a later stage be where you find important alerts sent out by the college. These alerts will relate to news or events items, for which there will be tiles added in the future as well.

We also have outline plans and thoughts on a whole host of other tiles to introduce in the future. And we’re really interested to hear about what you advise would be useful additions – so please tell us via the survey tile or bookmarks.