Going out of town? Use these tips to set temporary voice mail and email messages.

Set voice mail temporary greeting
This feature permits you to record a temporary greeting without changing your regular greetings.

1. Enter your voice mail box
2. Press 82, then select option 3
3. Press 5 to begin recording and # when finished
4. Press 2 to review the greeting
5. Press 9 to set an expiration date and time (use military time). For no expiration date, press all # signs for the month, day and time.
6. If you return before the expiration date and want to delete your temporary greeting, press 82, select option 3 and press 76 to delete.

Set email auto-reply
This automatically sends replies to email you receive. It's a good way to let people know you are out of town and will get back to them later. Auto-reply will not send messages to email lists.

1. Go to the hermes e-mail server:
       PC :
           Go to Start / Run
           Type "telnet hermes.lfc.edu" (no quotation marks).
       Mac:
           Start your telnet application
           Open a connection to hermes.lfc.edu
   
2. Login using the username and password you use for checking email.
   
3. Type "onvacation" (no quotation marks).
   
4. Type your vacation message. Do not hit enter until you are
   done. If the text is longer than one line, it will wrap. It may appear to break in the middle of a word, but it will format correctly when sent.
   
5. After you hit enter, your account will be set to "vacation" mode. To start over, type "onvacation."
   
6. Type "exit" (no quotation marks) to log out.
   
7. To turn off your email auto-reply, login to your account (steps 1 and 2). Type "offvacation" (no quotation marks). Type "exit" to logout.

Use the bulletin board to give your students reminders about homework deadlines, exam dates, study sessions, and special office hours. This will keep them checking the class bulletin board frequently and allows you to use valuable class time for other material.

• Obtain feedback from your students using the bulletin board. For example, ask them to summarize lecture material in bullet points; i.e. post their class notes. Each student could be expected to contribute one bullet point and the board could serve as lecture notes for later review. You can gauge whether or not the students are understanding the material, and you can place postings yourself to make clarifications.

• The upgraded version of Pipeline has a class calendar for each class, which should be filled in by the professor. Students will see their class calendar in a drop down menu on their own personal calendar page.

• Remember to use the email class feature to email all students. Faculty cooperation in using LFC email accounts keeps our students using Pipeline as their primary email.

Requesting books from other libraries
Use ILLINET Online to request books from 44 academic libraries in Illinois. Books take approximately one week to arrive.

1. Search in other Illinois libraries by selecting "ILCSOLibraries" in the menu bar.
2. When you find a book to order, look at the detailed description of it to make sure there is at least one available.
3. Click "request" on the green menu bar.
4. Login:
       Choose "Lake Forest College" as your home library.
       Enter the 14-digit barcode number from your College ID card.
       Click "OK" on the next screen.
5. Enter your barcode number again and click "submit request" at the bottom of the screen.
6. The final screen will indicate if the request was successful.

Renewing books & checking the status of requested books
The library cannot override fines from other libraries. To avoid costly fines, use this feature to renew books.

1. Click "My Account" from the green menu bar.
2. Login:
       Choose "Lake Forest College" as your home library
       Enter the 14-digit barcode number from your ID card
3. Scroll down to see items checked out and items on request.
4. Select the boxes in front of the items you wish to renew.
5. Click "Renew Selected Items."
6. The new due date will appear in the Status box to the right of the item.
7. Requested books are available when the status reads "On Hold."

Reserve books
Click the tab for "Course Reserves" to see which items are on reserve.