We encourage staff, faculty & students to become familiar with the following tools & resources available to them, in the event that they are required to work or study from off campus:
Preparing to work remotely
Set up for remote work
- Wi-Fi and router tips to improve your internet connection
- If you do not have home Internet access
- If you need to borrow a McGill laptop: faculty and staff
- If you need to borrow a McGill laptop: students
Teach remotely
- Technologies for online course delivery
- Article on Zoom Security: Myth vs Reality
- When to use VPN and Remote Desktop (RDP) for teaching
AV IT Equipment Recommendations Fall 2020
Get help
Tools & resources
Manage your calls, email & calendar
- Outlook Calendar
- Out of office message on McGill phone
- CallPilot (voicemail messages on desktop)
- Forward calls
- Making calls to & from a McGill telephone
Meet & collaborate remotely
Access your systems & files remotely
- OneDrive
- Connect to your work computer with Remote Desktop (RDP)
- When to use VPN and RDP
- Departmental files
- Personal files
- myCourses
Use McGill systems & applications
- myCourses (instructors)
- myCourses (students)
- Minerva (faculty/staff)
- Minerva (students/guests)
- Banner
- uApply
