Bayside Christian College provides remote VPN (Virtual Private Network) access to the College internal systems for staff and some students (e.g. those in the BYOD program). This document has been created to provide instructions on installing and configuring the VPN as well as connecting to the college network and accessing internal systems.

Google has recently linked the Google "safe search" settings commonly used at schools and other organisations to filter out unsuitable content and images from Google Search results and the YouTube "Safety Mode" feature designed to filter unsuitable videos.

Howeve, the YouTube filter is much more prone to false positives because of the comments on videos rather than the content of videos themselves being questionable. In these cases, it may be necessary to disable the YouTube "Safety Mode" at least temporarily. The instructions below show how to do this.

This lesson shows how to configure Google Drive to automatically convert MS Office documents (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint) to Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides files.

You can keep your Google Drive files on your own computer by downloading Google Drive on your Mac or PC. As an added bonus, you can sync your files between your computer and the web. This means any changes you make to a file on your Mac or PC will automatically show up on the same file at drive.google.com.

To download Google Drive on your computer, follow the steps in the tutorial below.

This lesson shows how to add the Bayside email signature to Apple Mail on the Mac.