Faculty-Accounts – Albright College

Accounts

Your Office 365 account at Albright gives you access to a number of services. You can access your Albright webmail here, but also have access to 1TB of One Drive Cloud Storage, Microsoft Office software online, and up to five licenses of the most current version of Microsoft Office for use on personal devices.

To access this system, you will go to the Office 365 login portal and log in with your Albright email address and LionLink password.

Your Albright Email Address

Albright email addresses typically follow the format “first_initial+last_name@albright.edu”. This may differ if you have a name in common with another member of the Albright Community, or if you have a longer name.  Your Albright email address will be provided to your by Human Resources during your orientation on your first day at Albright. If you do not attend an orientation when you begin at Albright, please contact Human Resources at (610) 921-7654. Example: Your name is Sam D. Student. Your Albright email address and username will likely be:

Your name is: Sam D. Student

Your email address: sstudent@albright.edu

Your username: sstudent

Activating Your Albright Email Account

  1. Get your Albright email address Human Resources will provide you this information during your first-day orientation. If you do not receive this information, please contact Human Resources at (610) 921-7654.
  2. Log in to Albright webmail Go to Office 365 and log in  using your Albright student email address and your LionLink password.
    *You must enter your full email address.
    *Passwords are case sensitive.
  3. Set your time zone Eastern time for Reading, PA is listed as GMT -5.
    *You may not be prompted to set this information.

Your Self Service account allows you to access information about the courses you are teaching, contact students in your classes, advise students, and submit grades. You can also access financial information if you have made charges to your Albright account.

Accessing Self-Service

Go to Self Service and enter your LionLink credentials to log in.

Using Self Service

The following tabs enable you to assist students when advising and view course information:

  • Advising – Search for current and past students for whom you serve as advisor. You can authorize registration for terms where this is required in this area of Self Service.
  • Class – Through the Enrollment and Grading links, you can view your class roster, send email to your students, and submit Midterm and Final Grades for your courses.

You can use the ‘Financial’ tab to access information about your Student Account. Under this tab, click the link or button to open ‘Lion Pay’. Once in LionPay, you can review billing information, pay your bill, or create an account for a parent or guardian to sign in to view your billing information

The ‘Department’ tab is available for faculty who are designated as department chair. This area allows you to view courses being taught by other faculty in your department.

If you notice that you are unable to submit grades or access information that you believe you should be able to access, please notify Client Services at clientservices@albright.edu or (610) 921-7676.

Canvas is Albright College’s learning management system (LMS). You can develop online components for your courses to be accessed by your students. Canvas is accessed using your LionLink account to sign in here.

For assistance using Canvas, use the following resources:

Click on the Faculty Canvas Help Center for answers on how to use Canvas, or

Click on the Canvas Faculty Guides for detailed instructions on how to use each part of Canvas as an instructor, or

Contact Client Services if you are having trouble with Canvas, ZOOM or other tools

Despite the name, Student eDocs has something for everyone at Albright College. You will encounter this system when your submit your annual Albright College Faculty Annual Report (AFAR)

Accessing Student eDocs

You can access Student eDocs by going to https://studentedocs.albright.edu. Once there, use your LionLink credentials to log in to the system.

Submitting Documents

To submit a new version of a form, select the type of form from the dropdown box at the bottom of the page and click ‘Go’. Once the form is open, complete it and click submit. You should receive a notice if you’ve missed any information

Reviewing Documents

From the main page of Student eDocs, you can review any forms you have already submitted. You can click the ‘Open’ button to the right of the name of the form to view your submission, and if it is allowed on that form, submit modifications. If you have submitted multiple versions of a form, you can view each of these using the ‘v#’ link in the lower right corner of the form.

PawPrint is Albright College’s print management service. It is powered by YSoft’s SafeQ software suite.  Pawprint allows members of our community to securely print from labs, college issued computers and personal devices.  It supports direct printing, web uploads and email submission of compatible file types.  Documents are held in a secure holding queue until released to one of the campus release-enabled Multi-Function Devices MFDs.

Submitting Documents to the PawPrint secure queue

Direct from your Albright-issued computer – You can connect your Albright-issued computer directly to the most convenient printer for your office location. A member of the Client Services team will assist you with connecting to a printer when your computer is deployed.

Academic Computers – Albright Lab computers now have the print queue “pawprint on net-print-safeq”. To submit a job from a lab computer, use the ‘Print’ option in the program you are using, and make sure “pawprint on net-print-safeq” is the selected printer.  This will submit the document to the PawPrint holding queue.

Email your documents to pawprint@albright.edu After signing in to your Albright Email account, start a new email. Attach to the email the document that you would like to have printed and enter pawprint@albright.edu as the recipient. Doing so will add the document to your personal PawPrint queue and will

Upload Your Document to https://pawprint.albright.edu/m/

  1. Visit PawPrint and sign in with your LionLink username and password (DO NOT use @albright.edu)
  2. Once you are signed in, you will see the page below. To send a new document to your queue, click on “Upload new print job”.
  3. Click “Browse” and navigate to and then choose the document that you would like to print. When you are finished, click “Upload”.

Release Stations

Typically, you will use an MFD that can be accessed using a department or personal PIN. Please consult members of your department for your department PIN, or create a personal PIN to access the MFD using these instructions. There are two options for authentication at the PawPrint release stations with an attached card reader:

  1. Entering your LionLink Credentials
  2. Tapping your Albright ID Card

If you would like to tap your card for authentication at one of the PawPrint release stations, you must first link your Albright ID card to your Albright LionLink Account. To do this, please:

  1. Tap your ID card on the Card Reader attached to the printer
  2. Enter your LionLink username and password on the MFDs input display and press the “Login” button

We recommend that you test your ability to sign in with your card after going through these steps. If you find that your ID card is not associating with your LionLInk account or have any other issues, please reach out to Client Services for assistance at 610-921-7676 or clientservices@albright.edu

Releasing your print job that you have sent to the PawPrint print queue

  1. Make sure the MFD is not in Power savings mode before you Tap your ID card.  If the display is dark, press the wake/sleep button
  2. Login to the MFD by Tapping your College ID on the Card Reader.  If you do not have your ID card, you can login to the MFD with your LionLink Account.
  3. On the MFD’s input touch screen select Sharp OSA fro mthe tabs at the top of the screen.
  4. In the OSA module, select Ysoft SafeQ
  5. In The YSoft SafeQ Waiting section, select the documents you would like to print.
  6. Press the on screen Print button.
  7. Sign out using the orange Sign Out button in the lower right corner when you are done.

Click here if you would like a copy of the PawPrint instructions that are posted at MFD’s around campus.