Campus Wellness has TVs in various waiting areas and in the East/West nurses areas.
Waiting Areas
Currently there are 4 waiting areas with TVs:
Where students line up to be seen by a CSR in HS (HS 1004).
Where students wait after checking in for their appointment (HS ????).
Where students wait after checking in for their SCO appointment (HS ????).
Where students wait after checking in for their counselling appointment (NH ????)
Each waiting area TV has a mini computer attached to it for the purpose of running playing Spotify as background music and displaying a Google Slides slideshow and Spotify for music.
About the Slideshow
The slideshow is provided by the Waterloo Life team and is hosted in Google Slides. They The Waterloo Life team will submit a ticket to the Tech Team if a change has been made and to the slides and they need to be refreshed (see Refresh the Slideshow below).
Each nurses area TV has a desktop computer attached to it for playing Spotify as background music and displaying the Accuro Scheduler module.
Starting Spotify and the Slideshow
People who work near the waiting room areas are tasked with starting the slideshow each morning by doing the following:
Turn on TV and computer.
Use wireless keyboard/touchpad to wake the computer and login with the Generic User account with password XXYYYY!! where XX is the building code (e.g., NH, HS) and YYYY is the room/area it is inand the appropriate password (see Accounts and Passwords area below).
Spotify needs to be started first since the slideshow will take up the entire screen. Double-click the desktop shortcut to open Spotify.
Login to Spotify with one of the following accounts based on which Open an appropriate the appropriate account and password (see Accounts and Passwords area below).
Open a playlist and play it.
Double-click the desktop shortcut to open Google Slides. If necessary, login to Google with campus.wellness.communications@gmail.com and password Ftpq7Y&k.
Open the appropriate slideshow and click Slideshow to play it.
Move your mouse to the bottom-left corner and click the triple-dots to open the submenu.
Set it to Loop and Every 10 seconds then click Play at the top.
Return the wireless keyboard/touchpad to a secure location.
Refresh the Slideshow
Counselling Services account
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Accounts and Passwords
When accessing the various computers and software connected to TVs, you need to use the appropriate account listed below.
TV Location | Computer Login | Spotify Login | Google Slides Login |
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HS CSRs (HS 1004) | Username = Generic User Password = CWA250101inHS1004! | Username = ??? Password = CWA250101inHS1004! | Username = campus.wellness.communications@gmail.com Password = Ftpq7Y&k |
PFF waiting area | Username = Generic User Password = HS1501!! | Username = hsfamcli@uwaterloo.ca Password = |
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HS1501!! |
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Username = campus.wellness.communications@gmail.com Password = Ftpq7Y&k | ||
SCO waiting area | Username = Generic User Password = HS2308!! | Username = specializedcare@uwaterloo.ca Password = HS2308!! |
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Username = campus.wellness.communications@gmail.com Password = Ftpq7Y&k | ||
Counselling waiting area | Username = Generic User Password = NH2409!! | Username = |
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Password = |
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NH2409!! |
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Spotify on Nurses TVs
East Wing
Username = hsnurse@uwaterloo.ca
Password = ??? (unsure who is paying for this or who authorized it (DWR?) as it’s not connect to lgchase Family account)
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Username = campus.wellness.communications@gmail.com Password = Ftpq7Y&k | |||
East Nurse area | Username = ??? Password = ??? | Username = ??? Password = ??? | N/A |
West Nurse area | Username = ??? Password = ??? | Username = cw-pff@uwaterloo.ca Password = Clinic100! |
How to Update a Presentation
TVs controlled by Campus Wellness
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Login to Google with campus.wellness.communications@gmail.com and password Ftpq7Y&k
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Find the presentation you wish to update and make changes. Note: Changes will not show on the TVs until the current slideshow is closed and re-opened.
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Submit a ticket to the CW Tech Team at https://uwaterloo.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/118 and provide a due date for when the new slideshow should be updated. If it is just a refresh of the current slideshow, provide that in the details.
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Refreshing the Slideshow
If slides are changed by the Waterloo Life team, they will submit a ticket to the Tech Team asking for the slides to be refreshed/updated.
The current process is antiquated and needs updating. Currently, the Waterloo Life team will create a new slideshow and name it something different than the existing one. Then the Tech Team goes into each waiting room TV computer and updates the desktop shortcut to the new slideshow’s URL. This takes too much time and disrupts the slideshow/music while the update is being made. Instead, it would be easier if we simply copied the slides from the new slideshow into the current slideshow so the URL is the same and the staff who access the TVs (e.g., CSRs, PFFs) would need to be emailed to ask that they
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close and re-open the slideshow
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TVs controlled elsewhere
Send slides to appropriate staff so they can add them to their presentation software of choicefor the next day.