Technology Guides & Training

  • Questar III Phone Guide plus icon minus icon
    • Staff may have questions about how to use their phones. This guide covers many topics, including:   Changing Voicemail PIN Accessing Voicemail Externally Transferring Calls Creating a Conference C... See more
  • Receiving lots of Junk or Spam e-mails? Here's how to unsubscribe from mailing lists, or mark senders as Junk. plus icon minus icon
    • If you are receiving repeated e-mails from vendors and companies that are not necessarily malicious, but rather, just annoying, you can either unsubscribe from the e-mail list, or, you may mark the... See more
  • Redirecting e-mails which are meant for another individual in Outlook plus icon minus icon
    • Occasionally, staff will take on e-mails of other staff members. This sudden influx of new mail can be inconvenient when it is mixed in with your own mail. To help segregate these mail items, you c... See more
  • Scheduling Emails in Outlook plus icon minus icon
    • This guide is an overview of the process of scheduling emails using Microsoft Outlook, ensuring that your messages reach recipients at the optimal time. You can find the step-by-step process below,... See more
  • Scheduling Poll Guide plus icon minus icon
    • The Scheduling Poll feature is a feature that is included on everyone's outlook program and web portal. This feature helps find available meeting times among the various meeting participants based ... See more
  • Send Out of Office Replies from Outlook plus icon minus icon
    • Outlook  Video Guide Step-by-Step Guide In the upper right-hand corner, select File. In the File window. select Automatic Replies. Check the box to Send automatic replies.  If you don't want... See more
  • Sending and Receiving Faxes in Zoom plus icon minus icon
    • Please note, this guide will only pertain to you if IT has set up your account to send and receive faxes.OverviewZoom Online Fax allows you to send and receive faxes digitally using the Zoom Workpl... See more
  • Setting up Google Chrome Profile for HVCC Classes requiring Youtube plus icon minus icon
    •   Start by Adding a new Chrome Profile. Follow the prompts and sign in using your HVCC Account. Switch to your new profile when you need to use Youtube.     See more
  • Sharing Videos into Zoom plus icon minus icon
    • If you have a video saved to your PC that you would like to share into a Zoom meeting, you can do so easily with the instructions below.   In your Meeting, click on Share Screen Go to the Advanced... See more
  • Signing into a Questar III account on a District-issue Chromebook plus icon minus icon
    • Most of the school districts in our region have allowed @questar.org addresses to sign into their Chromebooks. There are two primary ways do this, and we'll start with the first and most common way... See more
  • Slash Commands in Microsoft Teams plus icon minus icon
    •   This article is a guide on all the slash commands in Microsoft Teams. These commands can make a variety of tasks within Microsoft Teams easier to accomplish for the user. Below is the complete li... See more
  • Student Guide - Accessing E-mail and Google Apps plus icon minus icon
    • General e-mail access from a web browser   To access your e-mail, just go to https://outlook.office.com in any web browser and sign in with your @questar.org e-mail address and password. Note: E-ma... See more
  • Surface Laptop Dock Issues? plus icon minus icon
    • Occasionally, users may run into issues with their Surface Laptop and docking stations. Below, you can find several symptoms and common resolutions to the issues:   Surface won't charge, but is plu... See more
  • Take Screenshots with Snip & Sketch plus icon minus icon
    • The Windows Operating System contains many helpful keyboard shortcuts that can aid with productivity. One of these valuable shortcuts is the Snip and Sketch Feature keyboard shortcut.   This featur... See more
  • Time-Saving Excel Tips plus icon minus icon
    • Flash Fill Flash Fill can recognize patterns in your data and automatically fill in a column without the need for formulas. In this example, a list of names in Last Name, First Name format is chang... See more
  • Tips for Google Docs plus icon minus icon
    • Suggesting Mode Change from editing to suggesting to facilitate collaboration or to save your own ideas for later. When suggesting, any edits you make become comments on the side of the document th... See more
  • Transcribe Speech to Text Using Microsoft Word plus icon minus icon
    • Microsoft Word's transcribe feature converts speech to a text transcript with each speaker individually separated. After your conversation, interview, or meeting, you can revisit parts of the recor... See more
  • Turning on Auto-Update for Adobe Creative Cloud plus icon minus icon
    • These steps work for both Windows and Mac devices. Open the Creative Cloud app. Click your user picture in the top right corner of the window, then click Preferences Click Apps, then make sure the... See more
  • Uploading Videos to Google Drive from an iPad or iPhone plus icon minus icon
    • Before you can upload a video into Google Drive from an iPad/iPhone, you will need to complete the following steps: Download the Google Drive app (All Questar Apple devices will have this pre-inst... See more
  • Use Quick Parts to Save Time in Outlook plus icon minus icon
    • Use Quick Parts to save time by reusing often-used sentences or paragraphs. This feature is only available in the Outlook desktop app. Creating a Quick Part Start composing a new email. Highlight... See more
  • Using Epson iProjection plus icon minus icon
    • QUICK GUIDE   **Click the "Lan" button on your EPSON Projector Remote to get the projector prepared**   STEP-BY-STEP   On your Epson Projector Remote, press the "LAN" button. On your computer, op... See more
  • Using Epson iProjection plus icon minus icon
    • Press the LAN button the projector remote. Open the iProjection app and select Advanced Connection Mode. Check the box at the bottom to default to Advanced Mode in the future. Press OK. Press No i... See more
  • Using Excel and Word for Mail Merge plus icon minus icon
    • If you have many repetitive letters, emails, or labels to make, you can use the Mail Merge function to dramatically speed up the process. Recipients List The first step is to use Excel to create yo... See more
  • Using GoPro with iPads plus icon minus icon
    • GoPro Quik Guide Videos from the GoPro can be downloaded to the iPad by tapping the download button in the GoPro Quik app while the GoPro is powered on and connected.   The downloaded videos can b... See more
  • Using Microsoft Office Online plus icon minus icon
    • Sign into Office Online Office Online includes a lightweight version of the Office apps.  Go to the Office web page, and in the upper right-hand corner select Sign In to sign in with your Microso... See more
  • Using Text-To-Speech on a Chromebook plus icon minus icon
    • Select & hear text Highlight the text you want to hear out loud. Press the Search Key + s.   Option 2 Press and hold the Search Key . Drag the pointer over an area of text you want read out lo... See more
  • When to use BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) plus icon minus icon
    •   The Power of the BCC Field – Keeping Your Emails Clean, Secure, and Private Ever wondered how to keep your email communication professional, secure, and private when sending messages to a large g... See more
  • Windows Application Keyboard Shortcuts plus icon minus icon
    • Within Windows, there are multiple keyboard shortcuts for simplifying processes in Windows. Some of these shortcuts are exclusively for Application Window Management. Below are a few helpful shortc... See more
  • Zoom AI Companion plus icon minus icon
    •   The Zoom AI Companion is a new feature enabled for Questar III Zoom-licensed accounts. AI powers this companion to help users with their Zoom Meetings. The Zoom AI Companion can help answer quest... See more