A welcome message from Jack Price, Vice Principal.

Section 1: All Things Digital

Please watch the short videos in this section. They'll get you up to speed with logging in to the College website, using apps and completing simple processes, including saving files to your OneDrive. Downloadable step-by-step guides are available for some videos - look for the links!

Working with Microsoft Office 365

Logging in from home

Here's how to log in from home and where to find your apps.

Getting started with Office 365

Here, we overview Office 365 and walk you through creating a new file, editing it, and saving it to your OneDrive.

Organising your OneDrive

You need to stay organised! Watch this video to create folders in your OneDrive and move files between them.

Staying Safe Online

Please take a few minutes to view this essential information to help you stay safe online.

Getting started with Microsoft Teams

Introduction and Overview

Microsoft Teams is used to interact with your tutor and

other students and for online classes. This video tours the Teams

interface and introduces channels, chat and tabs.

Help & Support

Where to Get Help

If you need help and support, please ask. We are here to help you!

Please speak to your tutor first. They need to know if you have an issue and may know the answer to your problem.

If you have a problem with your account, for example, you have forgotten your password, are locked out of your account, etc., you can contact the IT Help Desk and ask for their help to resolve your issue. You can set up account recovery for your account yourself, please see this guide: Account Recovery and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) guide.

You must set up MFA to follow IT Services guidelines.

Connecting to College Wi-Fi On Your Device

Select the SSW network in your Wi-Fi settings.

The username is the first part of your college email address, e.g. j.bloggs

The password is awcradar

You will need to ensure you have completed the Sophos security validation to use the Wi-Fi once connected to it, Please see this guide: Wi-Fi guidelines.

This access resets overnight, so you'll need to do this at the start of each day you want to use the college Wi-Fi.

Username and Password

For help with your default login details and password changes, please see this guide: Password guidelines.

Section 2: Proportal

You will only need to view this section if you'll be working with ProPortal. If you haven't heard of it you don't need to worry about this section!

Introduction to ProPortal


This video introduces ProPortal, where you can find details of your assessments and SMART targets. Please view this video full-screen.

SMART target setting


This video introduces SMART targets, how to set them and work with them. Please view this video full-screen.

Download this self assessment chart which accompanies the video.