Please click here to watch the video on Technology services available to students at Caruso Law School.
If you’d like to see the slide show that is embedded in that video click here.
How to not miss important email messages!
As a student at Caruso Law, you will find that there are a number of essential, critical, and/or otherwise consequential messages that are sent to your Pepperdine student email account by members of the Caruso Law administration team over the course of the school year.
Also note that your Pepperdine email will also often contain links to shared files in Google Drive and/or Google Forms that leverage your Pepperdine Google email account security. This means that if you are using a system other than Pepperdine’s Google email, you will be unable to access those files, folders, and forms. To make it easy on yourself, we strongly recommend that you use either the Gmail app on your mobile device or the Google Chrome browser to access your Pepperdine email.
To ensure that you don’t miss these important messages, you may want to highlight them in some way. One easy way to do this is by using an email filter.
To create an effective filter you will create a “rule” in your Pepperdine Google Mail inbox using either the sender’s email address and/or significant terms to have Google Mail tag or sort or file the relevant messages for you. Your rule can automatically apply a “star” to the message in your message list and/or add it to a folder using “labels.”
When you create your rule(s) you will need to have some specific terms and/or email addresses that Google Mail will look for.
An important address that you’ll want to use is the one that the Dean’s Suite uses: [email protected]
Also you will want to watch for: ExamSoft and Examplify because these terms will inevitably be related to critical messages associated with mid term and final exams.
An important address that you’ll want to watch for is the one that the Dean’s Suite uses: [email protected]
Other terms you will want to watch for are: ExamSoft and Examplify because these terms will inevitably be related to critical messages associated with mid term and final exams.
Go to this site for information on how to create your filter(s) to ensure you don’t miss important information sent to you via your Pepperdine email account.
Security: Protect Your Laptop and Yourself!
Viruses, worms, ad-ware and spyware, and theft, are examples of SEVERE risks to your computer in a public, networked environment. You MUST PERFORM THE STEPS LISTED BELOW if you wish to use your computer at Pepperdine or you could face repercussions including loss of network access, data loss, and system failure.
- Maintain up-to-date virus protection software on your computer. The University’s IT department supports Sophos for faculty and staff. For students, University IT recommends Microsoft Defender (no cost) for Windows and Sophos AntiVirus for Macs (home version, no cost).
- Regularly install all Critical Updates from http://update.microsoft.com. You should begin checking Microsoft Update constantly, starting now. You can also configure your Windows computer to check automatically for updates every time you connect to the Internet.
- Keep your browser up to date! A great browser-based tool for checking how current your web-related tools are is Qualys Browser Check.
- Keep your computer’s operating system and office products up-to-date
- Do not install peer-to-peer file-sharing software or other high-risk programs. Attempt to eliminate any programs that might already be installed by running a spyware/adware removal product such as Spybot Search & Destroy or Ad-aware.
- Buy and use a computer security cable for your computer to lock it down when it is not attended. (Alarm-equipped cables are NOT recommended.) We highly recommend that you NEVER leave your belongings alone, especially in quiet areas like the Law Library, as the School of Law is open to the public. Kensington has a website that will help you find a security cable that was made for your laptop. Note that there are currently at least three different kinds of security cable ports on laptops today so you’ll want to pay attention and select the one that fits your laptop. (Pepperdine Caruso Law does not endorse or recommend Kensington locking cables to the exclusion of other similar solutions, however we have had very positive experience with Kensington security cables for over two decades and find that their products are reliable).
- Do not click on links in unsolicited email messages.
- Do not open an email attachment unless you are expecting it or have checked with the sender.
Color Printing and Copies the Harnish Law Library
The Harnish Law Library maintains two copiers that will print in either color or black and white. This service is for Pepperdine users only.
Price per color impression is $0.35. This means if you print a color document that is duplexed (printed on both sides) you will be charged $0.70 for that piece of paper (if there’s color on both sides).
Note that if you choose to print a document that has some pages that are black and white and some that contain color, each black and white page will be charged at $0.06/impression (side of a page of paper) and the color impressions (sides of a page) will be charged at $0.35 each. Yep, it’s a kinda smart system.
To access this color copier using your laptop or other device please go to THIS PAGE for detailed instructions.
Shared Account Users: For instructions on how to print documents from a personal computer using a shared account, please review this guide.
Information on School of Law provided print credit to School of Law students is HERE.
To do a quick color (or B&W) print job:
- Make sure your document is in PDF format
- Make sure you have money on your ID Card (to add or to check go here) — If you don’t have funds on your account (separate from the law school printing account) you can’t print anything.
- Using your Chrome browser go to https://print.pepperdine.edu/
- You will need to login to this page with you Wavenet credentials
- Then click on the Web Print option on the left hand list of options then click on Submit a Job
- Follow the prompts (pick FindmeColor or FindmeBW) Note that the charge for color is $0.35 per impression (but only for the pages with COLOR on them, pages with black and white are charged at $0.06)
- Select your number of copies (that’s your only option on this page – at this point this service does not support duplexing, or stapling)
- Upload your file — or drag it to the designated area on the screen.
- You will need to go to the copier to Release the job
- At the copier, login using your Wavenet credentials
- Select your print job from the list and release it
To Make a Copy
- Make sure you have money on your ID Card (to add or to check go here) — If you don’t have funds on your account (separate from the law school printing account) you can’t copy anything.
- At the copier, login using your Wavenet credentials
- Select Device Functions
- Select Copy
- Follow the normal prompts as you make your copies
- NOTE: This system absolutely will NOT allow you to go beyond your available funds in your account (see #1 above to check your balance). For this reason, you may get logged off immediately after you do your first copy job. To learn how to ensure that you don’t get logged off do a “Job Build” to avoid needing to log in for each successive copy job you want to do.
Print and Copy Services at Caruso Law
To send a print job start here: print.pepperdine.edu
To setup your printing go here for complete instructions.
Color Printing is $0.35 per side of a page
Black and White Printing is $0.06 per side of a page
Print accounting and print charges are managed by the University.
Charges go to your Pepperdine ID card’s linked Waves Cash Global account.
You cannot print if you do not have funds on deposit in your Waves Cash Global account.*
*Students at Caruso Law start each term with a print credit.
Pepperdine University has multi-function devices (MFDs) from Sharp (you can still call them copiers but they’re much more). You will find two such MFDs in the public area of the Harnish Law Library at Caruso Law. Additionally, there is another MFD in the Career Development Office.
Students, Faculty, and Staff can print, scan, or copy on the MFDs using an account associated with their Pepperdine ID cards. Students buy copy and print credit here: https://get.cbord.com/pepperdine/full/prelogin.php
All enrolled students can print to all Sharp MFDs in public areas at any of the Pepperdine Southern California campuses (click here to learn about print credit for students enrolled at Caruso Law). Printing in color or black and white is possible and a document with a mix of color and black and white pages will only incur the higher cost for color on the pages where there is color.
Typically, print jobs are sent via the web using a web-browser interface. In nearly all circumstances, your document that you want to print must be in PDF format.
You transfer/upload your PDF file to the print.pepperdine.edu site and select your parameters (number of copies, etc.). If you want to print in color, you want to select a “findmecolor” solution (see more information here) or “findmebw” for black and white.
Then once the document is uploaded, you go to the copier nearest you — Caruso Law? go to Harnish Law Library and see the copiers not too far from the Public Services Desk.
“Tap” your ID card or type in your Wavenet credentials (there’s a slide-out keyboard stored under the copier’s screen), select the print job you want to “release” and you have your document!
- You can check your account balance here: https://get.cbord.com/
pepperdine/full/prelogin.php - Your Waves Cash Global account can be used to buy food at the cafeterias on campus in addition to using the new copier/print system.
- If you want a refund, you can do that through the University’s cashier’s office within 90 days of graduation. (As per university policy for copier transactions note that the minimum refund is $5.00.)
- More info on how refunds from Waves Cash Global
accounts work is here (scroll to the bottom of the page). - Students at Caruso Law receive a law school-funded credit each term.
Pepperdine’s Courses – The online course management system at Caruso Law
You may have heard of an LMS or learning management system. An LMS is an online service that hosts your course syllabus, other documents, class discussions, and more.
Caruso Law (and Pepperdine in general) use an LMS that Pepperdine calls “Courses by Sakai” or simply “Courses.”
Courses is the “go to” place for all things associated with your classes including Zoom links for your online classes, syllabi, recordings of classes and more.
To familiarize yourself with courses, the University IT group has developed some great resources here: https://community.pepperdine.edu/techlearn/tools/courses/student/
Two Factor Authentication (2FA)
Pepperdine University uses SecureConnect for 2FA
SecureConnect is available AND RECOMMENDED for all Pepperdine University students but is not required.
Students who opt-in to SecureConnect, will receive an extended password lifecycle to 4 years.
General information on SecureConnect (including the portal login where Students can enroll) can be found at secureconnect.pepperdine.edu
NOTE: SecureConnect is required for all Pepperdine University employees.
Use your ID Card for After Hours Access
You can use your Pepperdine student ID Card for access to the Caruso School of Law facility as well as the Harnish Law Library.
You will need to know your PIN code. If you don’t know it, it’s available in WaveNet.
- Place your ID over the face of the Card Reader near the entrance.
- Enter your PIN code
- You may now enter!
NOTE: Each person must use their own credentials to enter the facility
CALI Lessons
CALI [The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction] is a resource provided by Pepperdine Caruso School of Law for students that includes over 1,000+ interactive online tutorials written by law professors, on 50+ subject areas. This includes, but is not limited to topics such as, 1L-First Year Lessons, 2L-3L Upper Level Lessons, Administrative Law, Tax Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Research, Property Law, Civil Procedure, and Environmental Law. These interactive tutorials are an excellent resource to enhance your studies. You may find that one or more of your professors will require you to use CALI lessons in the course of your studies.
CALI Registration Code: In order to take advantage of the CALI interactive online tutorials, you will need to register with the CALI service. You will need the institutional registration code to do so. The Caruso Law CALI registration code is available in the Harnish Law Library at the Public Services Desk or you can send an email requesting the registration code to [email protected].
Quick Start: Once you have your registration completed using the above referenced code, you may find this Quick Start Guide helpful.
CALI also provides additional services including (but not limited to):
- eLangdell: Free eBooks for Legal Education – before purchasing textbooks, consider checking out this resource to see if your textbook is available for free.
- Classcaster: Free blogging and podcasting tools/network designed for law professors to supplement their course materials and link them to other colleagues around the country.
Graduation and Email
Hurray! You’ve graduated (or will soon graduate) from Pepperdine Caruso School of Law! The last thing on your mind is your Pepperdine Email account, but there are some things you need to know…
- The following information applies to all students graduating from any program at Pepperdine: Student email accounts, WaveNet, and other network-related resources are governed by university policy and managed by the university IT department. Student email accounts, WaveNet access, printing, Zoom, etc. will be deactivated 90 days after the date of the commencement ceremony.
- Recent graduates will receive automated notifications in their student email inboxes 90, 60 and 30 days before account deactivation.
- After graduation a process starts that begins with your status changing from student to alumnus. This process involves a file transfer that takes place sometimes several days (up to four weeks) after graduation. Sure, you have the diploma but the system doesn’t recognize you as an alumnus until that file is transferred from the student system to the alumni system. Typically this takes place about a month after the date of your graduation. That’s when all the automated stuff starts up.
- On the fifteenth day of the month immediately after your graduation date you will get an email to your student email account. This is a reminder message to encourage you to move out of your student email account and other Google-based services hosted for you by Pepperdine.
- Note again, that student email accounts and related services (Google Drive, Calendar, etc.) are disabled 90 days after the student’s commencement date (the day of the graduation ceremony).
- Once an account is deactivated the data/emails in that account it is not recoverable.
NOTE: Pepperdine offers a special Alumni-only email service provided by Google.
You will want to use a personal email address going forward. We recommend that you use something professional, perhaps you already have such a personal email address. If you don’t, we recommend creating an email account on Google’s Gmail service.
If you plan to migrate your email from your Pepperdine Google email account to a personal gmail account you will want to ensure that you have a personal gmail account set up first. Then review these instructions all the way to the end before moving forward with the migration.
Part of this process should include your migration of the data from your Pepperdine Google Drive to your personal drive space. If you are migrating to another Google account, keep in mind that you may run into space limits on your targeted storage system.
Resources from Pepperdine’s IT department on this topic:
Account Changes When Transitioning from Student to Alumni Status
https://community.pepperdine.edu/it/alumni/
Transfer or Download Your Google Workspace Data(for new graduates)https://community.pepperdine.edu/it/alumni/email/datatransfer.htm
Alumni Email
https://community.pepperdine.edu/it/alumni/email/
After your student email address expires, no mail will be received at your student address. To make a smooth transition, we recommend:
- Set up your new personal (and professional) email address immediately when you get that email noted above.
- Forward your mail in Wavenet to a new email address — that new personal gmail address or another one you prefer. (Note that forwarding will only work up until your student email account is suspended.)
- Set up an out-of-office message in your Pepperdine Student Email (accessed through Wavenet) account informing all your contacts of your graduation and of your new email address. Log into Wavenet click on Options, and then update your Out of Office Assistant.