Your H drive

You should be familiar with your H Drive. 

Any work you do on a school computer that needs to be saved on the computer should be save in your H drive. This means you can access these files anywhere in the school and also at home. If you download images or other files they will be in your downloads and you either need to move the original (cut and paste as you can't drag and drop) or make sure when you open and save you save in your H drive.

File Management

• Do a tidy up of your H Drive, open up file explorer, Windows + E is the shortcut

• Create a 2025 folder and put all last years work in there (drag and drop) 

• Create your folders for 2026 e.g 10DGT

• within each folder you should have sub folders. To start with in DT you should have:

• • • Image Creation

• make sure you place your files in the relevant folder

• make sure you are naming your files appropriately to reflect what it it so you don't have a million 'untitled'

• know where your work is (especially on your own device)

Now go and do the same thing in your Google Drive!!!

Good folder and file management should be seen on your H drive, google drive and your own computer. In DT you will mainly save in your H drive as everything else is via schoology. For other subjects you may only use your google drive and so you should have a structure in place. 

HOT TIP: Use google drive to manage all your google suite files e.g docs, forms, sheets etc

Just like in Year 9, at the start of each lesson you'll do 5min of typing. A 5-minute typing warm-up at the start of each lesson is a small habit that pays off in a big way. Strong typing skills help you work faster, communicate more clearly, and keep your focus on the quality of your thinking rather than the effort of getting it onto the screen. It also supports assessment conditions where time matters, and it builds confidence for longer writing tasks across your subjects. Five minutes now saves you time all year, and makes your digital work feel a lot more fluent.

Join typing.com, log in using your google account. Your teacher will give you the class code. 

Linewize

If your internet is not working and you are connected to the network you may need to login to Linewize (sometimes you have logged in and the connection drops and you will need to do again)