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What is the LiveCloud login?
LiveCloud is the universal login system accepted at all participating eve sites. See http://account.livecloud.com for more information.
Why should I use the LiveCloud login?
As the network grows, there will be more and more sites where your login will work. You only need to remember one login for all your communities. If you ever need to change your password, it is changed everywhere.
How do I login with LiveCloud?
Click login/join as usual to go to the LiveCloud secure login. Enter your email address and password and click submit. You will be returned automatically to this community.
How do I join the LiveCloud login network?
Click login/join as usual to go to the LiveCloud secure login. Click the option "I do not have a LiveCloud Account" and fill in an email address and password.
What about my privacy?
Your privacy is increased using LiveCloud. Only the LiveCloud server has your login, and no participating site will ever have access to your password. Login at LiveCloud is always secure.
The email address used for your LiveCloud login will be passed to a participating site when you choose to register there. It may be used for notifications, digests and mailings generated by the administrator.
Please note that each participating site that uses LiveCloud has its own privacy policy. This is distinct from the privacy policy of the eve service itself. Please be sure to read the privacy policy of the site you are joining via LiveCloud before agreeing to join the site.
Who runs LiveCloud?
It is a service of Groupee, Inc., who have been distributing community software since 1998. They are an established U.S. company with a strong reputation for innovation and reliability. See http://groupee-inc.com
What if I lose my Password?
LiveCloud login has a lost password function. You can resend your password to your own email address.
In the top right corner of every page are links to login and logout.
If you are not logged in it will say:
"Login/Join"
When you log in please check whether this site requires an email address or a username for login.
If you have lost your password, you can have it sent to your email address by clicking a link on the login page called "Lost Password?"
Why register?
Many features of the site require a login to view. You will also be able to save personal preferences when you are logged in.
Remember Me
Select this option if you wish to save a cookie on your computer to stay logged in automatically to the community.
Logout
Clicking the logout link will log you out of the site and clear the "Remember Me" cookie if selected.
Click the "Go" button in the top navigation bar on any page. Choose the option "Personal Zone"
Profile
Clicking the profile link will first show your Public Profile. This is the information other members of the community may see about you.
In order to view and edit your "Private Profile," click the "Edit Profile" link. Your site administrator determines what fields are required and what fields are optional. Required fields are marked with an asterisk and you may not submit your profile unless these fields are filled in.
I was sent to my Profile without asking!
This means there are new terms of service posted by the administrator or a new profile field required by the community. You will need complete your profile before proceeding to regular community pages.
Buddies
This is a list of community members in your own personal group.To add members to your group, click the "Add members" link and search for other members by name.
Ignore List
To manage your ignored users, go to the Personal Zone section and click the "Ignore List" link. Your current list of ignored users will be displayed.For ignored users, replies in topics are hidden by default. In addition, you will not receive notifications of new content by ignored users.To add someone to your ignore list, click the "Add Users" link. This link is to the right of your ignore list's title. Search for the display name of the user you wish to ignore, check their box, and click the "Add Selected Members" button.To stop ignoring another user, go to the Personal Zone section and click the "Ignore List" link. Your current list of ignored users will be displayed. Check the box next to the user you wish to stop ignoring, and click the "Remove Checked Users" button.Groups
You may belong to "power groups" or "premium groups" within the community. Membership in these groups gives you special access and features within the community. Click the link to show your group memberships.
Permissions
The permissions browser shows what you may and may not do within your community.
Click each section to expand the permission descriptions. A check mark shows that you have a permission. No check mark means that you do not have the permission.
Notifications
Here is a list of notifications you may have requested while browsing the community. Click "edit" to change any notification option. Use the check box beside any title to select notifications you wish to delete. You may also temporarily suspend all notifications or remove all notifications.
Karma
This is a rating of your performance and reputation in the community. It is normally based on participation in the community, but may be edited by the administrator.
Preferences
Choose your personal preferences for common options in the community.
Rules, Policies and Disclaimers for Orange County High School of the Arts Alumni Association Message Board and Chat Room:
This portion of the Orange County High School of the Arts Alumni Association website is dedicated to providing an opportunity for users to network, exchange ideas, provide information, and facilitate general dialogue pertaining to the message board topics listed.
As such, all messages are the express view of the author of the message and not those of the Orange County High School of the Arts or its affiliates. Neither the Orange County High School of the Arts nor its affiliates will be held responsible nor liable for the content of the materials found here, nor of any claims, damages or losses resulting from any use of this service or the materials contained herein.
You are solely responsible for the content of your messages and you agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Orange County High School of the Arts and its affiliates with respect to any claim based upon transmission of your message(s).
Users of information from this site, or any linked web sites, do so at their own risk. Links to information on sites other than those operated by, or on behalf of, the Orange County High School of the Arts is for your convenience only and is not an endorsement or recommendation of those sites. The Orange County High School of the Arts does not take any responsibility for information at these sites, nor makes any representation or warranty with respect to these sites or their information.
You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use the Orange County High School of the Arts Alumni Association message board forums or chat room to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, rude, distasteful, disrespectful, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of another’s privacy, or otherwise violative of any law. You further agree that you will not post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you.
The Orange County High School of the Arts reserves the right to reveal your identity or any other information in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.
By registering and using the Orange County High School of the Arts message board and chat room, you agree to abide by the forum rules, both stated and unstated. Furthermore, you agree that any message posted by you becomes the property of the administrators and operators of the Orange County High School of the Arts. We reserve the sole and exclusive rights to edit, change, delete or otherwise modify all content posted to the message board and chat room.
If you believe that a message board or chat room contains a posting constituting copyright infringement or defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful material, please contact the Orange County High School of the Arts Alumni Association webmaster immediately at webmaster@ocsarts.net. The Orange County High School of the Arts will delete, modify, or remove any such material if we feel such action is necessary or desirable and will make every effort to do so within a reasonable time frame.
In order to use the Orange County High School of the Arts Alumni Association message board and chat rooms, you must agree to the terms as stated above.
This community software is designed to work with the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer 5.5+
- Netscape 7+
- Mozilla
- Safari
- Opera 7+
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To post a new topic, click the "New" tab on the top left of any forum page. You will be asked to choose a new Discussion, Poll or Photo Album (if enabled). Click one of these options to begin. A discussion is a topic with replies.
A poll invites people to vote on a question, and then add replies.
A photo album is a gallery of uploaded images, with a place to add comments as required.
To post a reply, look for a "Reply" tab at the top or bottom of any discussion or poll. Click this tab to open a posting window with tools for enhancing your post with bold text, images or attachments.
Beside each "Reply" tab is a yellow arrow for "Quick Reply." The "Quick Reply" is for fast text-only responses to a discussion.
First, be sure the administrator has enabled photo albums and given you permission to post them. You can check your permission using the "Go" button -> Personal Zone -> Permissions links.
To post a photo album, click the "New" tab and then the "Photo Album" link.
A photo album wizard will take you through the following steps:
Step 1 - "Basics" - provide basic information about the album, choose whether to allow comments, and select your notification options.
Step 2 - "Upload" - upload files from your own computer. Note: there may be size and number limits set by the administrator.
Step 3 - "Organize" - add titles and captions to each uploaded photo. You may also add new photos, delete photos or re-order photos in this step.
Step 4 - "Preview" - confirm the appearance of the final album before you approve it for viewing by other members.
Please note: An administrator may require approval of photo albums before they go live.
If you are the owner of the album, you may edit the album after it has gone live by using the "edit" icon in the bottom right corner of the gallery view.
You can edit a post after it goes live by clicking the small edit icon in the lower right corner of the message. An administrator may restrict the time frame for editing a message.
You can enhance a post when first creating it or when editing it.
Choose a "mood" icon for the discussion by clicking the selector beside the "Subject" or "Reply To:" field.
You may insert a "graemlin" emoticon into your posts by clicking the emoticon icon on the left side of the posting tools.
The posting page tools include some or all of these options:
Graemlins - an inline emoticon image
URL - a web page link
Bold - bold text
Italics - italic text
Quote - indented text List bullet - ordered text
Email - a clickable email address
Image - a properly formed link to an web image
Attachment - where enabled, an uploaded file attachment
| Function | UBBCode Tags |
| Bold | [b] [/b] |
| Italics | [i] [/i] |
| Strikethrough | [strike] [/strike] |
| Unordered, bulleted | [list][/list] |
| Ordered,numbered | [list=1] [/list] |
| Ordered,lettered | [list=A] [/list] |
| List item | [*] |
| Quote | [quote] [/quote] |
| CodeSnippets | [code] [/code] |
| URLs | [url] [/url] |
| URL with name | [url=http://www.yourURL.com]namehere[/url] |
| Email Addresses | [email] [/email] |
| Images | [img] [/img] |
| Image Aligned Left | [img:left] [/img] |
| Image Aligned Right | [img:right] [/img] |
| Image Aligned Top | [img:top] [/img] |
| Horizontal Rule | [hr] |
| Subscript | [sub] [/sub] |
| Red | [color:red] [/color] |
| Green | [color:green] [/color] |
| Blue | [color:blue] [/color] |
| Yellow | [color:yellow] [/color] |
| White | [color:white] [/color] |
| Black | [color:black] [/color] |
| Pink | [color:pink] [/color] |
| Purple | [color:purple] [/color] |
| Brown | [color:brown] [/color] |
| Grey | [color:grey] [/color] |
| :) |  |
| :( |  |
| :D |  |
| ;) |  |
| :o |  |
| :p |  |
| :cool: |  |
| :rolleyes: |  |
| :mad: |  |
| :eek: |  |
| :confused: |  |
Favorites
To add a discussion to your favorites list, click the "Tools" tab button and select "Add to favorites." You can keep a list of up to 30 discussions in your Personal Zone page. Icons there will show whether your favorites have been updated since your last visit.
Notifications
Click the "Notify" tab on a community page to request email notifications of new content. Delivery options may include:
- Daily Email Digest - a summary of all notifications sent once a day.
- Weekly Email Digest - a summary of all notifications sent once a week.
- Immediate Notification - email automatically sent when there is an update.
Modify or Cancel a Notification
Click on the Personal Zone tab and then click Notifications. Click the "edit" link to change delivery options or cancel the request entirely. You can also edit your preferences directly from the email you receive.
Suspend my Notifications Temporarily
You can temporarily suspend your notifications at any time. For example, this might be useful if you were going on vacation. Select the "suspend subscriptions" box at the bottom of the "Notifications" page to put them all on hold. They will stay suspended until you uncheck that box.
Subscribe to another Member
Click the person's name within the interface, then select "notify me of new posts by x". You will be notified via email every time that member posts to the community.
You can ignore a post by clicking the small "Hide Post" link in the upper right section of the post. If you've ignored a user, their posts will be hidden by default.
If you want to show a single post from an ignored user, click the small "Show Post" link on the top right of the post.
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To enter a chat room:
1. From the *main forums page, select Go from the menu bar at the top of the page.
2. Select Chat from the dropdown menu.
3. Select the name of the Chat Room you would like to enter.
*You can access the chat rooms from the eve page as well with the Chat link
To Join the conversation and start chatting:
1. Locate the Text box below the ongoing chat.
2. Type something brilliant and press the Talk button to have it displayed publicly.
3. You will see your message move into the main conversation box above.
To add a Graemlin to your text:
1. You can click on the Graemlin located in the bottom left of the chat window to display the list.
2. Click on the Graemlin you want to add to your text, it will add the character equivalent, and when you click Talk, it will be displayed as the image Graemlin in the conversation box.
To chat privately with another member:
1. Click on the name of the person with whom you want to chat privately.
2. In the pop up window that appears, click the Private button.
3. This will invite them to the private chat and open a separate chat window for your discussion.
To ignore a member:
1. To ignore another member (this will not show you any posts by the person being ignored), click on the name of the person you want to ignore.
2. In the pop up window that appears, click the Ignore button.
3. You will see a message indicating that the person you specified is now being ignored (the person being ignored receives no notification of this and nobody else can see the message indicating that you are ignoring someone).
To use an *emote:
1. To view a list of the emotes available, type /emotes and click Talk.
2. Once you know the emote you will use, type the emote characters (the '/' followed by a word) and click Talk.
*Emotes are a kind of shorthand for messages you want to say to the group. An example of an emote is /bye which will be displayed in the discussion box as 'your name waves goodbye to everybody' (where 'your name would be replaced with your username.
In some situations, an administrator may configure a chat room to be read-only or for its messages to be screened before appearing live.
If your chat posting requires approval, you will be informed that your post is being moderated.
Event and Celebrity Chats
Some chat rooms are designed for hundreds of users to watch a chat, but not participate. In this case you will see the postings of the celebrity and moderators but not your own.
In many moderated, event or celebrity chats you will not see your own name in the right-hand side roster of participants. This is normal.
The following are all of the chat tools that may be available (permission to use these tools is set by the Community Administrator).
* Silence - Essentially makes the affected user 'read-only'. If you were silenced, you would be allowed to remain in the chat room, but you would be unable to post.
* Kick - Prevents a user from returning from the chat room for 24 hours. This does not affect the users ability to enter other chat rooms, or the rest of the community. If you were kicked, the kick cannot be lifted, and you cannot be 'unkicked'. You simply have to wait the 24 hours.
* Ignore - When you choose to ignore another user, the application will no longer show you any comments made by that person. The person being ignored does not know they are being ignored.
* View Profile - The profile option allows you to view the public profile for the user selected (if they are not a guest).
* Private - Allows the user to invite and conduct a chat session privately with another person in the chat room.
* Clear Chat Content - Clears the chat window
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