[1] Various information for Hiroshima University students are collected into student portal, MOMIJI.
Type "momiji hiroshima university" in the search box, find "MOMIJI Hiroshima Univ. もみじ-広島大学", and click the link.
[2] MOMIJI top page will be displayed. You can get useful information there.
You can see many banners on the right of the page. In this chapter, we will explain "Web Mail", "My MOMIJI" and "Bb9".
[3] Click "Web Mail" banner, first.
[4] Click "Office 365 portal" (Office365ポータル).
[5] Input your "HIRODAI mail" in the box and click "Next",
[6] Input your "HIRODAI password" in the lower box. And click "Sign in", blue button.
[7] Office 365 applications are listed. Click "Outlook".
[8] For your first time login, you will be asked to choose language and time zone. You may choose UTC+9 as time zone.
[9] Web Mail page will be opened. You may read HIRODAI Mails here. Since the university sends messages to your HIRODAI Mail, check the mail box frequently. check-9
You can use Outlook app to receive and send your HIRODAI Mails on your smartphone. We recommend it for daily use, as it is easy to use and it also have push notification function.
[10] Let us move to OneDrive, online storage service in Office365. Click the icon in the upper left corner of the window, and the list of applications in Office365 will be shown. Click "OneDrive" in the list.
[11] OneDrive provides you 1 TB of storage. You can keep your backup data here. Or you can access files here even when you are off campus.
There is also the OneDrive smartphone app. So you can use this storage on your smartphone.
[12] Input your "HIRODAI ID" and "HIRODAI password" in each box and click "Login to My MOMIJI (Students)" button.
[13] Here, you can register courses or view your grades. Notifications from your courses or school will be listed in "Message".check-10
[14] When you have finished, click "Logout".
[15] Let us go back to MOMIJI top page again. This time, click "Bb9" banner.
Bb9 is the name of learning management system in Hiroshima University. You may view course materials, answer tests, or submit assignments on Bb9.
[16] Click Bb9 banner again.
[17] Bb9 login page will be displayed.
Click the globe icon on the upper left corner of the window and choose "English" to change your language setting on Bb9.
[18] When Bb9 login page in English is displayed, log in to Bb9 with your "HIRODAI ID" and "HIRODAI password".
[19] For your first login, this page will be shown. Click "Close".
[20] This is "myBlackboard" page. There is "Course List" in the middle of the page. Courses, which you can access, are listed there. Some courses in the list are related to the courses you registered. But others are not.
Several courses should be introduced here.
- Laptop checklist 2020
- You need to submit a checklist which declares that your PC is capable of your study life in Hiroshima University. You can submit the checklist in this course. Access to this course after finishing this lecture.
- Introduction to University Education
- This course is required. In this course, you will learn what you need to know to study in Hiroshima University. And you are expected to download course text PDFs and answer a test on a weekly basis.
* Because of COVID-19, this course will be performed not as usual. Please check your "My MOMIJI".
[21] You are expected to download the course text PDFs from Bb9 course beforehand. Here, you will learn how to download course materials from Bb9.
Click "Laptop checklist 2020" in the "Course List".
[22] Then the course contents of this course will be displayed in the right. Now click the second content "Checklist worksheet" and open it.
[23] Look at the picture in the right, you can read what PDF contains. However, sometimes you cannot. It depends on the software which you use to read PDFs.
[24] What is the easiest way to download the files on the Bb9 course page? Right-click the contents and choose "Save as" in the displayed menu.
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[25] If you have finished to set/check your PC with Chapter 1 to
[26] Contents in this section will not be introduced in this lecture. You can read them later.
[27] Printers
If your PC is connected to campus network, you can use university printers to print your documents. At first, save your document as PDF, and send it to print server using Web browser. Then find the nearest university printer, and print your PDF.
At that time you need to pay printing fee with MYple, Co-op's electronic money put on student ID card. It costs you 4 JPY per sheet in monochrome print, and 13 JPY in color print. So you need to charge your student ID card in advance.
You can find more information on IMC web site
. It's Japanese only. Please check Google translation menu at the bottom of right column.
[28] Mobile app
You can use Bb9 mobiles apps. Search "Blackboard" on iOS App Store or Android Google play.
[29] OneDrive
There is OneDrive app for PC, quite similar to DropBox, very famous online storage service. If you install it to your PC, your contents in OneDrive are automatically synced to those in a certain folder on your PC. In the case of OneDrive mobile app, it will not happen. The reason of this may be the small storage capacities of smartphones or tablets.
You can get OneDrive apps on OneDrive web site.
You can find more information on IMC web site
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[30] In recent versions of Windows 10, Microsoft Teams run automatically when you sign in your PC. Teams is a comminication tool provided by Microsoft. You can use Teams with your HIRODAI mailaddress and password. Or, you can dismiss Teams from your PC setting (Settings -> Apps -> Startup)
You can find more information on "Microsoft Teams".
[31] VPN
When you view your grades on MOMIJI or print your works in IMC, you need to connect your PC to campus network. If you are off campus and want to use those services, you can connect your PC to campus network via VPN (Vertual Private Network). See IMC web page which shows how to connect to VPN.
You can find more information on IMC web site
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