This step-by-step document shows you how to install AvantGo Enterprise v5.3 software on your Palm-based personal digital assistant (PDA) from a Windows-based* personal computer (PC) in the Tosteson Medical Education Center (MEC). (Mac users will follow these special instructions.) Please read the steps carefully as they are all important. If you encounter a problem during installation, please contact the Student Computing Support Desk by fill out an online form.

Summary of Required Steps:
• Step 1: Remove AvantGo Software from Your PDA
• Step 2: Prepare AvantGo Software for Your PDA
• Step 3: Configure AvantGo Connect Software for Your PDA
• Step 4: Log in to a Student Workstation (PC)
• Step 5: Synchronize your PDA Using an Infrared Port
• Step 6: View MyCourses Mobile Site!

 

Step 1: Remove AvantGo Software from Your PDA

Note: For those who have already installed AvantGo Software onto your PDA, Student Computing strongly recommends that you remove previous installations of AvantGo from your PDA. If you have not installed AvantGo onto your PDA, skip this step and move on to Step 2.

1. Turn on your PDA and select the Menu button shown in Figure 1 below:

Figure 1. Palm Application & Menu Buttons

2. Select Delete... from the App menu. Highlight and delete the AvantGo item. Do not delete the AG Connect item.

    
Figure 2. Deleting AvantGo Icon from Your PDA

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Step 2: Prepare AvantGo Software for Your PDA

1. Log into your MyCourses account at http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu.

2. Click on Applications in the upper left corner.

3. Click on Go Mobile in the main frame.

4. Click on AvantGo Enterprise and a window, Mobile Application Delivery will appear.

5. Click on the pull down menu to select a location. Choose the appropriate site at which you are located.

6. Power on and place your PDA in front of the Clarinet infrared device.

7. Go back to the computer and click on the button, Send File to your PDA. Once the file has been received on your PDA, you will be prompted to accept the application. Click Yes.

Figure 3. Clarinet Infrared Device and PDA

8. Click on the MobileLink Installer icon on your PDA screen to decompress three .prc files. It will state Ready! when decompression is complete.

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Step 3: Configure AvantGo Connect Software for Your PDA

1. Two applications icons, AG Connect and AvantGo, will appear on your PDA screen as below:

    
Figure 4. AG Connect and AvantGo Icons

2 . Tap the Applications button (Figure 1 above) on your PDA. Tap the AGConnect icon. Click on the Settings... button and the AvantGo Connect Server Settings screen will appear as on the right in Figure 5 below.

    
Figure 5. Server Settings for HMS AvantGo Server

Complete the Server Address/Hostname, Port, User Name, and Password fields with the following information:

Server Addr: mymobile.med.harvard.edu
Port: 8092
User Name: [your MyCourses/eCommons username (case-sensitive)]*
Password: [your MyCourses/eCommons password (case-sensitive)]*
Check off the following: Refresh All Contents

*Note: If you are a new user of eCommons/MyCourses or if you do not remember your eCommons/MyCourses username and password, you must go to either eCommons website (http://ecommons.med.harvard.edu/) or MyCourses website (http://mycourses.med.harvard.edu/) to sign up for or find out what is your username and password for the MyCourses portal. Just click on the link, LOGIN PROBLEMS, and follow the instructions.

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Step 4: Log in to a Student Workstation (PC)

Go to the Student Computing Lab in TMEC 225. Log in to a student workstation (Windows-based PC) that has a small, black infrared device connected to it.

Figure 6. Infrared Device at a Student Workstation

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Step 5: Synchronize your PDA Using an Infrared Port

1. Place your PDA on the desk in front of the infrared port.

2. Tap the HotSync icon on your PDA screen as below in Figure 4. Note that the IR to PC/Handheld must be selected for the type of synchronization to take place.

Figure 7. HotSync Screen

3. If prompted, type in your PDA password.

Figure 8. User Dialog Box

4. Students will store all of your PDA-related information in your PDA username folder that is stored in a folder named PALM in your student network folder as below (e.g., O:\RR3\palm\rise_c). Do not delete this Palm folder!

Figure 9. Student Network and Palm Folders

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Step 6: View MyCourses Mobile Site!

1. Tap the Applications icon (Figure 1) on your PDA. Select the AvantGo icon (Figure 2). The HMS MyCourses Mobile channel will appear as below (Figure 10).

Figure 10. MyCourses Mobile Edition

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