A few Helpful Things to Know
(You will have this information as a notecard in SL on the Bulletin Board)

Making a Notecard:
A Notecard is used to give others information.
It is similar to a simple text file.
• Open your inventory box
• Click the “Create” button at the top
• Click “New Note”
• Type in the information you want in the notecard
• Click the "Save" button at the bottom.
• Rename the Notecard (see below)

Rename an Object or Notecard:
• In your inventory find the object you want to rename
• Right click on the object and select "rename"
• Type in the new name of your object

Editing your notecard:
• In your Inventory find your notecard
• Double click to open
• Type information in your notecard
• Click the "Save" button at the bottom of your screen.

• Give your NoteCard to Someone who is NOT In-World:
Select Communicate button (bottom left)>select Contacts>
select avatars name> select Profile> Drag NoteCard to the DROP INVENTORY ITEM HERE area.

• Give a NoteCard to another avatar near you:
Drag notecard onto the avatar

Join a group:
There are many tools for joining a group and people can offer you group invites. If you know a group name and want to join you can also do this in the search menu.
• Go to the "search" button at the bottom of the screen.
• Type in the name of the group you want to join
• Click on the group
• Click the "View Full Profile" button
If you are not a member of the group or if the group allows you to join without an invitation there will be a "join" button on the profile screen.
• Click "join" to become a member of the group

Change your group heading above your name:
• Right click on yourself
• Click "Groups"
• Select the group you want above your name
• Click the "activate" button
• Close the box

•In order to "Build" on an island you will need to have selected the ACTIVE button for that group to have the Build Permissions.

Look at the profile of others:
A helpful way to see what you might have incommon with another avatar.
• Right click on the person
• Click the "profile" button
• You can use the top tabs to see what the person has written about themselves.
• You can also go to the "my notes" tab and type in notes about that person you want to remember. The person cannot see the notes you write.

Change the time of day in SL:
• On the top menu click on "World"
• Under "environmental settings" chose the time of day

Keep Chat Visible:
• Click the "Communicate" button at the bottom of your screen
• Click the "Local Chat" tab at the bottom.
• A window opens so that local chat doesn't "disappear".

Saving your chat text to your hard drive:
• Go to "edit"
• Select "preferences" at the bottom.
• Click the "Communication" button.
• Under "Logging Options" click the options to save a log of IM and local chat to your computer.
• Set a location to save the txt file.
• Click "Apply"

Create a Landmark to Save a location:
• On the top menu select "World"
• Select "Create Landmark here"
This will place a landmark for the area under "landmarks" in your inventory.

Set home:
To set a place as your home select "World" on the top menu.
Select "Set Home to Here".
You will not be able to Set Home on most islands. You wil want to Set home in our class area.