Catholic Education Ministries

Introduction

There are not many web-specific settings available for management. Additionally, these settings do NOT apply to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. These DO apply to the Safari web browser.

You probably want to manage these settings for all your managed groups.

How to Manage Web Settings

It is not overly obvious how you locate the web settings. If at the 'Preferences' screen within Workgroup Manager, click the 'Internet' icon, and then click the 'Web' tab.

The first thing you must do, as with any preference category, is that you need to select the option 'Always'.

Default Web Browser: I usually set this to Safari. To do so, click 'Set...' and then locate 'Safari' on your computer. The proper location should always be /Applications/Safari.app .

Home Page: This is the web page that will be displayed whenever a student launches Safari (does not apply to Internet Explorer). This is typically set to the school's web site or a child-oriented search engine.

Search Page: This does not come into play very often. It defines the default search engine web site to use.

Download Files To: If a person downloads a file (without specifiying where it should be saved), this declares where that file should be saved. I typically save the file to the person's desktop, which can be defined by ~/Desktop . If the person's Documents folder is preferred, that can be definted by ~/Documents .