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=== Overview ===
__NOTOC__ [[File:Favorite_Websites.png|400px|thumb|right|frame|Setting Up Websites on the Care Menu]]
Users can browse the Internet on a GrandCare system. Caregivers first set up a list of websites the loved ones can access. This is both for ease-of-use and for security purposes. For users with stronger Internet skills, the websites can include Internet search engines, web-based email accounts, Facebook, etc. For users with fewer Internet skills, the websites might be ones that you know your loved one will want to use, perhaps for a local church, or an online newspaper, or a store. The websites can also include family videos uploaded to YouTube, favorite music videos, picture sites, or music sites.<br /><br />
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Users can browse the Internet on an interactive system. Caregivers first set up a list of websites the loved ones can access. This is both for ease-of-use and for security purposes. For users with stronger Internet skills, the websites can include Internet search engines, web-based email accounts, Facebook, etc. For users with fewer Internet skills, the websites might be ones that you know your loved one will want to use, perhaps for a local church, or an online newspaper, or a store. The websites can also include family videos uploaded to YouTube, favorite music videos, picture sites, or music sites.</td></tr>
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[[File:FavoriteWebsitesCareMenuScreen.png|right|Setting Up Websites on the Care Menu]]
===Setting Up Websites===
=== Setting Up Websites ===
To add websites to the system:
To add websites to the system:
* [[Help: Logging In|Log in to GCManage]]
* [[Logging In|Log in to the Online Care Portal]]
* Open the [[Help: Care Menu|Care Menu]]
* Open the [[Care Menu|Care Menu]]
* Click the "Touchscreen" button
* Click the "Touchscreen" button
* At the bottom of the Touchscreen window is the Favorite Websites section. This is where you will add websites to the system.
* At the bottom of the Touchscreen window is the Favorite Websites section. This is where you will add websites to the system.
* For each website, choose a category, enter a description, then enter the complete URL (including the http portion), and then if this is a multi-resident system, select the resident.
* For each website, choose a category, enter a description, then enter the complete URL (including the http portion).
* If you check the "Main" checkbox, this website will get its own button on the [[Help: Touchscreen Main Menu|Touchscreen Main Menu]]. This is useful for the sites that your loved one is likely to visit most frequently.
* If you check the "Main" checkbox, this website will get its own button on the [[Touchscreen Main Menu|Touchscreen Main Menu]]. This is useful for the sites that your loved one is likely to visit most frequently.
* If there is an icon you would like to use for this website, click the "Add Icon" button and browse your computer for the digital image file. This icon will be placed on the menu button that accesses this website.
* If there is an icon you would like to use for this website, click the "Add Icon" button and browse your computer for the digital image file. This icon will be placed on the menu button that accesses this website.
* Click the "Save Favorites" button to save
* Click the "Save Favorites" button to save
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[[File:WebSitesMenu.png|right|Websites Menu]]
===Viewing Websites on the Touchscreen===
 
For information on Touchscreen operations please see [[Touchscreen Websites]].
=== Viewing Websites on the Touchscreen ===
You can view websites on the Touchscreen by pressing on the "Websites" button in the Main Menu. Websites are organized by category. Those websites for which you checked the "Main" checkbox will appear as individual buttons on the [[Help: Touchscreen Main Menu|Main Menu]], and will also appear on the Websites menu.<br /><br />
Several categories have names that match other Main Menu items, e.g. News, Games, Music, Videos. Websites for which you have chosen those categories will appear both as items on the Websites menu, and as items in those corresponding areas of the Main Menu. For example, if you choose the category "Games" for a website, when you press the [[Help: Games|Games]] button on the Main Menu, in addition to the standard four games loaded on the system, there will also be buttons for the Games websites that you entered.<br /><br />
 
=== Browsing Tools ===
* Only a portion of the URL appears at the top of the web page when your loved one is browsing websites on the Touchscreen. This is because a large, easily readable font is used. The full URL can be displayed by pressing on the URL that appears in the address bar.
* Zoom buttons allow your loved one to enlarge the text on the screen for easier reading, or to reduce it back to its original size.
* If a website requires input, e.g. a name, address, username, or password, just press on the input field, and a pop-up, on-screen keyboard will appear, to allow you to enter text. Press the "Done" key on the keyboard when you have finished entering text for that field.<br /><br />
 
=== Browsing Limitations ===
There are two limits to browsing that have been built into the websites feature. Both of these limits protect the security of the system from viruses or malicious malware.
* If a website link requires a page to open in a new window, that page will be prevented from opening.
* Files cannot be uploaded from the system to the Internet, and files cannot be downloaded from the Internet onto your loved one's GrandCare system.

Latest revision as of 21:51, 2 April 2018

Setting Up Websites on the Care Menu
Activity Monitoring

Overview


Users can browse the Internet on an interactive system. Caregivers first set up a list of websites the loved ones can access. This is both for ease-of-use and for security purposes. For users with stronger Internet skills, the websites can include Internet search engines, web-based email accounts, Facebook, etc. For users with fewer Internet skills, the websites might be ones that you know your loved one will want to use, perhaps for a local church, or an online newspaper, or a store. The websites can also include family videos uploaded to YouTube, favorite music videos, picture sites, or music sites.


Setting Up Websites

To add websites to the system:

  • Log in to the Online Care Portal
  • Open the Care Menu
  • Click the "Touchscreen" button
  • At the bottom of the Touchscreen window is the Favorite Websites section. This is where you will add websites to the system.
  • For each website, choose a category, enter a description, then enter the complete URL (including the http portion).
  • If you check the "Main" checkbox, this website will get its own button on the Touchscreen Main Menu. This is useful for the sites that your loved one is likely to visit most frequently.
  • If there is an icon you would like to use for this website, click the "Add Icon" button and browse your computer for the digital image file. This icon will be placed on the menu button that accesses this website.
  • Click the "Save Favorites" button to save


Viewing Websites on the Touchscreen

For information on Touchscreen operations please see Touchscreen Websites.

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