How To Ensure You Don't Lose Your Essay Work If Your Computer Crashes

How To Ensure You Don't Lose Your Essay Work If Your Computer Crashes

How To Ensure You Don't Lose Your Essay Work If Your Computer Crashes

Pat Maier (Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Coordinator) gives expert video advice on: How can I make sure I don't lose my work if my computer crashes?

How can I make sure I don't lose my work if my computer crashes?

There are many reasons for handing your course work in late. One of them is that my computer has crashed. Unfortunately that is not a valid excuse any more. There are various ways of backing up your work while you are working on the computer. You can put it on a CD, a memory stick or if you have an older PC, you still have a floppy disk. So you must remember while you're working to always backup your copy and that is part of your responsibility as a learner to back it up. Another way of backing it up is to send parts of your essay to yourself by e-mail. It will then be in the University system and they have backups so you have always got it. So your computer crashing should only effect you for the last 10 minutes of your work. As you back up every 10 minutes, so please do not try and use it as an excuse.