Sign up

1. Go to http://qna.live.com/
2. Click on “sign in”, you will find this in the top right hand corner
3. If you have an hotmail, messenger or passport account you can use this. However, when prompted, your nickname must be your school login ID – you can skip to Using QnA. If you do not have one of these accounts continue with the instructions below.
4. Click on “sign up for windows live!”
5. Make sure “yes, use my email address” is selected and click on continue
6. Use your school email address and school password (you will need to add shr to the end of your password because it has to be at least 6 characters long) and answer the other questions, click on continue
7. On this page, for industry and occupation choose other (at the bottom)
8. For postal code, use the school post code SY1 1TN, then click on continue
9. Type in your email address when prompted and follow the rest of the instructions
10. When you are asked for a nickname, use your school login ID – you are now ready to sign in.

Using Tags in QnA

Once you are signed in you can begin to ask questions or answer them. In order to find questions asked by SHR pupils, you must tag your questions with shr otherwise it will be nearly impossible to locate these questions. Other tags that would be a really good idea are;

• shropschool (to indicate you belong to a school in Shropshire)
• your login ID (this makes it easy to find all your questions)
• the subject (e.g. maths, geography etc)

Click here for an example of tags

Searching for questions using tags

In the search box, type in tag:shr – this will find all the questions tagged with shr. tag:shr and tag:history would find all the shr history questions. tag:shr and tag:curtt1 would find all the questions by Mr C etc.

For those of you who use RSS feeds, you can get a feed for tag:shr and add it to your blog so you can keep in touch with the latest questions. Search for tag:shr and then click on the orange RSS button.

How to score points and enhance your reputation

Basically, it’s about answering questions and voting for the answers of others. For a detailed explanation, click here.

So – off you go, ask some questions, give some great answers and vote for who you think is best!