Faculty and Staff Technology Toolkit

Technology Help Desk

• Providing consultation and assistance in computing and information technology.
  

Getting Started with Email, Internet and Telephone Services

• Getting Started with Email: email address and personalized email address, password, password change, …
• Service Application Forms – password change, accounts…
• Campus Directory – people search and directory update
• Telephone and Voicemail
• Network Port Activation

Teaching and Research Tools

• Class Roster
• Computer Labs – location, software, hardware, hours, reservation
• Classroom Equipment – reserving a projector, microphone, laptop….
• Web Publishing – Publishing syllabus and related documents
• Instructional Technology Center – A facilty with high-end multimedia hardware and software for developing instructional materials, creating materials for new interactive media, and for exploring asynchronous learning technologies.
• Mailing List, Newsgroup – sponsoring mailing list or managing mailing list or creating newsgroup to communicate with your class
• OMR Exam Grading – grading your exam automatically
• URI On Line - Taking online courses at URI.
• Classroom Presentation by an ITS staff member
• Statistical Resources and Databases – SAS, SPSS, CRSP, COMPUSTAT,…
• Unix Handbook - Listing features of the UNIX implementation at the University of Rhode Island
• Audience Response System (Clickers)

Purchasing a Computer?

• Ram Computer
• Departmental Purchase – Master Price Agreement (e.g., Apple, Dell)
• URI Site-licensed Software
• Virus Protection for your office and home computers

Learning Computing Skills

• Short Courses
• Video Tapes and CDs – learning computing at your own pace
• “How-To” Handouts
• ITS Web site – finding solutions on-line

Resources on the Providence Campus

• Faculty Technology Information