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Blackboard is a Web-based software application for supporting online courses and supplementing on-campus classes. It is a great way to post presentations, facilitate out-of-class discussions and teamwork, as well as post daily grades securely using the Blackboard gradebook. Blackboard is currently available at blackboard.olemiss.edu. Faculty can set up a Blackboard course through the Class Rolls and Grades interface of myolemiss.edu which includes a service that allows instructors to "Blackboard Enable" sections they are teaching. For more information about Blackboard, see the Blackboard Help Page.
All faculty, staff, and students are given space on Sunset for development of a personal Web page. All personal Web pages must adhere to the Appropriate Use Policy. Departmental and course Web pages are housed on Cedar. To apply for a cedar account, click here. Departmental Web pages must comply with the Policy for Official Web Pages. UM Webmasters will want to visit The UM Web Project. This page provides lots of helpful information on creating Web pages, as well as provides Web page templates that are available for download.
Mailing lists can be effective means for facilitating communication among class members. A mailing list is an e-mail reflector; members subscribe to the list and postings are automatically distributed to all members. To set up a course mailing list, e-mail assist@olemiss.edu. Please provide the desired mailing list and a brief description of how it will be used.
All faculty, staff, and students are given computer accounts for e-mail and Web page development. For more information about accessing your e-mail account, see www.olemiss.edu/email/
Faculty Technology Development Center Located in Weir Hall, the FTDC offers software, hardware, and one-on-one assistance for improving your classroom presentations and other projects. Detailed information on the FTDC is available through the FTDC Web page.
Faculty have access to an Op-Scan test scanner for their faculty test scoring needs. This scanner requires the "purple" form #16485. The scanner is located in the Weir Hall Microcomputer Lab, room 115. Specifics about the scanner are available at www.olemiss.edu/depts/ftdc/testscanning.html.
UM maintains a connection to Internet2 providing access from most campus PCs to this high-speed, research network. UM's own ACCESS GRID Node is an immersive video conferencing facility, available free-of-charge to faculty for distance-based lectures or remote research collaboration.
UM has a Site License for Mathematica which entitles any UM affiliated faculty or staff member to load this software on their office, lab, or home computer. Full-time UM students may also install a copy on their own computers.
Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research Located on the UM campus, the MCSR provides high-performance computing support to the faculty, professional staff, and students at the eight state-supported senior institutions of higher learning in Mississippi and the UM Medical Center, all governed by the Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning. The MCSR currently supports a Cray C916 system (magnolia), an SGI Origin 2800 computer (sweetgum), an SGI Altix 3700 supercomputer (redwood), a 251-node Intel Linux Beowulf cluster computer, and an Sun Enterprise 420R computer (willow). More information on MCSR facilities can be found at the MCSR Web page.
Ole Miss Faculty Experts Guide The Ole Miss Faculty Experts Guide, located at www.olemiss.edu/experts, lists the specialty areas of our diverse faculty, who are available for expert commentary on breaking news or feature stories on hundreds of topics. To add or update your entry, please send e-mail to web@olemiss.edu.
Faculty can download class rolls, check for open
and closed sections of courses, Blackboard enable a course, and
access accounts receivable information through a Web interface made
available by the IT SAP Support group. To access these services,
connect to myOleMiss and click
on the Faculty and Class Info tabs. The Weir Hall Microcomputer Labs are the only general usage labs located on campus. They provide a wide range of computers and software for students to use. Included are Pentium PCs, Macintosh systems, printers, scanners, and a multimedia lab. See the IT Labs Web page for hours and available software and hardware.
IT manages several software site license programs for the UM campus including Mathematica, Virus protection, Sun ScholarPac and the SGI Varsity Program. Other site license software is available for at-cost rates including SAS/PC, SPSS/PC and certain Visual Numerics applications. Microsoft Office Professional and Adobe/Macromedia software products are available through the Faculty Technology Development Center.
IT Support Services consultants regularly present technical seminars to faculty and staff, some of which are provided through Human Resources Professional Development Series and others which target faculty needs directly. Included in this offering are seminars on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Mathematica, Scanning, Photoshop, Editing Digital Video, Creating DVDs, Mailing Lists, Creating Web Pages, Dreamweaver, and more.
The Academic Computing and Enterprise Applications
(ACEA) division of Information Technology (IT) provides a wide variety
of technical services for UM faculty. The IT
Helpdesk, located in Weir Hall , provides frontline technical
support for the UM campus. The IT Helpdesk staff can be reached
by phone at 915-5222 or via e-mail at helpdesk@olemiss.edu.
Many other services are available such as an Online Directory and a mailing list for faculty members. Find out about these and other services by connecting to www.olemiss.edu/faculty.
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