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By Claudia
Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor
Versions of this article are published each semester. -- Ed.
Welcome,
or welcome back, to UNT! If you're new, or if you've just been away for
awhile, it is our hope that this article will serve as a handy starting
point to get you acquainted (or re-acquainted) with the resources that
are available to you here at the University. Students, faculty and/or
staff members should all benefit from the information that follows.
When all else fails ...
If you have a computing question and/or problem and
can't think of who to contact or where to look for a solution, just
remember this: Contact the Helpdesk
The Computing and Information Technology Center (CITC)
Helpdesk is located in room 119 of the Information Sciences Building (ISB),
directly beside the Science and Technology Library. Their hours are
listed on the Helpdesk website:
http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk. Besides stopping by or searching for
answers on the website, you can call the Helpdesk at 940-565-2324 or
send mail to helpdesk@unt.edu.
Speaking of the Helpdesk, Benchmarks Online,
publishes a column each month called "Helpdesk FYI." This month's
article is
Microsoft Outlook's Task System.
Following is a list of articles published this year.
Perhaps one of these topics is something you've been wondering about:
New students are probably familiar with the Tour of
Student Computing Services at UNT. There are lots of
topics touched on that are of interest to non-students also. Check out
the website:
http://www.unt.edu/helpdesk/studenttour/
General Access Labs
The UNT General Access Computer Lab System is a collection of 14
computer labs spread across the UNT Denton campus, with one lab in
Dallas. They have been set up to provide computing to the University
community. The GAL website
states:
The labs are intended to meet the general academic computing needs of UNT
students. These labs are supported and maintained primarily through a portion
of the Technology Use Fee.
Students with a valid UNT photo ID card may use any General Access Lab except
where noted.
A list of labs and their locations and operating hours
is available from the GAL website.
The lab in ISB 110 is an Adaptive Lab. As the
website states:
The University of North Texas Academic Computing
Services General Access Lab is located in the Science and Technology
Library in ISB 110. The mission of this lab is to provide general
services to the UNT community with an emphasis on the special features
that Academic Computing Services has to offer including helpdesk support
and research assistance. Additionally the ACS lab is the designated
adaptive lab on campus providing state-of-the-art adaptive equipment for
those who need it. For more information about adaptive services on the
UNT campus visit the Office of Disability Accommodation at
http://www.unt.edu/oda.
Computer Based Training
All current faculty, staff, and students at UNT are
eligible to use the computer-based training (CBT) courses purchased and
administered by the CITC. The CBT homepage is:
http://www.unt.edu/cbt/ Following
are some Benchmarks Online articles that have been published in
the recent past on the topic:
The October and November issues of Benchmarks Online contain the articles
The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Even More Outlook and Office 2007
Training Posted on the CBT Website and
New Titles Added in SharePoint Server 2007, Publisher, Project, and
Office 2007.
Online Learning/UNTeCampus
For students, a good starting place is found on the
student
tour. Faculty will want to visit the Center for Distributed
Learning website and/or the Center
itself. Some Benchmarks Online articles that might be of interest to
faculty are:
Windows Vista/Office 2007
Everyone's wondering about Windows Vista and Office 2007
these days. The following Benchmarks Online articles have
addressed various aspects of this topic:
As mentioned above, the October and November issues of Benchmarks Online contain the articles
The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Even More Outlook and Office 2007
Training Posted on the CBT Website and
New Titles Added in SharePoint Server 2007, Publisher, Project, and
Office 2007.
Other Items of Interest
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Gartner Research -- UNT students, faculty, and
staff have access to Gartner Research at:
https://gartner.unt.edu/ CITC
also sponsors direct access to Gartner researchers. For more information
see
Getting Direct Access to Gartner Researchers.
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Statistical and Research Support Services -- "The
mission of the Research and Statistical Support (RSS) group at the
University of North Texas (UNT) is to facilitate access to current
research tools and statistical methodologies and to promote these
methods to the research, instructional, and administrative communities
at UNT; to encourage a collaborative research environment for
researchers through the development and use of innovative computing
technologies; to provide training and consultation in the appropriate
use of statistical methodologies and computer software; and to
facilitate access to data collection and data management
technologies." [From the Research and
Statistical Support website]. The RSS Group publishes a monthly
column in Benchmarks Online. This month's column is:
Statistics: a Clarification.
1. Exam Grading/Analysis: NCS Forms
4521 & Self-Score 106273. Exams can be processed within 15 minutes while
you wait, or you can drop off and have results e-mailed for your
convenience. Analyses’ include Detailed Item Analysis, Frequency
Distribution, and General Test Analysis (indicates which question(s) missed
most).
2. Departmental Course Evaluation Processing: Departmental
evaluations processed using NCS scantrons. Reports are produced using
customized SAS programs, and delivered electronically in Excel and text
format.
3. Research Projects: Key-Entry of survey or
research projects (grad student dissertation research allowed!) into a
custom data file, ready for analysis.
4. Scannable Form Design:
Customized survey or evaluation “bubble” forms created using any current
form, or just a new idea! Our service includes scanning the completed
forms into a data file, ready for analysis, quick and easy! For more
information on this service:
Joann.Luksich@unt.edu
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High-Performance Computing Initiative - "Academic Computing
Services supports multiple clusters of 32 and 64-bit processor systems
running Linux for compute-intensive scientific research. Cluster
computing provides dedicated systems for concurrent processing of jobs
in a batch environment."
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Information Security -- "The UNT Information
Security Team's purpose is to provide support to University academic and
administrative departments for the protection of UNT computing
information resources from misuse, abuse, unauthorized access or
unauthorized disclosure. Computing information resources include all
equipment, facilities, software, data and procedures which are designed,
built, operated and maintained to collect, record, process, store,
retrieve, display and transmit information. The mission of the
Information Security Team is to educate and assist administrators and
users of the UNT computing community in assessing, implementing, and
maintaining their information security needs." [From the
Information Security Website].
InHouse, UNT's faculty/staff online newsletter, ran a
series of articles on information security last year. You can review them here:
InHouse Series on Information Security.
Make sure and read the article Vishing, the latest
scam to hit the Denton area in this issue of Benchmarks Online
to find out about an identity theft scam that is targeting local citizens.
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