Education IT - College of Education, Purdue University

If You're New To the Purdue Community...

(1) You need a Purdue ID card (plastic card with your picture and a magnetic strip) to activate your career account. You can get one at the Card Services Office in the Purdue Memorial Union, Room 130. [Card Uses]

(2) You Need A Purdue Career Account -- A career account gives you access to:

Email
Blackboard
Your College of Education office computer
Purdue computer labs
Pal2.0 wireless network
Many other Purdue resources that require an ID and password

Your career account gives you 500 MB of network disk space for web pages and files!!!

If you are faculty/staff, most likely your department + EdIT has already initialized your career account for you. If you are a graduate or undergraduate student, see the ITaP consultants in Stewart Center room G-65 for assistance initializing your career account.

(3) You Need A Purdue Email Account -- if you're paid faculty/staff in the College of Education, contact EdIT for help setting up your Purdue email account so you can start reading email ASAP. Be sure to set up your career account first! Faculty and staff members will be using the ITaP Exchange server and MS Outlook 2003. If you're a graduate or undergraduate student, the ITaP consultants in Stewart Center G-65 can help you get started with email.

Once you have email, get signed up for College of Education mailing lists!

(4) College of Education Resources

Office computers (please contact EdIT when moving furniture)
Use PAL2.0 for personally owned computers
Departmental file server space for in-house collaboration
Instructional Labs (BRNG 3rd floor)
TRC - books and equipment (BRNG 3287)
Videoconferencing facilities
EdIT office hours - Wed. 2-4 PM

(5) Be Security Conscious. Never open unsolicited email attachments and don't download programs from the Internet and install them on Purdue-owned computers. Use anti-virus software (provided free on the SecurePurdue web site) and enable your computer's firewall. Be very careful about releasing your personal information (name/photo/address/phone/etc.) on the Internet!

SecurePurdue
http://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue

(6) Remember to maintain multiple backups of critically important data! Check out our Backup web page for general info and recommendations. Basically, we recommend that you purchase a USB hard drive for backing up large amounts of data. Use DVD or CD discs for smaller project files. We also recommend a small USB flash drive for transporting data to/from the office. Cartoon.

(7) What's New This Year - 2007

Blackboard - FERPA training
Adobe Connect
- For Faculty/Staff
- For Students
Office 2007 - not yet supported in Blackboard and Adobe Connect

(8) TaskStream - see Christian Mattix

(9) Looking for general Purdue info? Check out:

The Purdue Help Desk
ITaP Web Site
- Teaching and Learning Technologies
- Instructional Development Center
Secure Purdue

(10) EdIT Contact Info:

For Graduate Students:
- http://www.education.purdue.edu/edit/newgrad
For Faculty:
- http://www.education.purdue.edu/edit/newfaculty

Robert Evans
Director, Office of IT
Managing Director, TRC
bob@purdue.edu
(765) 496-1819

Mike Eldridge
Coordinator of Distance
Education and User Services
eldridge@purdue.edu
(765) 49-40944

Christian Mattix
Database System Administrator
and e-Portfolio Coordinator
cmattix@purdue.edu
(765) 494-3416

Wesley Shoop
Site Specialist, User Services
shoopw@purdue.edu
(765) 49-42658

Alex Noguera
Site Specialist, User Services
anoguera@purdue.edu
(765) 49-42659

Teja Josyula
Webmaster,
edit@purdue.edu
(765) 49-67323

Brenda Hash
Clerk,
Technology Resources Center
trc@purdue.edu
(765) 49-45677

Karen Hearn
Clerk,
Technology Resources Center
trc@purdue.edu
(765) 49-45677

Yue Pan
Graduate Programmer,
Administrative Databases
ypan@purdue.edu
(765) 49-42658

IEducation IT Voice:
(765) 49-42658

TRC Voice:
(765) 49-45677

TRC Web Site: