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If You're New To the Purdue Community...
Here are "10 Things New People Need To Know"
1. Purdue ID Card
You'll need a Purdue ID card -- a plastic card with your picture and a magnetic strip. You can get one at the Card Services Office in the Purdue Memorial Union, Room 130.
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2. Career Account
You'll need a Purdue Career Account -- A Purdue career account gives you access to:
- BANNER Student System
- Blackboard
- Email
- Purdue computer labs
- Pal2.0 wireless network
- College of Education office computers
- Many other Purdue resources that require an ID and password
Your career account gives you 500 MB of network disk space for web pages + 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. You probably received information about your career account via the mail.
Click here for more info about career accounts.
3. Email Account
You'll need a Purdue Email Account -- if you're 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 Email/Calendaring system + Microsoft Outlook. If you're a non-staff graduate or undergraduate student, the ITaP consultants in Stewart Center G-65 can help you get started with email on the Purdue Mailhome.
Once you have email, get signed up for College of Education mailing lists!
4. College of Education IT Resources
Feel free to make use of College of Education IT Resources...
- Departmental file servers (the U: drive) are available for in-house collaboration
- Instructional Labs (contact Mike Eldridge)
- Videoconferencing facilities (contact Mike Eldridge)
- In-house SharePoint server for workgroup collaboration
- Web space for faculty and staff web sites
- TRC - Technology Resources Center - books and equipment (BRNG 3287)
- COE office computers (please contact EdIT before moving computers and furniture)
- Please use PAL2.0 for all personally owned computers.
- EdIT office hours - Wed. 2-3 PM
5. Security & Policy
Purdue encourages everyone to be security conscious...
- See the SecurePurdue web site for security guidelines and tips:
SecurePurdue
http://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue
- Get signed up for the Purdue Emergency Warning Notification System - Purdue ALERT (You are automatically signed up for email alerts when your Purdue career account is created, HOWEVER you can also sign up for cell phone text-message alerts.)
- Avoid opening unsolicited email attachments. Avoid downloading programs from the Internet and installing them on Purdue-owned computers.
- Be careful about publishing personal information on the Internet.
- Please do not reply to email messages asking for your Purdue career account and password.
- Don't unsubscribe from spam or they'll know yours is a valid email address.
- If you own a computer: be sure to use anti-virus software provided free via the SecurePurdue web site and enable your computer's firewall.
Cyber Security Tips from the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT)
Purdue IT Policies ( Note: Purdue IT Resource Acceptable Use Policy )
6. Backup!
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. Select Purdue IT Resources & Systems
- GART - Graduate Activity Reporting Tool (contact the Education Graduate Studies Office)
- BANNER Student System - online course registration and payment
- Qualtrics Online Survey System - open to all faculty/staff/students
- Blackboard - remember to go through FERPA training
- Adobe Connect - live video/audio/data collaboration via web browser
- Software Remote - software available via a web browser
- PAL2.0 wireless network @ Purdue
- PAL3.0 the new 802.11n wireless network will be installed Fall 2009
- IE7 and Office 2007 - are supported on COE computers (IE8 still under review by Purdue IT Community)
- Windows Vista not supported in most places @ Purdue. Windows 7 is coming this Fall and will be evaluated by the Purdue IT community.
- MyPurdue Portal - all things Purdue (Banner self-service, campus announcements, course catalog, schedule of classes, etc.)
- Purdue eSidewalk - public announcements from students, etc.
- Purdue PurduEBoard - news from around Purdue
- GetInvolved @ Purdue - student organizations
- Software for personal use at a discount
8. TaskStream e-Portfolios
TaskStream is the online Electronic Portfolio System used by the Purdue University Teacher Education Program.
If you have questions or need assistance with TaskStream, please contact: edit@purdue.edu.
Click here for more information about TaskStream.
9. General Purdue Information
10. EdIT Contact Info
- Education IT - the College of Education IT team
- The best way to reach us is via our shared team email address: edit@purdue.edu
- Contact info for Graduate Students:
- Contact Info for Faculty:
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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
Wesley Shoop
Site Specialist, User Services
shoopw@purdue.edu
(765) 49-42658
Alex Noguera
Site Specialist, User Services
anoguera@purdue.edu
(765) 49-42659
Brenda Hash
Clerk,
Technology Resources Center
trc@purdue.edu
(765) 49-45677
Karen Hearn
Clerk,
Technology Resources Center
trc@purdue.edu
(765) 49-45677
Doc Vinh
E-Portfolio Coordinator
edit@purdue.edu
(765) 49-43416
Ayesha Sadaf
Webmaster,
edit@purdue.edu
(765) 49-67323
Yun Ge
Graduate Programmer,
Administrative Databases
edit@purdue.edu
(765) 49-43416
Education IT Phone: (765) 49-42658
TRC Phone:
(765) 49-45677
TRC Web Site:
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