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The HWS network can be accessed off-campus by the Virtual Private Network (VPN), allowing access to the HWS network drives.
The online learning management system may be used by students, faculty and staff at the Colleges to facilitate file sharing, digital assignment distribution and submission, asynchronous communication, collaborative writing, and more.
For students from other colleges that are taking classes with HWS professors and need access to Canvas or ArcGIS.
Campus printers are available for use by faculty, staff, and students. Printers are available across campus.
IT Services offers a variety of equipment for loan to students, faculty, and staff to support the HWS curriculum and co-curricular activities. Faculty, students and staff may borrow equipment such as video cameras, tripods and headsets with microphones at the Help Desk.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges has access to ESRI ArcGIS Pro for desktop and associated resources for working with spatial data through a campus-wide education license. Both desktop software and online mapping tools are available, including the Community Analyst (demographic analysis) and Business Analyst (market research) tools. The ESRI software tool platform, ArcGIS, is a commercial GIS software tool that is widely used to display and examine spatial data. In addition to ESRI desktop tools, users can also share created data on the Internet using ArcServer and ArcGIS Online for Organizations software.
Faculty and staff are granted access to a non-credit bearing Canvas course site for managing groups of students, staff or faculty for administrative or other purposes. The course site is housed in a sub-set of the main Canvas system and is not connected to any Peoplesoft data feeds.
IT Services can collaborate with faculty to enhance their curriculum by integrating campus technology.
Space on Colleges' Web servers is available to HWS community members for academic purposes. Editing access may be granted to one or more people. Web sites are created under http://people.hws.edu/web_site_name.
Adding third-party applications to HWS systems for increased functionality.
Play your part in keeping our data and networks safe by reporting a security incident.
HWS provides free TV streaming through SpectrumU. Students and employees can access up to 80 TV Channel apps, such as popular entertainment, international, and sports channels (see below) using your HWS credentials. Along with live TV, SpectrumU offers a sizeable on-demand library with previous episodes, full series, and hit movies when you watch on campus. You can also record up to 20 shows and watch them anytime using cloud DVR for on-campus viewing.
HWS users can view general software tutorials through Infobase Learning. IT Services also provides user support of DataCamp for tutorials specific to data analysis software.
Public desktop computers are available throughout campus for all students, faculty, and staff to use. These computers, which are a mix of Mac and Windows, have specialized software installed to support teaching and learning.
Elevator phones are managed and maintained by Sodexo with an analog service provided by IT Services. These devices are used to communicate with Campus Safety in the event of a need by a user of the elevator. IT Services provides an analog service to the elevators.
The RevCord system records emergency phone calls for Campus Safety. All calls incoming in and outgoing, including radio transmissions, are recorded for liability and training purposes.
HWS provides you with an HWS e-mail account which is accessible from most devices, browsers, and e-mail clients. Distribution lists and listserv discussion lists provide faculty and staff with more options, consistency, and clarity in communication to specific groups.
HWS faculty and staff are provided with phones to use in their work spaces, including voicemail support.
Support assistance with all issues regarding installed and programmed cameras for the use of HWS entities including but not limited to Athletics, Campus Safety, and the Library along with potential support for the managing system(s) based on SLAs.
The anti-spam junk e-mail system prevents spam mail from clogging up your HWS e-mail inbox, which reduces your chance of clicking on malicious links or having a virus on your computer, while still allowing you to control what is filtered.
Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, delivering realistic e-mails mimicking EBay, Microsoft, Apple, and more. Our Time-of-Click URL Protection feature evaluates links in your inbox twice; first when a message is delivered, then again when a link is clicked on. The second step means that hackers can no longer send a non-malicious link, pass security features, and then add ransomware to the link address.
Dedicated help with getting started and using multiple tools to capture your screen or webcam lectures.
IT Services can provide supplemental technology for special events within the Colleges' community, such as public lectures, board meetings, and homecoming celebrations. Provide a detailed summary of your event and technology needs, and a technician will be in touch to assist you.
Students, faculty, and staff can use the HWS Large File Transfer system to securely share files that are too large for normal e-mail attachments. This system allows sending files up to 2GB by e-mailing a link to a secure download Web site that the recipient can click to access.
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) provides an additional layer of security when logging into HWS applications on a device for the first time. MFA verifies your identity by requiring additional credentials, like a PIN or answering a challenge question. Once the PIN is entered or the challenge questions are answered, MFA will remember your login on that device for 30 days. You will have to enter MFA credentials once every 30 days on a trusted device so that the security measure remains effective without too much inconvenience to you.