All Entries Tagged With: "Advanced Technology Classrooms (ATCs)"

Featured Article: Get Ready for Windows 7

CTS is preparing to upgrade campus-owned PCs to the Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system over the next year and a half. All new computers delivered to faculty and staff this spring semester will have Windows 7 pre-installed. One Advanced Technology Classroom in Lanigan 105 will have Windows 7 installed later in the semester so we [...]

Web Conferencing Options

Have you ever wished you could bring a remote speaker to your class?  Ever wanted to conduct an online meeting with people from afar?  Teach a class online with a synchronous component?  If so, there are a couple of options available to you. CTS has been working on making two different web-conferencing services available.  They [...]

Classroom Technology Upgrades

Several projects were undertaken by CTS in our continuing efforts to make presentation technology widely available on campus as well as to upgrade existing classroom technologies. Mahar 307 was upgraded to a full Advanced Technology Classroom (ATC) and Anthropology will share that classroom with other departments in Mahar.  In Lanigan, new hi-definition projectors and a digital [...]

Google No Longer Supporting Older Firefox and IE Browsers

Google recently announced it will no longer be supporting versions of Firefox 3.6 and below nor IE 7 or below in use with its applications.  This is especially true of the new Gmail interface scheduled to become the default look with an opt-out setting in mid-December (see “There’s a New Look Coming to a Google [...]

Campus Upgrades to the Newest Versions of Microsoft Office Completed

The CTS MS Office Upgrade committee has been working hard over the summer coordinating with departments on upgrading their computers to the latest versions of MS Office (version 2010 for PCs, version 2011 for Macs).  To date, the majority of campus has been completed.  For any faculty and staff that were away for the summer [...]

Hardware and Infrastructure Upgrades

CTS continued the expansion of the digital, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones into Tyler and Mahar Halls this summer.   These new digital phones use the same VoIP technology installed in several buildings last summer.  Since the phones are digital, they use the campus data network to send and receive phone calls.  All users keep [...]