UTPA Information Technology
Posted in General on Nov 6th, 2009
The Division of Information Technology has been busy this year with four new projects being piloted this fall, all having to do with giving our students more access. The October 15, 2009 issue of the UTPA newspaper covered the new technology benefits being available to all students.
The biggest improvement we have planned is an overhaul [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, Emerging Technology, General on Oct 27th, 2009
The Division of Information Technology Computing Labs has traditionally offered students the use of computer hardware and software they might not otherwise have access to. Students now have access to personal computers at home, in their dorm rooms, or traveling with them from class to class.
Unfortunately, the software needed to complete their course work is [...]
Posted in Emerging Technology, General on Oct 27th, 2009
Very interesting and timely article from ECAR (Edacause Center for Applied Research) on how students view Information Technology as it relates to their academic lives. We are currently conducting a similar survey of our students and it would be good to compare the results of our survey to ECAR’s. Our hope is to take both [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, General on Aug 18th, 2009
Last year for the first time, we made it so that everyone using the University’s Exchange email system could see all official holidays and special days in their Outlook calendar. That proved to be pretty popular, so we’re pleased to announce that we’ve just finished rolling out this Academic Year’s holidays and special dates for [...]
Posted in Campus Technology, Cool Things, Emerging Technology, General on Aug 13th, 2009
The Division of Information Technology is conducting a trial to see how students perform when they use electronic textbooks instead of printed ones. Check out the blog for The eBooks Project to learn more.
Posted in General on Jul 1st, 2009
Here are some of the projects we’re currently working on for our students:
Major upgrade to wireless network
The entire campus wireless network is being ripped and replaced with all new equipment that works at the new high-speed Wireless-N speed, giving students 108 gigabits of wireless goodness. With all the emphasis on multimedia, streaming video, and new [...]
Posted in General on Mar 31st, 2009
Colleagues,
In order to protect the University computers from an exploit that takes advantage of the autorun feature of the Windows operating system, the autorun feature will be disabled for all Windows devices. This modification will affect all computers that are joined to the UTPA domain. The computers that are not joined to the domain but [...]
Posted in General on Mar 17th, 2009
SPSS 17 is now available to be installed on UTPA-owned computers. The SPSS Statistics family of products is the world’s leading statistical software used by commercial, government, and academic organizations to solve business and research problems.
To access the software follow the steps below:
1) Go to Start Menu and then click on Control Panel
2) Click on [...]
Posted in General on Mar 16th, 2009
Faculty and Staff,On Friday March 20th, 2009, at 11:00 p.m., Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Windows Vista will be sent to all managed computers on campus currently running Windows Vista. This Service Pack will restart your computer several times during the installation. It is critical that computers are not manually restarted during the installation. No computers [...]
Posted in General on Mar 13th, 2009
Everyone,
Microsoft is no longer black listing our emails being sent to Hotmail and Broncs.utpa.edu email addresses. Email is now being routed as normal.
Thank you,
Division of Information Technology
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