Guide to ITaP Services - Information Technology at Purdue

Guide to ITaP Services
Working, teaching and researching
with central IT resources
I N F O R M AT I O N T E C H N O L O G Y AT P U R D U E
About this publication
The Guide to ITaP Services is updated
annually. The guide highlights key
services, and information on additional
services is provided at the ITaP Service
Catalog Web page, http://www.itap.
purdue.edu/service/catalog. Send
questions and suggestions for this guide
to [email protected].
Photo credits
Dan Jones (page 1), John Underwood (page 15) and Vincent Walters
(page 29).
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Access to services . . . .
Accessibility resources . .
Audiovisual equipment . .
Cable television . . . .
Creative video & multimedia .
Data security . . . . .
nterprise services
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oftware & hardware sales .
urvey services. . . . .
Telecommunications . . .
User resources . . . . .
Web conferencing . . . .
Wireless Internet access . .
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ACHING & LEARNING COMPUTING .
Audio & video podcasting .
Classroom response system
Classroom technology . .
Communication . . .
Computer labs . . . .
Consulting & training . .
Course management system
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bout ITaP
urdue University, the Office of the Vice President for Information Techno
ides leadership for planning and coordinating central IT resources and
sponsible for further developing the computing and telecommunications
ems on the West Lafayette campus.
office provides oversight for the organization known as ITaP, which provid
ral IT services and user support for the University’s research, academic a
inistrative needs.
B A S I C C O M P U T I N G TO O
A C C E S S TO S E RV I C E S
reer account & home directory
rdue career account gives access to an @purdue.edu ema
unt with 1 GB of storage, an individual home directory wit
MB of storage and Web page hosting.
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nyone who needs to obtain an
count login and password may visit
aP customer service in Stewart
enter, room G65. A Purdue photo
is needed for identification
rposes.
oring files in the career account
ome directory provides access
them from office, home or lab
mputers—anytime, anywhere.
here’s no need to carry files on a
umb drive or print extra copies
documents when the home
rectory is available.
NUS
with the home directory, faculty,
nd students each have an individual
page. Details are provided at https://
ap.purdue.edu/tlt/careeraccount/
ge.cfm.
COMES IN HANDY
To access the home
directory—
From an ITaP computer lab:
• On a PC running Windows,
the home directory is
located on drive H in
Windows Explorer.
• On a Mac, double-click the
Macintosh HD icon to open
it. Then select a career
account login to access the
home directory.
• From a Solaris workstation,
the icon on the desktop
represents the career
account home directory.
From an office or home
computer:
Follow the directions for
securing a virtual private
network at http://www.itap.
purdue.edu/connections/vpn.
YOUR MARK …
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/careeraccount
urther assistance, contact ITaP customer service at
ACCESSIBILITY RESOURC
sistive technology
P assistive technology services, located in Stewart Center,
m 111, promote an accessible information technology
astructure at Purdue that all faculty, staff and students may
ardless of disability status.
ST USES
As a means of access to information
technology for Purdue students,
aculty and staff with disabilities
Consultation and training to those
who teach Purdue students with
disabilities
Consultation and training to those
who support access to information
technology for people with disabilities
PERKS
• ITaP’s assistive technology
staff will help create accessib
information technology, or
evaluate the accessibility of
existing technology used in t
classroom.
• The staff will assist Web
designers in creating and
developing a fully accessible
Web site, or in evaluating th
accessibility of an existing sit
COMES IN HAND
ITaP’s ready with the
software tools instructor
and students may need—
• JAWS for Windows
• ZoomText
• NaturallySpeaking
• Kurzweil 1000
• Kurzweil 3000
—and much more.
N YOUR MARK …
http://www.purdue.edu/atc
e an appointment with assistive technology specialists David Schwarte
44387) or Dean Brusnighan (49-49082) to see the facilities or schedule a
AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMEN
diovisual
cility design & installation
provides audiovisual equipment for centrally scheduled
ms on the West Lafayette campus and for conference room
duled by the Purdue Memorial Union.
T USES
onsulting, design and installation
rvices for Purdue departments
terested in audiovisual facilities,
stance learning facilities,
deoconferencing facilities or
evision production facilities are
ailable from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
gular Purdue workdays.
he design and installation services
ver existing spaces on campus. If
quested, this group will consult
r audiovisual needs in new
nstruction.
rvice to labs, departmental
oms, conference rooms and other
cilities charge the University’s
rrent rates.
PERKS
• Installations may take place afte
hours to accommodate facility
availability or to meet deadlines
• Service to centrally scheduled
classrooms is offered free of
charge.
BONUS
Any faculty or staff member who w
like to learn to operate equipment
themselves may call 49-42771.
A CATCH …
Audiovisual equipment from this
group is not available for loan to
individuals.
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ttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/infrastructure/
elecommunications/av
ore information, or to schedule audiovisual equipment, call 49-42771 or v
CABLE TELEVISION
roadcast networks & services
P manages and operates various cable networks for Purdu
versity and works with Purdue faculty and staff to distribu
gramming through these networks.
RKS
TaP operates Purdue’s academic
cable TV and the video fiber
network that connects most of
Purdue’s major event venues on
campus with a broadcast network
services facility in Stewart Center.
TaP administers, broadcasts and
maintains the Purdue Channel
on Comcast’s educational access
Channel 5 (which is shared with
the Lafayette School Corporation),
the residence halls’ Boiler TV
Channel 13 and Purdue Academic
Cable Channel 2.
Video services and distribution
capabilities are available to the
Purdue campus, including satellite
transmission (KU-Band), Internet
video streaming, two-way video
conferencing and videotape and CD
and DVD duplication.
TaP staff offer video engineering
support for all ITaP video facilities
n Stewart Center.
BONUS
Two-way video-conferencing fac
are available in Stewart Center,
campus television studios and a
limited number of classrooms.
N YOUR MARK …
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/infrastructure/
telecommunications/video
C R E A T I V E V I D E O & M U LT I M E D
eo & multimedia production service
s video and multimedia production staff provide full-servic
o capability from content development, storyboarding and
twriting to recording and postproduction services. They
e the University’s educational, instructional and marketing
s through high-end production, event recording and distan
ing capabilities.
T USES
om concept to completion, ITaP’s
asoned, award-winning staff work
thin clients’ desired budgets and
me frames to produce an effective
oduct of the highest quality.
gital video cameras, well-trained
perators and quality microphones
arantee superb quality video and
dio recordings of class sessions
d conference events.
structors whose courses
ve been transformed for
stance learning or who require
econferencing may use Stewart
enter’s G52 classroom studio,
hich includes multiple video
meras, graphics computer,
ojection, microphones and video
ayback and recording capabilities.
PERKS
• The full-service broadcast televi
studio meets all broadcast
specifications, allows for blue/
green screen setup, and includes
a network control room for live
or taped regional and national
productions.
• The high-end video field unit is
equipped with a full 1080p highdefinition camera and a complem
of support equipment, including
portable lighting, computerized
teleprompting and stereo audio
recording.
BONUSES
• Video and multimedia projects a
distributed on tape, CD, DVD, th
Internet and more.
• Distance learning classes and
teleconferences can be distribut
via two-way video and audio.
• Fax, email and live phone call
interactivity also are available.
YOUR MARK …
ttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/communications/video
D ATA S E C U R I T Y
ecurePurdue
initiative focused on improving the security of data and
esources on all Purdue campuses, SecurePurdue helps set
versity-wide IT priorities on computer security technolog
cy and procedures, remediation and training and awarenes
RKS
TaP provides alerts, advisories,
resources and links in response to
current threats.
Many resources are available on
he SecurePurdue Web site, which
erves as a clearinghouse for
nformation on computer security
and issues.
SecurePurdue protects sensitive
data, such as an individual’s Social
Security number, while ensuring
he privacy and confidentiality of
his information.
Purdue has established an
emergency warning notification
ystem to quickly communicate
emergency messages.You may
register your cell phone number to
receive a text message.
BONUS
Faculty, staff and students can
download for free the newest ver
of McAfee antivirus software to
protect work or home computer
Before installing any software on
work computer, please contact yo
departmental IT support staff.
N YOUR MARK …
http://www.purdue.edu/securepurdue
ENTERPRISE SERVICES
ePurdue
nterprise-wide initiative integrating mission-critical
rprise data, other information and business processes,
OnePurdue project involves financial management, human
urce management, enrollment and student affairs.
T USES
rdue’s employee self-service is a
nvenient, secure and user-friendly
source that stores individual
cords of University faculty, staff
d students and allows them to
date personal information, display
d suppress directory information
d view salary statements.
yPurdue is a new portal system
at replaces SSINFO as the source
r students’ academic and financial
count information at Purdue. It is
part of the software package called
nner. Some benefits of myPurdue
clude real-time online registration
d credit card payment for tuition.
PERKS
• OnePurdue allows administrato
and other University decision
makers to view real-time, accura
data from a common database i
a wide variety of areas througho
the Purdue system.
• Because OnePurdue is web-base
users will be able to log on anyt
anywhere, and from any platform
YOUR MARK …
ttp://www.purdue.edu/onepurdue
S O F T WA R E & H A R D WA R E S A L
scounts & licensing
P leverages the University’s purchasing power to negotiate
ounts on software, computer hardware and mobility serv
devices. The discounts are available to Purdue faculty, staf
dents and, in some cases, alumni.
RKS
AT&T offers a discount of
20 percent on standard service
plans for cellular phones, smart
phones (including BlackBerries)
and LaptopConnect data plans to
Purdue University students and
employees on the West Lafayette,
Calumet, Fort Wayne and North
Central campuses.
TaP Shopping Online provides
es
access to online vendor
“storefronts” with special Purdue
urdue
pricing on computers and other
ther
electronics. Equipment can be
ordered online and delivered
d to a
home address.
Software can be pre-ordered
d
online from http://www.purdue.edu/
e.edu/
apps/SoftwareSales and picked
d up
at the BoilerCopyMaker located
ated
n the Purdue Memorial Union,
on,
room 157.
N YOUR MARK …
BONUS
ITaP Shopping Offline is a vendor
showcase located in Stewart Cent
room G65, allowing faculty, staff an
students to test the latest equipme
from Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard
others before making a purchase.
SURVEY SERVICES
altrics software
assists the campus community with Qualtrics survey
ware. Anyone with a Purdue career account can use it—all
ue faculty, staff and students on every campus.
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ualtrics is menu-driven with a
aphical display of question types.
has integrated graphics and
atistical tools.
he library of prebuilt survey
mplates includes—
Customer or student surveys.
Human resources surveys.
Market surveys.
Marketing surveys.
Conjoint analysis.
Web site surveys.
sers can schedule email
stribution of surveys with a builtmailer.
NUSES
ownload data into Microsoft Excel
d SPSS
are surveys with groups
ve templates in a survey library
r reuse
ustomize a survey link for Web
ges
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COMES IN HANDY
Qualtrics has these tools—
• An easy-to-use graphica
interface
• A wizard to help build
surveys right away
• More than 200 prebuilt
survey templates
• Real-time results with
reports and graphs
T E L E C O M M U N I C AT I O N S
elephone services
P provides all telephone and telephone installation services
lable on campus.
ST USES
Most faculty and staff members at
Purdue have telephones in their
offices.
Voice mail messages can be managed
by phone or through a computer
with a security encrypted webaccess portal.
Business-related long-distance calls
are billed to a Purdue account
using a pre-assigned individual
authorization code.
ONUSES
Consultation is available for
arge departmental moves or
telecommunications solutions.
Supervisors can request group
or individualized training.
Toll-free numbers can be added
to any Purdue phone line.
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PERKS
• Headsets provide hands-free
communication while enhancin
comfort.
• Conference calls are made eas
with the Polycom Sound Statio
available for daily rental, and M
Me Conference Lines, which ca
reserved through the Universit
telephone operators.
USER RESOURCES
lp & support
provides faculty, staff and students help and support for
ral IT services, as well as training courses presented as
re, hands-on workshops and online self-study.
T USES
aP customer service provides
pport via phone, email and walk-in
rvice.
Call 49-44000.
Email [email protected].
Visit Stewart Center, room G65.
ustomer service representatives
e available Monday through
hursday from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.,
iday from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. and
turday from noon until 6 p.m.
aP’s searchable knowledge base,
oldAnswers, contains articles
at offer definitions, step-by-step
structions or troubleshooting
out computing on campus.
BONUSES
• ITaP’s GoldAnswers knowledge
base is always available on the W
providing information during late
nights and early mornings.
• GoldAnswers lists Frequently
Asked Questions on the left sid
the screen.
• ITaP welcomes suggestions for n
knowledge-base articles.
YOUR MARK …
ttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/help
ttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/training
ttps://www.purdue.edu/goldanswers
WEB CONFERENCING
dobe Acrobat Connect Profession
obe Connect is an online communication system that
vides tools for Web conferencing, online meetings and
ltimedia presentations.
ST USES
Delivering course content to
students from a distance
Encouraging students to meet
virtually to discuss and complete
team projects
Delivering real-time instruction to
students outside the classroom
RKS
All Purdue faculty and staff have
an Adobe Acrobat Connect
Professional account and can
request to host a meeting. A host
can schedule meetings, invite guests,
manage content and assign other
roles to meeting attendees.
All Purdue students have their own
private meeting rooms they can use
during their Purdue career.
Adobe Connect users can integrate
PowerPoint slides with live and
recorded audio and video in
Connect meeting presentations.
BONUSES
• Faculty can create and manage
multiple online meetings for
everything from research
collaboration to virtual office h
• All Connect meeting sessions
be recorded and made availabl
online links.
COMES IN HANDY
Connect’s ready with the
following tools—
• Connect Meeting
• Connect Presenter
• Discussion tools
• Interactive PowerPoint
presentations
• Live meeting sessions
• Live remote screen
sharing
• Multiple text chat
N YOUR MARK…
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/gomeet
m this Web page, you can request the author and host role to create and
age multiple meetings and to log in to Adobe Connect.
WIRELESS INTERNET ACCE
rdue Air Link
ue Air Link (PAL) is the University’s wireless network.
bers of the Purdue community can use PAL to connect
ess-ready laptops and personal digital assistants, or PDAs,
e Purdue network (and, through it, to the Internet) in mos
mon areas of academic buildings on the West Lafayette
pus.
PERKS
• PAL 2.0 provides reliable
connections and allows users
move from one room to anot
without losing a connection.
• ITaP provides gu
guest access to
Purdue’s wireles
wireless network.
Purdue faculty aand staff may
request a guest account for th
who need wirel
wireless access dur
a visit to campu
campus.
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ttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/airlink
st a guest account by following the link under Help on this Web page.
ch with IT
TEACHING & LEARNIN
COMPUTING
AUDIO & VIDEO PODCASTIN
ilerCast
sroom computers are equipped with digital recording
nology that allows lecture audio and video to be
ured and delivered to students via RSS or iTunes U.
T USES
aking course content and lectures
ailable to students anytime,
ywhere
eveloping a centralized repository
course content, either open or
ssword-protected
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his service is available upon
quest for all Purdue courses
fered for credit.
ourse lectures and supplemental
urse content can be automatically
blished for students to use with
eir portable devices.
ore than 200 Technology
the Classroom
cations have BoilerCast
pabilities. See page 18
r more information.
udents subscribe to
urse content via RSS,
hich stands for Really
mple Syndication. New
es are automatically
ownloaded when
udents launch iTunes.
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BONUSES
• This service assists auditory and
visual learners, as well as non-na
speakers of English.
• Once a faculty member requests
the service at the beginning of t
semester, ITaP handles recording
the course and posts the link
automatically.
• If instructors use Blackboard, th
can integrate the service into
course materials by simply creat
a link to the BoilerCast site.
CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYST
nstruction, or “clickers”
e eInstruction tool is an easy-to-use classroom response
tem that allows instructors to obtain immediate feedback
m every student. It is installed in all Technology in the
ssroom (TIC) sites.
ST USES
Promoting interactivity among students
Obtaining feedback from students—
or example, by collecting data and
organizing it instantly, polling the class
and administering multiple-choice and
numeric quizzes and exams
RKS
This tool helps to create an
exciting and fun instructional
environment, achieving 100-percent
student participation and reducing
administrative workload.
Clickers add interactivity to the
classroom, even in a large lecture
course of 500 students. This system
helps create a nonthreatening
environment that allows all students to
participate—even the shy ones.
CATCH …
udents purchase response pads at
mpus bookstores. Each response pad
n be registered to generate a unique,
ntifiable signal.
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BONUS
eInstruction results can be
exported to Blackboard,
Microsoft Excel and Word o
other programs.
COMES IN HAND
The system’s ready to use
TIC sites—
• It involves a radiofrequency receiver in t
classroom, a response
pad for each student an
a software package tha
allows quizzing, polling
more.
• Students operate the
response pads, which
resemble TV remote
control units, to answe
instructor’s questions.
CLASSROOM TECHNOLOG
chnology in the Classroom sites
e than 200 classrooms across campus have Windows-based
puters, sound and projection equipment, DVD and VCR,
ess mouse capability and an eInstruction receiver and
ware.
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ch Technology in the Classroom
IC) site computer is equipped
th a CD-ROM drive and a DVD
ayer. The computer is attached to
eakers for sound.
n additional network connection is
ailable for a laptop.
structors may purchase their own
reless mouse and keyboard. Each
C site has a receiver and mouse
adle to accommodate wireless
chnology.
ch TIC site has the eInstruction
assroom response system, which
nsists of a radio-frequency
ceiver, response pads for students
d a versatile software package
at allows quizzing, polling and
ore. This system is often referred
as “clickers.”
C site computers have the full
nge of software available in the
aP instructional labs.
BONUSES
In a TIC site, instructors can—
• Demonstrate software.
• Access the Internet.
• Use other personal software or
materials (CD or DVD).
• Use files from a CD or USB dev
• Access materials in a Purdue car
account home directory.
• Take attendance, give assessmen
and receive instant feedback wit
the eInstruction classroom resp
system.
• Bring in a laptop computer.
Computer projection is available
from the instructional PC or fro
the laptop.
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http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/tic
C locations are listed on this Web site. Requests to schedule classes or
C O M M U N I C AT I O N
ourse email lists
P offers course email lists, which provide a convenient way
ructors to communicate electronically with students while
tecting student identities.
RKS
Course email lists for each course
section are available from ITaP.
All lists are closed. Only members can
send to them.
Only @purdue.edu email addresses will
be added to these lists. Non-Purdue
addresses cannot be used.
Course email lists are based on the
University registrar’s data, so students’
email addresses are dropped or added
to the lists as students drop or add
courses.
TaP automatically deletes course email
ists at the end of the semester.
ONUSES
nstructors do not need to collect and
manage student email addresses.
nstructors find the umbrella list
helpful, for example, when teaching a
arge lecture class with a number of
sections. The umbrella list provides
separate lists for each section, and
a single list for the entire group of
classes.
These email lists protect students’
dentities and email addresses.
nstructors can use the course email
ist to send attachments up to 7 MB in
size.
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COMES IN HANDY
Three list options are
available—
• Announce-only is a
list of members
who cannot reply to
anyone on the list.
• Discussion allows
list members to
communicate with
each other.
• Umbrella allows
sending email to a
collection of lists.
COMPUTER LABS
tructional computing labs
oversees more than 2,000 computers in more than 50 lab
ding an extensive software suite and a secure work
onment for faculty, staff and students.
T USES
udents, faculty and staff members can
quest that software be installed on the lab
mputer network for course use.
culty members can reserve instructional
bs for teaching.
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bs are equipped with PC, Mac or Solaris
mputers.
l ITaP labs are equipped with printers.
ost labs have scanners.
NUSES
sers can easily access home directories,
hich provide 500 MB of storage space, on
b computers.
l PC and Mac lab computers have CD-RW
ives or DVD-RW/CD-RW drives.
COMES IN HAN
ITaP’s lab Web site
contains—
• Detailed
information by lab
• Software available
in labs
• Instructions for
printing in the labs
• Printer locations
and queue names
• Scanner locations
• Map of lab locations
and computer
availability
• Lab reservation
request forms
• Software installation
request forms
• Instructional lab
etiquette
YOUR MARK …
ttp://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/lab/about.cfm
C O N S U LT I N G & T R A I N I
structional technology services
P offers consulting and training to faculty and staff about d
dia development, multimedia software, course managemen
tems, accessibility and instructional design. Courses are
lable in multiple formats, from informational seminars to
ds-on multimedia workshops and self-guided online tutori
ST USES
nology training topics include—
Building a Web site to deliver
nstructional materials.
Using tablets and PDAs in the
classroom.
Working with graphics and imaging.
Complying with the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
Creating accessible Web pages.
Using Blackboard.
Using Blackboard with Dreamweaver
and Respondus.
Managing the Blackboard grade book
using Excel.
Understanding copyright implications
or online resources.
Applying collaboration technologies.
Editing video.
ncorporating simulations and games
n the classroom.
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BONUSES
• Training can be requested and
customized to use examples,
procedures and content from a
specific area.
• Training can take place online o
in one of ITaP’s instructional lab
located in more than 20 academ
buildings across the West Lafay
campus.
COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTE
ackboard
selected Blackboard as Purdue’s course management syste
use it is an enterprise-class virtual course environment
allows faculty to prepare, deliver and manage courses and
municate with students.
T USES
dding an online component to
traditional course
eveloping a distanceucation course
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stributing, receiving and
ading assignments online
onducting tests and quizzes
nline and grading them
tomatically
stributing grades
ectronically
oviding content selectively to
dividuals or groups
ollaborating with other
structors or departments to
nerate reusable content
BONUSES
Instructors use Blackboard to—
• Manage the class schedule with
Calendar.
• Increase student interaction wit
Chat and Whiteboard.
• Continue discussions outside of
class with Discussions.
• Expand office hours by using Ma
and Chat.
COMES IN HANDY
Blackboard’s ready with these tools—
• Announcements
• Media libr
• Assignments
• Quizzes
• Calendar
• Self-tests
• Chat
• Surveys
• Discussions
• Syllabus
• Grade book
• Web links
• Learning modules
• Whiteboa
• Mail
• Who’s onl
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on the Faculty and Staff tab to learn more about Blackboard. Instructors m
INSTRUCTIONAL DESI
gital Content Development Gran
P underwrites faculty projects that increase instructional
ctiveness through the use of digital and online technology.
IGIBILITY
s grant program solicits proposals that involve the innovative use of techn
nhance teaching and learning, such as—
Learning object development and multimedia authoring.
Gaming and simulation.
Hybrid learning.
Large-course or large-impact curriculum redesign.
Database-driven Web projects.
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All tenure-track and clinical
aculty members at Purdue’s
West Lafayette campus are
eligible to apply.
TaP announces a call for
proposals in October.
Proposals are due in January.
Faculty members from the
Purdue Teaching Academy,
representatives from the Center
or Instructional Excellence and
TaP’s educational technologists
evaluate the proposals.
BONUSES
• Maximum funding for individual
grants is $15,000.
• Grant recipients are invited to
present their projects during the
teaching and learning conference
the spring.
• Grant recipients receive travel fu
after they have received acceptan
to present the results of their
projects at another professional
conference.
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k on Digital Content Development Grants.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIG
stance Education awards
provides support and awards to Purdue faculty for
oping high-quality distance-education courses. All faculty
at the West Lafayette campus and statewide technology si
ligible.
QUIREMENTS
dates are required to—
evelop and deliver one distanceucation course from a course
anagement system platform, such
Blackboard. Hybrid or blended
urses are not eligible.
ttend a two-day intensive
orkshop.
ttend an individual consultation
th an ITaP educational
chnologist or a consultant from
rdue’s Office of Continuing
ucation and Conferences
OCEC).
l out and submit the program’s
urse-submission form by the
e date. Submissions must be
ade online. Only one course per
structor each year is allowed.
BONUSES
• ITaP and OCEC staff members w
select the top distance-educatio
courses from all submissions. Th
selected instructors each will
receive a $3,000 incentive award
• The top courses will be recogniz
at the next ITaP teaching and
learning conference awards
presentation.
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ditional information and questions about the application process, contact
I N T E R V E N T I O N S T R AT E G I
gnals
web-based assessment tool, Signals enables instructors to
ntify at-risk students early in a semester and communicate
h these students to suggest changes they can make to thei
dy habits to avoid failing or withdrawing from the course.
ST USES
Automate indicators of student
performance and behavior to
encourage student success
Establish expectations for
tudent performance in class and
provide feedback based on these
expectations
Customize emails to all students
about their performance
Direct students to available
resources on campus, such as the
nstructor’s office hours, further
practice in study materials or help
essions
Provide consistent feedback so
tudents can continually monitor
heir performance
PERKS
• When students log in to Black
for a Signals course, they see a
representation of their progre
class, a traffic signal. A red sign
indicates they are at risk of no
succeeding in the course. A ye
signal tells students that, with a
more effort, they could be mo
successful. A green signal show
that, if they continue their stud
practices, they are likely to com
the course successfully.
• This system facilitates greater
more frequent instructor-stude
communication.
BONUS
In pilots of this system, students w
were struggling to succeed (yellow
signal) were more likely to seek ou
additional help than those whose s
was at risk of being unsuccessful (r
signal).
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more information, contact Kimberly Arnold at 49-61088 or
M U LT I M E D I A R E S O U R C
gital Learning Collaboratory
nt project of ITaP and the Purdue Libraries, the Digital
ning Collaboratory offers a multitude of media resources f
ty and students, as well as technical assistance with related
ware and software. Anyone can use its collaborative space
multimedia software applications to discover and develop
se content.
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esources are available to all students
gardless of discipline.
ultiple rooms and open spaces
able group discussion and
ollaboration.
he check-out of laptops, video
meras, digital cameras, tripods and
rd drives is free to those with a
rdue ID card.
COMES IN HAN
The facility offers—
• Access to
Undergraduate Libra
resources.
• High-definition
multimedia equipme
• Collaboration room
• Equipment rental.
NUSES
chnology staff is available for
sistance.
he Undergraduate Training at Purdue
UT@P) program provides custom
d open-enrollment training offerings
undergraduates and undergraduate
asses.
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ed in the Hicks Undergraduate Library, room B853, the Digital Learning
PLAGIARISM DETECTI
afeAssign
web-based service available through Blackboard, SafeAssign
esigned to help instructors identify and prevent instances
giarism.
ST USES
Assign aids instructors in their
k to—
Assist students in properly
citing sources and avoiding
plagiarism.
Help students gain strong
research and writing skills.
NUS
content databases contain
ons of books and journals and
e than 4.5 billion pages of
ent and archived Web data.
are updated at a rate of 40
on pages per day.
PERKS
• Students electronically submit
papers through the SafeAssign
assignment in Blackboard.
• SafeAssign compares each
document to millions of pages
content located on the Interne
proprietary databases and oth
previously submitted documen
• The results are returned in the
form of customized reports, in
which any text matches found
SafeAssign databases are highli
and linked to their source.
• These reports allow instructo
to make the final determinatio
whether plagiarism has occurr
• Faculty may choose to give the
students the opportunity to an
and revise their work, correcti
accidental or intentional error
documentation.
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k on SafeAssign.
STUDENT TRAINERS
dergraduate Training @ Purdue
rt undergraduate trainers provide free software training fo
ents.
T USES
ndergraduate Training at Purdue
UT@P) provides training in
ftware for immediate application
n class projects.
structors can schedule one-tone consultation sessions with
udent trainers.
T@P helps students learn
vanced skills and best practices
r industry-leading technologies.
he most frequently requested
orkshops are for Adobe
reamweaver, Windows Movie
aker, Adobe Connect and Adobe
otoshop.
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ssions are scheduled during
e day or evening to better fit
dividual or class schedules.
pen workshops and instructorquested sessions are available.
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BONUSES
• Custom sessions are tailored to
the needs of a class or group.
• Attendance is monitored so
students can track the sessions
they have attended.
• All open sessions are free and
available to all students regardle
of discipline or major.
RESEARCH COMPUTI
C L U S T E R S & O T H E R TO O L S F O
IGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTIN
mmunity clusters & Condor
supplies high-performance computing and storage—reliab
ecurely—for measured and computed data to faculty and
who do computationally intensive, cutting-edge research in
ce, engineering and social science.
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aP provides community clusters,
operatively funded Linux supermputers geared to parallel jobs.
he Condor pool is a distributed
mputing system that taps into idle
mputers on and off campus and
fers more than 20,000 processing
res.
ore than 1.5 petabytes of tape and
rdware storage, backup, home
rectory and scratch space are
ailable.
he network has a speed of 20
gabits per second on campus and
Gbps to the national research
berinfrastructure, including
e National Science Foundation
raGrid.
BONUSES
ITaP research computing experts
offer—
• Resources for both parallel jobs
requiring a high-speed system an
high-throughput serial jobs requ
large processing capacity over a
sustained time.
• Top-quality user and system sup
allowing researchers to research
rather than maintain a computer
system.
• Expertise in a broad range of hig
performance computing activitie
services and tools.
• Training and assistance in using
resources, developing ease-of-us
tools for large computing projec
and managing large datasets.
• Partnerships with researchers in
developing grant applications.
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ct William Whitson, ITaP and Rosen Center research computing
D ATA V I S U A L I Z AT I
sualization, animation
virtual reality
P offers facilities for creating new ways to interact with dat
alizing it as images, animations and virtual worlds for learn
iscovery and engagement.
ST USES
To create an immersive
environment, ITaP has a virtualreality theater for display of 3-D
stereoscopic images on a 30-by-8oot screen or in a semi-enclosed
“room” with three walls.
A motion-capture system records
human movement and converts
t to an accurate 3-D digital
representation for use in analysis
and animation.
This ITaP facility has a videoconferencing and collaboration
room with an 18-by-5-foot screen
or displaying interactive feeds
rom multiple sites, including
nternationally.
t also has a tiled wall with a 7-by2-foot, high-resolution display area
and 2-D, 3-D and stereo capabilities.
BONUSES
• ITaP researchers are experts in
and information representation,
including visualization, animation
haptics (touch and feel), and
immersive 3-D virtual reality.
• ITaP staff consult and implement
data and information representa
oriented hardware and software
PERKS
• Short courses are provided on t
such as high-performance comp
motion capture and software lik
MATLAB and Maya.
• Class lab sessions feature cuttin
edge data and information
representation techniques, as we
communication techniques, from
2.0 to virtual worlds.
• ITaP collaborates on grant
applications and research projec
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tact David Braun, who directs ITaP’s visualization facility, at 49-67888 or
GRID COMPUTING
raGrid
ugh ITaP, Purdue is a partner in the TeraGrid, an ambitious
nal project undertaken by the United States to build the wor
st, most comprehensive grid computing cyberinfrastructure f
scientific research.
T USES
aP provides high-performance
mputing resources from Purdue’s
percomputers, clusters and
ondor pool, as available, to users
the network around the nation
d the world.
aP also serves as a conduit to the
d and its worldwide resources for
searchers at Purdue.
PERKS
• Purdue researchers develop
software- and web-based
services for use on the grid,
such as TeraDRE (teradre.rcac.
purdue.edu), a distributed system
to speed intensive graphics
rendering, and online climate
modeling using CCSM-coupled
models and NCL diagnostic
packages.
• Purdue-developed science
gateways make it easier for
researchers to get research
done. An example is nanoHUB
(www.nanohub.org), a new mode
for large scientific communities
using shared resources through
Web portal for nanotechnology
research.
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REMOTE SENSING
atellite data & spatial software
alysis services
ollaboration with Purdue’s Laboratory for Applications of
mote Sensing (LARS), ITaP provides receiving equipment an
ware licenses for earth remote-sensing data analyses, and
hers and distributes satellite and aircraft remote-sensing
a, as well as information collected by ground-reference
rumentation.
ST USES
Assisting researchers on campus
nd internationally and in an
nterdisciplinary array of fields, in
mining remote-sensing data for
knowledge
Making data available to Geographic
nformation Systems for use by
esearchers and decision makers
PERKS
• Help researchers develop techn
for early detection and mitigatio
natural and manmade disasters,
as flooding, earthquakes and dis
outbreaks, through remote-sen
services
• Explore high-performance com
applications, high-bandwidth dat
transfer and parallelizing code
for image analysis, data fusion,
knowledge-based classification,
processing and advanced visuali
including immersive environmen
and virtual worlds
• Work toward on-the-fly change
detection and generation of
alternative what-if future scenar
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http://www.lars.purdue.edu
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COMES IN HANDY
Hours are subject to change and may vary during semester brea
and holidays. For the most up-to-date lab schedules, visit
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/lab/about.cfm.