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Offerings that help provide a secure computing environment for end users, and seek to prevent or at least mitigate breaches of information security by reducing vulnerabilities and mitigating potential threats.
This service offering supports faculty and instructional staff in evaluating, adopting, and using artificial intelligence technologies in ways that enhance student learning, support academic excellence, promote accessibility and inclusion, and align with institutional policies and instructional best practices.
Use this service for requests involving: AI-assisted course design; AI-enhanced instructional strategies; AI-assisted content creation; Assessment design in an AI-enabled environment; Academic integrity considerations related to AI; Student use of artificial intelligence technologies; Accessibility and inclusive teaching applications of AI; Faculty training and professional development related to AI; Instructional uses of Microsoft Copilot and other institutionally supported AI technologies; Consultation regarding emerging AI technologies and their instructional applications.
The Network and Connectivity Management service offered by the University's central IT organization encompasses the architecture, installation, and operation of essential infrastructure components required for network connectivity. This includes network cabling, switches, wireless access points, routers, and firewalls. The service also covers the connection of devices (including Internet of Things devices) to the network, the implementation of secure access measures, and appropriate authentication procedures such as network registration systems.
Information systems, support services, and administrative processes associated with the planning, governance, development, delivery, and management of academic programs and courses. The service focuses specifically on the administration of academic programs and courses, including curriculum management, catalog management, syllabus management, academic scheduling, faculty workload planning, transfer credit evaluation, and related academic governance and planning processes.
Administrative and technical support for the provisioning of software applications that are locally installed on a computer or mobile device, accessed from a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider via the cloud, or accessed from a virtual application or virtual desktop.
Information Technology Services (ITS) provides technical support for institutionally approved AI technologies and serves as a resource for exploring and evaluating AI capabilities. As AI technologies and institutional practices continue to evolve, available services and support offerings may change accordingly.
For general issues logging into any of Framingham State applications.
Faculty, Administrators and Staff, please use this service to request remote access. This is the service you should be using to request any type of remote access such as: VPN, GotoMyPc etc
Administrative, technical, and instructional design support for producing, storing, editing, sharing, and accessing recorded presentations, lectures and class proceedings that are created for the purposes of learning and instruction.
This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s portal (myFramingham) which provides the ability to complete secure online transactions and Framingham State’s Mobile App (FSUgo) which provides a mobile experience for students, faculty, staff, and visitors.
Monitoring of performance, availability, and capacity for all IT service assets including the underpinning technological infrastructure.
This service provides administration and support for the University’s voice and communications systems used for telephony (VoIP, SIP and analog), voicemail, conference calling, virtual “soft phones”, call queues, ring groups and digital receptionists (formerly “phone trees” or auto-attendants).
This service provides purchasing consultation, hardware procurement, configuration, distribution, loaning, asset tracking, refreshing (upgrades and replacements), and technology recycling for university owned computers that are supported by the Information Technology Services organization before, during, and after their use until the time they are no longer the property of Framingham State.
This service offers faculty and staff access to a secure vault for storing all university passwords.
A service to safely and securely submit documents to the Registrar's Office
This service involves a systematic approach to identify, analyze, and address the root causes of problems to prevent recurring incidents. It encompasses the entire problem management lifecycle, including problem identification, logging, prioritization, investigation, diagnosis, resolution, and proactive measures to minimize future disruptions. It includes the activities required to diagnose the root cause of incidents identified through the Incident Management process, and to determine the resolution to those problems through the appropriate control procedures, especially Change Management and Release Management.
This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for Ellucian’s Banner student information system that is used by the University as the authoritative source of data that pertain to admitted students including (but not limited to); academic records, course schedule, and financial accounting. It is also used for transaction processing including (but not limited to); enrollment, registration, and payment processing.
This service enables students and faculty to selectively showcase their work and academic accomplishments online and reflect on their own teaching and learning experiences.
This service aggregates data from “authoritative sources”, such as the University’s primary administrative and student information system (a.k.a. Banner), in order to create and maintain online identities for individuals that can be verified before adding someone to a domain (e.g. “campus” or “student”), including them as a member of a group (e.g. an Academic Department or Administrative Office), or granting authorized access to resources (e.g. a networked printer or the wireless network on campus).
Assistance with polling and survey solutions used to collect feedback from a group of individuals for academic and business purposes. The service includes application-based, online, and device-specific polling or survey tools.
This service provides the appropriate management and oversight mechanisms to ensure reliability, scalability, physical security and operation of University physical and virtual data centers, inclusive of on-premises, remote, and cloud-based data centers (a.k.a. Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS).
The Information Technology Services (ITS) organization at the University provides different levels of support for the portfolio of Human Capital Management systems used at Framingham State based on whether or not the software is part of University’s primary administrative information (Banner), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Human Resource and Compensation Management System of record (HRCMS), or a decentralized human resource system (a.k.a. “departmental systems”). Comprehensive support for the management and day-to-day administration of these departmental systems remain the responsibility the designated administrative office.
This service provides the administrative and technical support necessary to ensure the secure exchange of data and communications between different IT systems and applications. This may involve implementing Application Program Interfaces (APIs), middleware, and other technologies to enable various systems to work together and share information. The various ways to integrate systems and exchange data may be implemented as a standalone service or combined together as part of a larger service package. They may also be provided by a third-party vendor or developed in-house by the Information Technology Services (ITS) organization.
Provisioning, hosting, and administration of physical and virtual servers and related storage. Includes the maintenance and provisioning of core storage capabilities such as server storage and database backups.