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Information Technology Services (ITS) offers limited support for auxiliary or ancillary information systems within the University (a.k.a. “departmental systems”) that are not part of the primary administrative and student information system of record (a.k.a. Banner). These information systems include those not covered by one of the other service descriptions that are used to support; health and human services, campus police, library services, governance, policy administration, among other things. While these systems may be hosted locally within the University’s data center or in the cloud, ITS primarily provides essential technological infrastructure (e.g., network connectivity), varying levels of integration, basic troubleshooting, and security oversight. Responsibility for more comprehensive support for the management and day-to-day administration of these departmental systems typically resides within an administrative office outside of ITS.
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.
Design, provisioning, administration, and technical support for the development and use of the University’s eLearning software platform (a.k.a. “Canvas”) and other integrated technologies, which together enable the creation and management of courses, training modules, educational materials, learning activities, and assessments for fully online, on campus, hybrid, or remote methods of delivering content and facilitating interactions among participants.
If your inquiry does not align with the categories above, use this Service to submit your request.
Request time with an ITS SME (subject matter expert).
Security reviews, education, and awareness of campus security requirements, policies, and guidelines. Includes contract reviews and risk assessments.
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).
The scope of this service includes the development and delivery of IT communications related to delivery of IT services. This might include communications related to system changes, service offerings, or service outages (planned or unplanned). Functionally, it also includes maintenance of support documentation and/or the service catalog.
Support for end-point devices, including laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and related peripherals that are not in the printing service. These devices might be personally or institutionally owned (including loaner equipment) and might be part of a shared pool or a computer lab. Includes support for the associated operating system, hardware, and systems that provide enterprise management of computing devices.
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 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).
Access to a system or application (Banner, Evisions, Xtender, etc.).
This service provides new or modified access/credentials to Commonwealth of Massachusetts Information Systems. (If you require assistance with installing or configuring the Commonwealth Virtual Private Network, then please request the “Commonwealth VPN Maintenance” service).
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 provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s enterprise-wide intranet platform (a.k.a. Microsoft SharePoint) which enables academic departments, colleges, administrative offices, and divisions to create and maintain private websites that only allow Framingham State students, faculty, and staff access to documents, forms, and other information resources through a secure login.
Most University owned laptops have a laptop password available for users to install software on their machines.
Centrally managed administrative and technical support for networked printers and copier hardware and software including multi-function devices capable of copying, scanning, faxing, and printing. This also includes print quota systems, 3D printing, and other replicating technologies.
Information Technology Services (ITS) offers limited support for decentralized enrollment management systems within the University (a.k.a. “departmental systems”) that are not part of the student information system (a.k.a. Banner). These systems, primarily managed by administrative offices, facilitate communications, process support, decision making, and online services associated with enrollment management functions such as; admissions, financial aid, orientation, academic advising, student success, athletics, career services, and alumni relations. Whether hosted locally within the University’s data center or in the cloud, ITS primarily provides essential technological infrastructure (e.g., network connectivity), varying levels of integration, basic troubleshooting, and security oversight. Responsibility for more comprehensive support for the management and day-to-day administration of these departmental systems typically resides within an administrative office outside of ITS.
This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s E-mail and collaboration service. This includes E-mail and calendaring (Outlook), file sharing (OneDrive), productivity (Office), and integrated collaboration suites (Teams and SharePoint) used to facilitate interactions between individuals and work groups as they create, share, and exchange information.
This service helps to prepare for and provide a response to known or possible instances of compromised systems or breached security in order to mitigate damage, ensure legal compliance, and expedite remediation.
This service provides administrative, management, and technical support for the University’s one-way communications for emergency notifications (FSU Alert) to the entire campus or other defined groups. Includes campus alert systems, broadcast E-mail and text messaging.
This service provides the administrative and technical support for creating and maintaining shared accounts that two or more individuals have access to for a department, position, project, or function.