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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).

This service provides technical and administrative support for video conferencing software, which enables people to participate in meetings and class sessions that are either purely online or some blend of online and in-person. Zoom and Microsoft Teams are the two video conferencing software platforms that are supported by Framingham State University’s Information Technology Services organization.

This service provides the management of documented IT security policies, guidelines, and standards including their development, publication, periodic review, and updates.

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.

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.

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 offering includes a combination of professional services, generally accepted best practices, and technologies supported by the University’s Information Technology Services organization that are either used in some combination or individually to help automate, improve, and measure business processes. Technology applications Include document imaging, electronic signatures, online forms, workflow management, job scheduling, along with other various forms of process automation and improvement.

For general issues logging into any of Framingham State applications.

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 provides the planning, and coordination that is necessary in order to adequately prepare for, recover from, and restore technological infrastructure, information systems and online services in the event of a natural disaster or some other occurrence that is defined as a harmful event or major incident.

This service provides a blend of technical and administrative support for webinars, sometimes also referred to as virtual events, which are purely online gatherings that consist of some sort of informative or instructional presentation with one or more people speaking to a relatively larger audience than what’s typical for a class session or meeting. Zoom Webinar is the virtual event software platform that is supported by Framingham State University’s Information Technology Services organization.

Individuals interested in enrolling in a course or courses through the Day School, who have not been admitted to Framingham State University (through the Office of Undergraduate Admissions) as a matriculated Day School student. Applicants must be a high school graduate or have completed a G.E.D.

For non-matriculated students who were unable to successfully complete their online Graduate and Continuing Education registration application in Self Service.

Administrative, instructional, and technical support to ensure technology enhanced classrooms, labs and other collaborative spaces on campus are adequately designed, suitably equipped, and fully functional to meet the needs of faculty and students for remote, in person, or blended (a.k.a. Hybrid) teaching and learning modalities.

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.

Request assistance with Microsoft Office 365 applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive and SharePoint.

Support for academic assessment efforts at the course, department, and program level using analytics.

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.

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.

Install and configure Commonwealth VPN for limited University Staff.

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.

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.

Security reviews, education, and awareness of campus security requirements, policies, and guidelines. Includes contract reviews and risk assessments.

Request time with an ITS SME (subject matter expert).

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.