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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.

Microsoft Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) creates an additional layer of security when logging into your Microsoft Office 365 account. This additional security is associated with something in your possession, such as a personal smartphone, that would be unavailable to someone who gained access to your Microsoft Office 365 account.

This service provides technical support for the University’s official two-way conversational text messaging communications platform (a.k.a. “Signal Vine”). This product is used to engage individual students, select groups of students or the entire student body, dependent upon the required circumstances. Approved individuals, departments or groups are granted the ability to send text messages to student(s) and students have the ability to respond to these text messages directly from their cellphone. All of the associated communications are captured and centrally managed within the text messaging application.

Monitoring of performance, availability, and capacity for all IT service assets including the underpinning technological infrastructure.

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.

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 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.

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 offers faculty and staff access to a secure vault for storing all university passwords.

This service provides faculty and staff with the tools, knowledge, and assistance they need to ensure adequate data stewardship (quality standards, agreed upon definitions, and authorized access), and the ability to design, develop and/or run reports using data extracted from centrally managed information systems supported by the University’s Information Technology Services organization. This includes the administration of and technical support for the University’s data management and reporting infrastructure.

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.

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).

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 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.

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.

For general issues logging into any of Framingham State applications.

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.

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.

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) 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.

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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.

Change Management effectively controls the lifecycle of all modifications to IT infrastructure and enterprise application services through standardized methods and procedures. The primary objective is to enable beneficial changes to be made with minimum disruption.

This service provides the planning, coordination, and facilitation of activities related to compliance obligations and adherence to standards for risk management, information security, and cybersecurity including; information gathering, generating reports, providing analysis, and follow-up on recommendations or findings.