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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.

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.

Knowledge Management is a service provided by ITS to gather, analyze, store and share knowledge about the use of information and the application of supported technology. The primary goal is to improve efficiency by reducing the need to rediscover knowledge.

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 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.

For general issues logging into any of Framingham State applications.

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.

This service provides technical support for the University’s official two-way conversational text messaging communications platform (a.k.a. “Gecko”). 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.

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 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.

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.

If your inquiry does not align with the categories above, use this Service to submit your request.

The Student AV Support Specialist provides first-tier technical support for Framingham State University’s Technology Enhanced Classrooms, Meeting spaces, and other freestanding Audiovisual equipment across campus.

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 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 incorporates the design and maintenance of the capabilities, tools, and service points needed to deliver IT services and provide end-user support including service desks, call centers, online support and in person delivery as may be required. We ensure that all necessary resources are in place to handle service requests, resolve incidents, and address any technical issues promptly and efficiently. With a focus on user satisfaction, we strive to deliver seamless IT support and maintain a robust IT infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of our university community.

Access to a system or application (Banner, Evisions, Xtender, etc.).

This service provides the management, administration, and technical support for secure login to multiple information systems, online services, and technology devices using a single username and password combination.

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.

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 Ellucian’s Banner financial and procurement information system that is used by the University as the authoritative source of data that includes (but is not limited to); general ledger accounting, budget management, procurement, and inventory management. It is also used for transaction processing including (but not limited to); purchase order requisitions, receivables, and payment processing.

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 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 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.

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.