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(Allied) Health Sciences: Faculty Resources: Computing/IT
This is a guide for Allied Health Sciences faculty, with a focus on resources for new/junior faculty, mid-career faculty, and their mentors. It is also a broad, one-stop-shop for faculty at all levels.
Created by Health Science Librarians
Introduction
DAHS Faculty are served by both School of Medicine (SOM) IT and University (campus) IT Services (ITS).
- See below for a selection of resources and tools provided by these IT groups.
UNC School of Medicine (SOM) IT overview
UNC SOM IT (formerly OIS/Office of Information Systems)--School of Medicine group
- Services include Applications and Web Development, A/V Engineering, Classroom Support, End-User Support, Information Security Services, Instructional Media Services, Lecture Capture, Network Support, Room Reservations/Scheduling, Server Support, Videoconferencing. There is a fee structure for many services.
- SOM IT Help: help.med.unc.edu
- includes chat and walk-in (137 MacNider)
- Information Security Services
- Videoconferencing
Securing the School of Medicine Network: The School of Medicine is committed to providing users with a secure computing environment. We take multi-tiered approach to protecting the network and use several tools: Laptop Encryption, Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (SCEP) and Network Access Controls (NAC). We also recently implemented a hardware firewall for the School of Medicine.
- School of Medicine Firewall
- Windows XP
- Ongoing Security Initiatives
UNC ITS overview
UNC ITS (Information Technology Resources)--this is the campus-wide IT group
- What We Do
- Research Computing
- Information Security
- Campus ITS Help: help.unc.edu
- Chat, email, phone and walk-in
Large File Upload Link
- Large File Upload LinkThis School of Medicine form allows you to copy a file to web space, and get a link back that you can send to the people you want to see the file. This is not a secure mechanism, but it should not be affected by the fifty megabyte e-mail message size limitation.
School of Medicine IT Tools
- School of Medicine IT ToolsIncludes Listservs, File Upload Tool (for large files), and School of Medicine's iTunes U (re-usable digital content created by our educators and easily downloaded and viewed on any Mac, PC, iPod, or iPhone)
UNC Encrypted Email Link
- UNC Encrypted Email SupportUNC Encrypted Email provides message encryption between the sender and recipient, and can be received by any email user, independent of email client or operating system, without installing any software. This will encrypt the entire email including attachments.
ITS Teaching & Learning
IT Help
IT Help
- SOM IT Help (School of Medicine IT, formerly OIS)Includes live chat support and walk-in support (065 MacNider Hall, moving to 137 MacNider Fall, 2019) Monday-Friday, hours of operation, and links to additional resources.
Includes:
• Office 365
• Classroom Support
• Computer Support (password reset/email help)
• Information Security (incident reports/encryption)
• Network Support
• Web & Multimedia Support (incl. Sakai) - Campus ITS Help & SupportIncludes live chat (8am-5pm M-F), 24/7 phone (919-962-HELP), walk-in, and
- Campus ITS Walk-in SupportClick Link for hours and map. Two locations: Basement of House Undergraduate Library on Main Campus or FIrst Floor SASB North Building (smaller building parallel to Manning Drive) on South Campus.
Get software or online training
Need Software or Online Training?
Don't forget that as a UNC student, you have access to free Adobe Creative Products via UNC Shareware: https://software.sites.unc.edu/adobe/
- UNC ITS Software DistributionITS Software Distribution provides a single, centralized point of contact to find and obtain software on campus. The ITS Software Distribution office also provides software media to Students, Faculty, Staff and Visiting Scholars. Procedures for obtaining software will vary depending on the license agreement. Software is free or deeply discounted for qualified UNC users.
- UNC ITS SharewareThis site provides you with the latest versions of UNC supported programs and applications. Some applications have special licensing restrictions and can not be downloaded from this site. However, many of these may be found on our Software Acquisition site, above.
- UNC ITS LearnIT-OnlineUNC online training resources.