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Student Tech News, Spring 2017

Reposting of e-newsletter sent to undergraduates on 3-22-17.

Highlighting services and resources each semester

Student Tech News

Spring 2017

Happy spring from the Office of Information Technology (OIT)! If you have computing problems or need technology advice, the OIT Help Desk is ready to help. OIT College Ambassadors will keep you updated about technology issues and events. Check out the OIT News Blog for recent profiles on fellow students:

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Metinee Ding

 

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and Andrew Grottkau.

 

 

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Graduating?

Rice Email Address and Google Drive Ends

Seniors, if you haven’t already, set up your alumni account and begin using it on your applications, resume, and RiceLink profile.  Your NetID email account through Google will be deactivated in the fall.

Also, any Google docs that you have created will be deleted and items that you have shared will no longer be accessible by others once your NetID is deactivated. Consider this if you’ve got documents in the Google Drive cloud for a class project, your campus job, research for a faculty member, or for a student organization or college.  If you created a document and your account is deleted, no one will be able to view it. Take a quick inventory and get others who will have future needs to use your documents to make a copy. You can learn how to save your Google Drive documents in the KB or KnowledgeBase (see below).

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Amazon Web Services Resources

Did you know that AWS has resources available to students for free? As a student, you will receive  $100 in free credits each year. Visit https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/ to sign up and learn more about Amazon’s program to help students learn real-world cloud technology skills before graduating.  Make sure to sign up for the AWS Educate Starter Account so you don’t need a credit card to join.

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Software Available to Rice Community

Rice University has a variety of software products that are licensed for university-owned computers as well as products that are available for personally-owned computers of faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduates. Several of these products are paid for centrally while others are available at a discounted price. Before your next purchase, be sure to check the online listings (undergraduates  and faculty, staff, and graduate students).

 

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Announcing KnowledgeBase

OIT has new source of information at https://kb.rice.edu.  KnowledgeBase, or KB for short, is an easy-to-search source of instructions about the services and tools supported by OIT. Your feedback and ideas for new documents are welcomed.

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Learn More about Canvas

Online resources can help you become acquainted with Rice’s new learning management system, Canvas. This spring semester over 500 courses with a total of over 5000 students are using Canvas. By the start of fall 2017, all academic courses will be on Canvas.

 

OIT Help Desk

We can help with computer questions or problems!

helpdesk@rice.edu
713-348-4357
(9 am – 5 pm, M-F, except holidays)
http://helpdesk.rice.edu
Mudd 103

 

 

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