CBA Instructional Technology (IT) – Spring 2013 Information
| Nupur Shah: 5-1755 Director of Instructional Technology nupur.shah@csulb.edu |
Ghul Cassim: 5-5618 |
| Cory Clark: 5-7175 | |
| Sina LiHang: 5-7556 | |
| Front Desk/Help: 5-8193 |
Sivyu Chia: 5-5628 |
CBA Computer Technical Help
- Contact Nupur Shah for technical assistance and customer support ext. 5-1755, or email nupur.shah@csulb.edu Monday – Friday 8 am to 5 pm.
- Contact the IT Front Desk ext. 5-8193 after 5 pm Monday thru Thursday.
CBA Classroom Digital Projector/Smart Panel Support (all CBA classrooms)
- Contact Nupur Shah for technical assistance and customer support ext. 5-1755, or email nupur.shah@csulb.edu Monday – Friday 8 am to 5 pm.
- Contact the IT Front Desk for help ext. 5-8193 after 5 pm Monday thru Thursday.
- It may be faster to get help by sending a student or coming to the CBA IT Front Desk inside CBA-243, to report a classroom problem.
CBA Computer Classroom Reservations
CBA Computer Classroom Reservations* for CBA-236, CBA-237A, CBA-237B, CBA-240 and the CBA Dean’s Conference Rooms –CBA -237C and CBA-200. The Dean’s Office approves reservation requests for CBA-237C and CBA-200.
- CBA Computer Classroom Reservations link: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cba/reservation/
- CBA Computer Classroom Reservations questions, please contact Sivyu Chia ext. 5-5628.
- Computer Classroom reservations for future semesters are encouraged as we are expected to share our Computer Classrooms with the rest of the campus (per the Provost).
*Your department ASC has access to the master CBA Computer Classroom schedule via Office Tracker, you may want to check with them before filling out the on-line Reservation Request form.
CBA Computer Classrooms
CBA Computer Classrooms CBA-236 and CBA-237B have been upgraded and now have Flip-it Smart Desks. All four computer classrooms are now physically the same and accommodate 40 students plus one instructor - total of 41 seats.
New CBA Computer Classroom Digital Projectors. CBA-236, CBA-237A, CBA-237B and CBA-240 were upgraded to new High-Lumen Panasonic Digital Projectors.
CSULB/CBA Wireless
- The entire CSULB/CBA wireless infrastructure was upgraded over the summer.
- You should experience significant increases in wireless speed and wireless coverage around the campus - if you are using the “campus-domain” wireless versus connections to “beachnet” wireless .
CBA Faculty Web Site Consultation
- CSULB allows faculty and staff to upload web pages to Tilde (~) internet +accounts, however, Tilde web pages are not allowed to be used for class use unless they meet Federal and State ADA, Section 508 compliance rules.
- Nupur Shah, CBA Senior Web Architect, can provide you guidance and information concerning maintaining ADA compliant web pages.
Elluminate - Real-time online classroom/meeting environment
- Elluminate information
- CBA Instructional Technology has some Elluminate headsets and can provide some first level technical support.
CBA IT Open Access Lab and Computer Classroom Software
Backup Important Data
Please “Backup” All Important Files Frequently. See CBA IT Web Links Below for Simple Windows/Mac OS X Backup Procedures
- Protect yourself at all times, especially with research or important CBA documents. Some CBA personnel have recently lost irreplaceable data due to disk failure and no backup.
- All of you have or have access to either a DVD or CD writable drives that are capable of burning data on to a DVD or CD. It is recommended that you copy (burn) your important files to disk.
- We recommend the Roxio (Windows) DVD/CD burning software - if you have it; however, the CBA web links below are a simple Windows XP (non-Roxio) and Mac OS X backup procedure for burning your files to disk.
- As a strategy for Windows users, make sure the files that you want to back up are in My Documents so that you can easily find them for back up purposes then go to this link for a video on burning them to disk: http://www.csulb.edu/colleges/cba/it/tutorials/dvd-backup.html
- As a strategy for Apple OS X users, make sure the files that you want to back up are in your Home folder so that you can easily find them for back up purposes then go to this link for instructions on burning them to disk: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8398.html
- Please contact CBA - IT for backup assistance and questions. There is nothing more important!
USB Memory Sticks – “Things we have learned”
- They are great for quick backups or transporting files – confidential files should be Encrypted.
- They are easy to lose.
- They are easy to damage.
- They fail frequently.
- If you place your USB into a virus/Trojan infected student computer or vice versa, your USB or computer will be infected and if you place an infected USB into your computer, it can be infected. This happened to us several times this past year.
- Most people do not “encrypt” their USB’s. If it gets lost, personal/private/class files will be exposed by whoever finds it. If you store personal/private/class files on a USB, you should use some form of encryption software.
- Other good “Free” Encryption software choices are TrueCrypt, AxCrypt and PGP.