Telephones, E-mail Accounts, and Web-Based Services

Campus Technology Services | Telephones | Email | Employee Intranet (my.purchase.edu) | Classroom Technology Services | Faculty Web Pages and Blogs

Campus Technology Services (CTS)
Director: Bill Junor
Department Tel.: (914) 251-6460
Department Fax: (914) 251-6476
Location: Social Sciences Building, Basement
Office Hours: Mon.–Fri., 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
CTS Helpdesk:
Tel.: (914) 251-6465
Fax: (914) 251-6493
Hours: Mon.–Thurs., 8:00 a.m.–9:45 p.m. &
Fri., 8:00 a.m.–6:45 p.m. when classes are in session

CTS supports a variety of services for faculty and students. The best way to keep abreast of what is available is to visit CTS online.

The CTS Helpdesk is responsible for classroom technology services and public labs, and for maintaining computer hardware and networks access across the Purchase campus. CTS also offers technical support for computer-related problems to faculty, staff, and students. The Helpdesk can be reached at (914) 251-6465 or helpdesk@purchase.edu.

Telephones
The campus area code is 914 and first three digits of on-campus numbers are 251. To make an on-campus call, dial the last four digits of the telephone number. To call off-campus, dial “9” first.

• Business and Personal Calls:
  Calls necessary to accomplish faculty instructional or other professional University responsibilities are business calls. Any other local or long-distance call is a personal call. Faculty members must review their quarterly departmental phone bills and reimburse the State for the cost of personal calls. (Those who live on campus receive monthly bills.) Telephone-reimbursement report forms are available online at www.purchase.edu/Departments/cts/Telecom/, along with the complete Purchase College Telephone Policy.
   
  
• Directories:
  The most current directory of faculty, staff, and departments (campus telephone numbers, fax numbers, email and Web addresses) is the online searchable version. It is maintained on a decentralized basis by each school, conservatory, and department.

Purchase College Email
The Purchase College email account creation system automatically creates email accounts for new faculty and staff approximately four hours after they obtain their campus ID (More Card).

To activate your email account:

• Go to my.purchase.edu
• Click the “Can’t login?” link.
• At the next screen, under “Current Students/Faculty/Staff” on the left, click on the “Email Account Activations/Password Reset” link and follow the instructions.
• If you have trouble, you can call the CTS Helpdesk at (914) 251-6465.

Your Purchase College email account is (a) used for official communications to and from the College and students and (b) provides access to:

• self-service Web applications (grades, class lists, etc.) on my.purchase.edu
• online Library resources
• the Moodle learning management system

You can use your Purchase email account from any computer with an Internet connection and a standard Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) by going to my.purchase.edu and following the “Email” link in the top menu. You can also access your account via the Email link at the bottom of the public Purchase College website, www.purchase.edu. From your campus desktop, you will be provided with Microsoft Outlook, a full-featured mail-calendar-task application that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. After you have activated your account, you will be notified by CTS via email when it is time to change your password (required every 90 days for security purposes).

Email distribution lists:
All Purchase College email distribution lists can be used from any email account, on or off campus, using the format List.Name@purchase.edu. CTS automatically creates an email distribution list for each class each semester, with the faculty member as the list manager. Three semesters of lists are available: past, present, and future. The format for these lists is:
SemYear-Course.Section@purchase.edu (for example, FA11-LWR1010.20@purchase.edu).

• The first two characters tell you the semester (SP=Spring, FA=Fall) and the next two tell you the calendar year of the list (FA11=Fall 2011).
• Each faculty advisor also has a distribution list containing all of his or her advisees in the format advisor.FirstName.LastName@purchase.edu.
• If you are the owner of a list (i.e., you are a board-of-study coordinator), there is also a list containing all of your majors (for example, hum.faculty.literature@purchase.edu).
• There is a faculty discussion list, Faculty.Discuss@purchase.edu, open to all faculty members and moderated by the presiding officer of the Faculty at Large.

Purchase College Employee Intranet: my.purchase.edu
Your user name and password for the employee intranet, my.purchase.edu, are the same as your Purchase College email address and password; the domain is tnt_lan and your user ID is generally firstname.lastname (e.g., John.Doe). The menus on my.purchase.edu include numerous self-service applications—where you can do everything from changing your email password to viewing your class lists and submitting your grades. There are also links to a variety of useful information on the Purchase website.

Classroom Technology Services 

• Smart Classrooms
  The College currently has approximately 40 smart classrooms, most of which are equipped with a computer, projector, DVD/VHS, sound system, and wireless Ethernet. Many other classrooms have a large-screen TV and DVD/VCR. CTS also schedules and manages academic computing labs and computer equipment, and will supply audiovisual equipment and services to classes, conferences, and special events upon request. For events with external (non-Purchase College) audiences, there may be a fee for equipment and services.

• Wireless Internet Access
  Wireless Ethernet service is available throughout the academic buildings (Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Dance, Music, Visual Arts, and the Library) and in many other locations as well (Campus Centers North and South, Student Services, and the Performing Arts Center).

• Mobile Teaching Units
  In recognition of the vital role that computing technology plays in the classroom and studio, CTS can provide Mobile Teaching Units (MTUs) consisting of a laptop and projector network card mounted on carts that can be wheeled into any location on campus for electronic presentations. If the classroom has a network outlet, the station can be used to access any campus computing resource and any resource available through the Internet. Alternatively, materials could be loaded directly onto the computer. To make arrangements for an MTU, please use the CTS Work Order System.
   
  CTS technicians will deliver equipment only to the faculty member, not to an empty room. The delivering technician will set up the equipment ready for your use. Please do not leave the equipment unattended and remember to notify CTS if the room is changed, the class is canceled, or the pick-up time is changed. Faculty members are responsible for the equipment delivered to their class.

• Video Equipment
  Flip video cameras and related video equipment are also available for checkout from CTS; an inventory list is available on the CTS site. Please use the CTS Work Order System to schedule this equipment. For information on expanded program support for faculty and courses that incorporate video projects, please refer to the TLTC in the Library section of this handbook.

• Videoconferencing and Webcasting
  Information on these services is available on the CTS Classroom Technology Services site.

Faculty Web Pages and Blogs

• Faculty Web Pages: OpenScholar Replacing Static Pages
  The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC), located in the Library, encourages faculty members to use OpenScholar for their Purchase-affilated faculty Web pages. This open-source application, developed at Harvard, gives faculty members complete control over their academic online presence. Using OpenScholar, you will be able to easily create and manage your dynamic professional website without the need for special technical skills; it’s as easy to use as a word processing program. You will also no longer have to request and wait for updates to be made by the TLTC staff, as you will be given full control over your website.

  Here are some examples of Purchase faculty OpenScholar sites:
  Chrys Ingraham
  Michael Lobel
  Mary Kosut
  George Kraemer
  Lisa Jean Moore
  Jason Pine

  You can watch a video about OpenScholar and its many features here:
  http://openscholar.harvard.edu/home

  If you are interested in setting up a site on the OpenScholar system, please check out the OpenScholar Essentials: Getting Started guide. If you have questions, please send an email to TLTC@purchase.edu, and the TLTC staff will get you up and running. You can also sign up for an OpenScholar workshop.
  

• WordPress Blogs
  The College’s WordPress blogging system is another option for faculty members who want to develop a customized Web presence that meets their professional and scholarly needs. It provides an easy way to create and maintain a customized website, whether you blog or not.

  Example of a Purchase faculty Wordpress site.
  

  If you are interested in setting up a WordPress site, please send an email to TLTC@purchase.edu, and the TLTC staff will get you up and running.
  

• Other Options
  Faculty members who want to use commercial or open-source Web publishing applications or develop database-driven Web applications can arrange to have a Web directory set up on the server. For details, please contact the CTS Helpdesk at (914) 251-6465.
   
  
• Dance and Music faculty, please note:
  The Conservatories of Dance and Music still create and maintain static Web pages for their faculty members upon request. (Please contact the respective conservatory coordinator for information.) However, all faculty members are strongly encouraged to move to OpenScholar or WordPress (see above).

Updated Feb. 16, 2012

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