Penn State Information Technology Donald J. Welch, Ph.D. Acting Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer

Implementing innovative solutions to support you Penn State IT Implementing innovative solutions to support you Penn State IT mission: We are a service organization Dedicated to serving needs of students, faculty and staff through Responsive service and support Enabling infrastructure Effective administrative systems Strategic innovation Highlight eight areas of IT today for you

Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud – free to all faculty, students and staff The Creative Cloud suite of products includes a wide variety of digital tools including: Photoshop, InDesign, Spark, Illustrator, and more. Access to creative tools for digital imaging, design, web, and video, as well as online services including 20GB of storage. Adobe CC programs allow faculty members to innovate in the classroom, and enhance course curriculums. Latest updates and new features are available as soon as they’re released. 

Canvas Penn State’s online system for teaching and learning Integrated with third-party learning tools such as Kaltura Mobile apps for changes on the go

IT Support Always available However you prefer to get help Offer a chat feature as well Some colleges have own IT support services Can always use main IT support line Have cadre of students – Tech Tutors – to help provide info

All faculty, staff and students have free access to full suite of collaborative tools Outlook, Teams, OneNote Modern collaboration and productivity platform Office 365

Research This is first year have had an Associate CIO for Research Dual focus on IT and research needs Lengthy list of services and tools available in the areas of Research Computing, Research Cyberinfrastructure, and Research Data ACIO will be able help guide through available technologies, platforms, and services For anyone doing high-performance computing, Institute for CyberScience can help apply big data and big simulation methods across research landscape

Security Penn State has large potential attack surface Also provide sound strategies to manage ongoing risk with minimal impact on teaching, research and service Secure enclaves are a key part of overarching security strategy help administrative and research areas achieve regulatory and contractual compliance for high-risk data types protect data through a secure computing infrastructure

Software Free or low-cost software is available to enable your work Can start with your support team to get what you need Also shop on software website One example of free resource: entire suite of Adobe Creative Cloud is one such example of free resources available to enhance what you do and help to create digitally fluent students – at no cost to them.

Teaching and Learning Teaching and Learning with Technology Partner with you to enhance teaching Everything we do driven by curiosity to uncover the best ideas for engaged learning. strive to understand effective learning and how technology sustains it. Some of tools we use to enrich the Penn State learning experience.: Immersive experiences artificial intelligence blended learning 3D printing collaborative learning spaces open education resources

Penn State IT Resources (1/2) Adobe Creative Cloud https://adobe.psu.edu Canvas https://canvas.psu.edu IT Support https://it.psu.edu/get-support Office 365 https://portal.office.com Summary of sites in this presentation

Additional information: https://it.psu.edu/faculty Penn State IT Resources (2/2) Research https://researchcomputing.psu.edu Security https://security.psu.edu Software https://software.psu.edu Teaching and Learning https://tlt.psu.edu Summary of sites in this presentation For a one-stop shop for faculty IT resources, visit the it.psu.edu/faculty site Additional information: https://it.psu.edu/faculty