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

2. 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

3. 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. 

4. 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

5. 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

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. Penn State IT Resources (1/2)
Adobe Creative Cloud
Canvas
IT Support
Office
Summary of sites in this presentation

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