The Banner quicknote category will focus on the unversity database that is used by Financial Aid, Registrar, and some other departments on campus.
This quicknote category will focus on the campus email system. Tutorials may include syncing phones to the exchange mail server, configuring email clients such as Outlook and Entourage, and managing spam filters.
The ITS department maintains staffed computer labs in 205 French Hall, 206 Murchie Science Building, 3174 William S. White Building, and an unstaffed lab in the university library. Quicknotes in this category will assist in basic computer issues that may arise in the campus computer labs.
All versions of the linux operating system are currently unsupported by the ITS department and university. Quicknotes in this category are only provided to assist in setting up various campus services, but none of the quicknotes are supported through ITS. The most common linux operating systems that the quicknotes are most likely best suited for Ubuntu Linux and openSUSE Linux.
The Macintosh quicknote category will assist in configuring university services for the Mac OS 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS 10.5 Leopard, iPhone, and iTouch.
Find information about services that Mediated Classroom Services (MCS) provides such as classroom presentation equipment and audio/visual equipment delivery.
The Networking/Collaboration quicknote category will involve all network and internet. Quicknotes may include: VPN setup, drive mapping, Office Communicator, and FTP setup
This quicknote category will assist in making secure passwords that can be used in a variety of campus technologies such as SIS and your campus computer account.
This quicknote category will assist in printing to the universities Uniprint printer service. Quicknotes will include accessing Uniprint services from campus and personal computers.
Security applications such as McAfee, Spybot Search & Destroy, and Malware Bytes assist in preventing spyware, adware, viruses from infecting campus and personal laptops. This quicknote category will give instruction into using university supported security applications.
Student Information System, better known as SIS is used by Faculty and Students here at UM-Flint. This section will provide information for some of the basic features of SIS. For more information on exact functions within SIS please contact the department through which the function involves. For example: registration questions would be directed to the Office of the Registrar.
Find information about services that WEB supports such as Blogs, Content Management System (CMS), FormAssembly, MediaBin and other instructional technology and web development tools.
This quicknote category will focus on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Tutorials that will be included in this section: mapping network drives, tweaking internet settings, and improving system performance.
The university provides wireless internet throughout the entire campus. This quicknote category will assist in configuring wireless devices for various university wireless networks including the new housing wireless and UMF_BASIC.