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College Technology Information and Policies

This page is dedicated to general information about computers and policies developed to guide any kind of computer use within the college.

Faculty Need to Be Aware of Agreeing to Contracts or Online Agreements.
A new statement from legal council is urging faculty to think before agreeing to software or other teaching-related services. For more information, visit the legal page of the IMG. In particular, note the pdf file that gives a checklist of what needs to be considered before agreeing to anything.

Laptops for Check-Out: The College has a couple of latops faculty can check out for short periods of time (weekends, conferences, summers away from Auburn). These laptops are given out based on first come, first served. Faculty who borrow a laptop sign a Laptop Usage Agreement (pdf).

IPods for Check-Out: For the Italian Study Abroad Program, students check out ipods already loaded with content about their program: cultural information, itineraries, audio files, and other items of interest. Students are required to sign an Ipod Usage Agreement (pdf)

New AU OIT Policies and Their Consequences to Faculty and Staff

In Spring 2007, Auburn's Office of Information Technology added some new policies to address the concern that the university needs to strengthen its efforts for better security of data and for a better understanding of such security. The following links will take you to the individual new policies:

Note in particular in the AU Network Terms and Conditions Acceptance Policy the agreement users need to agree to. This agreement is done in two ways: either when users log on to computers (they have to agree to the terms and conditions before they can log on to the computer) or users sign a Terms and Conditions Acceptance document that is kept on file.
Please find a copy of the Terms and Conditions Acceptance document online.
Note also in the Computer Authentication Policy that all computers on the Domain (users log on with their global userid and password), a screenlock is activated after 30 minutes of non-activity. Only the user who is logged on to the computer can unlock this screenlock with her/his password; if the user is not around, the computer may be restarted, but this means that any changes not saved by the previous user will not be saved.

 

IT Code of Ethics

Starting April 2005, all CLA IT staff members who work with faculty, staff, and students will read and sign a Code of Ethics Statement that indicates their understanding of ethical behavior in connection with computer and file contents and potential dangers. A sample of this code is accessible here. All signed copies are part of the staff members' personnel files.

Default Software Loads for Faculty and Staff Windows Computers

  • 7-zip - v4.57
  • Adobe Acrobat - v8.12 Professional
  • Adobe Flash Player - v9.0.115.0 (for IE and Firefox)
  • Adobe Shockwave Player - v11.0 (for IE and Firefox)
  • Diskeeper 2008 Professional (for maintenance)
  • DivX - v6.8 (codec)
  • FileZilla: FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server; go to http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/documentation/ to get started. This replaces WS_FTP.
  • Groupwise - v7.0.2
  • IBM Tivoli Storage Manager - v5.2 (back-up)
  • Java  - v6.0 Update 5
  • McAfee Virus Scan & AntiSpyware - v8.5i
  • Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 -- includes Acess, Excel, ExpressionWeb, Infopath, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word
  • Mozilla Firefox - v2.0.0.13: default web browser; go to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ for a list of features
  • Quicktime - v7.4.1
  • Real Player Enterprise - v1.11.0
  • Respondus - v3.5.4c (quiz-generating software to integrate with Blackboard)
  • Secure CRT - v4.0
  • Windows Media Player 11.0

Computers with DVD_ROM drives will also have DVD Decoder Software; computers with CD burners will be able to burn CDs using Windows CD burning, but computers with DVD burners wanting to burn DVDs will need to get Nero 7 installed by request with Nero Burn Rights for all users of the computer. Symantec Ghost Client 11.01 runs in the background for maintenance purposes.

For more information or assistance please contact
Darrell Crutchley. E-mail: dcrutchley@auburn.edu or
Wiebke Kuhn. E-mail: kuhnwi1@auburn.edu

Phone: 334-844-2056 or 844-7070

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Last updated March 19, 2008