A SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard that allows the professor or students to write notes in digital ink on top of the computer display, and save the work. It is integrated with the computer and the computer displays to the board/screen, but it also allows interaction at the board. The Smart Board is equipped with "digital pens"-pens that write digitally on the screen.

The Smart Zone is located in Leyburn Library on the Main level by the entrance nearest the Elrod Commons.  It has the Smart Board Technology and seating in an open area.  During the day reservations are required and are made by contacting the ITS Help Desk at help@wlu.edu or calling extension 4357.

Adobe
     Acrobat
     Dreamweaver
     Flash
     Illustrator
     InDesign
     LiveCycle Designer
     Photshop
Arc GIS
Audacity
Google Earth
Microsoft Office, including Publisher and Photo Story
Python
Roxio Creator
SPSS
StataIC

Applies To: Students

Huntley Hall 322 has 34 Dell computers with Windows 7 operating system.

The following software is installed on the lab computers:

 Updated September 2012

Applies To: Students

Adobe CS5

Office Suite

Tandberg Software

Acrobat 9

WinTV

Google Earth

Applies To: Students

Updated August 2013

Applies To: Students

There are six Xenith Wyse terminals to access the VDIs in The Stable. The VDIs have Windows 7 operating systems.

Updated September 2012

Applies To: Students

du Pont 104 (Sympodium)

Leyburn M47 (Sympodium)

Leyburn Smart Zone (Smart Board) (Contact the Information Desk at 4357 to reserve)

Newcomb 116 (Wide-Screen Sympodium)

Newcomb 122 (Wide-Screen Sympodium)

Parmly 313 (Smart Board, Biology Department Lab)

Payne 201 (Wide-Screen Sympodium)

Red House (Smart Board)

Science Addition G14 (Sympodium)

Science Addition 114 (Sympodium)

Science Addition 214 (Sympodium)

Tucker 402 (Smart Board)

Students can download Office products and antivirus from the Student Software Download page.

Employees can download Office products and antivirus from the Employee Software Downloads page. 

PowerFAIDS is a software product developed by The College Board that provides critical functionality regarding financial aid management.  The Financial Aid Department utilizes the PowerFAIDS product to assign and manage awards for students each term.  

Data collected in PowerFAIDS is fed to Datatel Colleague in order to reflect awards and pending aid on student billing.

Only Financial Aid staff have access to the PowerFAIDS product.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students

The University provides site licensing for these products on University-owned equipment:

• Microsoft Windows Upgrades
• Microsoft Office Professional and Enterprise
• Symantec Anti-Virus, Corporate Edition

In addition, these products are licensed for all student-owned computers.

Faculty and staff may install Microsoft Office on their personally-owned computers if its use is primarily for work-related purposes. Employees may purchase installation media at the University Store provided they sign a Work-at-Home Agreement at the Store.

Please contact your ITS Client Services Support Specialist for licensing information on other software products. ITS can often provide licensed installations at no charge to the department or provide significant volume discounts for certain products.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

If you are getting a pop up window that Symantec is out of date either:

1. Click on the upright Yellow Shield in your task bar.

2. When the Symantec Window pops up click Live Update on the Left.

If you can't find the yellow shield

1. Click on Start > All Programs > Symantec Endpoint Protection

2. Click on Live Update on the Left.

Syamtec will now run Live Update, you can safely ignore both windows until it has finished.

Unfortunately, no. It cannot be pre-installed in the lab environment.

That said, you may certainly use Box Edit. Box Edit will prompt you to install it any time you log into a computer, log in to your Box account, and then attempt to edit a file.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students

Stata is a combination of the words statistics and data.

SPSS was originally an acronym for Statistical Package of the Social Sciences.  Later it just became the name of the software. 

1. Go to myvi.wlu.edu and authenticate. If it the first time you will be asked to install the Citrix client.

2. Choose a virtual desktop

3. Go to Computer (My Computer on Windows XP) and you should see the L: drive listed.

If you would like instructions for mapping a network drive on your computer, please send an email with your request to help@wlu.edu or call the Information Desk at extension 4357.

You can check updates to your Sakai sites on your smart phone! Just 

go to http://sakai.wlu.edu/portal/pda and log in. This interface 

makes it much easier to check on your classes when you're not at 

your computer.

Applies To: Faculty, Students

Statistical software packages are like Excel on steroids.While Excel is a very powerful tool, you wouldn’t use it to compute your income taxes if you had a complicated return.  You would use specialized tax software.  If you want to perform the types of statistical analysis that can be found in academic journals than software like Stata or SPSS would probably be helpful.  Analyses such as crosstabs, correlations, OLS regressions, logistic regressions, etc. can be done in Excel but are easier in Stata or SPSS.  Other types of analyses just can’t be done in Excel.  Stata and SPSS can also handle much larger data files than Excel.

Stata and SPSS also have excellent data management capabilities that facilitate combining data from different sources.In that sense, they can be thought of as low end database software with extremely strong statistical capabilities.

Log into Atomic Learning and type in the product such as Adobe Illustrator. Check the newer version number and then look for the “What’s New? Training" and it will give you an overview class of the updates.

Additionally when you "Expand all" in you class you will see some topics with red italicized "New to product name"

If you have a Mobile device connected to W&L email (Outlook)  and it has been lost or stolen  you will need to do the following ASAP:

1. Login to Outlook Web Access (owa.wlu.edu for faculty/staff or mail.wlu.edu for students)
2. Put in your user name and password
3. Go to Options (this is located in the upper right)
4. On the left of page click on Mobile Devices
5. Select the device that you have lost
6. You may choose to wipe the device to remove all of the emails from it remotely
7. Delete the device from the list
8. Click Save

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students

Adobe Creative Suite 4
     Dreamweaver
     Flash
     InDesign
     Illustrator
     Photoshop
Final Cut Express 4
Firefox 3
FlipShare (Flip Video)
Google Earth
iCal
iChat
iLife
     GarageBand
     iDVD
     iMovie
     iPhoto
     iTunes
     iWeb
iWorks '09
     Keynote
     Numbers
     Pages
MacMail
Maple 13
Microsoft Office 2008
     Excel
     Power Point
     Word
Photo Booth
Sarari
Text Edit

Applies To: Students

Anti-Virus Software (Windows)

To install anti-virus software on your computer you must first uninstall any other antivirus software you might have before installing ours. Then click on the link Microsoft Security Essentials for Windows 7/Vista/XP and install using Internet Explorer.

Microsoft Office 2010 or 2013 and 2011

Our license agreement with Microsoft provides students with rights to Windows operating system upgrades, Microsoft Office for Windows and MacOS.

• Students are entitled to upgrade to the latest versions until their graduation then you will have a perpetual license(s) for your installed version.
• Students that withdraw from the University without graduating must uninstall the Microsoft products acquired through this license agreement.

To install Office on your computer go to http://wlu.onthehub.com and click the "Sign In" link. If you are prompted, provide your W&L username and password. Click on the product you want and Add to Cart.

• Microsoft downloads are FREE for students.
• You can order backup discs for your products for $13.95 each.
• You can order an Extended Access Guarantee for $4.95 which gives you 24 months of access to your download(s) and license key(s).

Complete and confirm your order. Once your order has been placed, you'll receive an e-mail with a link to your downloads. KEEP TRACK OF YOUR PRODUCT KEY(S)
You will be prompted to do a one time installation of Secure Download Manager. Follow the steps on the web page. Check the Download location at the top of the screen and make sure you have sufficient disk space in the Download Location and "Start Download".

If you have questions, please e-mail helpdesk@wlu.edu

Applies To: Students

Audacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds available at: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/   The download works on both Macintosh and PCs.

Stata and SPSS are statistical packages that can be found on computers in labs across the W&L campus.  Stata is available in the Williams School and in Leyburn Library.  SPSS is also in the library and on machines in the Science Center. 

Journalism Applications include:

Adobe Creative Suite 4 (Design Premium)

Avid Newscutter (Video Editing)

Avid iNews (Newsroom Production System)

Sony Soundforge (Audio Editing)

Applies To: Students

The download is available on the Box.com website in the article here: https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/203053636#bfo_fi

Applies To: Faculty, Staff, Students