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HWS provides you with an HWS e-mail account which is accessible from most devices, browsers, and e-mail clients. Distribution lists and listserv discussion lists provide faculty and staff with more options, consistency, and clarity in communication to specific groups.

The Dock is a personalized portal to give students a centralized space to manage their information and access the resources that support their journey, while giving staff the tools they need to guide and assist students along the way.

Campus printers are available for use by faculty, staff, and students. Printers are available across campus.

HWS provides multiple ways for students, faculty, and staff to store and collaborate on files.

IT Services provides Web-based video conferencing tools for students, faculty and staff to conduct meetings, classes, etc. online.

Public desktop computers are available throughout campus for all students, faculty, and staff to use. These computers, which are a mix of Linux, Mac, and Windows, have specialized software installed to support teaching and learning.

Students, faculty, and staff can use the HWS Large File Transfer system to securely share files that are too large for normal e-mail attachments. This system allows sending files up to 2GB by e-mailing a link to a secure download Web site that the recipient can click to access.

For students from other colleges that are taking classes with HWS professors and need access to Canvas or ArcGIS.

Space on Colleges' Web servers is available to HWS community members for academic purposes. Editing access may be granted to one or more people. Web sites are created under http://people.hws.edu/web_site_name.

The HWS network can be accessed off-campus by the Virtual Private Network (VPN), allowing access to the HWS network drives.

Play your part in keeping our data and networks safe by reporting a security incident.

Cyber criminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated, delivering realistic e-mails mimicking EBay, Microsoft, Apple, and more. Our Time-of-Click URL Protection feature evaluates links in your inbox twice; first when a message is delivered, then again when a link is clicked on. The second step means that hackers can no longer send a non-malicious link, pass security features, and then add ransomware to the link address.

The junk e-mail filter prevents spam mail from clogging up your HWS e-mail inbox, which reduces your chance of clicking on malicious links or having a virus on your computer, while still allowing you to control what is filtered.

Emergency Assistance Stations are positioned across campus with a red HELP button and, in most cases, a blue light. These devices are both free standing and mounted on buildings. By pressing the red HELP button you will be automatically connected to Campus Safety's Emergency Line so they can provide assistance for any emergency needs.

The online learning management system may be used by students, faculty and staff at the Colleges to facilitate file sharing, digital assignment distribution and submission, asynchronous communication, collaborative writing, and more.

Elevator phones are managed and maintained by Sodexo with an analog service provided by IT Services. These devices are used to communicate with Campus Safety in the event of a need by a user of the elevator. IT Services provides an analog service to the elevators.

HWS users can view general software tutorials through Infobase Learning. IT Services also provides user support of DataCamp for tutorials specific to data analysis software.

IT Services can provide supplemental technology for special events within the Colleges' community, such as public lectures, board meetings, and homecoming celebrations. Provide a detailed summary of your event and technology needs, and a technician will be in touch to assist you.

Productivity suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint,and more for desktops, mobile devices, and browsers.

IT Services provides a web-based survey tool that may be used by faculty and staff at the Colleges. This tool may be used for both simple and complex surveys, and offers an easy-to-use interface, various question types and options, user-friendly survey URLs, and mass e-mail and reporting capabilities.

HWS faculty and staff are provided with phones to use in their work spaces, including voicemail support.

Eduroam (education roaming) is a secure, world-wide roaming access service developed for the international research and education community. Eduroam allows students, researchers, and staff from participating institutions to obtain Internet connectivity across participating campuses on their devices.

The HWS campus provides Internet access for students, staff, faculty, and the community through two wireless networks and one wired network.

Support assistance with all issues regarding installed and programmed cameras for the use of HWS entities including but not limited to Athletics, Campus Safety, and the Library along with potential support for the managing system(s) based on SLAs.