In support of the University's academic mission, Academic Computing provides technology expertise resources, and services directly to students and faculty, and to other organizations that in turn support aspects of the mission. Academic Computing provides information on the use of technology in teaching and learning environments; operates and manages classrooms, public and multimedia computer clusters in Meyer Library and a computer cluster in Tresidder; provides faculty-specific computing resources through the Academic Technology Specialist program and Academic Technology Lab; provides technology support to Stanford University Library services; operates and manages residential computing clusters and services; and supports the Stanford course management system.
The Academic Technology Lab (ATL) is a resource center for faculty, instructors and TAs interested in using multimedia to improve teaching and learning at Stanford University. ATL consultants provide training and support for the development of instructional materials including interactive presentations, videos, DVDs and web sites. Faculty also receive assistance integrating technology tools into their courses. In addition, ATL staff provide consultations for web-based forums and online learning management systems such as CourseWork.
The Bioinformatics Resource provides computer resources for biomedical research at Stanford. Groups that sign up for a yearly membership are provided access to a wide variety of hardware and software.
ATV is Stanfords academic cable TV service, provided by IT Services in classrooms, conference rooms, and offices. Offerings include Stanford-specific programming designed to enrich the academic experience, as well as a variety of educational and entertainment programming. For special events, IT Services can provide satellite downlink services at most campus locations to bring a live feed for group viewing. You can choose from among four levels of service.
CTL provides assistance to faculty in integrating technology into their teaching, including consultations on course design and technology, use of course management systems, formative assessment of the pedagogical effectiveness of technology, individual and departmental assistance in the introduction of new technologies, and workshops on teaching with technology.
Many classrooms across the Stanford campus are equipped for multimedia presentations and technology instruction.
Public computer clusters are available to members of the Stanford community at a variety of campus locations, including the Residential computer clusters, and those in Green and Meyer Libraries, Tresidder Student Union, Terman Engineering Center, and Gates Computer Science.
Green Library has a number of computing clusters available for faculty/staff/students to use during normal library operating hours. Cluster machines can be found in the Information Center (IC), Media and Microtext, Social Science Resource Center (SSRC) Reading Room, and Lane Reading Room. Macintosh users can find an iMac cluster located in the IC. For those of you needing to scan docs, pictures, etc., a scan station can also be found in the IC. More information about the cluster and available software can be found here:
SULAIR’s Academic Computing department and Business Affairs’ IT Services department both provide a range of custom-tailored consulting services. Academic Computing’s Academic Technology Specialists provide faculty and staff with department level consulting in the effective uses of information technology for education. A number of groups within IT Services' Client Support help faculty and staff to identify unmet needs and assist them in the delivery of proposed solutions. Other services include personalized IT orientations for new faculty, coordination of Stanford's annual IT Open House, facility design for construction projects, and usability analysis, design, testing. Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) is a group within SULAIR that provides services and support to Stanford faculty, staff and students in the acquisition of social science data and the selection and use of statistical and qualitative data analysis software.
Academic Computing’s Consulting and Multimedia Services group (CAMS) is a media resource and service center that consolidates faculty, student and staff consulting on the second floor of Meyer Library
The Technology Support for Courses web site guides you to services that bring technology to the physical classroom/lab and helps you create and use online virtual learning spaces.
CourseForum is an open source discussion tool available through CourseWork, Stanford's course management system. Anyone with access to CourseForum can post topics. CourseForum is ideal for collaborative projects because it supports private forums and forums for specified user groups. Its search feature allows instructors to find student-specific postings that can then be printed for grading. CourseForum synchronizes with CourseWork's course enrollment information, thereby eliminating the need to add users to the forum manually.
CourseWork is Stanford's course management system. Using CourseWork, instructors and TAs can set up a course web site that includes a course home page, a syllabus, announcements linked to email, a schedule, course materials, assignments, a gradebook, a discussion forum, and a sign-up tool for events such as lab sections, office hours, or field trips. CourseWork is designed for faculty with little web experience, who can use it to develop their web site quickly and for experts, who can use it to organize complex materials and link them to web communication tools. It is available for all Stanford courses.
The purpose of the Curriculum Web Portal is to support every Medical School course via the Web, both administratively (handouts, scheduling, basic course information, etc.) and with content-based learning tools (animations, interactive quizzing, streaming video, etc.). Access to the full CWP is available to registered medical students, graduate students, and School of Medicine staff.
Data specialists provide services and support for finding and getting data in electronic format for social science research. SSDS resources include ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Roper Center for for Public Opinion Research, Data Extraction Web Interface (DEWI), and data on CD-ROM.
EdTech, within the Lane Medical Library, provides a highly coordinated set of educational planning and support services including the Curriculum Web Portal (CWP), educational multimedia development, classroom technology support and video services, faculty technology training, and learning space scheduling and planning.
Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections, located on the second floor of the Mitchell Building, provides access for current faculty, students, and staff to geospatial data, digital map services, and geographic information systems (GIS). In addition, the library provides ongoing GIS reference and research consultation.
The Humanities Digital Information Service (HDIS) collects, prepares and delivers online text and image collections to Stanford students, scholars and researchers. HDIS is part of the Humanities Resource Group of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR). Located in the Lane Room, on the second floor of Green Library's Bing Wing, HDIS provides both walk-in services related to its own programs, and support for other electronic resources delivered in the Lane Room. Access to the HDIS electronic text library is available from the service's Web site and is, with a few exceptions, restricted to members of the Stanford community. HDIS also offers a number of online image collections, many of which are available using Luna Insight databases and clients. See instructions and downloads on the HDIS web site.
Stanford University is one of over 200 member universities leading the Internet2 project. In cooperation with research leaders in industry and government, the Internet2 universities are developing advanced, high-speed networks and a new generation of research and teaching applications that will exploit greatly expanded network capabilities. Access to Internet2 is provided automatically whenever a user at one Internet2 site addresses a resource at another Internet2 site.
The mission of the Stanford University Language Lab is to provide resources, facilities, and support for language instruction and learning to the entire Stanford community. Resources range from materials in over 90 languages, to specialized learning and teaching equipment and facilities, to materials development, support, and consulting services for faculty and TAs.
The pubsw software tree contains over 500 free and site-licensed software packages installed in AFS for multiple versions of UNIX. It is available to any machine at Stanford running a supported version of UNIX and capable of mounting AFS.
The Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL) conducts scholarly research to advance the science, technology, and practice of learning and teaching. Established in 2002 as an independent center of excellence at Stanford University, SCIL is housed in the new Wallenberg Hall, a state-of-the-art testing ground for technology applications in the classroom.
The SmartPanel is a technology-enhanced classroom control panel that allows instructors and presenters to control the rooms projection system and select from installed audiovisual inputs (e.g., slide projectors, VCRs, cable TV, etc.) or connect their own playback devices or computers.
The Software Licensing group within IT Services serves as a clearinghouse of information for all software available on campus. The group’s web sites — including the Software at Stanford search portal — list software available on campus and how to obtain it, use it on campus computer clusters (e.g., Terman Engineering Center, Gates Computer Science, Meyer/ResComp clusters) and, if the software is not available on campus, how it can be obtained.
Social Science Data and Software (SSDS) is a group within SULAIR that provides services and support to Stanford faculty, staff, and students in the acquisition of social science data and the selection and use of quantitative and qualitative analysis software. SSDS staff provide these services in a variety of ways that include consulting, workshops, a reference library and help documentation.
Software consultants provide services and support in the selection and use of popular data analysis software such as SPSS, SAS, and Stata.
SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies) is a center in the School of Medicine dedicated to putting Stanford University at the forefront of medical and life-sciences education through the innovative use of information technology in research and curricular project development.
TeamSpace is a publicly accessible, collaborative workspace environment for the Stanford community located in Meyer Library's first floor lobby. Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, TeamSpace allows increased productivity and collaboration through plug-and-play document and information sharing. The sharing occurs across the users' laptops when connected to the TeamSpace environment, along with the ability to open documents on one of two 40" LCD screens. Document editing using the LCD panels is collectively controlled.
Wallenberg Hall (Building 160 at the front of the Main Quad), is home to the Stanford Center for Innovation in Learning (SCIL). By providing the resources to explore how technology and educational environments affect learning, Wallenberg Hall serves as the conduit for new knowledge that travels from laboratory to classroom and back again. Wallenberg Hall classrooms and the Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater are available for the use of the entire Stanford community and may be reserved for teaching and non-academic events.