1. March 15, 19991Matt Bishop Recommendations for One- Time Instructional Technology Funds Usage Instructional Technology Infrastructure Subcommittee, Academic Computing Coordinating Council

2. March 15, 1999Slide 2Matt Bishop Goal of the Subcommittee Use computing to support educational activities throughout the campus Use computing to support educational activities throughout the campus – Make computers and the Internet more accessible to the campus – Aid faculty, administration to make course material and University information available on the Web

3. March 15, 1999Slide 3Matt Bishop Increasing Accessibility Increase number of computer labs and access points Increase number of computer labs and access points – Significantly increase on-campus network access in public environments (#2) Enable mobile systems to obtain IP addresses when connected Enable mobile systems to obtain IP addresses when connected – Deploy DHCP on campus subnets (#1)

4. March 15, 1999Slide 4Matt Bishop Increasing Accessibility Improve general access modem pool Improve general access modem pool – Necessary to solve Year 2000 bug – Make the modems compatible with staff, faculty modem pools So if campus drops support for general access modem pool, those modems can be put on the other two modem pools So if campus drops support for general access modem pool, those modems can be put on the other two modem pools – Replace 14,400 baud modem pool (#3)

5. March 15, 1999Slide 5Matt Bishop Course Material Availability Requires expansion of infrastructure to support increased load Requires expansion of infrastructure to support increased load Requires tools to build course material to be available Requires tools to build course material to be available Requires information about campus classrooms, courses, and students to be available Requires information about campus classrooms, courses, and students to be available

6. March 15, 1999Slide 6Matt Bishop Infrastructure Development Augment infrastructure to support centrally faculty, student web pages (#4) Augment infrastructure to support centrally faculty, student web pages (#4) Upgrade campus search engine (#5) Upgrade campus search engine (#5)

7. March 15, 1999Slide 7Matt Bishop Infrastructure Development Authentication may be required for some course materials, campus support functions (#6) Authentication may be required for some course materials, campus support functions (#6) – Recommend digital certificates for compatibility with other sites on WWW

8. March 15, 1999Slide 8Matt Bishop Material on Web Faculty, staff, students will need to get information from web, add information to web Faculty, staff, students will need to get information from web, add information to web – Tools are very primitive – Need to improve their quality, user friendliness and availability (#7)

9. March 15, 1999Slide 9Matt Bishop Material on Web Need to provide application to make all this available (#8) Need to provide application to make all this available (#8) – Also administrative functions to help students, staff, faculty track status of courses, etc. Help faculty, staff locate classrooms appropriate for their needs (#9) Help faculty, staff locate classrooms appropriate for their needs (#9)

10. March 15, 1999Slide 10Matt Bishop Electronic Mail Augment central disk space for email (#10) Augment central disk space for email (#10) – Allow students to save email on line for longer times – Allow them to receive bigger emails