Computing and You at Purdue
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is Purdue University’s central IT organization. As
a component of Purdue’s vision for seamless integration of IT with learning, discovery and
engagement at the University, ITaP plays a crucial role in student success as well as faculty and
student research.
Services for students provided by ITaP
GET SOME HELP
Email, wireless access, Web pages and more basic benefits
BLACKBOARD
From any location---access
files, check grades, complete
assignments, take quizzes
and chat with other students
in participating courses.
CAREER ACCOUNTS
A Purdue career account is
the user name and password
that grants you access to
most electronic services on
campus — email, myPurdue,
ITaP instructional labs,
electronic storage space in
home directories, course
resources and more.
use. Lab locations and hours
of operation can be found
at http://www.itap.purdue.
edu/learning/facilities/
instructionallabs.
DIRECTORY LOOKUP
Find faculty, staff and student
contact information using
ITaP’s directory lookup,
accessed from Purdue’s
homepage.
EMAIL
Students are provided with
a purdue.edu email account
with 1 GB of storage space
included. Accessing Purdue
email can be done easily
CLASS RECORDINGS
using a smartphone, myMail,
Some instructors use
Purdue’s web-based email
Purdue’s class recording
system, BoilerCast, to record system, or by forwarding
their classes. To find out what messages to another email
recordings are available, you account (e.g., Gmail, Hotmail or
Yahoo).
can go to iTunes University
or the BoilerCast server. For
FILELOCKER
more information browse to
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/ Share files with others with this
temporary and secure storage
learning/tools/boilercast.
system. Filelocker can also be
used to send encrypted text
COMPUTER LABS
messages to other Filelocker
More than 40 instructional
computing labs on the West users.
Lafayette campus, with
2,000 desktop computers
— PC and Mac — for student
HOME DIRECTORY
SECURITY POLICIES
Each Purdue student has 500 Be proactive about safe,
MB of individual storage space secure use of computers
available.
at Purdue and read up
on the best practices and
policies at www.purdue.edu/
PASSWORDS
With a combination of letters, securepurdue.
numbers and symbols, make
a career account password
SECURITY TIPS
that’s easy to recall and
Protect your computer, data
impossible for others to guess. and personal information.
Most Purdue students need to Never respond to email
change their passwords every messages asking you for
120 days.
passwords, account numbers
or Social Security numbers.
PRINTING
Using their Purdue career
account, students have access
to printing documents by
using ITaP printers in all of the
instructional computer labs.
Also, print jobs can be sent to a
universal queue and released
to print in any ITaP computing
lab or library. Undergraduate
students are allotted a $20
printing quota (4 cents per
page for black and white and
12 cents for color) for each
semester enrolled at Purdue.
REPORT AN INCIDENT
Please report abuse of
campus IT resources to
abuse@purdue.edu.
SOFTWARE TRAINING
ITaP Student Training is a
peer-to-peer program in which
students skilled in a variety
of software applications offer
training or consultations to
other students and student
organizations. To set up
an appointment, browse to
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/
learning/trainingnew.
STUDENTS WITH
DISABILITIES
The Assistive Technology
Center offers adaptive
technologies for students
facing challenges such as
www.itap.purdue.edu/student
Purdue University is an equal access/equal opportunity/affirmative action institution.
more services on back
impaired vision, learning
disabilities or limited mobility.
Located in Stewart Center,
Room 111.
SURVEYS
resources from off campus
with Purdue’s virtual private
networking (VPN) service.
VIRUS PROTECTION
DOWNLOADS
Create surveys for your course Download complimentary
needs through Qualtrics, a
virus protection software
web-based survey software.
for Windows, Mac and other
computing platforms at www.
VIRTUAL PRIVATE
purdue.edu/securepurdue.
NETWORK
Securely access electronic
storage space in home
directories and some
electronic Purdue library
SOLVE PROBLEMS
Technical support from a trained staff and
do-it-yourself troubleshooting
HELP DESK
ITaP’s Customer Service
Center can help assist with
any ITaP-related computing
process. Help is available
through a Web form www.itap.
purdue.edu/help, in person at
HSSE Library, Stewart Center,
main floor, by email (itap@
purdue.edu) or by phone
(49-4000). Current hours of
operation can be found at
www.itap.purdue.edu/help.
KNOWLEDGE BASE
Get tech support and do-ityourself diagnostics any time
of day. With GoldAnswers
— a global knowledge
base with Purdue-specific
information, www.purdue.
edu/goldanswers. Users
can find tutorials and tips on
everything from myPurdue to
Mozilla. Should you still need
a solution, contact ITaP’s
Customer Service Center via
Web form www.itap.purdue.
edu/help or through email at
itap@purdue.edu.
WEB MEETINGS
Adobe Connect is a webbased framework allowing
team meetings to take place
virtually with work shared in
real time.
WEB PAGES
Express yourself through a
Purdue-supported Web page.
Students’ Web folders and
files reside in their home
directories.
WIRELESS ACCESS
Wireless is available in all
academic buildings and
common areas of each
residence hall through Purdue
Air Link (PAL), which is secure
and free to anyone with a
Purdue career account.
SAVE MONEY
Purdue helps students save money with
software services, computer discounts and
equipment loans
ITAP SHOPPING ONLINE AND OFFLINE
ITaP Shopping offers hardware and software discounts
— with a showcase in Stewart Center, Room G65, to try
equipment before you buy online. For more information
go to www.itap.purdue.edu/shopping.
SOFTWARE REMOTE
ITaP’s Software Remote provides free Internet access to
most applications available in ITaP computing labs. See
goremote.itap.purdue.edu.
SOFTWARE RENTAL
We know that software can be expensive so Purdue
has partnered with specific software vendors that allow
students to borrow software such as SPSS, SAS and
JMP and return it when they are finished. Software
distribution is located in Young Hall, 5th floor reception
area.
www.itap.purdue.edu/student