To access accounts on the various Wesleyan
servers, you will be prompted for a username and
password. Your username is automatically assigned
and is the same for all systems. You are assigned
an initial password on each system, but you should
change it to something secure that you will
remember. You have the same password on each
system. A password is secure if it does not contain
an entire word, is 6-8 characters, has mixed upper
and lower case letters and contains at least one
non-alphabetic character.
If you have forgotten your password and need to request a password
reset, students should go to the Help Desk (SC
143) with their Wes ID card and the password will
be changed within 24 hours of the request. Faculty and staff
should call Operations at x2128.
Your e-mail username and password is used to access several
secure websites, including Electronic Portfolio and the
high-volume printing request form.
To be able to monitor disk usage to keep central
servers functioning efficiently, it is necessary to
assign quotas. All users are allowed a certain
amount of disk space (or quota) on each of the
servers where they have accounts. The quota varies
depending upon the server and the type of account you have. To
request temporary increases in the amount of space allotted
you on a specific server, send e-mail to operations@wesleyan.edu.
All faculty, staff and students have an e-mail account. Students have e-mail accounts through our Google Apps site. The quota for students on Google Mail for Wesleyan is 7 GB. Faculty and staff on our Cyrus mail system have a quota of 2 GB. All new accounts, including all administrative staff accounts, and many faculty members are on our Microsoft Exchange server. Quotas for those accounts begin at 2 GB and can be increased upon request.
All graduating students are allowed to keep their Wesleyan e-mail account. Instructions for accessing e-mail using programs such as Webmail, Pine, Outlook, or Eudora are available at http://www.wesleyan.edu/its/email. Information on Google Apps at Wesleyan is at
http://gapps.blogs.wesleyan.edu/.
Wesfiles
Wesleyan staff and
students have access to a file sharing system called
Wesfiles (http://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu).
This system is web-based and uses your existing Wesleyan
login. Users can access their data from anywhere they
have an Internet connection. Space quotas for home
directories are 10GB for faculty, 5GB for staff, and 1 GB
for students. This system also allows for collaboration and
file sharing beyond the Wesleyan community through the
creation of tickets. Users can give access to files or
folders to individuals from other institutions without
having to create a guest account.
Dragon
Many faculty and staff continue to have file space on Dragon, a Network Attached Storage device that is part of the Wesleyan Windows Domain. Dragon is accessed using your Wesleyan Domain account name and password. Disk space quotas on Dragon home directories are 1 GB for faculty and staff. Dragon is available for the purpose of sharing files. It is also a secure and useful place to store files that you may need to access from more than one location. Dragon is backed up nightly so all files stored there can be restored should they be deleted or damaged. ITS is in the process of assisting departments in migrating their data to Wesfiles as that becomes the primary system for the vast majority of data storage. Students already use Wesfiles for this purpose.
If you get errors when you try to copy or save files to your home directory, your account may have exceeded its disk space quota. The data in excess of your storage limit must be deleted for your access to return to normal. Faculty and Staff who need additional storage space should contact ITS Operations at operations@wesleyan.edu to request a temporary quota increase. Students who are working on a special academic project which requires additional storage space should request that their instructor/advisor email operations@wWesleyan.edu to request an extension of their quota.
To change your Wesleyan Domain password, log onto your e-portfolio, and go to the Password Manager, under Tools and Help.
Click here for detailed information regarding accessing
your data on Dragon.
All faculty,
staff, and students have 20 MB of disk space in their
home directory on a Unix server called Condor. Users
can also publish web sites from their Wesfiles Web
folder.
This space may be used for publishing personal web pages.
Condor and Wesfiles are accessed by logging in with your e-mail username and password.
All faculty, students, staff and alumni have an electronic portfolio
account. Click here
to access the electronic portfolio and enter your e-mail username and
password to enter. The new electronic portfolio system integrates many of
Wesleyans current online resources with exciting new features. For more
information about Electronic Portfolio many features, click
here If you are having
problems with your EPortfolio, please send email to
e-portfolio@wesleyan.edu.
Some faculty and staff need
access to Wesleyan's Financial Records System (FRS). FRS is
used to maintain a balance sheet of Wesleyan's assets and
liabilities, and paying vendors through the Accounts Payable
module, FRS also tracks all revenues and expenses for
departments, grant accounts, and project accounts. While the
system is primarily used by the Controller's Office, online
access to account status and detailed transaction information
is available to departments across campus. Originally
implemented as a standalone system, automated interfaces have
since been built from the payroll system, student accounts,
UDB gift data, and the Computer Store's Posim retail system.
FRS runs on Willet an Open/VMS Alpha System. For more
information on FRS, send e-mail frsinfo@wesleyan.edu.
Those in certain departments will need an SFIS
account. The Admission, Registrar, Academic Affairs, Student Accounts, Financial
Aid, Graduate Liberal Studies and the Graduate Student Services offices are
implementing SFIS using PeopleSoft's Student Administration Module. The
Registrar's Office, Student Accounts, Dean's Office, Academic Affairs and
Admissions are currently in production. To request a new SFIS account or reset a
password, send email to SFISRequest@wesleyan.edu.
University
Relations staff have access to Millennium, the fund-raising product developed
by BEST Software. Millennium is a system that features an Oracle database with
enhanced reporting and Web capabilities.
Blackboard is a
Learning Management System -- an integrated system that
allows faculty and students to communicate and share course
materials in a wide variety of ways. The Blackboard system
is easy to use for both faculty and students, and allows the
instructor to customize the course space and pick from the
array of built-in tools those most appropriate to their
teaching needs. For example, the system includes bulletin
board discussions, spaces for uploaded documents such as MS
Word files or Powerpoint shows, electronic submission of
assignments, auto-graded quizzes, an online gradebook, space
to display links to websites and images, and more. Every
student, faculty, and staff member has a Blackboard account,
although you may not yet be a participant in a specific
Blackboard space. The Blackboard home page is at
http://blackboard.wesleyan.edu -- there you can find
links to information specifically for students or faculty,
including directions on how to log in to Blackboard.
Additionally, there is a Blackboard link in your portfolio
which you can use to access the system.
Faculty wishing to utilize Blackboard in a course can create
it through their faculty portfolio (go to Courses -->
Instructional Computing --> Create a Blackboard). Anyone
interested in having a Blackboard for non-course use should
contact Jolee West (jwest@wesleyan.edu, x2763).
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