Center for Information Technology Services

Academic and Faculty Support Services

Systems SupportedResearch Faculty
Blackboard 

EDUCAUSE

High Performance Computing

 Information For All Research Faculty

  • Storing Research Data (Link to Research Computing and Data Storage Page)
  • UMVibe (secure web-based environment for sharing information and working collaboratively on projects that involve group-authoring)
 

Online Skills/Professional Development:

e-Learning@UM site that offers online faculty and staff development

Our goal is to support your educational development through innovative online software. With e-Learning@UM, you can access a variety of online programs that focus on enhancing your capabilities and organizational skills. These online courses can be used as reference tools to help answer your day-to-day questions, or for your training development. Courses are 2-4 hours in length and do not have to be completed in one sitting.

Web 2.0            Facebook Twitter YouTube

iTunes U    
MediasiteStrategic Planning: Current Plan 

Conferencing Systems

Blackboard Collaborate is a comprehensive online learning platform that combines audio, video and web conferencing.  At UM, Blackboard Collaborate is used by faculty for delivering online curriculum, by students participating in online courses, and by other members of the campus community for hosting and participating in online web conferencing and meetings. 

Collaborate Web Conferencing 

  • If you are new to Collaborate and need assistance obtaining an account/access, logging in, etc., please see the Collaborate Support page.
  • If you need to learn how to use Collaborate, the Collaborate Training page has a lot of online training videos and documentation to help you get up to speed.

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