Summary of Ideas from Conversations with IT in Duncan
Information on PDAs -how to set up for email, calendar
Software Review - Annual review for department coordinators or administrators on what's new and what is supported at Rice.
Hardware Recommendations - need to be easier to find in Technology Marketplace
Technology Marketplace could benefit from easier navigation and lists of recommendations like
- Brands or models successfully used in the past (projectors, scanners, cameras, UPS device)
How can we work from home or other off-campus locations? Can we get a mobile computing workshop that is tailored for department coordinators and administrators? Also, what is Dial-up all about? How do we set up a laptop so we can send messages from Rice address to both Rice addresses and non-Rice addresses when we are not on campus?
Vacation email messages: can these be set up ahead of time with start and stop dates?
Training specific to the School of Engineering:
- HTML for Dummies type course for how to make content bold
- File structures
- basic web page maintenance
- how to get permission for individual site maintenance, like rgs.rice.edu/grad/agep
