Help

ACS administrators will be happy to meet with faculty to consult with them regarding their technology needs.

Some of the areas we most frequently provide support for are listed below.

Campus Tools and Resources

  • Learning Management Systems - Vassar uses two different e-learning spaces in support of classroom instruction. These electronic tools are a great way to enhance your classes with archived handouts, readings, links, videos and other resources.
  • Using Citrix
  • Using VPN for remote access
  • Luna Imaging Inc.'s Insight is a powerful software tool for building, publishing, searching and presenting collections of digital images and other media via the Internet.
  • Vspace - Vspace is a filesharing system available to everyone with a Vassar email. It's great for documents too large for email.
  • MS Office - The Vassar Technology Trainer can offer one-on-one or department training for Microsoft Office. You can set up an appointment at training@vassar.edu or x7545
    • Word
    • Excel
    • PowerPoint - PowerPoint is a presentation tool. If you would like help converting your PowerPoint to video, adding narration, or online use, please contact ACS.
  • Quantitative Software
    • Statistical Software (SPSS, SAS, JMP)
    • Mathematica
    • Matlab

Other Tools

  • Blogs - Blackboard and Moodle both support blogs. Popular off-site blogs include Wordpress and Blogger.
  • Wikis
  • Podcasts - Two easy to use (and free) audio editors are Audacity and Garageband.
  • YouTube - This is a popular social networking site that hosts a user-created database of videos. Vassar College has a channel, as well as SciVis and Media Cloisters.
  • Video Conferencing - There are several free programs available that support computer to computer video and audio conferencing (you need a microphone).
    • Skype - Skype is a free program that supports video conferencing and conference calls on Macs and PCs.
    • iChat - iChat (part of Mac OSX system software) supports video and audio conferences on Macs.
  • Remote Computing
  • Desktop Sharing
  • Survey Monkey - Survey monkey is a quick and easy way to develop a survey and collect results.
  • Smartboard - Smartboards are electronic interactive whiteboards for use in classroom instruction. We have four smartboards on campus (Blodgett, Media Cloisters, Physics and Drama). To arrange a demonstration please contact ACS.
  • Clickers - Clickers allow instructors to ask questions and gather students' responses during a lecture. (Clicker systems are also commonly called Classroom Response Systems, Student Response Systems, or Audience Response Systems.)

Multimedia Editing