Engineering Technical Services

Email Overview

UConn supports communication and collaboration among its community by providing and protecting individual email accounts and
delivering services that enable business functions.

Email Overview

School of Engineering Mailing Lists

ETS supports the School of Engineering's official mailing lists. These are available to the Dean's office and administrative
personnel in the departments.

Mailing Lists

Office 365

As part of Microsoft Office 365, faculty, staff, and students have access to tools that facilitate communication and collaboration
among colleagues. Combinations of Office 365 tools are offered to form the services Groups, Teams, and SharePoint. These services
have overlapping functionality, and they integrate with each other.

Office 365

Email for Life

The School of Engineering offers a lifetime email address for students and alumni with the format, you@engineer.uconn.edu. This is a forwarding address to your UConn or personal email mailbox.

With email for life you can:

• • Always identify as a member of the UConn School of Engineering
  • Publish the address while you are still a student
  • Distribute in published papers
  • Use it in resumes or CV's
  • Maintain email correspondence after you leave the School of Engineering

Alumni Request Form
Current Student Request Form

Shared Mailbox Access

With a shared mailbox or calendar, users with access can view the content, send messages from its email address (mailboxes), and
manage the schedule (calendars).

Accessing a Shared Resource

Managing your NetId

Using the NetId Management page, you can secure, manage, and customize your digital identity.

NetId Management

Account Sponsorship

Full time employees (Faculty, Staff, Special Payroll) are eligible to sponsor accounts for university affiliates, student
employees (NetIDWork), and privileged access (NetIDAdmin). ITS has created the Account Sponsorship Application to provide an easy
way to create and manage these accounts.

Using the Account Sponsorship Application

Personal (P) and Shared (Q) Drives

Enterprise File Services (EFS) is a system designed for secure computer file storage and online file sharing for faculty and
staff. Enterprise File Services has two separate and distinct parts: individual home directories (P: drive) and departmental file
storage (Q: drive). You can map to these drives on your workstation, and then documents can be saved, copied, or moved to the
mapped EFS drive just like any other drive. Files are backed up nightly and secured by the University's firewalls.

Enterprise File Services

Research (R) Drives

Research drives are created for faculty on an as-needed basis. These have independent quota determined by the research need.
Please contact the School of Engineering help desk if this could benefit from this service.

Remote Desktop

As a faculty, staff, or student, you can access computers that you use within your local computer network remotely using the
Remote Desktop technology built into computer and/or server operating systems. These instructions will guide you through accessing
your remote desktop securely from outside of the UConn network.

Using Remote Desktop

VPN

Virtual Private Networking (VPN) software creates a secure, encrypted connection between your off-campus computing device (laptop,
phone, tablet) and the campus network. There are two ways to connect to VPN, either via the downloadable client or via the web.
Virtual Private Network

Direct Access

As an alternative to VPN, UConn workstations managed by ITS can remotely access protected resources, such as the personal (P) and
department (Q) drives, through Direct Access (DA). When a DA-enabled computer connects to the network (either internal or
external), it automatically creates a protected connection back to its domain.

Direct Access

Aurora

Aurora is a multisite WordPress service provided by ITS to the university community. It offers:

• Mobile friendly web templates
• Tools to quickly make forms, slideshows, or page layouts
• Centrally Managed security, updates, and maintenance

Aurora

RHAP

RHAP (Red Hat, Apache, PHP) is a PHP/MySQL web hosting service provided by ITS to university community for hosting web
applications or websites with features that cannot be achieved on Aurora WordPress web content management system.

RHAP

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is dedicated to the support and advancement of best practices in teaching and learning at the University of Connecticut. The staff of CETL work with individual faculty, teaching assistants, students, departments and the academic administration to create a culture which values teaching and learning, supports and rewards faculty for innovation in teaching, encourages respect for differences in learners and provides an environment where faculty, staff, and students work together to accomplish the learning objectives.

CETL

HuskyCT

HuskyCT is UConn’s name for the Blackboard learning management system that is available to all instructors at UConn.
CETL provides workshops, training, and support for this product.

HuskyCT Support

HuskyCT Site

Educational Technology

CETL provides many technology resources for teaching including:

• Recording
• Video Conferencing
• Accessibility
• Student Response
• Collaboration
• E-Portfolios
• Lightboard

See Educational Technology

UConn Storrs Classrooms

The Registrar has provided a list of classrooms available on the Storrs campus, filterable on attributes of building, seating, and available technology.

Classrooms

Learning Centers

The ECS Learning Centers are located in the Engineering II Building, rooms 305, 306, and 307 and in the Information Technology Engineering Building, rooms 134 and 138.

Learning Centers