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FREE VS. FEE-BASED TECHNOLOGIES
IT services that may have associated fees generally meet one or more of these criteria:
- A resource is consumed in providing the activity or service (Example: Printing uses paper and ink or toner)
- There is scarcity and high demand for the item being used (Example: Loaner laptop computers and projectors)
- Outside labor or high-level expertise is required to provide the service (Example: Installing new network ports uses outside contractors).
Some of the services and products that departments should expect to pay for include:
- Computing Services: Server maintenance for private servers, new network or phone installation
- Information Systems: Custom classes, workshops, and programming on IS systems
- A/V Services: Loaner equipment, custom A/V services, workshops, technology classroom use
- User Services: Maintenance of private computing labs, license fees for software and media
Classrooms and equipment used for credit-bearing courses have no associated fees.
PERSONAL WEB SPACE
PSU offers space on its web servers to students, faculty, and staff. The default space allotment for your personal web space is 500MB. Personal web space is most often used by faculty to host a curriculum vitae (CV) or course information that is inappropriate for Canvas.
You can view your personal web space on the internet at web.pdx.edu/~username (where "username" is replaced by your Odin username). Your homepage must be called "index.html" and be inside the folder called "public_html" in your UNIX/web folder. This is the page that visitors to your site will arrive at first.
MAPPING PERSONAL WEB SPACE AS A DRIVE LETTER
The name of the network file share for the Unix server that hosts personal web pages is: "smb.oit.pdx.edu" and the share path name is that followed by the separator for whichever operating system you're using.
- Mac: smb://smb.oit.pdx.edu/~username
- PC: \\smb.oit.pdx.edu\~username
SHARED GRADUATE COMPUTING WORKSPACES
For shared graduate lab spaces that span multiple PI groups in a department, CLAS IT can set them up as spaces where they manage the computers collectively and update their software as a unit. Some examples include the Speech Lab in UCB 435, the Chemistry Tutor Room in SB1 221, and the Geography Graduate Lab in CH 435. They have specialized, discipline-specific licensed software, and either CLAS IT or OIT manage them.
To get a lab like this set up, departments should contact CLAS IT for a consultation to find the best way to meet their needs.
COMPUTER REPLACEMENT PRACTICE
Supported equipment used as the primary computer by faculty or staff may be eligible for replacement by the College when that equipment is five or more years old. The process is as follows:
- User completes the replacement form selecting Affiliation: Academic Affairs -> CLAS
- CLAS IT determines if the old computer is eligible for replacement
- If a standard desktop or laptop (Mac or Windows) is requested, the College will provide it
- If an enhanced system is determined to be necessary, the department purchases a supported machine using G01 index and ship it to the Chemistry stockroom attn CLAS IT
- When the computer arrives, CLAS IT images it for PSU use, transfers data, etc
- The user returns the old computer to CLAS IT (never to OIT)
- The department JV's the standard unit equivalent from the CLAS index fund we provide
If the department decides to keep the old computer, then it is not considered a desktop replacement and no funds are transferred from the Dean's Office to the department.