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Question 23. List Up To 3 Major IT Upgrades/enhancements To Support What You Plan To Do 03-05 (Categorizer)
1. Windows XT
2. More use of internet (including video conferencing) to reduce travel time and cost, and increase interaction with a broader range of people and entities
Asynchronous video services (on-demand video) to allow access to video-based educational materials {#187}
Provide broadcast quality videoconferencing services for large rooms. {#184}
Expand instructional technology to enable anywhere, anytime learning, i.e., IVN, videoconferencing, delivering instruction over cable TV, partnering with PPTV. {#188}
video conferencing from large classrooms {#177}
Union meeting rooms set up for virtual conferencing {#169}
3. Additional funds for library-provided databases and journals
4. Better university wide calendar/scheduling capabilities
5. Upgrade to support additional distance learning initiatives through the Army
6. Windows-based Medical Information System (more user friendly) to allow for health insurance billing and reimbursement.
7. Need better email system
8. Upgrade Blackboard to Blackboard Enterprise Level 3
9. Immunization database state-wide.
10. More multimedia classrooms
More instrumented classrooms (multimedia/computer/PRS) {#131}
Multimedia in our classroom (laptop & proxima projector). {#140}
11. Wireless technology from large classroom
12. We would like to have small Palm Pilots (windows based) for graduate students where the clinical data could be downloaded on site to computers for analyzing.
13. Add debt card services for pay parking operations
14. Add recording system for all Police radio dispatches and phone calls on the Police phone line.
15. New integrated library services software
16. Experiment, investigate, implement multiple technologies (i.e., wireless, cable, videoconferencing, on-demand video)
17. Computer editing suites for communication
1. Put orientation reservation form on the web.
2. Have a secure server to allow for credit card numbers to be sent.
Need secure server capability to take credit card payments. {#170}
3. We have made no future plans for service enhancements pending implementation of the ERP. We're on hold until a decision about implementation is made. Without the ERP, we plan no major enhancements. We've gone as far as we can go with desktop technology.
4. We will need to proceed with Electronic Research Administration (ERA), most likely via a commercial package, depending on capabilities of ERP. We will need document management services, also depending on whether this becomes available with ERP.
5. Immunization database state-wide.
6. Windows-based Medical Information System (more user friendly) to allow for health insurance billing and reimbursement.
7. Building controls, financial interface into ERP, building security
Funding/Resources
1. Increased campus based funding allocations and opportunities for faculty and staff researchers, including provision for hiring of additional faculty and staff in support of innovative research and educational programming at the departmental level.
2. Increased funding allocations and opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student research positions in support of innovative faculty research and educational prpgramming.
3. Additional funds for library-provided databases and journals
Additional funds for library-provided databases and journals {#198}
4. Staff person to help departments create and maintain "web presence."
Infrastructure
1. Wireless connectivity
I expect that we will see a move towards wireless equipment and since we have some wireless registers, I see that we will move more towards that type of upgrade. {#153}
2. Access for apartment residents
3. Archive/storage system; maintain/enhance high performance computing center; Upgrade all system.
4. Develop access to T-1 lines for several rural North Dakota communities to deliver outreach services, network with up to 50 satelite pharmacies across the State via audio and video links from NDSU, deliver live CE programs via Internet
5. Improved networking, standardization of some of the platforms (both hardware and software) used to deliver IT services.
6. Increase capacity of the system so that interactive video conferencing may be conducted from each office, classroom,
meeting room, dormitory, and off campus to other institutions as well as intramurally. {#174}
7. Upgrade campus buildings to accommodate applications requiring higher bandwidth on an as-needed basis
upgrade network speed to the desktop {#165}
8. Improve reliability of current services (to ensure no disruption of IT services the campus deems are mission critical).
9. Implement fault tolerant redundant services as required by the campus, using the tech park as a hot site.
10. Expand file services to include students
11. Replace networking equipment in residence halls (in serious need of upgrades)
Upgrade hubs in residence halls {#161}
12. Hardware Purchases
upgrade desktop PC's {#136}
Provide all faculty with a new desktop and laptop computer (follow 2-year replacement plan as proposed in 1996). {#122}
Complete upgrade of ancillary hardware to the Fine Arts cluster facilities. {#129}
13. Add a graphic input/output station in all student labs including printing/plotting and large-storage backup.
14. Provide a digital presentation station (and space) for each lab level.
15. A larger dedicated department server for storage and backup of department activities
16. Internet 2
Internet 2 capability directly into the Fine Arts facilities. This would enable real-time interaction with remote collaborative sites. {#128}
1. Develop adequate risk and security management plan
2. Have a secure server to allow for credit card numbers to be sent.
Tech Support
1. Need support for Windows 2000 and XP
2. staff person to help departments create and maintain "web presence."
Training
1. IT training for staff
2. Training sessions
3. Incentive ($)for IT staff to gain in skills and to stay with NDSU
4. Much more web training and web development
Web Enhancements
1. Mixed web and broadcast radio creation with remote capabilities
2. Enhanced web usage for disseminating information and providing education
3. Web development, new hardware, CD-ROM production.
Web site redevelopment. {#141}
4. Provide infrastructure and software to enhance marketing of NDSU and its programs effectively on the WWW.