ITS strives to provide Penn State's faculty, students, and staff with state-of-the-art computing technologies in support of teaching, learning, and research. Whether it's word processing or number crunching, our goal is to help you accomplish your academic, business, and personal goals effectively, efficiently, and securely.
Getting Started
- Your Guide to Information Technology @ Penn State
- Penn State Access Account: your digital identity at Penn State.
- PASS: your Web space, WebMail files, Portal settings, and home directory.
- Training services include hands-on workshops, online courses, and more.
- Web publishing resources and services
- Need help? Contact the Help Desk or your ITS Consultant.
Teaching and Learning
- Teaching and Learning with Technology helps faculty take advantage of information technology to enrich students' educational experiences.
- ANGEL course management system.
- Digital Commons: a University-wide initiative to help students create digital content for their coursework and enrich their educations.
- Faculty Teaching Showcase: a repository of ideas for teaching with technology.
- Technology Classrooms are available to faculty by reservation.
- Student Computing Labs for general academic use.
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Research Support
- Graduate Education and Research Services (GEaRS) strives to meet the computing technology needs of scholars in their education and research endeavors.
- High Performance Computing: offers several state-of-the-art computational clusters.
- Visualization Group: helps faculty use emerging visual computing technologies.
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Administrative Support
- Administrative Information Services (AIS): systems for University business transactions.
- Backup and archival service for faculty, staff, and departments.
- Co-Location Center: centralized machine room environmental conditions including a raised floor, conditioned air, UPS power, and secured physical access
