Welcome Faculty!
Here are services provided by ITS in support of teaching, learning, and research at Penn State.
Getting Started
- New Faculty Guide
- Penn State Access Account and Account Services - needed to access many IT services at Penn State.
- Training Services - provides workshops, seminars, hands-on and online training.
Teaching Support
- Teaching and Learning with Technology - helps faculty enrich the educational experience of students through wise use of technology by providing classrooms, labs, courseware, and specialized services.
- ANGEL course management system.
- Digital Commons - a university-wide initiative to help enrich students' educations by creating digital content for their coursework.
- eLion - obtain class lists, submit grades, and other tasks related to instruction.
- Student Support - Students can get technology information at the ITS Student Web site -- and if they need assistance, the ITS Help Desk can help.
- iStudy - a variety of modules adapted for ANGEL can help students build study skills.
- Technology Classrooms - faculty can reserve state of the art lecture or hands-on environments to enhance teaching.
- Web Space for instruction, research, and personal use.
Research Support
- Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure (RCC) strives
to meet the computing technology needs of scholars in their education
and research endeavors. The group pursues cutting-edge advances in
research computing technology in partnerships with faculty members
and in strong technical collaborations with various technology companies
and institutions.
- The High Performance Computing Group works to empower scholars in their ability to compute and manage data by developing and maintaining several state-of-the-art computational clusters. Staff provide information, expertise, and support for research using languages, libraries, packages, specialized software, code optimization and parallelization on various high performance computing machines available at Penn State and major national centers.
- The Visualization Group provides resources and expertise to Penn State faculty and students for the effective application of visualization and VR systems, software packages, and programming toolkits within university research and teaching programs.
- The Special Projects Group focuses on projects involving dedicated staff members working in collaboration with faculty members across different academic disciplines.
