NEWS http://www.coastal.edu/its/ Coastal Carolina University CINO Printing is now available throughout the Library and the General Access Labs: Library, 1st and 2nd floor Prince Computer Lab, Prince 204 Edwards Computer Lab, EHFA 171 Science Computer Lab, SCI 122 Wall Computer Lab, Wall 108 More locations to come CINO Printing allows for: Green printing, substantially reducing printing waste. An initial free printing credit for students. Printing using the CINO Card. Printing from personal laptops. For more information about CINO Printing, please visit Student Computing Services at http://www.coastal.edu/scs.  For more information about the CINO Card and CINO Cash, please visit the CINO Card services at http://www.coastal.edu/cinocard/   Students can seek assistance with CINO Printing at the Help Desk locations in the General Access Labs or on online at http://www.coastal.edu/scs.  We are proud to support and enhance the academic experience of Coastal Carolina University students,  Information Technology Services Student Computing... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=16 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:43:08 EST Quality communications enhance Coastal Carolina University's image and help relate the University's mission and programs more effectively to students and prospective students, alumni, parents, faculty and staff, potential donors and the general public. Therefore, student employees with campus jobs that allow them FTP access to University Web pages as designers and/or editors for departmental pages MUST attend a required orientation session before they are granted FTP access to the web server. The student's supervisor will need to e-mail Donna Rogers , Web Manager, to arrange a one-on-one session. Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to, the University editorial and graphic standards, Web design parameters, the approval process, software specifications and coding requirements.... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=15 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:41:26 EST MS Exchange 2007 was successfully implemented in July of 2008 as a new e-mail system for faculty and staff members. So far, ITS members have assisted 938 users to migrate to the new environment; however, there are still over 350 users who need to be migrated. For the next several weeks, ITS members, specifically the IRCs, will again be contacting staff and faculty to assist them with the migration to the new environment. Your cooperation in the migration is crucial. The Coastal Carolina University e-mail systems handle over 1 million email messages per day. We receive about 800,000 from off campus coming into our systems, of which approximately 90% are blocked for spam or virus content, and an additional 2.5% are tagged as “Spam”. We also deliver over 200,000 messages from campus daily. This is an average of 2.3 emails per second from campus and 9.25 emails per second from off campus.... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=12 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:30:16 EST We all use the main Coastal Carolina University Website, www.coastal.edu, daily without thinking about its size. The next time you visit the site, remember that is has 215 departmental websites consisting of 90,156 pages, 659,839 files, and 316 databases with 12,381 tables.  And if you think those numbers are large, take a look at last year's Web site statistics from Google Analytics: 2008 Website Statistics 5,683,878 Visits* 1,045,876 Absolute Unique Visitors 17,154,509 Pageviews** 3.02 Pages/Visit 00:02:56 Average Time on Site 18.32% New Visits If you are a student or employee of the University, you, more than likely, access the Website by typing in the web address directly, because you know the site’s location and what you are looking to find. Direct access is how 36% of the visitors came to the site in 2008. Another 32% of the visitors found the site through search engines, and 32% clicked on links of referring sites, mainly myCoastal and Blackboard. These figures indicate that CCU is of a great interest to many. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Visits represent the number of individual sessions initiated by all the visitors to the site. The initial session by a user during any given date range is considered to be an additional visit and an additional visitor. Any future sessions from the same user during the selected time period are counted as additional visits, but not as additional visitors. **A unique pageview represents the number of sessions during which that page was viewed one or more times. ... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=11 Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:27:39 EST To enhance the delivery of ITS news and alerts, ITS has embedded Video Podcasts and RSS feeds into its web site as an efficient means of communication. By subscribing to these tools, students, faculty and staff can receive current news and alerts via computers, PDAs, and mobile devices. Please subscribe to the RSS feeds and Video Podcasts below or simply access the main ITS web page to view online. Podcasts will be posted monthly; while, alerts and news feeds will be posted as necessary. Subsribe now:   ITS Alerts   ITS News   ITS Podcasts Find out more about RSS feeds.... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=5 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:34:38 EDT To provide effective technical support for faculty and staff members, ITS has initiated the Junior IRCs (Information Resource Consultants) program. The program seeks to hire qualified student assistants to shadow and help the IRCs with designated technical tasks such as setting and troubleshooting printer and computer issues. This program will be mutually beneficial to both the students and the University. ... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=6 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:34:19 EDT ITS has been assisting and working with the departments of Student Affairs and Facilities to provide door access using student IDs in Santee and Waccamaw Residence Halls. This will improve and facilitate secured access to the Residence Halls, especially after hours.  The project is anticiapted to be completed by the end of October and may expand to include other areas on campus in the future.... http://www.coastal.edu/its/newsDetails.html?x=8 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:33:06 EDT