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Here is a quick overview of services available from your dorm computer via the Trinity local
area network:
Access to e-mail is available to every Trinity student at no cost. Your
e-mail address will be in the format
firstname.lastname@trincoll.edu.
For example, if Jeff Moss were a student here, you could send him mail at
Jeffrey.Moss@trincoll.edu
(note his proper name, not his nickname). Just remember to drop
apostrophes and hyphens. First Year Students can find information about
activating their e-mail accounts at http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cc/documentation/email/firstyearemail.htm.
General e-mail information for everyone can be found at
http://www.trincoll.edu/RaetherCtr/ComputingCenter/GeneralServices/E-mail/.
All students are required to use their Trinity e-mail address for correspondence
during their entire tenure at Trinity.
Students who make use of computers in their dorm rooms, at their off-campus homes, or
from the public computing facilities in the LITC can use
Outlook. See Appendix B for details about e-mail access in a
variety of circumstances.
Another way to check e-mail from off campus,
is to do so via the
web. To check your Trinity e-mail, go to
http://webmail.trincoll.edu. Login with
your username and password. Instructions for using the Web-based E-mail Reader
can be found at
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cc/documentation/webmailguide/.
An online directory for the campus is available at
http://internet2.trincoll.edu/pswebtools/directory.aspx if you are unsure of how to contact someone. The campus web server (see below) has more
details about electronic mail and addressing.
Earlier it was noted that Trinity's campus-wide information resource is our World
Wide Web server. This facility is a depository for much interesting and useful
information, including academic schedules, policies and regulations of the college, the
campus phone directory, campus event listings, department newsletters, library
information, and computing documentation.
All of the Computing Center's documentation is available on the College's Web server
(which is the only format in which it is provided). The address for the Computing Center
page is
http://www.trincoll.edu/RaetherCtr/ComputingCenter/ .
Remember to set a bookmark when you get there!
The World Wide Web is a collection of network-based hypertext servers, loosely linked
to one another. Using Internet Explorer or Firefox or Safari on any networked computer (public,
dorm, or off-campus), Trinity's "Home Page" can be reached, and through it, the
rest of the Web. Take a look at our student-run home pages.
Another must-visit site on the campus Web is our Library, at http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/library/.
The College Library has a roster of wonderful and ever-expanding resources available. It's
the essential information resource for campus.
Trinity Portal
The Trinity Portal is the place to start to access
web-based campus resources, and can be found at
http://my.trincoll.edu. It has links to many services, including the
following:
As a member of the Trinity community, the
Trinity Exchange (TREX) web site is your place to keep up to date with what’s happening
on campus and to get all the important announcements and event information every
day. You can log in to TREX at any time or place you choose, and
receive the very latest news. In addition, two daily emails with the most
recent headlines are sent to you to inform you of new
postings on TREX at that time. You can log onto
Trinity Exchange at
http://internet2.trincoll.edu/trinexchange.
Blackboard is Trinity's campus-wide electronic course software. All
Trinity faculty and students have access. It has facilities for posting class
materials, on-line discussions, chat sessions with a shared whiteboard, document
exchange, gradebook and many other features. Blackboard can be found at
http://blackboard.trincoll.edu.
More information is available off the Blackboard web page, at
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cc/documentation/BlackBoard/Blackboard6.
The TCOnline
Student Record System is located at
http://tconline.trincoll.edu and is used for registering for classes,
viewing unofficial transcripts, and other student data maintained by the
Registrar's Office. Students adding or dropping a
course should do so officially with the Registrar or TCOnline
(and not through Blackboard). Students can find
more information by reviewing the links off of the
Registrar's web page at
http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/Registrar/students/.
Outside of the Web, there are other services available on
the campus network. Bantam is a network "share area", providing a
depository of useful Internet-related software. From the
public machines, getting to Bantam is easy. So it is, too, on a personally owned machine,
once you've registered your computer on our network. (See the
Help Desk
for details about getting your personal machine up on the network.)
Instructions for accessing Bantam from the Zep
file server are available online.
Besides Bantam, the Computing Center also maintains several
other network share areas for public use, such as:
The Class Software share area, also on
\\Zep, holds programs and data files that are used in
class assignments. Many interesting applications here are worth exploring, even if you
don't need them for a particular class. Class Software, for example, contains
programming, statistical, and drawing software.
The Computing Center maintains a shared network server dedicated solely to
the purpose of serving the needs of foreign language scholars and students. The
server provides access to a growing collection of software packages designed to
assist students in learning foreign languages.
DOCEX (pronounced "DAHK-eks") is short for "document
exchange". A share area on the Zep file server, Docex is a tool for distributing
documents used in a few classes, but has in most cases been replaced by Blackboard. It is organized by class into hierarchies of folders. Your instructors
will tell you how (if at all) they want you to use this facility.
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