DEPAUL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS 

E-Mail and Web Pages

All DePaul students are eligible for free E-Mail accounts. This allows E-Mail in a UNIX environment on DePaul’s Shrike computer, as well as the ability for students to set up their own basic web pages.

Students who do not yet have their E-Mail information should report to ID Card Services at any campus to request their E-mail account, password, and web-PIN number. In DePaul Center, ID Card Services is located in Suite 9700 for all ID card services and student e-mail account transactions. For additional information, refer to the Information Services E-Mail web page at: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~email or call (312) 362-8765 (option 3) from 8am to midnight (Mon-Fri) or 10am to 6pm (Sat-Sun).
 

Forwarding Shrike mail to your other accounts

Students wishing to forward/copy their Shrike E-mail messages to one or more other accounts may refer to the tip sheet on Professor Welsch's web site at http://www.depaul.edu/~gwelsch/mailfwd.htm
 

Student Electronic Communication Tools

We are fortunate at DePaul to have available several electronic conferencing software tools to support our electronic discussions. These include: Majordomo Mailing Lists, HyperNews, Usenet News, in addition to Web Course In A Box. The richest use of these tools lies in their ability to support asynchronous (non-simultaneous) communication; that is, any-time/any-place communications through a common (text) database. They provide the foundation for electronic meetings, the virtual office, the virtual organization, the virtual university, etc. We can use these tools to help prepare for in-class discussions, and to support our work within and across teams.
 

Class Notes and Homework Solutions in Adobe Acrobat

For your convenience, I provide as a free download class notes and homework solutions in Adobe Acrobat software for most of my courses in the specific course web site. Adobe Acrobat is a toolset for converting electronic files created in various applications into the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), and publishing them on the Web, intranet, CD-ROM, or e-mail. It keeps the documents’ original look and feel intact. A popular example is IRS forms. Acrobat Reader is a free downloadable plug-in, which allows you to view, navigate, and print PDF files across all major computing platforms. This means that where ever you are in the world, you will be able to obtain the class notes and check your homework solutions by accessing your course web site.
 

Internet Access

Internet access is required almost weekly in my courses. DePaul provides Internet access in several ways: free access through its many computer labs, free student E-Mail accounts with Internet access through Lynx, and for a $25 quarterly fee, home access through DePaul Online. Students who do not find it convenient to use DePaul’s Computer Lab facilities or Lynx are required to subscribe to DePaul Online (see below) or some other Internet Service Provider. More information can be obtained from DePaul’s Information Services Department web site at: http://is.depaul.edu or the Shrike computer information page at http://shrike.depaul.edu
 

Open Access Computer Lab

There are ten Computer Labs spread across DePaul’s six campuses with day, evening and weekend hours free of charge to you as a DePaul student. Windows 95, the Microsoft Professional Office Suite, UNIX E-Mail and the World Wide Web are resources that are available to you through all DePaul Labs free of charge. Check for a listing of the location, phone number and hours of each Lab by accessing the Information Services web site at: http://www.depaul.edu/is/tac/labs.html or http://service.depaul.edu/labs

Note that holiday and exam-week hours differ each quarter and need to be checked in advance!
 

DePaul Online

DePaul Online provides a SLIP/PPP connection to the Internet, enabling students and faculty to use E-mail and the World Wide Web from their homes. The fee is $90 for the year or $25 for one quarter with no additional hourly fee, except the telephone charge by Ameritech, which is tiny for students located within the nineteen basic service areas. DePaul Online information and applications are now available via the World Wide Web at:  http://www.depaul.edu/~dpowebpg.    Users who wish to subscribe should fill out this electronic application or call (312)362-8765 (option 5) from 8am to midnight (Mon-Fri) or 10am to 6pm (Sat -Sun).
 

The Q-Drive

DePaul’s Information Services Department makes available to faculty and students a network drive, referred to as the Q-Drive, which is accessible from all DePaul Computer Labs, so that students can access, print, and copy (download) files for course work from the Q-Drive. In general, it behaves like any other disk drive, but it is configured as a read-only drive. For your convenience, certain course materials will be located on the Q-drive as backup. You may access the Q-Drive from any DePaul Computer Lab. At this time, the Q-Drive cannot be accessed remotely.
 

DePaul Libraries

The DePaul Center and Lincoln Park Campus Libraries are world class, and we have many librarians on both campuses who are familiar with the resources available on the Internet, who provide classroom Internet training, and who can assist you in your work. We even have our own Accounting reference librarian Chris Hoeppner, MLS, CPA in the DPC 10^th floor Library. Homework solutions are also maintained at the DPC Library Reception Desk. The Library web site is easily accessed through the general DePaul web site, or directly at: http://www.lib.depaul.edu
 
 

Information Services Web Site

DePaul’s Information Services Department provides a web site for DePaul Students on a variety of topics regarding the computer, the Internet and the services IS provides. Be sure to check out the IS web site at: http://is.depaul.edu