Currently the web serves as an essential guide to students in freshman orientation . All student, faculty and staff receive email accounts. The user activates that account through a series of web pages and forms that begin on the accounts page. The university has licensed a suite of software programs for use by university affiliates. There is no charge to affiliates who download and install these programs.
All users are welcome to reserve space for personal web pages.
Falcon is the campus' unix web server, while Raven is a VMS Multinet server. Both host accounts for faculty, staff and students. In addition to general file space, they provide a variety of software used for academic research and coursework. Faculty are especially encouraged to use the web for course support, either by using webspace on their departmental server, CourseInfo , WebBoard , Falcon or Raven. WebBoard is an interactive conferencing system that supports chats, threaded discussions, web pages, and digital presentations.