Students can receive CableTV and enhanced telephone services in residence halls and resident apartments. Faculty and staff can set up their voice mail, fax, and other phone services . Instructors can enroll in ITC's instructional technology courses that go beyond software basics and include effective uses of technology in the teaching and learning environment. ORIT also periodically provides fellowship and grant opportunities to faculty to support technology innovation in teaching . To help faculty move their instructional materials and courses onto the Web, the ITC provides hosting and support services for Blackboard's CourseInfo.
Faculty can also reserve computing labs to teach technology enhanced classes.
Network connectivity and Internet access are available in all campus residence halls. DII also provides dial-up access to the campus network to at least 5,286 users, allowing them to connect to the Internet as well as to file servers on campus via analog 56Kbps and digital 64Kbps or 128Kbps connections. We also offer Local Area Network and Desktop Support for Novell and Microsoft NT servers and desktop PC and Macintosh computers for faculty and staff. Services provided include hardware and software troubleshooting, installation, network configuration and troubleshooting, and technical consulting. We are also responsible for managing and maintaining the network that connects all the UT campuses and offices statewide.