Information Technology Services

New laptop?

Did you get a new laptop over the holiday break?

New Year's Resolutions: Get Organized!

Resolutions come and go, but one that seems to hang around from year to year is "get organized."

It's Cyber Monday!

We hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving with family and friends. Are you ready for the big holiday season?

Your Student Technology Fee

What is your student technology fee used for? Find out on November 16.

New wireless at GSU

Easier access, especially for mobile devices.

The Right Technology for the Task

Giving some thought to how we use technology.

Remembering Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and former CEO, died yesterday at the age of 56. 

Importance of Data Backup

In today's fast moving world losing data is no laughing matter. Hardware failure, theft, and even fire and other accidents, can cause data to be lost.

GSU Resources for Tech Skills

Did you know the University IS&T has an Instructional Design department that provides technology and software training to faculty, staff and students on campus?

Three ways to address information overload

Information flows in amazing quantity and speed, and we need ways to manage it. Here are three quick tips, one for information coming at us (e-mail), one for filtering information we want (news), and one for keeping and sharing information we create (notes, etc).

Student Technology Fees At Work

You may have noticed that the Law Library Student Instructional Lab (more commonly known as the back of the lab) was recently outfitted with sixteen new PC workstations. 

Faculty and Staff: University Switch to Office 365

On July 5, the University will complete a switch from Novell Groupwise to Microsoft Office 365. This change will only affect faculty and staff.

Summer GRAs

Please welcome our summer Help Desk GRAs: Dylan Bess, Leah Lewis, Stephen Sills, Helen Suh and Brian Thomas! They will be covering shifts Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Law Library Has New Printers!

The Law Library alcove printing area is in the process of replacing older Panther Print release stations with updated printers.

GroupWise Email Outage II

The College of Law (and other GSU units) mail server will down for maintenance this Saturday, December 4, 2010 from 9 am to midnight.

Addressing concerns about wireless service

Note from the College's Director of InformationTechnology

Exam Sofware

The deadline for downloading the new exam software is Nov 30th.  If you have not done so already do it now.

GroupWise Email Outage

The College of Law (and University Library) mail server will down for maintenance this Sunday, November 21, 2010 from 9 am to midnight.

More Office 2010 Sessions

Stop by the Training Lab, Room 603, on Wednesday, 9/15 any time between 10:00AM and 5:30PM for an all day Office 2010 drop in session. 

Welcome Incoming 1Ls!

Please check out the Incoming 1Ls page for more information about and links to the technology resources at the College of Law.

Technology Work in the Law Library

Over the coming weeks, the Law Information Technology team will be completing a couple of technology projects in the College of Law Library.

Emily Diffenderfer Joins the College of Law IT Department as College Website Coordinator

Emily is a seasoned web and communications professional with experience working with non-profits.

Law IT presenting at CALI 2010

Three members of College of Law Information Technology team are presenting at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) 2010 Conference in Camden, NJ.

Summer Technology Help Desk Team

We are happy to share the College of Law Help Desk Team for the summer semester will be Robert Dukes, Leah Lewis, Brian Thomas, Renee Thompson, and Kalpin Shah.

New utility server

Some service are down after the upgrade to the gsulaw.gsu.edu server on the morning of March 25.

Faculty and Staff Excel 2007 Brown Bag Lunch

Faculty and staff: Bring your lunch and your Excel 2007 questions to the Training Lab, Room 603 on Wednesday, March 10th at noon.

PowerPoint 2007 Brown Bag Lunch

Faculty and staff: Bring your lunch and your PowerPoint 2007 questions to the Faculty Conference Room on Wednesday, February 17th at noon.

Wireless Upgraded and Expanded at Urban Life

The University is upgrading wireless access throughout Urban Life and expanding wireless coverage on floors one, two, and four.

Faculty/Staff Office 2007 Brown Bag Lunch

Faculty and staff: Bring your lunch and your Office 2007 questions to the Faculty Conference Room on Wednesday, February 10th at noon.

Avatars, Law, and a Virtual World

Georgia State College of Law Adjunct Professor Randall Hughes is exploring uses of SecondLife for his Health Law Regulation course.

Office 2007

All College of Law computers now have Office 2007 installed.

New Anti-virus Software

Georgia State University is implementing new anti-virus software - McAfee VirusScan.  All Georgia State students, faculty and staff should update to McAfee by January 15, 2010.

Securexam Reminder

If you want to take your FALL in-class exams on a laptop, you must download AND test the Securexam software before the end of the day on Friday, November 20th.  After 11:59 p.m. on November 20th, the software will no longer be available for download or testing.

Westlaw OnePass Updates

Faculty, staff and students with Westlaw access: Make sure to update your Westlaw Username and Password to meet the new Westlaw security requirements.

PAWS Law Students Tab

Check out the new Law Students Tab in the PAWS portal at paws.gsu.edu!

Law Library study room upgrades coming soon!

This year's Tech Fee project will upgrade the Law Library study rooms into more modern meeting rooms to support collaborative student work.  

PantherMail: Where is the Options button?

We've been getting a lot of questions about setting up redirecting on your PantherMail account.  When you log in to set up redirecting, you must use Internet Explorer 7 to see the Options link. 

Clickers/Classroom Polling

We now have clicker kits available for checkout at the Law Library Circulation Desk. 

Hotmail/PantherMail Fix

If you are using hotmail and can't sign in to PantherMail, try this...

Welcome new and returning students!

Technology drop-in sessions are set for August 18 and 19th in Room 675 so you can get help with installing university-provided software and connecting to CatChat.

2009 Laptop Recommendations

The College of Law desktop support team has updated the laptop recommendations for incoming 1L students.

New web server

This web site is now running on a new server. Almost everything will function exactly as before, but there are a few changes due to the new increased security measures.

CALI Conference

College of Law Professor Patrick Wiseman presented on creating digital statute books and casebooks, and Website Coordinator Earl Daniels presented on captioning media at the CALI Conference in Boulder, Colorado.

Georgia State College of Law on Twitter

The College of Law and the Law Career Services Office are now on Twitter!

Classroom Polling

We now have clicker kits available for checkout at the Law Library Circulation Desk. 

Student E-mail List Problems Resolved

As of today, with the help of College of Law IT staff working in conjunction with University IT staff, the student E-mail list problems have been resolved.

Reminder: Changes to Cat Chat and VPN

On February 3rd, faculty and staff will need to use their CampusID and password to log in to CatChat and the VPN.

Plug in at the Law Library

We have installed more electrical outlets throughout the library to support laptops and other personal computing devices.

Upcoming change for VPN and CatChat Wireless

On February 3rd, faculty and staff will need to use their Campus ID and password to log in to the VPN and CatChat Wireless. 

Classroom desktop and study carrel network ports

Please report any classroom desktop or study carrel network port outages to Yolanda Travis at the Law Help Desk, 3-9111 or online via http://law.gsu.edu/helpdesk.

PantherPrint and Vista

For the most current instructions on how to install and use PantherPrint on Windows Vista, please visit the updated instruction page on our website. 

Continued support of Windows XP on campus computers

Georgia State University and the College of Law will postpone the rollout of Windows Vista Enterprise on the College's workstation computers. 

The Exchange Faculty Resource Center Grand Opening

Faculty and adjuncts, mark your calendars for November 5th, the Grand Opening Celebration for the Georgia State University Exchange Faculty Resource Center!

New HeLP web site

The Health Law Partnership's new site launched at HealthLawPartnership.org

PantherMail Help Sessions

Get help with setting up PantherMail and learn more about the additional features of the new PantherMail system.

PantherMail: Help with setting up forwarding

When setting up forwarding for your PantherMail account, make sure to choose Redirect rather than Forward.

Student Technology Fee Forum

Join us today at noon in Urban Life room 675 to submit your suggestions for Student Technology Fee proposals.

PantherMail is here!

Georgia State's new student e-mail, PantherMail is here.  Visit http://www.student.gsu.edu for more information on getting started with PantherMail!

Need technology help? Submit your tickets online!

The Law Information Technology Team is excited to announce the online help desk Web site for our customers.

PantherPrint for Mac now available online

The PantherPrint for Mac software and installation instructions have been added to the Download Center.

Full launch of new web site template

The "blue guys" are gone.

Law Library Student Computer Lab Renovation

The renovations occurring in the Law Library Student Computer Lab will  increase space for an additional printer.

From the AALL Annual Meeting and Conference

The law librarians and our Director are in Portland, OR for the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting.

Summer help desk hours

With the 2008 summer semester drawing to a close, the hours of operation for the Law Technology Help Desk have changed.

Speaking of CALI...

Law students - CALI provides over 675 lessons to help you study 32 different legal subject areas.

Georgia State College of Law at CALI

Greetings from Baltimore…We’re at the 18th annual CALI conference!

Student Technology Fee awards

The College of Law was recently awarded Student Technology Fee funding for four projects totaling $233,125.00.

Classroom video project

More news on the LawCaster classroom video recording system project!

New CSO web site

The Career Services Office has launched an expanded web site.

Campus ID password reset

Just a reminder that every 120 days, you must reset your Campus ID password.

GroupWise e-mail archiving

Faculty and staff, are you hitting your GroupWise mailbox storage limit?  If so, it's time to archive.

Technology web site update

Changes are coming soon to the Technology Web site.

Apple site visit

We're moving forward on the Classroom Video Recording System project.

Training lab renovation

Hello! We've got some exciting news about the Training Lab.

New Instructional Services Specialist

The College of Law has added an Instructional Services Specialist to its core technology staff.

Upcoming Laptops 101 Sessions Announced

College of Law Technology Services is offering six Laptops 101 sessions in the next week.

The Courtroom of the Future

Throughout the summer and fall of 2004, the Georgia State College of Law implemented a technology upgrade of the Moot Courtroom located in the Urban Life building on the main University campus.

New Classroom Technology Upgrades - Summer 2004

Technology Services has added additional interactive teaching tools for the Smart Podiums in classrooms 100, 170, 230, and 330.