Communicate & Collaborate

ITS provides a variety of tools, services, and facilities to help you communicate and collaborate with other NYU community members. See below for a brief overview, and explore the tabs above for more detailed information.

• NYUHome
• Email
• NYU Blackboard
• Computer Labs
• Conferencing & Podcasting
• NYU Lists
• E-mail Direct
• Telephones & Voicemail
• Faculty Digital Archive
• NYU Public Directory
• Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

NYUHome

The NYUHome web portal, at http://home.nyu.edu, is an ITS-provided service that enables convenient, authenticated access to many web-based services and tools, and facilitates collaboration, interaction, and communication for all NYU students, faculty, staff and administrators. For more information, including access instructions, see the NYUHome help pages.

Email

Your NYUHome service enables you to access your NYU email from virtually any computer with Internet access and includes a customizable spam filter. If you prefer, you can also access your mail using a program such as Thunderbird or Outlook Express. The format of your official NYU email address is YourNetID@nyu.edu (e.g., aqe123@nyu.edu), and you may set up an additional personal email address of your choosing through your NYUHome Preferences. For more information about your NYU email, see the Email page. For information on policies relating to email at NYU, visit the ITS Policies site.

NYU Blackboard

NYU Blackboard is an easy-to-use course management system with many convenient ways to supplement classroom learning, including: distributing course content, enhancing class communication, and conducting online assessment. It provides an interactive web environment accessible exclusively by the instructor(s) and registered students of the class. For more information, see the NYU Blackboard pages.

Computer Labs

ITS provides four computer labs offering high-end, multimedia-equipped Macintosh and Windows computers with the essential software and peripherals students need. The labs provide a variety of collaborative working spaces for student projects with computing needs. For more information about lab resources for students, including locations and hours of operation, see www.nyu.edu/its/labs/.

Conferencing & Podcasting

There are three types of video conferencing available at NYU: ISDN, satellite, and Internet. Each one of these methods serves different needs, budgets, and audiences. There are also Internet2 resources and a broadband cable distribution system available on campus. All of these services are available to NYU faculty, administrators, and staff. For more information on these services, see the Conferencing & Podcasting page.

For information about teleconferencing services available to the NYU community, see the Conferencing & Podcasting page.

For information about podcasting resources at NYU, visit the Conferencing & Podcasting page. Note that the Digital Studio is available for faculty members interested in making podcasts for use in the classroom or for research.

NYU Lists

NYU Lists are subscription-based email discussion lists. Lists are often used to exchange ideas about specialized topics, to distribute announcements to the list's subscribers, and by faculty to post deadlines or homework assignments. For information about how to start or join an NYU List, visit www.nyu.edu/its/lists/.

E-mail Direct

NYU E-mail Direct is a bulk email service through which pre-authorized NYU faculty, staff, and administrators can request to send an email message to a segment or segments of the University community or to the entire University community. See the E-mail Direct page for more information.

Telephones & Voicemail

ITS provides telephone and voicemail services to NYU students in residence halls, and office telephones and voicemail to faculty and staff. ITS also provides long distance, directory, and other telephone services to the NYU community. Visit the Telephone & Voicemail site for details.

Faculty Digital Archive

The Faculty Digital Archive is a place where full-time NYU faculty can deposit their work in digital form. In the Archive, it can be shared with the world, or restricted to selected people. It is intended to be a highly visible repository of NYU faculty digital scholarship. The FDA is organized into communities and collections. Communities contain and organize collections. Collections will contain faculty content. Collections will be owned and managed by faculty, who will have responsibility for adding, making available, and removing content. ITS Client Services and the Digital Studio will be available to assist faculty in this. For more information, see www.nyu.edu/its/faculty/fda/

NYU Public Directory

NYU's Public Directory includes contact listings for full-time faculty and staff, as well as students who have elected to have their information included. The Directory can be accessed in a variety of ways:

• www.nyu.edu/search/
• The Directory channel in NYUHome
• NYU's new 24-hour Voice Activated Directory at 1-212-998-1212 (select option 1). (Currently includes only faculty and staff listings.)
• The University switchboard: Dial 0 when on-campus and 1-212-998-1212 when off-campus (8:00am-7:00pm, Monday-Friday)

For more information, including instructions on how to change your Directory listing, see www.nyu.edu/its/directory.

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

Peer-to-peer file sharing applications are used to connect you to directly to another person's computer (and, frequently, to give them the ability to connect to your machine) in order to transfer files between the two computers. NYU has specific recommendations and restrictions for the use of these applications on NYU's network. See the Peer-to-Peer File Sharing page for details.

Last reviewed: January 9, 2007