Why you should keep your software up to date

Importance of Software Updates Allowing software updates to occur on your computer, phone, and other devices is an important part of keeping yourself safe online. Updates provide important patches and fixes for your device's security settings, ensures compatibility with other technologies, helps keep your data protected, and provides new features. Postponing software updates can lead to security vulnerabilities. Hackers work constantly to find holes in software in order to steal information or run dangerous programs on your devices. It may also lead to glitches and issues as time goes on…

Windows Lab and Classroom Software List

Overview The following software will be available on all Lab and Classroom computers running Windows 7 during the Spring 2017 Semester. Please contact Sam Fuller (sfuller@stlawu.edu) or the IT Help Desk (helpdesk@stlawu.edu) x5770 if you have any questions. Software Adobe Authorware Plugin Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Flash Player Plugin Adobe Reader DC Adobe Shockwave Player ArcGIS 10.3.1 ARTstor OIV Audacity ChemDraw Prime 15.1 Eclipse Fathom (Shortcut) Final Draft 8 Genedoc Google Chrome Google Earth Pro Group Explorer Image J iTunes IntelliJ Java App Java SE Development Kit Logger Pro…

WordPress Blog Introduction

Initial Setup Go to https://sites.stlawu.edu Follow the instructions for new users Choose a Site Name and Site Title Choose Privacy Settings Click Create Site Site Name This will be the portion of your site address that comes after sites.stlawu.edu/. It cannot contain spaces or other special characters. You cannot change the site name once you have created the site. Some site names may already be taken. Example: If your site name is mattsblog, your site address will be http://sites.stlawu.edu/mattsblog Site Title Your site title is the title that appears at the top of your site. This can…

Available Software for University Computers/Devices

Libraries and Information Technology provides licensing for a number of software titles for installation on University owned office computers. Below you will find a list of the software that is installed by default and software available for installation. Software Windows Mac Adobe Creative Cloud Available Available Adobe Reader DC Available ArcGIS Pro Available Audacity Available (with LAME plugin) Available AudioScore Available ChemDraw Prime Available Eclipse Available Fathom Available Fiji Available FLVCrunch Available GarageBand Available Genedoc Available Google Chrome Installed…

Available Software for Personal Devices

St. Lawrence provides some software and applications that can be installed on your personal device. The table below shows the titles available, who they are available to, and instructions for installation. Software Title Students Faculty/Staff Windows Mac Self Installation Instructions Mathematica ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Install Minitab ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦* Install Minitab Express ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Install Kurzweil ♦ Microsoft Office 365 ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Install *Minitab 19.2020.1 for Mac is only available for macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina.

Available Software for Lab/Classroom Computers

Below you will find the standard software that is installed on public lab computers. Note that departmental or research labs may have different configurations. Windows Public Lab Computers Mac Public Lab Computers Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud Adobe Reader DC Adobe Reader DC Anaconda 3 Audacity ArcGIS Pro AudioScore Atom FLVCrunch Audacity (with LAME plug-in) GarageBand ChemDraw Prime Google Chrome Eclipse Google Earth Fathom Handbrake Fiji iMovie Genedoc iTunes Google Chrome Java JRE Google Earth Pro Keynote Group Explorer Max IntelliJ Community Edition Microsoft Office 2016 Suite…

Adding Syndicated Sources in WordPress

Log in to https://blogs.stlawu.edu with your St. Lawrence user name and password Go to Dashboard Go to Plug-ins Activate the FeedWordPress plug-in Go To Syndication Enter the URL* in for 'New source:' and click Add *The URL must follow this format: http://blogs.stlawu.edu/ thesitename/?feed=rss2 For example, https://blogs.stlawu.edu/mattsblog becomes http://blogs.stlawu.edu/mattsblog/?feed=rss2

Add Perusall to Canvas

About Perusall Perusall allows students to annotate, comment and discuss assigned readings. For an introduction to teaching with Perusall, check out: An Introduction to Perusall A recorded webinar from September 2020 (56:34) Perusall Support Add Perusall to a Canvas Course Log in to Canvas at https://stlawu.instructure.com Go to your course Click Settings Click Navigation From the tool list, enable Perusall (or drag the tool up into the course navigation) Choose Save Important Notes When setting up your Perusall course, you will see that SLU uses the free version of Perusall and does not have…

Add a User to a WordPress Site

Information Faculty, staff and students must sign in to https://sites.stlawu.edu/ with their St. Lawrence network credentials at least once to activate their account. Once a user has signed in, they can be added as subscribers (read only), contributors (read and submit post for publishing), authors (read, submit and publish posts), editors (read, submit, publish and edit any posts) or administrators (read, submit, publish, edit and full access to site configuration and management) to any site. For faculty using WordPress in their teaching, set aside class time to: Allow students to sign in…
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