Ithaca College

Digital Instruction and Information Services is currently planning for software upgrades in DIIS-managed eClassrooms and meeting rooms for the 2016-17 academic year. If you need software installed or upgraded to support instruction, please notify our Service Desk (servicedesk@ithaca.edu) by Monday, May 2, 2016.

Please note that by semester startup eClassroom and meeting room computers will come with the following:

 Windows:

• Windows computers being replaced through the Technology Renewal Program will be replaced with a Dell Small Form Factor computer and will come with Windows 7 64-bit Operating System
• Windows computers not being replaced will also remain at Windows 7 64-bit Operating System
• Computers will continue to auto login
• Computers will continue to auto login
• Computers will shut down after 60 minutes of inactivity (no keyboard or mouse movement)
• MS Office will be upgraded to Office 2016 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, and Access)
• SPSS 23 will be upgraded to SPSS 24
• Adobe Acrobat DC

Macs:

• Mac computers being replaced through the Technology Renewal Program will be replaced with an iMac computer and will come with OS X El Capitan 10.11
• Mac computers not being replaced will remain at OS X Yosemite 10.10
• Computers will continue to auto login
• MS Office will be upgraded to Office 2016 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• SPSS 23 will be upgraded to SPSS 24
• iBooks Author
• Adobe Acrobat DC

For more information about eClassrooms please visit the Learning Spaces Technology Support website. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the DIIS Service Desk at 607-274-1000 or servicedesk@ithaca.edu.