25Live
Category:25Live is a space and course scheduling system which enables the University to optimize the use of classroom, meeting and other spaces available on campus. This system helps simplify the room request/reservation process and provides analytics on space needs and assignments, therefore establishing a benchmark for efficient space usage on campus.
accessVIS
Category:Stony Brook University's Visa and Immigration Services has gone electronic with accessVIS, an online portal for students, faculty, and staff. The accessVIS system allows electronic submission of immigration requests to Visa and Immigration Services and provides a source of communication for updates and notifications.
Adaptive Learning
Category:Adaptive learning is a digital method of interacting with students in such a way that their instruction is guided by algorithms, resulting in a personalized path of assessment and lessons. It is available for many different subjects and at various levels of difficulty. Typically, it enables a student to target areas in which they require further study, while also identifying course content whose learning objectives have been fully reached.
Stony Brook University embraces an assortment of adaptive learning tools in order to further empower students and instructors for success during the academic year.
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Admin By Request
Category:Admin By Request provides end users a way to request administrator access for their currently logged in user account. It will allow you to have temporary administrative rights to your workstation, or to just a single application/executable on demand.
Atos / Unified VoIP Phones
Category:Azure Information Protection (AIP)
Audience: Faculty, Researchers, StaffThe AIP Windows plugin classifies, protects and encrypts documents to ensure only specific people can access them in email.
Blackboard
Keep Learning Keep Teaching NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Blackboard is Stony Brook University's learning management system (LMS), which allows instructors to supplement face-to-face classes, or launch online classes. Blackboard includes a variety of features that allow instructors to do anything from uploading course documents, to posting an announcement, to collecting and grading assignments. For students, Blackboard offers an easy way to contact instructors, download and access course documents, and check grades.
Brightspace
DUO Keep Learning Keep Teaching NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Broadcast Email Messaging
Category:The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is responsible for distributing broadcast email messages. Requests must be pre-approved by a relevant Vice President, Department Head, or the CIO.
Campus Announcements
Category:Each Monday morning Campus Announcements is sent by electronic mail to all active New York State and Research Foundation employees, and any alums, retirees, students, FSA employees, affiliates, or community members that have subscribed to receive the mailing.
CBase
Category:CBase is the learning management system used by faculty, staff and students of Stony Brook University's Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine for tracking syllabi, student progress, exam grades, competency completion, and more.
Classroom Technology and Support Solutions
Category:Classroom Technology & Support Solutions provides numerous services to enhance and facilitate classroom instruction. Service counters in the Javits Lecture Center, the Health Sciences Center, and Frey Hall each provide different aspects of support.
Clickers
Category:Stony Brook University utilizes PointSolutions (previously Turning Technologies) polling clickers for interactive, wireless, student responses in classrooms and large lecture halls. PointSolutions allows instructors to float a poll bar above any application, and gives the ability to track each student's performance data generated during a lesson or team activity. This tracking produces student and class performance reports with respect to lessons.
Computer Classrooms
Category:Most SINC Sites may be reserved for classes. In addition, some computer classrooms are reserved exclusively for course use and are not used as open labs for students.
Course Evaluations (Faculty & Admin)
NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Course Evaluations - Student Information
NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Stony Brook University highly values student feedback and is committed to maintaining the quality education it provides through the course evaluation process. By offering information and feedback to instructors, Stony Brook students directly contribute to the improvement of courses and teaching practices at the University.
Data Management Plan Tool
Audience: Faculty, Researchers, Staff, StudentsThe Data Management Plan Tool (DMP Tool) is an online resource that is meant to assist researchers in creating data management plans as required by most grant proposals.
Data Wiping
Audience: Faculty, StaffTo prevent the inadvertent transfer of sensitive and/or personal data to unauthorized parties, the New York State Office of General Services (NYS-OGS) requires all surplus IT equipment to be cleansed of all data before disposing or repurposing. It is expected that all data be erased from the hard drive (and any other media) in such a manner that it cannot be recovered. Customer Engagement and Support can provide this service on an as-needed basis. It is recommended that when repurposing equipment (e.g. moving machines between personnel or departments), that the machine be cleaned of any University data before the swap.
Degree Works
Category:Degree Works is an easy-to use degree audit tool for undergraduate students and their advisors.
Department Shared Folders
Category:Department shared folders are a secure and convenient way for staff members within a department to share and collaborate on documents and other files. You can map department shared folders and control who can access them from the Active Directory.
Digication ePortfolios
Keep Teaching NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:ePortfolios, powered by Digication, are a type of digital portfolio utilized by students and faculty to document their professional development and establish a positive online presence. With an ePortfolio, students and faculty can create online archives of their achievements, professional experience, academic work, personal hobbies and more. ePortfolios can be used as an extension of a resume to market yourself to prospective employers.
Duo Security Two-Step Login
Category:Two-Step Login is used to protect your account, even if your password is stolen.
Echo360 Lecture Capture
Keep Learning Keep Teaching NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Commonly referred to as Echo, Echo360 is a versatile and reliable system that automatically captures lectures and converts classroom voice, video, and visual-aids into high-quality media files. These media files can be accessed online from devices such as tablets, phones, and computers. Instructors can also utilize Universal Capture (Personal), which allows them to record from their own computers.
eFax
Category:DoIT offers an eFax service that allows users to receive faxes (via e-mail) using any personal computer, laptop, or wireless device connected to the Internet.
Electronic Post Office (EPO)
Category:Stony Brook University maintains an electronic post office (EPO) for all students, faculty and staff. The EPO is essentially a mail forwarding device that allows everyone at the University to have the same generic email address (@stonybrook.edu) so that no matter what email system Stony Brook may adopt or what domain names change, people will still receive their email.
Enterprise Asset Management (HxGN EAM)
Category:Hexagon (HxGN) EAM, (formerly known as Infor EAM) is an Enterprise Asset Management system currently being utilized by Facilities and Services, Environmental Health and Safety and Campus Residences.
Faculty Profiles
Category:The SBU Faculty Profiles website is available to Stony Brook University faculty across all campuses. The new site is a single place where faculty can update and review their faculty profile. The site acts as the primary repository for several data points and aggregates data from other sources. NetID authentication is required to sign in to update a faculty profile.
Faculty/Staff Software Support
Keep Teaching Keep Working Category:In an effort to maintain efficiency and reliability of computer equipment at Stony Brook University, DoIT's Customer Engagement and Support department has instituted software support standards.
Google Apps
Keep Learning Keep Teaching Keep Working NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Google Apps for Education is the primary email system for everyone at Stony Brook University except Hospital employees and members of the School of Medicine and School of Dental Medicine. Stony Brook's Google Apps suite of products includes Mail, Calendar, Drive, Contacts, Sites, Groups, Hangouts and a host of other applications to enhance communication and real-time collaboration across campus.
Google Calendar
Keep Learning Keep Teaching Keep Working NetID Audience: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsGoogle Calendar is the calendar feature offered with Google Apps for Education. It allows users to easily create, share, edit, and delete meeting invitations, calendar events, and tasks. These are easily accessed and synced between computers and mobile devices.
Google Chat is a collaborative messaging tool. It allows you to chat, share content, schedule meetings, and more in a shared space with your team or 1-to-1. And all of your teams can have their own spaces, called Rooms. You can even create external Rooms to collaborate with people outside Stony Brook. It works in desktop browsers and as Android and iOS apps. Starting in July 2020, Google Chat is in Gmail, too.
Google Drive
Keep Learning Keep Teaching Keep Working NetID Category:Google Drive provides a single place to store, create, sync, and share documents, files, and folders of all types. Access files anywhere - at your desk, from home, or on a mobile device.
Google Groups
Keep Teaching NetID Audience: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsGoogle Groups makes it easy for groups of people - such as project teams, departments, or classmates - to communicate and collaborate over topics of common interest. Request a Google Group for easy group email distribution.
Google Mail
Audience: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsGoogle Mail is the preferred email system at Stony Brook University for faculty, staff, and students on West Campus, Southampton, Manhattan, and select departments within the Health Sciences Center.
Members of Stony Brook Medicine, including Stony Brook Hospital and the School of Dental Medicine, will continue to use Microsoft Exchange for email due to HIPAA compliance requirements.
Google Meet (Web Conferencing)
Keep Learning Keep Teaching Keep Working NetID Category:Use Google Meet for video conference meetings and screen sharing with up 250* participants.
Google Sites
Keep Learning Keep Teaching NetID Audience: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsGoogle Sites is an online application that makes it easy to host personal websites, especially for people who need quick, up-to-date access, with limited or zero Web development expertise.
High Performance Computing
Category:Stony Brook University offers researchers several different options depending on needs.
InCommon Certificates
Category:Stony Brook University is registered with the InCommon Certificate Service, a means for IT partners and the University community to easily and affordably obtain digital certificates for the safe sharing of online resources, such as the securing of departmental Web servers.
The InCommon Certificate Service provides unlimited SSL, encryption and code signing PKI certificates for all domains owned by Stony Brook University for one fixed annual fee, allowing Stony Brook to issue certificates based on technical and security needs. The certificates are generated through Sectigo, a trusted commercial certificate authority.
Infrastructure Cabling
Category:Network Services provides the cabling infrastructure for the University which serves all voice, data, and television needs. This includes indoor station cabling (jacks) and outdoor, underground feeds.
All requests for service should be directed to Customer Engagement and Support.
Institutional Hardware Support Standards
Keep Teaching Keep Working Category:In an effort to maintain efficiency and reliability amongst computing equipment on the Stony Brook University Campus, the Division of Information Technology's Customer Engagement and Support department has instituted Hardware Support Standards.
IT Service Portal
Category:For the fastest response, log in to the Service Portal with your NetID and password to report issues or make requests for IT services.
The DoIT Service Desk will be prioritizing answering help tickets submitted through the Service Portal.
Get software, Windows updates, and security patches on your Stony Brook owned machine!
LISTSERV (Electronic Mailing Lists)
Category:DoIT offers L-Soft's LISTSERV, a special program available to set up large mailing lists. A list can be established for any department, course, or registered student group, but not for an individual's personal use.
Malware Shield
Category:Stony Brook's Data Network Services and IT Security teams added additional security to the campus network during the summer of 2010. A network name server was implemented to check the URLs of websites that users on campus visit against a list of known distributors of malware. Instead of visiting a site that is known to be a distributor of malware, the Web browser is redirected to a malware shield (Web page) which advises users why the site they are trying to reach may have been flagged as being potentially harmful.
Media Systems Engineering
Category:Microsoft Office 365
Category:Office 365 is a collaborative, cloud-based storage, communication and applications solution provided by Microsoft.
Office 365 is HIPAA and Export Control compliant.
Mobile Device Support
Category:In an effort to maintain efficiency and reliability amongst computing equipment on the Stony Brook University Campus, the Division of Information Technology's Customer Engagement and Support department has instituted Hardware Support Standards.
MySBfiles
Category:MySBfiles is a network storage option for all students, faculty, and staff. Up to 2 GB of data can be stored in your personal MySBfiles which is backed up regularly on an automated basis by University servers. You can access your MySBfiles from on or off campus using a Web browser.
Note: Users on the UHMC domain will use their Home Directory ("U Drive") instead of MySBfiles. For information please call the UHMC Help Desk at 4-HELP.
NERCOMP
Category:Stony Brook University is a NERCOMP Member
NERCOMP cultivates communities of practice around information and technology, promotes strategic partnerships, and advances innovation and leadership in educational institutions across the Northeastern United States.
NetID
Category:Every active employee, student, and faculty member is assigned a NetID, which is used to access various computing resources. Use the New Password Reset Tool to Set/Change your NetID Password or find your NetID.
Announcement: Register Now: Duo Security Two-Step required for all Students as of 12/20/2021
Network (Wired)
Category:Each campus residence is equipped with a wired network connection. In addition, there are several locations on campus where public jacks are available for use.
NVivo
Category:NVivo is software for gaining richer insights from qualitative and mixed-methods data.
NYSERNet and Internet2
Category:Stony Brook offers researchers high-capacity, high-speed connections to the Internet as a member of NYSERNet and Internet2.
OnBase
DUO VPN Category:OnBase is a document management system available for University departments who are interested in eliminating paper and managing their business files.
OneDrive
Category:5TB file storage accessible in the cloud that you can access and share from any phone, tablet or computer. OneDrive provides the ability to create, edit and share files without software, just Internet access. And you can work with other people in realtime on Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files.
OneNote
Category:Take richer notes: OneNote is a flexible application for information gathering and multiple user collaboration for course notes and meeting minutes. It captures notes that are typed from a keyboard or handwritten from a stylus, screenshots, and audio recordings. You can invite others to view or collaborate on your notes.
OnTheHub.com
Category:Stony Brook University has partnered with Kivuto Solutions' OnTheHub Network as a way to distribute select software products to the campus community for use on their own personal computers.
OU Campus Content Management System
Category:The Web Services team in the Office of Marketing and Communications provides training and support for the OU Campus Content Management System. A series of responsive page templates branded in the Stony Brook look and feel have been designed to give non-technical administrative personnel the ability to quickly update content without having to be a graphic designer or programmer.
Stony Brook University uses PeopleSoft as its core administrative system for managing Financial, Human Resources and Student Administration operations.
Phone Directory and People Search
Category:DoIT feeds information from PeopleSoft and other systems into the campus phone directory and people search online directory. In compliance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), student data is not accessible from Stony Brook's People Search tool, only that of faculty, staff, and emeritus.
Plagiarism Protection - SafeAssign
NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:SafeAssign is software built into the Blackboard learning management system which checks several sources for potential plagiarism. SafeAssign helps instructors make informed decisions about reporting students for academic dishonesty.
Printing
Category:Students can print in SINC Sites and other computer labs on campus, or by using Stony Brook's Print From Anywhere service.
Qualtrics
Keep Working NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Qualtrics is a hosted survey and research tool that Stony Brook University has subscribed to in order to conduct quality surveys with the end result of collecting and analyzing data. It is available to all students, faculty, and staff who have an active NetID.
RD Gateway
Category:RF Business System
Category:The RF Business System consists of the Oracle suite of grants management, financial and human resources applications. It is primarily a transaction-processing and report-generating system used by the administrative offices that conduct research activity and serve the Stony Brook research community.
SB Alert
Category:SB Alert is the University's emergency notification system used to alert the campus community of major emergencies, immediate threats or impending situations that could pose harm, disrupt classes, impact facilities, activities, or other operations. When activated, the system can send a voice, alphanumeric page, email and/or text message to all of the devices that you enter into the SB Alert - Contact Information tab in SOLAR.
SB You
Category:SB You is a web publishing platform powered by WordPress that lets you quickly create professional-looking websites. Faculty, staff and students can create a single site or as many as they want for a variety of purposes such as course information, team activities or personal blogs and portfolios.
SBEvents - New Event Session Import
Category:SB Events does not include room reservations, catering, or event staff.
SB Events is a web-based event registration management service available to the University community who are interested in having online registration for a University sponsored event and/or fee collection from attendees.
SBU Reporting
Category:SBU Reporting is a web-based delivery system that provides access to ready-made reports for academic and financial data. These reports are run from the data warehouse system that loads data daily from the university PeopleSoft ERP systems.
Schedule Builder
Audience: StudentsSchedule Builder is a web-based program that allows students to build their Stony Brook class schedules much quicker and easier.
SharePoint
Category:SharePoint Online (or Sites which is part of the University's Office 365 application suite) provides collaborative websites for groups such as research teams, committees, and course-related activities. While DoIT encourages students, faculty, and staff to first investigate Google Drive or Google Sites to handle collaborative projects among teams, SharePoint is certainly a viable alternative. SharePoint is HIPAA and export compliant.
SINC Sites
Keep Learning Keep Teaching NetID Tech Fee Funded Category:Single Sign On (SSO)
Category:In an effort to decrease the number of passwords required to access computing applications across the University, DoIT has incrementally implemented its Web-based, NetID Single Sign On (SSO) service since 2008. Users can log in to campus applications such as Google Apps for Education and WolfMart without having to sign on multiple times or remember many passwords. The SSO service is only used for those applications accessed through a Web browser. Client-based applications, such as the mail client on a smart phone, do not use the Stony Brook SSO.
Announcement: Register Now: Duo Security Two-Step required for all Students as of 12/20/2021
Software Catalog
Category:Browse the software titles available for use on campus or purchase through campus affiliated programs.
Softweb
Category:Softweb is Stony Brook's software distribution website. It is the host from which members of the campus community may download different software titles
SOLAR
Category:SOLAR is Stony Brook University's enterprise-wide, self-service system which provides faculty, staff, and students with online access to manage personal information. Students use SOLAR to register for classes, print schedules, view and pay bills, update personal contact information, view transcripts, and submit student employment timesheets. Employees use SOLAR to update personal contact information, view vacation/sick accruals, print class rosters, submit grades, and much more.
StarRez
Category:The online housing system used at Stony Brook University is called StarRez.
Streaming / Webcasts
Audience: Faculty, Staff, StudentsDoIT's Video Services Office offers video streaming services. Departments may post previously recorded materials on their websites or one of the University's YouTube sites.
SUNY & SMART Financial Systems (SUNY Web portal)
Category:SUNY Legacy & SMART Financial Systems (SUNY Web portal) are used by department account managers to view state account allocation, expenditure and encumbrance balances. The system is also used by staff to reconcile AEPC Visa card purchases.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SMRT WILL BE NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE AS OF 12/1/16
SUNY CPD Points
Audience: Faculty, StaffStony Brook University is a member of the SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD). As an active member Stony Brook receives a number of professional development "points" that may be used by SB employees to pay for the cost of registration to SUNY CPD-sponsored academic program events.
Symplicity Advocate
Category:Symplicity Advocate is Stony Brook University's student judicial system.
Talent Management System (TMS)
Category:The Talent Management System is used for hiring and performance management at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook Medicine, and Long Island State Veterans Home.
Teaching and Learning Lab
Category:Training and Development
Category:DoIT Training and Development aims to promote and support employee development by providing high-quality training programs designed to support the university's goals.
Turnitin®
Category:Promotes academic integrity by leveraging cutting-edge technology to prevent plagiarism. Streamlines grading and delivers formative and summative feedback to help students improve their writing.
TV Broadcast & Distribution
Category:DoIT's TLT Educational Technologies department maintains the local origination system for both the residential and hospital cable TV system in accordance with the Policy on Use of Campus Cable Television System. Each system has locally-originated channels (see channel lineup below) that includes satellite, electronic bulletin board, and video playback systems. Most of the residential channels are programmed by other departments, but run through the Educational Technologies system. Educational Technologies is not responsible for other programming (purchasing entertainment or news channels) or transmission (reception problems). Students experiencing problems with reception or concerns about non-locally originated programming should contact their RHD.
Virtual Servers
Category:DoIT's Systems Support team works with departments on campus to figure out cost-effective ways to employ server support through VMware solutions. We have purchased licenses for VMware vCloud suite advanced for campus use. If you would like to participate in this program, please email doit_windows_admin@stonybrook.edu.
Virtual SINC Site
Keep Learning Keep Teaching Keep Working Tech Fee Funded Category:The Virtual SINC Site provides a way for students, faculty, and staff members to access site-licensed, academic software titles directly from their personal computers from either on or off campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Students can also use the Virtual SINC Site to access the Print From Anywhere service using any device or operating system.
Announcement - Virtual SINC Site now requires DUO 2-Step Login.VoiceThread
Category:VoiceThread is a web-based application that allows you to place media artifacts such as images, presentations, videos and documents and have an asynchronous discussion around it.
Stony Brook's virtual private network (VPN) allows access to certain Stony Brook applications, resources, and services from off-campus.
NOTE: The VPN requires a Stony Brook email address and 2-Step login prior to downloading and installing the VPN.
WolfieNet
Category:WolfieNet-Secure is Stony Brook University's recommended wireless network on West Campus, Southampton, Manhattan, and parts of East Campus. It is available to all faculty, students, and staff. New locations continue to be added as wireless technology and equipment continues to be upgraded and enhanced in order to handle the growing number of devices seeking to connect to the network. For visitors to the University, WolfieNet-Guest is the recommended network to use.
WolfieNet Get Connected
Category:Use getwolfienet.com to properly configure laptop computers, mobile devices and tablets to make for a quicker and easier connection to WolfieNet-Secure.
WolfieNet IoT
Audience: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsWolfieNet-IoT (IoT = Internet of Things) is a wireless network that should only be used by games and mobile devices that cannot authenticate using the WPA2 Enterprise protocol.
WolfieNet-Guest
Audience: Clubs, Faculty, Guests, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsWolfieNet-Guest is to be used by visitors of the University's West Campus to attend conferences, seminars, workshops, etc.
WolfieNet-Secure
Audience: Faculty, Researchers, Staff, Students, Teaching AssistantsThe WolfieNet-Secure wireless network is one of SBU networks available for connecting via WiFi to many of the SBU Campus resources and internet access. WolfieNet-Secure is the recommended network for all students, faculty, and staff while on campus. Use your NetID to gain access to this secure network for your personal mobile devices.
Yammer
Category:Yammer is Stony Brook's internal social network. It is an online environment for discussion and conversation. It can help you get work done and support teamwork and collaboration across the institution.
Zoom
Keep Learning Keep Teaching Keep Working NetID Category:Zoom is a video and audio conferencing tool with easy collaboration, chat, screen sharing and more across mobile devices, desktops, and telephones.
Get the Zoom Desktop Client and sign in with SSO (NetID and NetID Password) to ensure you get into every Stony Brook meeting!