IS&T Blog - WCU of PA

Human Cadaver Anatomy Lab is a required course for students in the Masters in Athletic Training program. In addition, we allow senior students in Athletic Training and Chemistry/Biology majors to participate.

Earth and Space Sciences - Creating a remote Field Experience

Dr. Martin Helmke - 05/04/2020

The Department of Earth and Space Sciences uses Tech Fee equipment in almost every geology course offer. This semester, Dr. Martin Helmke taught ESS

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Succes Story Moving to ESRI to the Cloud

Dr. Gary Coutu - 05/04/2020

The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) program in the Department of Geography and Planning supports students, faculty, and staff across the University and within our community.

Technology Updates for Classroom & Work Continuity

JT Singh - 03/23/2020

The Information Services and Technology team is committed to assisting WCU community as we navigate through this unique and unprecedented situation. Based on your responses to faculty and student technology needs assessment surveys, here are some updates as you continue preparing for remote teaching and learning activities.

Technology Update: New IS&T Initiatives Starting in January

JT Singh - 01/27/2020

Information Services & Technology is excited to announce key digital transformation initiatives that will be launched this month upgrading and replacing the following systems: the IT Service Management Ticketing Systems, Spam Email Filtering System, and the campus Phone System.

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Kristin Williams - 07/11/2019

Sharepoint Online

Julianna Szonntag - 06/28/2019

SharePoint Online, a component of Office 365, is a cloud based collaborative platform that integrates with Microsoft Office. SharePoint Online allows an enterprise to store, retrieve, search, archive, track, manage and report on digitized documents. First launched in 2001, SharePoint started as a shared document management and indexing application that grew to become an early portal solution.

Email Migration to Microsoft Cloud

Rashed Kabir & Lisa Disney - 05/30/2019

West Chester University is migrating it's on premises email and calendaring system, Exchange 2016, to Microsoft's Exchange Online Cloud Services.

Meeting Quality Matters Standards in Online Education

Colleen Phillips - 04/22/2019

With the rapid growth of online education at West Chester University, IS&T Distance Education Services looked to ensure that our online courses are built upon research-backed standards. Therefore, we partnered with Quality Matters (QM), a non-profit organization that specializes in standards for quality assurance for online course and program design.