Academic Life: Technology
The most advanced information technology is literally at the students' fingertips in Wake Forest's wireless computing environment. A comprehensive technology plan provides students with powerful hardware and software.
An award-winning wired and wireless campus network supports innovative online services, and provides opportunities to participate in exciting technology pilot programs. The Information Systems department offers many rewarding student technology programs to ensure that students have a variety of opportunities to enrich their academic and campus life through technology.
The University maintains an extensive online information system that includes documentation, class schedules and grades, University-wide activity calendars, and the Wake Forest University Libraries information system. The Student, an online news magazine for students, and the electronic version of the Old Gold and Black, the student newspaper, are also available online. Specially trained students provide on-site technical support in residence halls and a professionally staffed Help Desk provides walk-in and phone support.
Through a network login ID, Wake Forest students have access to electronic mail, software packages, and network services and resources. The Wake Forest Information Network (WIN) provides students, faculty, and staff with a dynamic list of services, including online directories, course registration, electronic voting, and online textbook ordering.
Wake Forest's network infrastructure includes a gigabit Ethernet backbone, 100 megabit switched connectivity to the desktop, and pervasive, 802.11a/g wireless connectivity in all classrooms and residence halls and most other campus buildings. Wake Forest has a one gigabit Ethernet connection to the Winston-Salem RPOP (regional point of presence) that provides access to extensive supercomputing facilities located throughout the state of North Carolina as well as to all the premiere research networks in the world, including Internet II, Abilene, and the VBNS (Very high performance Backbone Network Service).
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Visit the Information Systems web site for information on computing policies, current hardware and software, and computing support.
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