Available Internet Services

Below are internet services offered at Concordia University, St. Paul. For your conveinence links are provided to free Open Source products that are available to you for your personal and professional use.  

While items that are marked with an asterisk are free and available to you, the IT department does not have the personel to support quesitons or issues that arise with it. If users have questions or issues with the Open Source product it is recomended that you contact their support for help.

Available Website Services

Service	Product	Product Description
Content Management System (CMS)	Collage	Licenced web editing software.
Text Messaging	e2Campus	Sign up for e2Campus, a free system that delivers text messages to your cell phone to keep you informed about school closings, snow emergencies and security alerts. To enroll, simply go to the Concordia's e2Campus website and complete the brief registration process.
Help Desk Support Site	Wiki*	"A Wiki is a website  that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content...Proponents rely on their community of users who can catch malicious content and correct it. Wikis in general assume a basic assumption of the goodness of people."
Blogs	WordPress*	"WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it."
Image Library	Flicker*	"Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos to the world, ..."
Forum	Vanilla*	"Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web."
Video/Edit Policy	ConcordiaUniversity YouTube EDU partner	ConcordiaUniversity is a YouTube EDU partner and requests can be requested at webmaster@csp.edu
Video	YouTube*	This channel serves the purpose of displaying multimedia content which allows viewers to experience Concordia University as a whole.
G-mail Pilot Mobile E-mail	Google	Request to be on the G-mail Pilot program for E-mail, Calendar, Contacts & more
Maps*		Provide directions for visitors to & from campus or for personal use.
Website Search		Request a search feature that searches only your department website.
Website Analytics
Course Tools	WebCT	"provider of e-Education enterprise software applications"
Check Broken Links	http://validator.w3.org/checklink (links/page) or http://www.dead-links.com/ (links/site)	Free online site checkers
Voicemail to Email Software	UC Client  Manager	Software that enables voicemail messages to be sent ot your email. Note: This Software has limited licenses; however it is available by sending a request to network serivces (networkservices@csp.edu).
Anti-virus tool	http://free.avg.com	Free anti-virus tool
Digsby Audio Video	http://v.digsby.com/?id=851cbayk&t=5sqfhx3sx64jgifh&v=2	It is basically a single application that lets you communicate with your IM contacts, friends on Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter, or anyone else through email notifications.
Video Editing Tutorials	Windows Movie Maker  www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=58128	Concordia Issued computers have Windows Movie Maker available to edit videos for the web.
Malwarebytes	http://malwarebytes.org/	Free tools that can identify and remove malicious software from your computer.

*Open Source products that are available to you for your personal and professional use.