Swarthmore College ITS

You don’t have to do it all yourself! The College has lots of resources to help you be more effective in the classroom and in your research. Whether its taking time to teach software tools, or finding resources to enhance your class, did you know about:

Moodle/Faculty Services

• You can get pronunciations of students’ names in Moodle and Faculty Services.
• You can view a roster with photos for each of your courses in Faculty Services in addition to pronunciations.

Hardware

• You can request an iPad to assist with your teaching through the Teaching with Tablets program.
• You can borrow laptops, and AV equipment from CCT, and higher end Media Production equipment from the Creative Media Commons.
• We have three Mavic 3 Enterprise Drones, two with an RTK module, one that’s great for aerial imagery and mapping, one with a visible light and a thermal camera, and one with visible light and multispectral cameras?

Online Services

• The College supports a GitHub Enterprise repository
• We also have a Qualtrics license for online surveys
• We have Panopto for streaming video
• We support Posit Cloud for RStudio and you can also run RStudio on our Firebird HPC Cluster
• Firebird also hosts licenses for Stata/MP and other tools

Training

• For extensive training on Software and productivity, we have a site license for Linkedin Learning - Including courses on everything from MS Office, to Adobe Creative Cloud Suite to managing across different cultures and becoming more effective with your time and task management
• If your students need to learn to use R or Python, we have a limited supply of DataCamp training seats,
• Some of our staff are trained in Digital Storytelling?
• We can offer workshops in Conference Poster Design, and other technologies?

Software & Services

• For mapping, we have an ESRI ArcGIS site license that includes ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS StoryMaps? This includes access to online training in these GIS technologies, and to amazing satellite and other spatial data resources through the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
• There is a lot of software provided by the College for download and use on student, faculty, and staff computers, 
• And we have a Podcast Studio, MakerSpace, Media Center, Computer classroom(s), Windows Virtual Desktops, Active Learning classrooms, and video and photo equipment checkout

We'll cover all of this and more in an attempt to connect you with software and services that can assist you in your teaching, learning, and research.