GC IT By The Numbers

• Student/Computer ratio in labs: 7 to 1--one of the best you'll find anywhere.

• Upgrade cycle in GC labs: all GC lab computers are on a regular upgrade cycle--you'll never use an outdated computer at GC.

• Live Network Jacks: 3500+

Percent of academic buildings with wireless coverage: 100%. Take your laptop to class.

Computerized classrooms: 6. If your class needs per student computing, it's available.

Multimedia Classrooms: 32. All major teaching classrooms are equipped.

Network file storage: 1 GB/student--need more, just ask.

Institutionally-owned computers 500+. And they're all on a regular upgrade cycle.

Wireless access points: 50+. Coverage includes most academic buildings, green spaces and public areas.

College-owned off-campus houses connected to the campus network: 100%.

Student satisfaction-level with campus computing facilities: 92%. Far higher than most schools and heading towards 100%.


Top Ten Viruses
Troj/Invo-Zip 1 New Troj/Invo-Zip 12%
W32/Netsky 2 3 W32/Netsky 9.5%
Mal/EncPk-EI 3 Re-entry Mal/EncPk-EI 7.8%
Troj/Pushdo-Gen 4 2 Troj/Pushdo-Gen 6.3%
Troj/Agent-HFU 5 1 Troj/Agent-HFU 5.6%
Mal/Iframe-E 6 5 Mal/Iframe-E 5.5%
Troj/Mdrop-BTV 7 Re-entry Troj/Mdrop-BTV 5.3%
Troj/Mdrop-BUF 8 Re-entry Troj/Mdrop-BUF 4.5%
Troj/Agent-HFZ 9 1 Troj/Agent-HFZ 4.4%
Troj/Agent-HGT 10 1 Troj/Agent-HGT 3.9%

GC Technology News

Campus WiFi Project

Posted By: Michael Sherer, Aug 20, 2009

WiFi may be slower than a wired network, but you can't beat the convenience.  As more and more students faculty and staff make extensive use of campus WiFi access, the pressure has grown to make it available everywhere. So, last spring ITS received approval to move ahead with a plan to implement a campus-wide enterprise wireless system over the course of academic year 2009-10.  The first fruits of that project are already installed in Miller dorm, and by mid-September ITS plans to have coverage in the entire KMY complex, the Union Building and Westlawn.  Other residence halls will come online during fall semester.  We'll post additional status reports as we make progress on the implementation

e2campus Gets the Word Out

Posted By: Michael Sherer, Aug 20, 2009

e2campus
In an effort to make emergency notification more effective, GC has purchased and implemented e2campus, a leader in higher ed emergency notification systems.  e2campus provides campus leaders with a single dashboard for pushing emergency and crisis-related messages out to campus through email, SMS, and desktop clients. Along with the new siren system, this multi-tier approach helps ensure that effective communication occurs in the midst of a campus emergency.

Class Schedules Get Pushed

Posted By: Michael Sherer, Aug 14, 2009

Last year at this time, clerical staff across campus began entering course schedule information into Oracle Calendar. This year that task is automated.  Thanks to the efforts of Paul Ortman, Ryan Rittenhouse, the Registrar's Office and others, course schedules in Jenzabar are getting pushed into Zimbra Calendar for rooms, students and faculty members.  The implications of this go beyond labor savings on data entry.  The information is more accurate, and facilitates scheduling of rooms and people across campus.  Enjoy!

iLight: It's Finally Here

Posted By: Michael Sherer, Jul 30, 2009

 

iLight

Some things take longer than you think.  Nearly 5 years in the making, Goshen's iLight connection finally went live on July 29.  The iLight network is Indiana's award-winning statewide fiber-optic network, which connects an increasing number of hoosier colleges and universities.  Practically what it means is that we have 20 times the network capacity for instate and internet 2 traffic and 60 Mbits of commodity internet bandwidth.  Many popular internet sites, like YouTube, FaceBook, Google and Yahoo are already on Internet 2, which means we have effectively eliminated our internet connection as a bottleneck--forever.  Happy downloading!

Live on Zimbra

Posted By: Michael Sherer, Jul 13, 2009

After months of preparation, GC is now live on Zimbra, the popular e-mail/collaboration suite used by Stanford, Carleton College, University of Indianapolis, Comcast and hundreds of other schools.  Zimbra mimics Microsoft Exchange, which simplifies connecting mobile devices and its calendar offers suitable functionality for replacing Oracle Calendar while adding improved support for internet calendar standards.  Also significant, students will have personal calendar accounts and everyone will have their accounts automatically populated with their academic schedule.  This simplifies scheduling meetings since even people who don't use their calendar on regular basis will have their class schedules available.  

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