Accessing Lotus Notes and Enhanced Webmail

To access enhanced webmail, open a web browser and type in http://mail.neu.edu. Login using your myNEU username and password. (If you do not have a myNEU password, visit http://myneu.neu.edu to get one, but please note that it can take up to an hour for newly created myNEU accounts to be recognized by the Web email system.)

Visit the Lotus Notes and Enhanced Webmail section of this website to find out more.

Blackboard Services: Grademark, Wikis and Blogs

All faculty have a Blackboard site for each registrar-scheduled course. Faculty can login to Blackboard by visiting http://myneu.neu.edu and clicking the Blackboard link. If the classes you are teaching this semester do not appear, fill out a course request form at http://www.ats.neu.edu/blackboard/requests to add them.

Turnitin:Blackboard’s plagiarism prevention software will continue to be available through Blackboard this year. Instructors can use Turnitin to collect assignments on Blackboard. We recommend that you let students know if you plan to use Turnitin on your syllabus.

Grademark: This new service is available through Turnitin. Grademark allows faculty to insert comments electronically on student papers,regardless of what software program the student used to produce their paper.

Training: For basic Blackboard training, visit the training section of this website .For advanced training and more information about Turnitin, Grademark,wikis and blogs, visit www.edtech.neu.edu to sign up for a Blackboard class.

Visit the Blackboard Support section of this website to find out more.

Free Print Quota Will Reduce Wasted Paper in Computer Labs

For the past few years, excessive printing in the computer labs has caused a tremendous amount of wasted paper and service delays for our students. To reduce waste, Information Services partnered with the Student Government Association to institute the Free Print Quota program.

Introduced on September 1, 2007, all students, faculty and staff are able to print up to 400 pages free of charge in NU Information Services managed computer labs per print period. The print quota will reset to 400 pages at the end of the following intervals:

• September 1 to December 31
• January 1 to April 30
• May 1 to August 31

There is no "rollover" of unused pages. Students do not have unlimited free printing, so please prepare instructional materials so that they have a minimal impact on students ’ print quotas. Please review our Free Print Quota FAQs and print management tips.

Software Titles and New Ways to Access Popular Applications

myApps : myApps is a part of Northeastern On Demand , NU Information Services' award-winning concept in mobile delivery. myApps is a virtual desktop that gives faculty, staff and students the ability to access popular computer applications anywhere a high speed connection to the internet is available. Faculty, staff and students can print and save work to their myFiles virtual storage (the U Drive on myApps).  More software titles will be available soon; visit the myApps channel on myneu.neu.edu  for more information.

Software Downloads on myNEU: Students and faculty can download selected applications from the software download link on myNEU. These applications are licensed for home and school use. Check back frequently; more titles will become available during the 2007-2008 academic year.

Office 2007
Office 2007 is available now for faculty and staff centrally managed NU-owned Windows computers, and on Windows machines in IS managed computer labs. Read the Directions and FAQs before installing Office 2007 for Windows.  

Upgrading to Office 2007 will completely remove any older versions of MS Office from your computer. To learn more, sign up for NU Information Services online and instructor led Office 2007 seminars from our training page.

More Windows Software for Faculty Computers
Faculty can download and install software on their centrally managed NU-owned Windows computers from the Add or Remove Programs utility on their desktops. Click Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove programs, then Add a program to see what software is available. There are new titles being added all of the time, so check Add or Remove Programs frequently!

Expanded Classroom Technology

More Technology Enhanced Classrooms This fall, every classroom on the Boston campus will have audiovisual equipment installed. To see 360 degree views of most of the Boston campus‚ technology-enabled classrooms, visit myneu.neu.edu , click the Services and Links tab, then click the View the Classrooms link under Faculty and Staff Services. Equipment directions are available to download from View the Classrooms as well. While not all of the technology-enabled classrooms are listed, more will be added this academic year.

Private Training Available for Faculty by Appointment: Learn to use classroom audiovisual equipment in the quiet of our Digital Media Services office. In his studio in 2 Ell, Terry Beadle and the Customer Service staff have recreated the standard A/V equipment found in most classrooms. Learn how to use the projector, DVD player, VHS player and laptop before entering a classroom. Contact Terry Beadle at (617) 373-2466 to schedule a session.

Use myBackup to Keep Recent Work Safely Stored

myBackup is a limited desktop backup service provided to NU faculty and staff for their NU-owned computers that are connected to our network. Each faculty and staff person has 5G of space to backup files. You can select (with the exception of certain system files) what you would like to backup to our secure servers here on campus. Please note that myBackup is not available for Macs. We are currently researching backup options for Apple computers and will let the community know when a solution is available.

Computer Lab Reservations

Powerful Research Computing Resources Available for Faculty

The Office of the Provost established the Opportunity Research Computing Environment in conjunction with Information Services to support the broad and diverse areas of research conducted at Northeastern. The Opportunity cluster provides access to many well known applications, including Matlab, Mathmatica, Maple, SAS, Stata and various Intel and GNU compilers. Contact us at researchcomputing@neu.edu for more information.

All Academic and Administrative Buildings have Wireless Internet Coverage

Wireless internet coverage is available in all academic and administrative buildings. NUwave-guest is an unsecured open internet access service. NUwave offers secured internet access for individuals with myNEU userids and passwords. Visit the NUwave page on our website to find out more about expanded wireless service.

Know and understand the Northeastern University AUP

Make sure that you and your students understand what constitutes appropriate use of university computing services. Read the Northeastern University Appropriate Use Policy.

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