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AHS Computing Activities May 2012. Terry Stewart IT Director Applied Health Sciences. Spring Term Plans. Annual AHS Computing Planning meeting (June), dependent upon: UW Strategic Plan AHS Strategic Plan UW IT Strategic Plan IST Organize for Success. Spring Term Initiatives.
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AHS ComputingActivities May 2012 Terry Stewart IT Director Applied Health Sciences
Spring Term Plans • Annual AHS Computing Planning meeting (June), dependent upon: • UW Strategic Plan • AHS Strategic Plan • UW IT Strategic Plan • IST Organize for Success
Spring Term Initiatives • Virtual Desktop • Shared Space for Researchers • Asset Management • RT - will be setting this up for AHS • Windows 2012 server • SANS security course (6 days) • Office 2013 rollout and courses • CANHEIT
IT Strategic Plan • Draft of Initial Statement Distributed • Potential Opportunities • Revitalize our Student Environment • Grow our technology Environment • Build on foundations to support Research/Administration • Usability, delivery and support of IT
1. Revitalize our Student Environment • Remote access to specialized software • Mobile applications • Connectivity • Portal • Co-op (replacing Jobmine)
2. Grow technology environment • Means for setting University directions for teaching and learning • Create avenues towards next technology • Work with D2L to build learn • Increase support for collaborations tools • Evolve technologies deployed in classes
3. Build IT foundations • Work with stewards of data top provide • Improve data centers • Consider cloud use services • Provide local storage if need for things such as dropbox/video/audio/etc.
4. Usability, delivery and support of IT • Integrated help desks • Improve communications • Fix usability problems • Develop a usability resource • Provide software distribution online • IT staff development
AHS Strategic Plan • Implications?