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General Info For Students For Faculty Office of Institutional Research

The Department of Computer Information Systems (CIS) is the central department that supports technology on campus for faculty, staff, and students, as well as providing all statistical information for Government surveys.


Fake E-Card warning:

A common scam email is the fake E-Card. We have received a few of these recently.

They look innocent, with a subject line that might say "You have received a Hallmark E-Card!" or "Mary has sent you a greeting card" and claiming to be from a well known company like Hallmark, American Greetings, or Yahoo. The email looks valid, and contains lots of links to the website it claims to be from. It often also contains a note at the bottom saying that it has been scanned for viruses (which, of course, is fake).
 
It is very difficult to determine if these are legitimate or not. You can be sure that it's a scam if it wants you to click a link that points to a ".exe" file; to find out, point at the link without clicking, and after a second or two it will show you where the link goes. However, it's not always that obvious.
 
As always, if you have any doubts, please don't hesitate to contact Rick Onanian.

SPAM Filter Update

Spam containing Russian or Cyrillic alphabets (which have characters like "Д", "и", "ж", and "я") should no longer be bothering anybody. Additional rules have been put in place to block these types of emails.


Password Changing Policy

As part of our recent major system upgrade, we have instituted a computer-enforced policy that requires all users to change their password on a regular basis. This is standard practice in most modern networks and is required to help secure important data and system access.

 
If you haven’t been prompted to create a new password yet, you soon will be. In order to ensure security, the password you create must meet certain standards. They must:
 
•     be at least 8 characters long
•     contain at least one of each of the following: numbers, lowercase letters, uppercase letters
 
An example, which you should not use, would be: "compL3xpassword".
 
Don’t cringe. Changing passwords can be fun. Did you know you could use a whole sentence as a password? You don't have to limit yourself to a single, difficult-to-remember word. Instead, you can write out a whole easy to remember sentence — as long as it includes a number.
 
An example, which you should not use, would be:   "I will get used to password requirements in 6 months."
 
It is important to remember exactly how you typed it, because you must duplicate your case and punctuation perfectly each time. Also, if you get a warning saying that long passwords don't work with old systems, click "Yes" or "Ok".
 
More tips on creating a secure password can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/create.mspx
 
A password strength gauge can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/protect/yourself/password/checker.mspx
There, you can type in a password you might want to use (don't worry, it's safe) and it will tell you how strong the password is.

Upgrade Successful!

As of Friday September 12th at 5:00 PM we are switching over to our new email system.  

Student email accounts will be changing to FirstInitialMiddleInitialLastName@amcats.edu. Any new email they receive on their current email accounts will be forwarded to their new email addresses for a month. The students will be provided with this information as well as how to forward their saved messages to the new email system.
 

On Monday, faculty/staff will be able to access all Anna Maria email via Outlook 2007 on College computers.  

IT will also be installing Microsoft Office 2007 in conjunction with Office 2003 on all College owned machines. Please see the link below to a few interactive guides that demonstrate where some common tasks are located in Office 2007. As the semester progresses, we will be offering training sessions on Office 2007. The interactive guides can be found HERE.

Contact us!

Stop by: We’re located in the second floor of Trinity Hall.
Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 4:30pm.

Call us: x326 or x327 on campus or (508) 849-3326 or (508) 849-3327 from off campus

Email us: mmiers@annamaria.edu or bzawalich@annamaria.edu