Communicating with Students via Email

We’re all aware that most of our students are heavy and proficient users of email. Despite that fact (or maybe because of it), we sometimes have a hard time figuring out which email address to use to communicate with an entire class of students...

Classroom Response System Augments Lectures

Use of Western’s Classroom Response System (CRS) which utilizes InterWrite PRS software and hand-held transmitters, is gradually increasing and has been met with growing enthusiasm by both faculty members and students....

Ensuring Faculty Input For General University Classroom Design

As you would expect, faculty members are quite concerned that new and renovated classrooms on campus meet their teaching needs...

WWU Web Page Made More Accessible

This quarter you may have noticed some changes in WWU homepage. In an effort to address issues of accessibility, ATUS Web Services, has completed a redesign....

Harden Those Soft Passwords

Having passwords that are easy to ‘crack’ is one of the biggest threats to our individual and collective computer privacy. The Academic Technology Committee has responded to this problem by recommending implementation of the following policy...

Office 2003 Software Is On the Way

Western has long had access to the latest Microsoft software, ensuring that our graduates have a distinct advantage when they join the world of work...