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VT Google Apps Mail
Virginia Tech has partnered with Google to offer e-mail and collaboration services through the Google Apps for Education program. All current Virginia Tech students, staff, faculty, and alumni are provided with a Virginia Tech e-mail address. During your time at Virginia Tech, your e-mail address will become your primary source of communication between classmates, professors, colleagues, family, and friends.
Your e-mail account is named according to your PID, and [Your PID]@vt.edu is a valid e-mail address. Your VT Mail e-mail account remains active if you are:
Scholar
Scholar is Virginia Tech's implementation of Sakai, which is currently being developed and used at MIT, Stanford, Michigan and Indiana and many other universities. Scholar enables innovative ways to teach students, assess learning, and collaborate with users at Virginia Tech and beyond. With its capabilities of project site creation and resource sharing, Scholar consolidates the functions of a course management system like Blackboard with research and collaboration features, all coupled with enhanced ePortfolio capabilities.
Faculty Development Institute (FDI)
The Faculty Development Institute (FDI) provides teaching and learning infrastructure that meets modern needs for integrating technology across content areas. FDI seeks to create and support robust environments for teaching, learning, and discovery for faculty and students that are grounded in sound principles of learning, and in a thorough knowledge of integrating technology for effectiveness and efficiency of effort. For more information, see the Faculty Development Institute Web site.
Your PID
Your Virginia Tech PID is a unique Personal IDentifier. With it and the associated password, you can access the online Virginia Tech services for which you may be eligible. Access to your PID will be terminated if you are no longer an employee, a retiree, or a sponsored person, and have not been a student.
My VT
My VT is a gateway or portal to Virginia Tech online services and information designed to be used by all Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and alumni. The automatic single sign-on capability My VT offers with several university services, such as Hokie SPA, Filebox, and Departmental Software, uses Central Authentication Services (CAS). Single sign-on means that once you log on to My VT, you won't have to retype your PID and password to access those online services. Featured also in My VT are several information channels that focus on a particular topic.
Exchange
The Exchange server is the premier email and calendaring solution for faculty and staff. The Exchange server provides a complete groupware environment, including integrated email, appointments, tasks, contacts, and public folders. You can use a variety of client applications to access an Exchange account.
Hokies ID
Your Hokies ID is a unique ID for current faculty and staff that resides on the central Virginia Tech Windows 2003 servers. Your assigned ID belongs to you and you only. This ID and its password serve to grant you access to three primary systems: shared computer resources such as file and printer shares, your Exchange email account, and Citrix for Banner access.
Faculty/Staff Getting Started Guide
This checklist will walk you through the tasks necessary to get started with computing at Virginia Tech.
4Help: Virginia Tech's Customer Support Center
The mission of Virginia Tech's 4Help Customer Support Center is to enhance the university's missions of teaching, learning, research, and outreach by providing centralized computing and telecommunications support services to Virginia Tech affiliates through:
answers.vt.edu Knowledge Base
Housing over 1300 solutions, answers.vt.edu provides 24x7 access to computing support articles for a wide variety of problems.