UofT Guide

DIGITAL RESOURCES

The University of Toronto offers many great digital resources and the Faculty has choosen to not duplicate these services. The Faculty directs its attention to resources that the University does not provide, like large format printers and scanners, advanced 3D modeling software, rendering farms, laser cutters, etc. Whereas the University provides good general services, we will step in when a customized or more advanced service is required. Most of the services are provided from the InfoCommons located in the Robarts library.

U of T SERVICES

The University provides connection to the internet via a fiber optic backbone to a service provider called CNet. The other services are affectionately called UTOR for University of TORonto. Here are a few: Personal Webpages - UTORweb, email - UTORmail, announcements, news and webmail via MyUtoronto, list services - UTORlist, modem connections - UTORdial, and academic software purchases LSO – license software office.

Additionally, the University provides Antivirus software via UTORprotect and Spam filtering on your email account. (More on this in Antivirus) The University runs the wireless connection called UTORcwn: Campus Wireless Network. The daniels building is one of the campus sites for the U of T wireless network which is available in the library. Your digital student card, so to speak, is your UTORid. Most of the services are provided from the InfoCommons located in the Robarts library. These include a series of walk-in and bookable services like a help desk, scanning computers and video editing equipment.

CNS

Additionally, the University has a central division called Computing and Networking Services - CNS. One of their many roles is to 'police' the network connections for inappropriate use. This fact will be important to you when you use wireless connections. If your computer has been hit with a virus or is running certain types of MAL ware (Malicious software that was installed on your computer without your knowledge) your computer may be sending messages that you are not aware of, the cause excessive or dangerous network traffic. CNS is the 'traffic cop,' so to speak, that watches for this and will ask you to clean up your computer, and after a grace period will lock your connection. See http://wireless.utoronto.ca/news/ for wireless news and more information.

Also of note is that the University has a weekly quota on the amount you may upload and download ('traffic') from the internet via the wireless. See more in http://www.wireless.utoronto.ca/quota.php