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- What audiovisual technology is available in classrooms?
- How do I use SEAS printers?
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- What remote learning tools are available to Penn Engineering students?
- What remote teaching tools are available to Penn Engineering faculty?
- How do I use the University Client VPN?
- How do I use Zoom?
CETS Answers Article Index
Remote Tools
- What remote working tools are available to Penn Engineering staff?
- What remote learning tools are available to Penn Engineering students?
- What remote teaching tools are available to Penn Engineering faculty?
Accounts
- Account Services at SEAS
- How can I get a SEAS account?
- How do I change my SEAS local account password?
- How Do I Enroll in Two-Step Verification?
- SEAS Account Termination
- Google@SEAS Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I set or change my Google@SEAS password?
- What password should I use?
- SEAS Information Security Tips
- How do I change my Full Name on ENIAC?
- How can I limit the amount of information people can get about my SEAS account?
- How can I get a quota increase for my senior project?
- How much quota (disk space) do I have?
- What is the difference between my PennKey and SEAS account?
- Why does my old password still work after I changed it?
- Why can't I login?
- How do I manage a SEAS activity account?
- How do I read email at SEAS?
- How do I forward my SEAS email to another address?
- How do I set up a mailing list?
- What is Mailman@SEAS?
- How can I create a vacation email message?
- How do I use the Penn Online Directory in my email client?
- How can I tell if an email is legitimate?
- What can I do about spam?
- How can I avoid having my mail blocked by spam filters?
- What email attachment file types are prohibited and how can I send these files?
- Why am I getting "undeliverable" email about emails I didn't send?
Telephone
Calendar
Course Support
- What course resources are available to SEAS faculty?
- What remote teaching tools are available to Penn Engineering faculty?
- What audiovisual technology is available in classrooms?
- Canvas for Course Websites
- What is Ed Discussion?
- What is Gradescope?
- What is Codio?
- What is Panopto?
- What is Poll Everywhere?
- What is Respondus LockDown Browser?
- Wireless Microphones for Classroom Podiums
Software
- Software for SEAS Students
- What remote learning tools are available to Penn Engineering students?
- What remote working tools are available to Penn Engineering staff?
- What remote teaching tools are available to Penn Engineering faculty?
- What is Abaqus?
- MATLAB Information
- Why am I getting 'maximum number of users' error in MATLAB?
- What is Microsoft Azure Dev Tools for Teaching?
- Where do I report hardware or software problems?
- How do I use Subversion?
- How do I record audio narration in PowerPoint?
- How do I use Slack?
- How do I use Zoom?
CETS Labs
- How do I reserve a CETS computer lab?
- What software is available in CETS PC labs?
- How do I sign into Adobe Creative Cloud apps on Public Lab PCs?
- How Can I Use Headphones in the Computer Labs?
- How do I use the the ScanJet 6300C at the Towne M70 Scanner Station?
- How do I use the Virtual PC Lab?
- How do I use Biglab?
- How do I use Speclab?
Printing
- How do I use SEAS printers?
- How do I print and display tex, latex, dvi and PostScript (ps) files?
- How do I print AMSTeX files?
- How do I get my posters printed?
Other
- How do I scan documents with my mobile device?
- How do I use Canvas with my mobile device?
- How do I make a PDF file?
- How do I restore deleted files?
- What are the different server addresses for SEAS?
- How do I subscribe to SEAS computing shutdown announcements?
- What is the Weigle Information Commons?
- How do I reserve a room at SEAS?
- What is the Education Commons?
- How do I access LinkedIn Learning for online training?
Web / Internet
- How do I create a website?
- How do I install files in my public HTML directory?
- How do I install WordPress?
- How do I run CGI on SEAS web servers?
- How do I get a MySQL database account?
- How do I use Qualtrics?
- How do I promote my website?
- How do I restrict access to my website?
- How do I require PennKey authentication to access my website?
- How do I restrict access to my website with usernames and passwords that I manage?
- Web Application Security Tips
- CETS Fling and Alliance Policy
- How do I transfer files to a SEAS account?
- How do I transfer files with WS_FTP?
- How do I transfer files with Fetch?
- Why doesn't my html directory list its contents?
- How do I fix the permissions on my html directory and files?
- How can I modify messages that visitors of my pages get when errors occur?
- How do I use Subversion?
- How do I enable WebDAV for my SEAS account?
- How do I enable WebDAV for Windows?
- How do I share documents securely?
- Google Shared Drives
- Why was my browser redirected to Penn Information Security?
- What is the AddType directive?
Security
- What is Nudge?
- How do I recover after my computer has been cracked?
- Linux System Administration Best Practices
- Generating PGP Keys
- Is this a real email from CETS?
- Important Security Links
- SEAS Account Security
- How do I share documents securely?
Network
- How do I find my hostname in Windows?
- How do I connect to AirPennNet?
- How do I use the University Client VPN?
- How do I mount my SEAS home directory on my computer?
- How do I mount my SEAS home directory on Linux using SSHFS?
- How do I find my computer's MAC address
- Can I mount my home directory on my PC using PC-NFS?
- Port Blocking
- What is Samba?
Linux/Unix & Programming
- How to Manage a SEAS Activity Account
- Why can't I open Firefox on my Linux machine?
- Linux System Administration Best Practices
- What files are automatically removed by the system?
- How do I configure my backspace command?
- How do I manipulate files with special characters in their name?
- How do I change my login shell?
- How do I give read access to files in a directory?
- How do I use chmod to change permissions?
- How do I execute a program I wrote?
- What is a "core" file, and does it count against my quota?
- Where can I run a cron job?
- How do I create a CVS repository?
- How do I change the default group upon file modification and creation?
- I locked myself out of my own directory!
- What's wrong with having '.' in your $PATH ?
- How do I find out the creation time of a file?
- How do I use gcc, g++, and gdb?
- Java Compiler on Eniac
- Java Tutorial
- How do I kill a process?
- What are the limits for processes on Eniac?
- How do I control the default permissions on new files?
- Why don't "quota -v", "du", "ls -l", and "ls -s" agree?
- How Do I Log into the Command Line?
- When I change a web page on the lab PCs, nobody can read it!
- Sharing files with a group of users
- What is SSH?
- How do I use Subversion?
- How do I turn off Talk and Write?
- How Do I Use VI?
- When I log in, it just logs me out immediately.
- How do I set up X11 forwarding?
- CETS Research IT Support
- How do I install a python module for use on Linux systems at SEAS?
- How to Set up a Git Repository over WebDAV
- How do I install Skype on my CETS-managed Linux machine?
- Using the /tmp and /scratch partitions
- How do I use VNC to access a remote Linux desktop?