IT Resources for Faculty and Staff

Outlook email (@sph.cuny.edu)

Login: https://outlook.office.com
Log into Outlook with your CUNY Login (username – first.lastname00@login.cuny.edu)
Instructions available here

CUNYfirst

Login: https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/oam/Portal_Login1.html
New users must “claim” their CUNYfirst accounts. The system verifies your identity against your HR record. Claim your account here.
Access to CUNYfirst modules requires approval from Business Process Owners. A list of approvers and access request forms can be found here.

BlackBoard

SharePoint

Login: https://sharepoint.sph.cuny.edu
The SPH SharePoint Intranet provides a secure, web-acessible, portal to store confidential data, and documents, that is hosted in the SPH DataCenter. SharePoint is available to all CUNY SPH faculty, staff, and students.
Login using your SPH domain credentials (e.g. sph\JSmith)
For training, and setting up new team sites, please send a request to the SPH Helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu).
A Quickstart Guide to the SPH SharePoint environment can be found here.

Digital Measures

Digital Measures Activity Insight software provides one convenient platform with which to track faculty data such as research, teaching, service activities, and accomplishments.

Additional information can be found here.

SPH S:\ Drive
Available over SPH VPN using SPH domain (sph\____).

Software

The following software titles are available to all SPH employees.

See the CUNY information security policy, Use of University Data in the Cloud.

MS Office Suite (through Office 365)

URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com
Use your CUNY Login (e.g. John.Smith24@login.cuny.edu)
Instructions on how to log in are available here

Dropbox

URL: https://dropbox.cuny.edu
Login using your CUNY Login credentials. Instructions available here.
*RF employees need to contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) to have a Dropbox account created after receiving an SPH email address.

Zoom

URL: https://cuny.zoom.us
Login with SSO, using “CUNY” as the company name, and your CUNY Login credentials for username and password. Instructions available here.
*RF employees need to contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) to have a Zoom account created after receiving an SPH email address.

EndNote

https://library.ccny.cuny.edu/PublicHealth/citation

SAS

Available online through CUNY Apporto
Use your CUNY Login to access the virtual computing environment.

Also available for installation on Windows-based computers. More information available here. Please contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) for more details.

SPSS

Available online through CUNY Apporto
Use your CUNY Login to access the virtual computing environment.

Also available for installation locally. More information available here. Please contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) for more details.

ArcGIS and ArcGIS online

Available online through CUNY Apporto
Use your CUNY Login to access the virtual computing environment.

Also available for installation locally. Please contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) for more details.

Adobe Creative Cloud

Please contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) for more details.

Dedoose

Contact the SPH IT Helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) for account activation

Camtasia

Please contact the helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) for more details.

RedCap

Login: https://redcap.sph.cuny.edu/
Access using your SPH domain account. The SPH IT Helpdesk (helpdesk@sph.cuny.edu) can reset your domain account password if needed.

Hardware

Contact the IT Helpdesk if you need assistance obtaining hardware such as a laptop, webcam, or microphone.

Printing

Papercut

Web print requires SPH domain account credentials. Print from your own devices (while on SPH Wi-Fi).

Web printing can only be used to print PDFs or images. For MS Office files (e.g. a Word Document), first save to pdf, and then submit to the printer.

Blackboard and Zoom resources for teaching/learning online

Online teaching resources for faculty (on-demand tutorials, live webinars & faculty support)

User guides for Blackboard and Blackboard Collaborate for Students and Faculty

Training videos on using Zoom

Zoom Security Recommendations – best practices for using Zoom securely

Accessibility Resources

Captioning video lectures

CUNY Assistive Technology Services (CUNY CATS) recommends the use of otter.ai to automatically transcribe video content. You can create a free account that comes with 600 free minutes per month. You import your videos and wait between 20 minutes to an hour for a transcribed product (depending on the length of the video). Once a video is transcribed, you can click on the transcript and make any necessary edits.

If you will be using live videos instead of recorded videos, Blackboard Collaborate has a live captioning feature. However, this does not automatically transcribe your live lectures. You will need to have an attendee type the captions as you are live (CATS does not have live captioning availability). Click here for more information on live captioning with Blackboard Collaborate.

Another option, if you would like to have your live lectures automatically captioned, is Office 365 which has a built-in live captioning feature if you use PowerPoint. CUNY faculty and staff have access to Office 365; you login with your CUNYfirst username (firstname.lastname##@login.cuny.edu) and CUNYfirst password on https://office.com. After clicking on PowerPoint, you can start a new presentation or upload a presentation you already have. After it opens, click on slide show, and click on “always use subtitles”. You can choose to have the captions appear below or above the slide, and have your captions translated to another language by choosing a different subtitle language.

CUNY Assistive Technology Services

CUNY is continually updating the CUNY Assistive Technology Services (CUNY CATS) website with how-to guides, videos, accessibility resources, and other important information with easy and simple installation instructions for CUNY students, faculty, and staff.

A reminder, the following software is available for free at-home use for students:

CATS Assistive Technology Lab Package

Kurzweil 3000 and WYNN are reading and writing software programs used primarily by students with learning disabilities.
ZoomText Magnifier/Reader is a magnification and reading program tailored for low-vision users.
JAWS is a screen reading software program that enables blind or visually impaired users to read the text that is displayed on the computer screen using a speech synthesizer or refreshable braille display.
Fusion is a combination of JAWS screen reader and ZoomText Magnifier/Reader primarily used by low vision and blind students.
OpenBook is a scanning and reading software program that converts printed documents into accessible digital text.