Fordham IT’s Teaching and Learning Environment (TLE) department, provides faculty loans of the following equipment:
Laptops - Google Chromebooks, Mac laptops, and Windows laptops
Webcams - Mountable to a monitor and connected by USB
Internet Hotspots - If you need an Internet connection and you have a mobile phone, you can add a hotspot to get Internet service for your wireless devices
Document Cameras - Which allow you to display handwritten materials on a screen
Writing/Graphics Tablets - For interacting with a virtual whiteboard
Lavalier Microphones - Allows faculty more mobility while away from the podium
To request any of these, contact IT Customer Care at HelpIT@fordham.edu, (718) 817-3999, or via submitting a ticket through “Tech Help” on my.fordham.edu.
Please be aware that some items may not be in stock at the time of request and have to be ordered.
If you have a particular software resource or service requirement that is currently unavailable, please make a request for it using the following criteria and workflow established by the Provost’s Office and Fordham IT. Before making your request, consult the Standard Software page to make sure it is not already available.
Requests will be considered if they meet all three of the following criteria:
Faculty can verify it is essential for teaching or research.
Students and faculty can use it remotely.
No alternative already exists at the university.
If your request meets the above criteria:
Submit the request to your department chair
If the chair approves, they will submit a ticket to IT Customer Care (helpit@fordham.edu or 718 817-3999)
ITCC will then send that request to Fordham IT’s Faculty Technology Services for review. If approved, the software or service will be purchased.
Vendors constantly contact members of the Fordham community - especially faculty - offering various solutions, often for free at first or at a special discount. If you do test and experiment with a new product, understand what you’re getting into and be wary of false promises. If there is a tool or service you are interested in, please feel free to reach out to Fordham IT and we will review.
Keep in mind that many tools end up being unsuitable: They may raise serious policy or legal implications, have costly long-term commitments, are duplications of existing services, require costly integrations with existing systems, or not integrate with Fordham’s systems at all. Further, even viable offers may have to be refused at this time because the resources needed to review them are better used to focus on the current tasks of supporting the University’s move to remote teaching and ensuring quality throughout that process. We will do our best to make time, but when you consider any external offers, please remember: if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.