Essentials Review Topics and Coordinators (ITD Staff)

The following table lists the Essentials content under review and the coordinating SMEs (subject matter experts):

Topic	Coord.	URL	@Page
FlySpace   Training   Calendaring   Lockers   Email Unity account	Sarah Noell	http://www.ncsu.edu/flyspace/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/education_training/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/itd_sections/pubs/group_calendar/group_calendar.html http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/managing_files/locker_instruct.html http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/email_messaging/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/your_unity_account/index.html	1, 2, 3
Sam’s Message	Jude Davis		2
Help Desk /CD	Chris King	http://help.ncsu.edu/	1, 2, 12
Printing	Jessie Henninger	http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/managing_files/printing/index.html	2
Wireless, Nomad   PC specs   Labs (college and Unity)   Virus/Spam/Secure   Bookstore	David Ladrie	http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/connections_labs/wireless.html http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/your_computer/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/connections_labs/unity_computer_labs/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/antivirus_security/index.html http://www.fis.ncsu.edu/ncsubookstores/computers.html	3, 5, 7, 10, 11
Software	Bill Coker	http://www.ncsu.edu/software/	4
Accessibility	Saroj Primlani	http://www.ncsu.edu/it/access/	3
VCL	Laura Grady	http://vcl.ncsu.edu/	5
ResNet	Carrie Levow	http://www.ncsu.edu/resnet/	12
Kiosk   Mac specs	Everette Allen	http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/connections_labs/campus_kiosks/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/your_computer/index.html	5, 6, 7
iTunesU   Wolfcast   Multimedia   Blogging	Hal Meeks	http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/page/web?entry=itunesu http://wolfcast.ncsu.edu/ http://www.ncsu.edu/it/multimedia/ http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/
Map	Marko		6, 7

 

Edit Essentials

Contribute is available to all ITD staff as a stand-alone client or through VCL. If you need Contribute, contact Bill Coker (515-5419). Bill can get the software to you. Contribute is not yet available for Linux, so if you are using Linux, you can only access Contribute through the IT Pubs VCL image (vcl.ncsu.edu).

 

We have sent you a Contribute connection key, which you can use for making your connection to the Essentials website. When you have Contribute on your computer, download the key to your desktop and import it through Contribute. You will have review access to all pages in the Essentials website. If you access Contribute through VCL, you will need to start a VCL session and download the Contribute key through email in VCL onto your VCL desktop, then use the same procedure to import the key. Note: See the instructions below for importing Contribute connection keys. For the time being, the connection key process will have to be repeated for each VCL session.

 

The key gives you review capabilities and the "Send for Review" option, which creates a copy of your edits in a temporary file in AFS. Pubs can review and discuss these edits with you before we make the page(s) live. We will publish the pages after the Pubs review is complete. You can also review drafts within your own work group prior to forwarding your pages to Pubs for review.

 

If you need more information about this process, contact IT_Pubs@help.ncsu.edu. For information on using Contribute, see the following instructions.

 

Connection Keys

 

Using the Connection Wizard (Windows) or Connection Assistant (Macintosh), you can easily set up connections to websites for other users. The wizard enables Contribute users to collaborate by sharing website connections.

 

Contribute lets you share website connection information by embedding website information in a connection key file. Because the connection key is encrypted with a password, any network or Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) login information you send in the file remains secure and can be accessed only through Contribute. The connection key file uses the ‘stc’ extension.

 

Import a Key

 

To learn more about downloading and importing a Contribute key, see:

 

http://www.ncsu.edu/it/essentials/contribute/instructions.html