New Faculty - Getting Started with Technology at Whitman

Best done well before you arrive at Whitman:

• Your Office Computer: You will receive email communication(s) from someone in our Technology Services Instructional and Learning Technology group to facilitate getting you set up with a Whitman computer.

As (or before) you arrive at Whitman:

• Activate your Whitman Network Account As soon as you receive your account information, you should activate your Whitman account. This will allow you to access your Whitman email, myWhitman, Canvas, and Whitman-configured services such as Google Drive and Office 365. You will need to have your 7-digit account number ready in order to activate your account.

• Your Faculty ID Card: Your Whitman ID card allows you to access buildings, as well as to make charges to your Whitman account from several on-campus locations such as the bookstore and dining halls. 

• Your Office Telephone and Voicemail (Zoom) You will receive an email from Technology Services which contains your phone number. With that information in hand, learn about how to get started and use your Zoom phone number.

Now that you're at Whitman:

• Help Desk is your point of contact for all technology questions and help requests

• myWhitman: Faculty may review their class rosters, schedules, advisees' information, employee-specific information, and more

• Canvas:  Accessing it, setting up courses, and using it: here's our guide for you, and here's Canvas itself.

• Classroom Technology: Learn about technology-equipped classrooms

• AI:

  • Whitman’s contract with Google includes use of Gemini and Gemini Notebook. This agreement safeguards our data, and also prohibits Google from using our data to train their AI models.

  • Check out Whitman’s campus-wide AI guidelines. Note that these guidelines are a work in progress.

• CourseDog is used for event, curriculum, and scheduling. Here we highlight how to use CourseDog to schedule an event, (e.g. department meeting, a guest lecturer, a film screening, etc – basically anything that’s not your regularly scheduled class times.)

• Technology Equipment Checkout: Technology Services has equipment such as camcorders, wireless keyboards, and more available to checkout.