OIT Academic Services

The Academic Services (AS) department of Princeton's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is made up of a Director's office (which includes the Director, Assistant to the Director, and OIT's digital repository architect) and a number of groups which provide services ranging from classroom media support to web page creation, training and outreach presentations, and video and audio production, as follows:

• Broadcast Center: operates a full TV/Audio production studio, and supports recording of events, classes, and interviews at the studio and on campus.
• Computation Sciences and Engineering Support: supports High-Performance Computing and scientific/engineering programming and software.
• Educational Technologies Center: supports use of technology in teaching, including course and departmental web sites, Humanities Computing and a New Media Center.
• Education & Outreach Services: provides training, mentoring, and outreach on all aspects of Academic IT at Princeton, and runs a number of workshops and presentation series.
• Media Services: supports use of A/V and other IT equipment in classroom and other venues on campus, and provides A/V support for classes and events.

To learn more about any of the AS groups, click one of the links above.

Our principal clients are professors and instructors who use IT in the classroom, office and laboratory, but we also provide support to students and staff who use technology as a tool to support their academic and related work.  Among the things for which we are known:

• We run the Blackboard course management system.
• We develop departmental, program and project web sites, using the Roxen system.
• We support the media (A/V) in most University classrooms.
• We record University events and public lectures, and make them available as streams and podcasts.
• We run a TV studio that supports both video and audio production, including faculty press  interviews.
• We run the Lunch n' Learn and Productive Scholar presentations.
• We help support the University's high performance computing services, including its main Beowulf clusters.
• We run the University's Humanities Resource Center, which provides a language-lab facility and an on-demand digital film service.
• We run the University's New Media Center, a computer lab used by faculty and students to build web pages and do video and audio editing.
• We run the University's main Videoconferencing facility.

To learn more about the services listed above, click on the corresponding link. To access a comprehensive list of our services, click on the SERVICES tab.