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The IT Security Office (ITSO) will assist faculty, staff, students, and alumni with containment, mitigation, and remediation of IT security incidents caused by: an attempted or actual unauthorized use, disclosure, modification, or destruction of information; interference with information technology operation; or a violation of campus policy, laws, or regulations.
Mason provides wired and wireless network access for faculty, staff, students, and guests in every campus facility.
ITS provides troubleshooting and customer assistance to authorized users of Patriot Web, including tech support, and access management.
Webconferencing tools are available for use in classes and meetings.
Office 365, Mason’s email and calendar system, contains tools to support collaboration. This includes creating distribution lists for mass mailings, generic accounts for use by departments/clubs, and blocking unwanted messages (SPAM). In addition, you can request a change to how your name is displayed.
Computer labs offer the university community access to computing resources and a variety of software to support learning, teaching, and research. Labs have printers available through the pay-for-print (PFP) network. To reserve equipment and/or other lab resources, select Reserve Resources.
Mason’s Learning Management Systems (LMS), contains many tools to support teaching and learning, as well as myMason for use by departments and organizations to stay connected and informed. Poll Everywhere and Honorlock are separate services available within the Blackboard environment. Mason is in the process of bringing Canvas as the new LMS.
The Patriot Pass credentials are used to access most Mason systems (e.g., Patriot Web, myMason) and are set when you activate your account. If your password is forgotten or expired, you can reset it on the Patriot Pass Password Management page. This site is also used to manage your Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) account methods.
The Portfolio and Project Management Office (PPMO) supports consistent portfolio and project management practices for Information Technology Services (ITS), enabling project leaders to successfully deliver their promised value to their customers. All current projects and requests in Mason’s Project Inventory are tracked and managed via a dashboard. The dashboard consists of multiple visualizations, each offering multiple options to sort and filter the information to see what is most relevant to you.
This service contains different offerings that can be used to automate all or part of a document process.
Microsoft allows George Mason University to provide the latest version of Microsoft Office, Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, and other Microsoft products at no cost. Access is tied to your Mason email address.
Technology Support Services (TSS) provides full-service, technical desktop support to faculty and staff for Mason-owned and -managed devices.
A mapping and analytics platform with data sharing functionality. Geographic Information System (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information. It is used for: creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analyzing mapped information; sharing and discovering geographic information; using maps and geographic information in a range of applications, and managing geographic information in a database.
Virtual Computing Services includes Patriot Virtual Computing & Labs (PVCL).
Prior to purchasing software or hardware that will impact data management, storage, dissemination, security, involve controlled unclassified or sensitive data, or impact user experience, and to comply with Mason's procurement policy, the Technical Business Solution Intake Process must be initiated.
Statistical software for data scientists, business analysts, statisticians, and forecasters to explore, analyze and visualize data.
MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation.
ITS supports a variety of public domain and site-licensed software to the Mason Community. View an A-Z listing of available here. You may also make requests for, or report issues with certain Software titles.
Wolfram Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation programming language used in math, computing, engineering, and other fields.
LabStats tracks when, where, and how long students are logged on to hardware resources in computer labs.