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Mason provides wired and wireless network access for faculty, staff, students, and guests in every campus facility.
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.
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.
ITS provides troubleshooting and customer assistance to authorized users of Patriot Web, including tech support, and access management.
Canvas, George Mason's Learning Management System, contains many tools to support teaching and learning. A number of third party tools are integrated into Canvas, such as Kaltura, Poll Everywhere, Turnitin, Honorlock.
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.
Submit a request without having to use a Mason NetID.
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.
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.
Endpoint management services offer tools (JAMF PRo, BeyondTrust, SCCM, and Intune) to remotely support and manage devices in the Mason environment.
GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of 20+ desktop and mobile apps and services for photography, design, video, web, UX, and more.
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.
Virtual Computing Services includes Patriot Virtual Computing & Labs (PVCL).
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.
Technology Support Services (TSS) provides full-service, technical desktop support to faculty and staff for Mason-owned and -managed devices.
As part of an ongoing effort to protect faculty, staff, students, and the university from malware and unsafe links, Microsoft Defender is enabled for Office 365, which includes two security features: Safe Links and Safe Attachment
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.
Mason offers Cable Television Service for campus buildings and residence halls.
Telephone lines and voice mailboxes are provided for faculty, staff, departmental spaces, and student organizations. These services are in transition as we work towards retiring the Avaya system and implementing the new Vonage system. For project updates, visit the Telecom System Replacement Roadmap
Qualtrics is a simple-to-use web-based survey tool to conduct survey research, evaluations, and other data collection activities. Anyone (with no experience) can use this research suite to build surveys, send surveys, and analyze responses.
Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
Qualtrics, GMU.Qualtrics.com, is a web-based survey tool to conduct survey research, evaluations, and other data collection activities. The Mason community can use this research suite to build and send surveys then analyze and export responses—all from any online location, 24/7.
Wolfram Mathematica is a symbolic mathematical computation programming language used in math, computing, engineering, and other fields.