Academic Technology Services

Welcome to the ATS Wiki. This web site is a community-edited site with information on technology and education, created by Academic Technology Services at the University of Richmond. It is our knowledge base for how technology works and how technology can be used in support of teaching and learning. Please use the "Topic list" links on the left to view a list of all topics in our Wiki, select the "Search text" link to look for something specific.

Current Projects

• Book List - Requested books and CD-ROMs for the TLC and the Liaison Library.
• BlackBoard - Our notes on maintaining and testing the University's learning management system.
• Asynchronous Online Presentations
• Social Software
• MacromediaBreeze - some ideas for presentations
• MobileTechnologies - development for the mobile environment
• ProjectList - This is a list of projects that we are working on that affect a large number of users. Users can come to these pages and make requests for improvements in the application.
• Reference
• New Image

Learning About Technology

• Windows Information
  • Windows Applications
• Macintosh Information
  • Mac Applications^?
• Web Sites^?
• Some Tutorials - Tips, tricks and tutorials on all kinds of programs. A must see.
• BlojsomBlogs - Learn about blogs, and request a blog for instructional use.
• ARTstor resources - ARTstor is a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections.
• MDID resources - MDID is a local database for digital images from the university slide collection.
• MacUsers
• Gottwald Multimedia Document
• Connecting To NetFiles from the Mac (Acrobat PDF): Instructions on accessing network file space from a Mac over the campus network.

More Resources

This section contains links to items we've found so useful we didn't see the need to invent them ourselves.

Web Technologies

This section contains links to various things folks are using on our campus currently or hope to use in the future. We currently use FrontPageExtensions to provide our users with additional functionality, but we are looking into other options for the future.

Site Tools of the ATS Web

•      (More options in WebSearch)
• WebChanges: Display recent changes to the ATS web
• WebIndex: List all ATS topics in alphabetical order. See also the faster WebTopicList
• WebNotify: Subscribe to an e-mail alert sent when something changes in the ATS web
• WebStatistics: View access statistics of the ATS web
• WebPreferences: Preferences of the ATS web (TWikiPreferences has site-wide preferences)

-- KevinCreamer - 07 Aug 2006