Burglar alarms used to monitor and warn about unauthorized access to facilities or equipment. Users can apply for user codes here and need to understand that access to an alarm system bears the same risks as carrying keys to official facilities.

All technologies found in academic facilities, including (but not limited to) computers, access control, lecture broadcast- and capturing, sound, projectors/large format monitors, cameras, switching-, control- and building automation equipment, patch points, microphones etc., used to further Teaching and Learning or Research/Innovation strategies. After installation, these are supported by campus IT's.

With registration on the NWU network the user is automatically assigned data storage on a centralised storage area.

A backup process is automatically executed on a regular basis on the centralised storage area. (It is important to note that centralised storage area refers to P:\ and departmental network drives and not the C:\drives of individual people's computers.) Backup is the activity of copying files so that they will be preserved in case of equipment failure or other catastrophe.

Data can be restored on request.

Users are allocated 10GB data storage.

Used for connectivity in meetings that need to be attended from remote locations. Infrastructure is provided by IT-ES, but support is done from campus IT.

The Internet service enables the user to access the Internet from any network access point with a valid ip address on the default “web-based” network ports: 80 and 443.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is also allowed via the proxy.

The NWU is part of a national initiative to provide laptops and tablets at affordable prices.

The laptops and tablets are moderately priced with discount on the fixed prices of some of the models.

Two suppliers have been selected (Acer and Lenovo) and each have different models to choose from.

This service provides network connected workstations in the lecturer’s podiums of lecture halls.

This service provides a multiple choice card reader for the capturing of assessment or evaluation results that were done on multiple choice cards.

NB: The user is responsible to read in the cards themself.

This service provides a network point connected to the NWU network.

The NWU Mobile App now providesa unique set of mobile tools for administrative, academic and informative purposes.

Functions include:

• a buy tool for mobile airtime,
• live streaming to PUKfm,
• access to the student Newspaper,
• official NWU news, a chat tool,
• access to academic results,
• campus maps as on Google,
• help-functionality where all emergency numbers can be accessed,
• students will also be able to check their balances of the student cards,
• access to e-Fundi.

This service provides an MS Word Postgraduate and Proposal template for creating a Dissertation/Mini Dissertation/Thesis or Proposal.

This service allows a user to apply for an open port on the NWU Firewall.

Requests are approved or disapproved by the IT Director.

The NWU’s Firewall ensures that all internal network computers are protected by preventing any unnecessary and unauthorized network traffic to and from any internal computer connected to the NWU Network.

Central Firewall policies are maintained to grant access in exceptional cases.

The Internal Proxy Servers store or keep copies of the most requested or browsed pages or downloads and in doing so accelerates any consequential requests for the same information from the local storage.

A means to provide access to Turnitin via eFundi for comparing uploaded assignments to a database, determining the probability of plagiarism.

This is the standard NWU Remote connection program and can be loaded on any device regardless if private property or NWU owned.

Sound and/or visual systems in venues other than classrooms.