For the past few weeks we have seen congestion on the NWU’s International bandwidth.
Gmail for all students
From 2016 all other registered students of the NWU are assigned a NWU Gmail email address.
IT changes gears to support researchers at NWU
IT @ NWU has a new vision for the relationship between IT and the University’s researchers. IT wants to help accelerate research discovery through provisioning of relevant technology, infrastructure, and support. Boeta Pretorius, Chief IT Director says: “Research has been mentioned in the IT strategy for many years, but in 2015 we’re actually going to do something about the way we support our researcher”. So moving from words to action, in the past three months IT has done the following:
The Power of Partnerships
In July 2015 the NWU officially commenced with an eResearch drive that will ultimately help to align research support units and researchers across all disciplines to embrace the power of the digital world in the 21st century.
Aligned Access Control Process across Campuses
Institutional Management requested an alignment of access control across NWU campuses to permit electronic access to all open access areas
Office 365 ProPlus
Starting October 2015, students of the NWU are eligible to download Office 365 ProPlus for free. Read more...
Software Carpentry: Open Tools for Reproducible Research Workshop
North-West University's eResearch Initiative is proud to present our first local Software Carpentry workshop in collaboration with IT@NWU and NWU Faculty of Engineering.
Voting for the Top Lecturers
Since 2012 students have the opportunity to vote for their top lecturers via a link provided in eFundi.
NWUWIFI Setup
To take advantage of the automated NWUWIFI setup compatible for Windows 7, 8/8.1 and 10, click here. The .exe file will help you setup your NWUWIFI profile.