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Learning Management Systems (LMS) provides support and troubleshooting for MSU’s LMS platforms, including D2L (Desire2Learn) and other related tools. The service covers user inquiries, technical issues, and guidance on LMS features such as course creation, content management, assessments, grading, and communication tools.

MSU IT Web Hosting offers MSU units and MSU-affiliated organizations the ability to put their websites online with an approved domain name of their choice. MSU IT manages the web hosting account setup and routine system tasks.

Digital accessibility is the practice of designing and providing equitable user experiences so that individuals with disabilities are able to independently acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services within the same timeframe as individuals without disabilities, with substantially equivalent ease of use.

Wireless printing and remote printing via 'print.msu.edu' - MSU Print allows you to print to specific MSU Printers from anywhere in the world using the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).

MSU NetIDs are assigned to all current faculty, staff, students and retirees. A NetID is a unique alphanumeric identifier auto-generated from the user's name.

Your NetID is your personal identifier at MSU and serves as your login to many university computing and networking services. Your NetID also determines your MSU email address which is netid@msu.edu (e.g. the NetID msuspartan would have the email address msuspartan@msu.edu).

The MSU IT Service Desk (ITSD) is the single point of contact to the user community for communication, coordination, and support of technology at MSU. The support model includes first level technical troubleshooting and support and limited functional support for learning management systems and student information systems.

Workstation Support offers hardware support to academic, administrative, clinical, and research units. The Workstation Management Support (WMS) teams partners with each unit to find the right level of support based on different environments and needs. WMS provides front line in-person and remote support to keep MSU-owned devices running smoothly throughout the entire assets lifecycle.

Procurement of IT commodities and services with location tracking of equipment/assets/inventory. Maintains/audits perpetual physical inventory of assigned commodities and service, cost controls, and compliance standards (e.g., University’s Capital Asset Management/CAM requirements). Coordinates return merchandise.

Some services have a cost associated with them, and these services are billed to customers using a centralized billing process. Billing includes the assignment of time, materials, and other costs to applicable work orders. The Billing teams maintain price lists in billing systems (e.g., Planon, Pinnacle), monitors and tracks receipt of purchases made.

Spartan Mail and related Spartan 365 software, including applications located at https://spartan365.msu.edu and downloaded Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook), are provided to students while they attend the university and to faculty and staff members while they are employed by the university.

Continual Service Improvement (CSI) aims to improve the quality of services by learning from past successes and failures.

Manage and maintain MSU IT account ledgers and budgets (fiscal officer requirements). Budget planning and forecasting. Financial analysis, problem solving, and education. Cost containment and spend optimization.

Fill out this form to request services from MSU IT’s Instructional Technology and Development team. We can help you with creative and technical instructional technology and accessibility in course development.

​​​​​​​Web Conferencing is a cloud-based solution that enables individuals and organizations to conduct virtual meetings, webinars, and collaborative sessions over the internet. It eliminates the need for on-premise infrastructure and provides users with a scalable, cost-effective, and easily accessible platform for communication.

MSU IT provides Learning Space and Classroom Repair to MSU faculty, staff, and administrators when media equipment and technical assistance is needed for regularly scheduled classes, computer lab classes, commencement, training sessions, or special events.

The Enterprise Business Systems (EBS) Portal is the entry point to administrative systems used university-wide. Based on security roles, the EBS Portal provides MSU employees and retirees access to their unique combination of authorized administrative systems. Embedded as part of MSU’s HR/Payroll System, it provides direct access to various human resources functions.

Virtual Desktop grants authorized students, faculty, and staff seamless access to licensed university software and applications via a user-friendly online portal at vdi.msu.edu.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) is used to secure remote access to internal-only (non-public) services. MSU faculty and staff need to connect to trusted computing resources from remote networks across the general public Internet. ​​​​​​​VPN provides secure remote access and protects these communications across untrusted networks.

This is the tool used to track and manage health records for patients seen in MSU clinical environments.

The Research Computing and Applications Consulting team has an intake process of 8 questions to evaluate requests and broker support to the appropriate technology services in ITS and across campus. These requests are usually followed up with a meeting to assist faculty, staff or students, to gain technology support and review additional aspects of their research workflows. This facilitation service provides project management and direct support as needed.

Cryptography protects the confidentiality of many computers and applications rely on trusted SSL certificates to operate. The SSL Certificate service maintains a public Certificate Authority from which MSU can issue its own certificates and enable this strong encryption.

The Backup and Recovery service safeguards customer data via CommVault through reliable and automated daily backups across diverse environments, including physical and virtual servers, Elastic Storage, cloud platforms and more. It ensures data can be restored in the event of ransomware, corruption, or loss, with recovery options available for up to 60 days. The service offers self-guided or assisted recovery options and provides access to enterprise-grade infrastructure supporting mission-critical systems.

The F5 Load Balancer can optimize the speed and reliability of your applications via both network and application layers. Using real-time protocol and traffic management decisions based on application and server conditions, extensive connection management, and TCP and content offloading, which dramatically improves page load times and the user experience.

Provides centralized services that allow integrated applications to authenticate end-users consistent with university policies and industry best-practices balanced with ease-of-use for those end-users.