CAD Tech is glad to announce that Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 is now available to Faculty via the Managed Software Center Application.  Please launch the application and look for the new install in the Software list.  Please note the install will remove any currently installed Adobe apps before installing Adobe CC 2015 and the install can take sometime to complete.  Figure on probably 30 mins to 1 hour to complete.

If you experience any issues, please submit a Help Desk Ticket.

All Labs in CAD will be on Creative Cloud 2015 for the start of Fall Semester.  Please reference our Software Catalog for the currently deployed version. read more

Hello College of Art and Design Students, Faculty and Staff

CAD Tech is currently populating our new Software Catalog for the College of Art and Design community.  We are hopeful that having this catalog will allow our users to be informed where our lab computing environment currently stands.  As always, we make every effort to stay current with the vendors’ releases, but due to our complex environment, updates ( especially major releases ) can take sometime to roll out.

Please take a look and let us know if you have any feedback.  Submit Feedback read more

Degree Audit is a new advising tool that the RIT Registrar’s Office has developed to track student progress toward degree completion.

This system is designed to replace our old audit approach of checking off classes taken on paper Planning Sheets.

• Degree Audit is accessible to students, advisors, faculty members, and administrators.
• Each student’s “worksheet” in Degree Audit is updated with current information each time an audit is requested.
• Degree Audit will be used to assist with the certification process.
• Everyone will see the same information, tracked the same way, at the same time!

Students entering RIT in the following academic years will have access to an online degree audit:

• 2013-2014
• 2014-2015
• 2015-2016

Students who entered prior to the 2013-2014 academic year will follow an IAP through to graduation. (SIS will not generate a degree audit for these students) read more

Hello CAD Students, Faculty and Staff

During the Christmas break CAD Tech has been busy upgrading our online support ticketing system to a new platform.
This new platform offers us a variety of new and sleek features to better serve the CAD community.

• Online knowledge base. We will be building out the knowledge base with howto and troubleshooting tips and tricks
• Better email responses and tracking. The new emails look great and filled with great information
• Easy to use. This new system is a joy to use!

The old URL you have been using for years still works. http://CAD-helpdesk.rit.edu

We have also created a new easy to remember URL: http://helpdesk.CAD.rit.edu

Once you log into the new system you will be presented with this great interface to either searcg for a solution to your problem, or select a category and get help that way. This software will try to match up your request to documents in our Knowledge base that may help you solve the problem without having to wait for us! read more

Interested in proposing a new Study Abroad experience? There’s a new group in CAD who can help you navigate the process – The CAD Student International Experience committee (SIEC).

Feel free to contact any of the Committee members listed below with your questions and suggestion:

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Scholarship, Creativity & Research

CAD Strategic Plan Implementation Committee

May, 2014 Update

Discussions in April and May meetings centered on the following key categories:

 I. Grant Writing Support

 II. Specifically student-focused initiatives

 III. Communication / optimization of existing and established activities

 IV. Other germane areas

I. Grant Writing Support:

It is believed that the Institute-wide grant writing support is focused more on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and less on the humanities. As such, CAD should take a leadership role in proactively promoting and supporting grant writing in the humanities area. Specific action items here include: read more