Getting Started: Faculty & Staff
7 Things Faculty & Staff Need to Know
1. PennKey
A PennKey username and password is required to access many of Penn's online resources and services. Your PennKey is unique and you should never, under any circumstances, share your PennKey password with anyone.
2. Microsoft Office 365 & Email
GSE provides email accounts to full-time faculty and staff at GSE. To establish an email account, you first must have a PennKey and PennKey password. Once you have setup your PennKey, open a help request and ask us to create your Penn email address.
In addition, you have access to PennO365 free of charge. As part of the PennO365 service, you can install the latest version of Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus on up to five (5) personal computers and mobile devices. You also receive access to Microsoft Office Online and 1 TB of storage on OneDrive, Microsoft's cloud data storage and collaboration solution.
3. Get Your Computer
IT will help you order and configure your computer, walk through account setup, and answer any questions. Please note that computers can take 6-8 weeks to arrive after placing the order. Please open a help request at your earliest convenience.
4. Work Securely
GSE faculty and staff are eligible for the following software free of charge. Combining these with two-step verification will help you work and learn more securely. See Penn IT Security for faculty and for staff.
5. Explore Apps for Learning and Research
GSE faculty and staff can access teaching, learning, research, and collaboration technologies for free.
- Teaching and academic support staff can into Canvas @ canvas.upenn.edu | Penn Canvas documentation for faculty, staff, and TAs (Note: If you do not have access to Canvas, please email GSE-IT at gse-cnvs@gse.upenn.edu.)
- Get fully licensed account for Zoom Pro - a web conference software
- Download the Mersive Wireless Screen Sharing app to your laptop and phone to connect to GSE learning space displays. You can run presentations, give demos, or bring in a guest through Zoom and share on the large displays!
- If you'd like to use Padlet for classes, please open a help request.
- Go to teams.microsoft.com to collaborate with colleagues (and/or students)
- Activate your Qualtrics account
- Visit GSE's Penn Libraries Subject Specialist to learn more about library services, including researcher software
- Check out the full catalog of linkedinlearning.upenn.edu video tutorials freely available to the Penn community
6. Request Classroom Support
You can request a classroom orientation and in-class support at the start of each term if you teach a class.
7. When on Campus:
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