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Welcome to the Winter 2005 edition of Bits-n-Bytes!
The Winter months can be cold and depressing, but this winter is proving to be very exciting for the I.T. department. We have embarked on some very interesting projects that will certainly benefit the campus community!

In this newsletter, you’ll read about our upcoming
SPAM solution, our new firewall, updates on our web renovation project, and lots of other new projects we have in the works for the winter and spring months.

We welcome your input and if you have ideas for future projects, please let us know!

Karen Sturgeon
Director, Information Technology

Winter 2005
Inside this Issue
Welcome
Customer Service Surveys
Technology to the Next Level
Blackboard at Carlow
SPAM, SPAM, SPAM
UPDATE: Recent Projects
Visit the IT Website
Christmas Tree Winner
Carlow Hosts Bb Conference
Staff Spotlight
Bits -N- Bytes
 
Customer Service Surveys
   
  Carlow will host the 2nd Annual Pittsburgh
Blackboard User’s Group Conference on March 7 & 8, 2005. Last year over 100
attendees from 18 Pittsburgh area Colleges and
Universities attended the conference last year. See page 5 to learn more!
The results are in… since mid-October, the Information Technology Department has been sending out electronic ‘Customer Satisfaction Surveys’ to our customers when we close out a project or problem report in our database. Overall, our customers responded to 21% of the surveys that were sent out.

The surveys ask the respondent if the project is complete, and to rate their satisfaction on several factors: 1) overall satisfaction with the service they received, 2) overall satisfaction with the time it took to service the call, and 3) overall satisfaction with the skills & knowledge of the technician. The respondent also has an opportunity to make additional comments.

We are happy to report that the responses have been very good!

The average ratings are as follows (each are ranked on a 5 point scale): Service = 4.89, Technical Ability of the technician = 4.85, and the time it took to service the request = 4.63.

In general, ‘the time it took to service the request’ receives the lowest marks, but this needs to be balanced by keeping in mind two important factors – during this same time period, the I.T. department closed over 1300 projects/problems in our database! And, at any one time, there are always over 300 requests in our database.

We have also received many, many positive comments about our staff and we enjoy hearing about the good work they are doing across campus! So, keep responding to the surveys and let us know how we are doing… we will work hard to provide you with excellent service!

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