
Information Technology
Services Provided
Information Technology Student Consultants provide support and maintenance for the following services to Employees, Departments, and Students.
- Internal Administrative Support
- Maintain Learning Environments
- Teach & Support Each Other including Staff
- Faculty & Staff Campus-wide Support
- Assistance to IT Staff - Audio/Visual, Network, Software, Solution Center & Repair
- Support and Maintain Assistive Technology
- Assist in Keeping Touch With How People Learn Computer Technology
- Assist JCC With The Changing Digital Culture/Living With Technology
Internal Administrative Support
- Revise, edit, and compile Student Computer Consultant Guidebook
- Take CSM notes
- Check consultant calendar entries
- Manage security and maintenance team
- Manage computer labs and classrooms (answer questions from lab staff, monitor malfunctioning equipment, follow up on issues)
- Lab supplies (cleaning solution, alcohol pads, office supplies)
- Schedule computer labs and classrooms for faculty, staff, and outside vendors upon request
- Organize and maintain instructional notebooks (processes and procedures)
- Create, revise, and edit processes and procedures for student computer consultant projects
- Enter machine functionality data weekly and provide quarterly and yearly reports
- Print and fold communication materials
- Create, revise, and edit computer lab hours handout, InfoTech Computer Labs and Electronic Accounts, Groupware Reference book, Student Computer Consultant Responsibilities Chart
- Organize and manage files
- Collect and recycle pop bottle in labs
- Instructor Introductions
- Signage
- Answer e-mail and public folders each time on duty
- Create and implement consultant training
- Take HEAT Power User Notes
Maintain Learning Environments
- Provide client support 161 hrs/wk at main campus, Hillsdale, and JCC@VoTech
- Offer assistive technology for students with physical disabilities
- Maintain security
- Provide maintenance for equipment and furniture
- Survey students in computer labs during winter semester and create report of data
- Provide computer lab and classroom room schedule information upon request
- Create and post signage each semester
- Recycle paper weekly
- Collect computer lab use data
- Encourage responsible printing and track paper usage
- Monitor responsible use of computers
- Arrange room layout to accommodate wheelchair access
- Publish computer lab and classroom hours, specs, and pictures on JCC’s website
- Manage cables for safety and aesthetic appearance
- Provide technical assistance for Computer Lab and Classroom web pages
- Check all computers for functionality once weekly; fix problems, enter work requests.
- Monitor paper usage in the labs and report finding weekly to supervisors
- Proctor course placement
- Proctor course exams, NET testing and HESI testing
- Provide quiet environment
- Offer technical assistance for online testing
- Provide instructional materials for students and faculty
- Compile support information in JCC Testing Lab notebook
- Assist with cable management in the labs
- Provide assistance for all classes in the Notebook classroom.
Teach & Support Each Other Including Staff
- Offer one-on-one software, audio and visual, hardware, and network training
- Assist InfoTech staff with large training sessions
- Attend technical and soft skill training up to four hours per week
- Provide technical assistance for Training webpage
- Demonstrate appropriate, professional behavior for new consultants
- Present intense four day training for new student computer consultants
- Create and help administer training
- Create and help facilitate Alumni Training
Faculty & Staff Campus-Wide Support
- Assist faculty and staff with web upon request
- Provide introduction to computer classroom and multimedia room instructors at the beginning of each semester and offer support
- Assist with general computing (software navigation, hardware use, audio and visual use, networking connection)
- Assist with administrative tasks
- Provide technical web assistance upon request
Assistance to IT Staff - Audio/Visual, Network, Software, Solution Center & Repairs
- Assemble and install new hardware
- Provide general hardware repair (cleaning, hard drive replacement, network card installation)
- Install and wire physical networking components
- Collect data for inventory
- Provide first level work request completion
- Pick up and deliver equipment upon request
- Assist with audio and visual setups (satellite and video conference, sound studio recording, dish maintenance, projection)
- Service printers (troubleshoot, replace toner, restart, fix jams)
- Provide technical assistance with Audio/Visual webpage
- Maintain, clean and keep professional work environment in hardware area
- Shipping and Receiving
- Offer assistance with the use of any hardware or audio visual equipment
- Create networking cables
- Install hubs, patch panels, and switches
- Provide technical assistance with Networking webpage
- Configuration Testing
- Telephony
- Install wire network components
- Cable management
- Install, update, archive, and reload software
- Provide first level work request completion
- Test and provide feedback for new software products
- Provide technical assistance with Software webpage
- BETA testing
- Initial setup of machines
- Provide first level support to clients approximately 70 hours per week
- Troubleshoot issues and create work requests
- Provide staff coverage if needed (illness, vacation, projects, meetings)
- Maintain security
- Provide maintenance for equipment and furniture
- Notify key points across campus in cases of technical emergencies (restarting servers, outages)
- Provide technical assistance with Solution Center webpage
- Filter traffic to preserve Solution Center as front line, first level service
- Offer friendly, professional customer service (unlock doors, bus, campus directions, emergencies)
Support and Maintain Assistive Technology
- Use assistive technology equipment weekly for training purposes
- Offer friendly one-on-one training in a learning environment
- Review and recommend assistive technology software and hardware
- Maintain inventory, specs, and recommendations in a database
- Create and distribute instructional materials
- Develop Assistive Technology web page
- Develop FAQs for web
- Secure and maintain Assistive Technology equipment
- Move and reinstall Assistive Technology upon request
Assist Us in Keeping in Touch with How People Learn Computer Technology
- Create, edit, and publish Information Technology FAQs for JCC’s website
- Check all equipment in computer labs, classrooms, and multimedia rooms weekly for operational status (malfunctions, missing or damaged equipment)
- Fix malfunctioning equipment daily and enter solutions in helpdesk software (HEAT)
- Distribute instructional materials to computer labs, classrooms, and multimedia rooms
- Proactively seek out technical questions by doing rounds in each building on main campus and the extension centers
- Switch out old computers and install new computers at main campus, Hillsdale, and JCC@VoTech
- Update and maintain photo documentary of InfoTech staff, projects, and college events
- Offer technical support on site during software transfers (new computer installs, Groupware migration)
- Create and manage building layouts of computer labs, classrooms, and multimedia rooms
Assist JCC with the Changing Digital Culture/Living with Technology
- Bring new ideas to JCC (example: Assistive Technologies)
- Learn the following software and hardware in order to assist students, faculty, and staff:
| Office Suite 2003 | Photoshop | Illustrator | HTML |
| Office Suite 2007 | Maple | PageMaker | Scanners |
| Educator (for students) | E-Services | FrontPage | Projection |
| Internet Explorer 6 | Fireworks | Flash | Premiere |
| Internet Explorer 7 | Captivate | Printers | Digital cameras |
| FrontPage | Flash | WordPerfect | Projection Equipment |
| Windows XP | Windows Vista | Computers | Wireless Notebooks |
| HEAT | JCC Spam Firewall | Student & Employee Email (OWA) | Employee Groupware (Outlook) |