Campus technology
Technology is completely integrated into life at DU. It's woven into the curriculum and into students' everyday lives.
Computing on campus includes all the things you'd expect: a gigabit Ethernet campus backbone, a 15 MB/sec Internet link, virtual private networks, lots of computer labs and wireless access locations all over campus.
What all these techie details boil down to is that you can write your history essay while soaking up the sun on Campus Green. When you're done, you can click print and pick up your paper at any of the networked printers scattered around campus. Or you can plug in to any of the high-speed Internet jacks that are all over DU's classrooms, residence halls and community spaces.
Everyone is wired
All DU undergraduates and most graduate students are required to own a laptop. DU provides students with free e-mail and Web pages, which means everybody's online. It also means that students can learn anywhere, anytime.
Professors teach using Blackboard, an interactive system that encourages collaboration among students and lets them discuss topics online. Enterprising students can even write a group essay by building a wiki.
IT saves the day
Should your technology troubleshooting skills fail you, University Technology Services has its own IT help desk, dedicated to solving student problems. During Discoveries orientation, UTS helps students configure their laptops to work on DU's network.
DU's technology goes beyond laptops and networking, however. We have world-class research facilities, including the second-highest observatory in the world. And can you imagine yourself practicing the piano in a virtual concert hall or taking a class from an instructor who's 1,600 miles away- It's all possible, with DU's exceptional technological resources.