Help & Support
- General Technology Help for All
- Educational Technology Help for Instructors
Need help with common campus technology issues? Start with our self help tools or consult our staff, partners, or user groups.
Faculty, staff, and students can get help with general computer, Internet, network, and telephone issues in a variety of ways as described below. For a list of other information technology resources most commonly used by different types of users, see our Students, Staff Members, and Instructors & Researchers pages.
Help is available from different groups via several communications methods, indicated by icons. See a key.
You can use self and peer help resources, most for no fee, to answer questions such as:
Contact the campus technology helpline:
See the Technology Help page for details.
Our technology help staff can answer questions about accessing the Internet and central systems (including PeopleSoft and other University enterprise systems), e-mail, network connections, passwords, personal Web space, telephones, voicemail, and Web browsers. Most support is free to the University community. Example questions include:
At Tech Stop, we also provide free and fee-based services such as software and hardware diagnostics and installation and other workstation support services.
For more information, see our Technology Help and Tech Stop sites.
More advanced help with using central University systems also is available from specialists who can answer questions submitted via e-mail or Web forms.
See the support staff e-mail addresses and links listed on our systems support sites.
Our training staff offers short, non-credit courses, some for no charge and some for a fee, on a variety of applications used by University students, staff, and faculty, including:
For more information, see our technology training site.
Local technology help and support also is available to faculty, staff, and sometimes students in certain colleges and departments on the Twin Cities campus.
See the links at left or check with your unit administrative staff to see what local support options are available.
Technology help and support also is available on the coordinate campuses.
See the links at left or check with your campus administrative staff to see what local support options are available.