Popular Services
myHill is our secure portal that provides simple access to news, information, and online services based on an individual’s role at Stonehill.
Canvas by Instructure is our learning management system. It provides powerful tools for faculty to present course content, collect student assignments, enable collaboration and manage outcomes. Students benefit from a single online resource to access all their course information.
Software licenses are purchased and installed through a centralized process that ensures compatibility and benefits from discounted and volume pricing while meeting the specific needs of faculty and departments.
A Stonehill username and password are used to gain access to most technology services including the campus network, email, the myHill portal, and the Canvas learning management system. The username is created as an account in Microsoft Active Directory and access privileges are based on an individual’s role at Stonehill.
Access to the campus network is provided through secure, high speed wireless and wired connections.
IT staff are available by appointment to come to classrooms to assist with a variety of activities. Examples include: assisting with the use of classroom technology; demonstrating the use of lecture capture or video conferencing software; and training students on the use of Canvas, Office365 or other supported software.
Computers are purchased and maintained through a centralized process that ensures compatibility and benefits from volume pricing while meeting the specific needs of faculty and staff.
Access to Banner, Cognos reports and some departmental information systems is authorized by information custodians and liaisons based on the requestor's job.
Microsoft Teams enables departments, organizations, or groups of people to improve productivity with the ability to share documents, communicate, and much more.
A shared mailbox provides a generic method to communicate with a department using email.
Announcement Lists provide a single email address to send an email message to a specific College group, like all employees.
Poster printing is available at the IT Service Desk in Duffy 025 to faculty needing posters that serve an academic purpose (research or class work) and that will have a broad audience (e.g. Stonehill-wide community events, poster-sessions at academic conferences, etc.).
New systems may be evaluated and implemented to support a business need that cannot be met using features in the standard college wide suite.
Reports from college wide systems are provided using Cognos and coordinated through application managers in the major business areas of the college.
Remote access through our Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows secure access to college computing and information resources from an off campus location.
All College classrooms are equipped with audio and video technologies, a podium computer and software to enhance teaching and learning.
Changes to an office location must be reported to IT to ensure e911 data is accurate. New telephone extensions or changes to the configuration of an existing extension may be requested.
The telephone system enables internal and external voice communication using Teams Phone to meet the needs of the College.
Printers are available in a variety of locations including computer labs and the Library for students and open areas and department office suites for faculty and staff.
A variety of technology equipment is available for short-term loan.
Email is provided to the Stonehill community through the Microsoft Office 365 cloud based platform. Integration with the global address list enables quick access to all Stonehill email addresses while calendar simplifies setting up a meeting.
Assistance to support or provide integration for departmental systems may be requested by application managers.
Assistance to coordinate upgrades to departmental systems may be requested by application managers.
Changes to Banner data that must be accomplished through SQL scripting may be requested by application managers.
Changes or enhancements to Stonehill processes in the Banner System may be requested by application managers. This also includes changes to supporting Banner tools such as BDM, SoftDocs, and DegreeWorks .