Software/Hardware Tutorials

The primary digital environments for managing course content, assignments, and portfolios.

• Canvas LMS: Core university platform for courses, syllabi, and grading.
  • Faculty Canvas Guide
  • Canvas Community Support
• ePortfolios: Student showcase tools via Google Sites or Canvas.
  • ePortfolios User Guide
  • Canvas Community Guide
• Google Workspace for Education: Official university ecosystem for email (Gmail), shared cloud storage (Drive), collaborative documents (Docs, Sheets, Slides), and scheduling (Calendar).
• ITDS Course Registration: The official portal to register for faculty technology training, pedagogical workshops, and Canvas certification courses. 
• Omnissa Virtual Desktop: Secure access to campus Windows environments from personal or home devices.

Applications used directly for classroom instruction, lecture capture, grading, and testing.

• Panopto: All-in-one lecture capture, video recording, and auto-captioning. Integrated with Canvas.
• Turnitin: Plagiarism detection and original writing verification suite. Integrated with Canvas.
• Respondus: LockDown Browser for securing student online exam environments. Canvas Testing.
• Adobe Products: Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and Acrobat PDF editing.

The backend administrative platforms used to track student success, manage rosters, and run university reports.

• Workday: The primary university portal for managing personal HR profiles, payroll/timesheets, employee benefits, purchasing, and expense reports. See Workday learning resources
• Navigate: Student success platform used to schedule advising sessions, log student interactions, and track student performance trends.
• Degree Works to monitor graduation progress. 
• Advocate (Symplicity): Case management system used for student conduct tracking, Title IX reporting, and behavioral interventions.
• Banner 9 Administration: The core campus database for student records and class rosters. (Authorized access required). 
• Cognos Reporting: Use to extract institutional data.
  • Cognos Reporting User Guide
• Instructional Service Reporting (ISR): Use to log mandatory teaching effort.

Portals, Access Management, and Shared Logistics Tools.

• Account Management Center: Central portal to update credentials. See Accounts & Access (NetID)
• Generic Account Center: Managed tool used by administrative offices, departments, and programs to request and maintain shared departmental email accounts.
• NEST Portal: The primary web gateway for employee services. See NEST Tutorial and FAQ documents
• Engage Portal: Campus engagement and student event monitoring dashboard. Getting started with Engage.
• 25Live: Central enterprise platform for scheduling campus spaces and events.
• Zoom: Official video conferencing platform for hybrid meetings and virtual collaboration.
• Sympa Lists: University email listserv and distribution group management site.
  • Sympa User Guide
  • FAQ for Sympa List Moderators
  • How to subscribe to/unsubscribe from an optional Montclair State University employee list
• GRCC: Google Resource Calendar Center for managing shared department office rooms. See GRCC User Guide
• Group Manager: Utility to provision network file shares and local copier permissions. See How to use the Group Manager app
• Rave Mobile Safety: Campus security suite managing emergency text and mobile alerts. See Rave Information
• EVS: Electronic Voting System for secure departmental and campus internal elections. See EVS User Guide
• Gartner Research: Premium technology portal delivering global IT market analysis and forward-looking research.

• Qualtrics: A premium, enterprise-grade insights platform used for complex academic research, advanced skip-logic surveys, and detailed administrative analytics. See Qualtrics Support.

Access additional software by visiting the Software Repository. 

Software that can found on this site:

• Office 365: Microsoft subscription plans that include access to Office applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook.
• SPSS: Advanced data software for statistical analysis, machine learning, and big data integration.
• JMP Pro (Mac and Windows): Statistical analysis program.
• EndNote (Mac and Windows): Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references on the Windows and Macintosh desktop.

Tools used directly for your coursework, classes, and computer labs.

• Omnissa Virtual Desktop: Secure access to campus Windows environments from personal or home devices.
• Adobe Products: Adobe Creative Cloud and Acrobats are available in our public labs using a Shared Device license.
• Canvas: University Learning Management System. Student Canvas Guide
• Respondus LockDown Browser: creates a restricted test-taking environment through integration with the Canvas Learning Management System.
• Google Apps: Montclair State University participates in Google Apps for Education that allows for us to have access to Google Mail, Drive, Calendar, Analytics and more. Google Apps Documentation

Platforms for managing your student profile, career, security, and campus activities.

• Account Management Center: Central portal to update credentials. See Accounts & Access (NetID)
• Handshake: is a career services application that provides students with access to jobs, internships, and career events.
• Navigate: is a student success platform designed to help academic advisors, faculty and student support areas engage with students more efficiently, identify students who need attention and track student behavior trends to more effectively focus resources and initiatives.
• NEST: University portal for user services. See NEST Tutorial and FAQ documents
• Engage: Web Application that helps you learn about different organizations, events and co-curricular activities on campus. Getting started with Engage.
• Rave Mobile Safety: Campus security suite managing emergency text and mobile alerts. See Rave Information.
• SLP: Service Learning Program, web application used by students to register for courses that require a certain number of internship hours.

• Qualtrics: A premium, enterprise-grade insights platform used for complex academic research, advanced skip-logic surveys, and detailed administrative analytics. See Qualtrics Support

Access additional software by visiting the Software Repository. 

Software that can found on this site:

• EndNote (Mac and Windows): Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references on the Windows and Macintosh desktop.
• JMP Pro (Mac and Windows): Statistical analysis program.
• Office 365: Microsoft subscription plans that include access to Office applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Putty Secure Shell Documentation: An open-source terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application.