New Faculty: Getting Started

Welcome to Penn Law ITS!

The Law School Information Technology Services (ITS) department welcomes you to Penn Law and to our network and computing resources. We have a broad range of computing, media, and network resources available to you. This page is intended to provide you with the initial technical information you will need as a member of the Faculty.

Getting Started - LawKey

https://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/its/accountrequest

https://law.upenn.edu/activate

NOTE: You will need your new LawKey username to activate. This information is provided in the email sent to you when you account was created. If you already have a LawKey from a previous semester, but forgot the username and password, please contact us: itshelp@law.upenn.edu.

You will also receive a PennKey – this is the username for accessing University resources. Please contact us if you have any questions about your PennKey or forgot your password.

Once you have activated your LawKey username, you may access the following resources:

Email

New Faculty receive Outlook Exchange for email. Faculty could opt to use Thunderbird instead for their email client. For assistance with setting up vacation messages or email forwarding, please contact us: itshelp@law.upenn.edu.

Law School email accounts are accessed here via Outlook Web Access:

• https://mail.law.upenn.edu

For more assistance with Email, please contact us or view the following links:
Microsoft Outlook: https://goat.law.upenn.edu/its/helpdocs/facstaff/msoffice/outlook2003.html
Outlook Web Access: https://goat.law.upenn.edu/its/helpdocs/facstaff/msoffice/outlook_web_access.html

The Course Portal

The Course Portal will enable you to provide course notices, documents, and links to research and assignments for your students. You can also use this site to access your course photo roster, create an online seating chart, email your class mailing list, schedule appointments with students, create in-class surveys, download a grading sheet, and submit your course planning information. Students use the Course Portal as their central location for all course information and schedules and to take all of their course evaluations.

• https://goat.law.upenn.edu/courses

Course Portal Help is available at: https://goat.law.upenn.edu/cf/courses/documentation/portalhowto.html. If you would like personal instruction, please contact us: itshelp@law.upenn.edu.

Class Mailing Lists

You can email your class from the Course Portal or directly from your personal email account. Your course email address and information about using your list is available here:

• https://goat.law.upenn.edu/cf/courses/classMailingLists.cfm

If you’d like to add additional addresses to the class list or allow all the students in your class to email to the list, please see the following help document or contact us: itshelp@law.upenn.edu.

• https://goat.law.upenn.edu/cf/courses/documentation/portalhowto.html#classlistadmin

Instructional Technology

Our classrooms are well equipped for most of your technology needs. In order to use any classroom technologies, you will need to submit your media requests for each course you are teaching via the Course Portal. If you have any questions about this information please contact us: itsmedia@law.upenn.edu.

On the Portal Home page, you will see [media requests] in the menu bar for your course(s). Choose and scroll down to Individual Course Meeting Requests.

You may choose various technologies and add notes. You may also return at a later time to check on your requests or make changes. Your submitted (saved) requests are automatically added to our media schedule. Please make your requests at least 24 hours prior to your class meeting. More information is available here:

• https://goat.law.upenn.edu/cf/courses/documentation/portalhowto.html#mediarequests

The Goat

The Goat is Penn Law’s Intranet site and where you will find Daily Notices, News Headlines, access to Departmental web sites and links to our Penn Law Online Directory, the Course Portal, Email, LawKey Tools and ITS Help Documentation. We suggest making The Goat your home page:

• http://goat.law.upenn.edu

Information Technology Services Web site

• https://goat.law.upenn.edu/its

LawKey Tools

You can go here to change your password or change your forwarding address.

• https://law.upenn.edu/lawkeytools

Contact Information

Additional resources such as wired and wireless internet access for laptops, computer labs and network file sharing are also available. We want to work with you to meet your ITS needs and are happy to help. Please contact us:

• For all Course Portal, class mailing list, and other training and support needs:
  Rod Afshar
  IT Support Manager
  rafshar@law.upenn.edu
  (215) 898-9140


• For all Classroom and Instructional Technology requests, including training and scheduling media for classrooms:
  ITS Media
  Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 6:00pm
  itsmedia@law.upenn.edu
  (215) 898-9570


• For general inquiries, or immediate assistance:
  ITS Help Desk
  Monday-Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  itshelp@law.upenn.edu
  (215) 898-9140
  
  
• Kayann B. McDonnell
  Assistant Dean & CIO
  kay@law.upenn.edu
  (215) 898-2527