Information Technology Tools and Services

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Overview

Pepperdine University offers a wide variety of tools to enhance both work and learning. Read the descriptions below and click on the appropriate links for more information about these tools and how to use them.

Explore Service and Tool Links

Attachments

Pepperdine University's large attachment server allows you to send large, encrypted attachments. This service is also useful for sending very large files, up to 20GB per message.

Audio Visual Technologies

Audio Visual Technologies partners with students, faculty, and staff to identify University audio-visual resources that will maximize their success. For more information, review our A/V Best Practices.

Pepperdine Canvas LMS

Pepperdine Canvas will be Pepperdine's new, primary LMS. It will replace Courses/Sakai and will be available for all schools across the University. The majority of academic programs will use Pepperdine Canvas starting Fall 2025.

Cisco Telephones at Pepperdine

Information Technology's Systems and Networking staff have begun a multi-year project to replace the University's existing telephone system with a new Cisco platform that integrates voice, video, and web conferencing. (This service is for faculty and staff only.)

Class and Email Distribution Lists

Pepperdine's Class Distribution Lists via Google Groups allow instructors and students in a particular course to communicate via email. Each class is given a unique email distribution list that is automatically created and modified.

Course Evaluations

Course evaluations are part of Pepperdine University's commitment to excellence in teaching and learning. The evaluations provide useful feedback, which faculty and schools use to improve the quality of instruction.

Device Management

Device Management is a proactive computer patching service that ensures our University computer systems and network are safe, secure, and available for teaching, learning, research, and projects.

Email

Google provides a free email service for educational institutions called Google Workspace for Education. Google is currently offering schools a hosted solution for their email, calendar, and chat to provide an integrated communication and collaboration solution.

Endpoint Protection Service

The Endpoint Protection service is an antivirus solution that protects all Pepperdine-owned computing devices. The service is available to Pepperdine faculty and staff.

eSign for Digital Signatures

Pepperdine's eSign automates and streamlines the document signing process for contracts and internal forms for all Pepperdine faculty and staff. What traditionally took days, sometimes weeks, to get a document signed is now reduced to minutes. Simply Send, Sign, and Save!

Google Workspace

Google Workspace (formerly known as G Suite or Google Apps) is a set of Google services tailored specifically for Pepperdine community members. Services include Google-powered email, calendars, document sharing, instant messaging, and mobile device services.

Kronos Timekeeping

Kronos provides electronic timecards to Pepperdine employees. This tool allows users to create, edit, and approve timecards.

Network Drives

Pepperdine offers network drive space to faculty and staff to share critical documents and projects. Files stored on this service are backed up daily and rotated off-site weekly.

Project Management Office

Project Management Office (PMO), is a team within IT that promotes project management best practices. The PMO provides performance metrics for IT's portfolio of projects. The office also recommends project management training and other project management-related resources as directed by the Office of the Chief Information Officer and the Associate Chief Information Officer.

Qualtrics Surveys

The University has a central Qualtrics license. Qualtrics is a powerful survey tool, available for all current faculty, staff, and students. This service helps conduct research for academic and University business purposes.

Remote Access

Using Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) program, Pepperdine faculty and staff who use Macintosh and Windows computers can log on to Pepperdine's Remote Access Server.

Remote Support Tool at Pepperdine

Remote Support is a tool that Information Technology (IT) staff can use to help students, faculty, and staff with many technology requests. This remote assistance and screen-sharing tool gives the community the convenience of receiving technical support from IT support staff from one campus to another or across the internet.

SENF: Sensitive Number Finder/ SSN/CCN Scanner

"Sensitive number finder" or SENF is a program that is used to scan a computer for restricted information such as social security numbers (SSN) or credit card numbers (CCN). Sometimes colleagues don't realize they have restricted information, and this program assists in searching their entire computer, even old archives of documents.

TurnItIn Plagiarism Detection

Turnitin.com is an online plagiarism-detection service that provides a detailed assessment of the originality of any submitted work by searching for textual similarities with other works in academic journals, on the internet, and within its own database of submitted work.

WaveNet: The University Portal

WaveNet is a secure, online portal that connects the Pepperdine University community to personal and professional information. Students use WaveNet to register for classes, check grades, make payments, access numerous library research databases, and more. Employees use WaveNet to access employment details like paychecks, benefits, and retirement account information.