Technical Resources

Universities have a lot of systems to help keep things running. From email to teaching systems to our new reliance on virtual meetings, we’re asking students to master a lot of new things when they are also learning a whole new environment.

Here are some of the systems you need to know with links to help you learn how. If there’s something we missed, send a note to mbe@boisestate.edu and we’ll track it down.

Google Workspace

Google Workspace at Boise State University is the official group collaboration software for Boise State University students, faculty, and staff.

Also known as “BroncoMail,” Workspace provides access to dozens of Google applications including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Sites, and YouTube.

Google Workspace at Boise State

Here are a few of the most used features.

Gmail is a full-featured email client providing unlimited storage for email at Boise State University. Gmail is accessible across all devices and platforms.

Learn about Gmail and BroncoMail

Google Calendar lets you share your schedule, create and send event invites, and track responses.

Learn about Google Calendar

Google Drive is an essential platform for most, if not all, of your classes. It allows you to keep all of your work in one place, view different file formats, collaborate with others, and access your files from any device. Come learn how to best leverage these functions to efficiently complete, share, collaborate, and store all your work.

Learn about Google Drive

With Google Docs, Sheets and Slides you can create text documents, charts, visual aids, spreadsheets, forms and presentations, and then share and publish online.

Learn about Google Docs and more

Academic Tools

Instructors use Canvas to manage student learning from a single, online location. This one-stop-shop for teaching and learning provides an easy means of sharing course materials, tools for messaging class members, mechanisms for assessing student learning, and a means of recording student grades.

Information about using Canvas is available on the Office of Information Technology’s website.

MATLAB is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation.

You can use MATLAB in a wide range of applications, including signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology.

Get info on how to access and use MATLAB

Boise State offers free Microsoft 365 licenses to actively enrolled University students, along with faculty and staff for installation on personal computers.

Get info on Microsoft Office 365

Video Communication and Production

A fully-licensed Zoom account is available to all faculty, staff, and students at Boise State. Zoom is a great tool for conducting remote meetings that allows you to see and hear one another, chat, share your computer screen, and more.

Download Zoom

Learn about how to use Zoom

All Boise State students, faculty, and staff have access to Panopto, a video recording and hosting platform. OIT also has Panopto help resources available, in addition to a curation of help videos available on the Panopto homepage.

Access Panopto resources

Other Apps and Systems

There are a number of collaboration platforms out there – too many for us to provide full information for. Here are a few we know about and a link to their home pages.

Ziplet

GroupMe

Slack

Piazza

Trello

Boise State Technical Support

The Office of Information Technology supports innovation and advance education and research at Boise State by providing reliable, sustainable technology solutions to our University community.