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Welcome to the Lion Family at East Texas A&M University! Below are some helpful resources and tips to getting started with some of the common university systems and software.
- Active Directory (AD)- This account is standard for faculty and staff, and used to access many university systems. This standard employee account is provisioned as part of their on-boarding and kicked off by HR using an employee intake form.
- Password Complexity Requirements- When setting AD password, use 12 characters, including a mix of upper and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. End users will need to update their passwords every 180 days.
- myLeo Experience- Once stop campus portal contains information and links to the most commonly needed campus resources.
- Client Portal (TDX)- Front facing IT resource for knowledge articles, ticket requests and statuses.
- MS 365- Faculty and staff have access to Microsoft suite, including Word, Teams, Excel, One Drive and more.
- Outlook Exchange- faculty and staff e-mail accounts. Also used by Graduate Assistants.
- TAMU System AI Framework- access to multiple generative AI models, using a single login to access Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Llama.
- Lexmark Printing- for all your printing and scanning needs
- myLeo Online- Campus LMS powered by D2L Brightspace and managed by the Innovative Learning Design Team. Accessed by faculty and staff using your AD credentials.
- Adobe Creative Cloud- available for faculty and staff. Check the Water's Library Adobe information page for details.
- Banner Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)- campus-wide student information system (SIS) database that houses student records, course information, and assignments.
- NOTE- Many tasks can be done through Banner Self-Service, so check on specific departmental processes if they require a different access level.
- Workday- HR system for leave, benefits, staff evaluations, etc. Contact HR with questions at 903-886-5080.
- TrainTraq- TAMU System faculty/staff training platform. Several required trainings are available from this platform. Please contact HR with questions @ HR@etamu.edu.
New Department Heads
You will likely work with additional systems that empower your leadership role.
- Laserfiche- Digital forms for many business and academic processes.
- Nuventive- For Institutional Effectiveness plans. Contact Mary Rosene with questions at 903-886-5942.
- Maestro- online system to submit your proposals and manage your funded projects.
- Cayuse - web-based system used to process all research applications submitted to the Institutional Review Board (IRB)
- Courseleaf- used for catalog changes to courses, programs, etc.
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