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Sometimes referred to as AD, Active Directory is a system used to manage user accounts and system security which uses LDAP and DNS to control user access. 

The term, Adobe Suite, is used to refer to Adobe's line of products currently offered in their Creative Cloud.  They include; After Effects, Illustrator, Photoshop, Animate, InDesign, Premiere, Dreamweaver, Muse, and Lightroom.  All of these programs are used to create and edit design based products like photos, videos, and websites.  For more information, visit Adobe's catalogue at the following webpage: Adobe Products

Bluetooth is a short-range wireless signal used to communicate between devices within an approximate 30 foot radius.  It is used most commonly between phones and other connected devices such as car stereos, speakers, headphones, and connected home devices such as the Amazon Alexa or Google Home. 

Bluetooth is most notably symbolized by a white character in the shape of a B with a blue oval around it.

A compromised account is an account with login details known by one or more unauthorized individuals. At UWM, these accounts may be identified by either our UWM Information Security Office or by Microsoft.  Symptoms of compromised accounts include sending spam emails, or sending unusual volumes of emails.

Please remember, if your account is compromised, access to your personal information has been obtained - this means that if you are an employee, immediately verify your direct deposit information with our HR Payroll team (payroll@uwm.edu or log into your HRS data once your account is accessible again) If you are a student, review your accounting details related to student refunds within your PAWS account once you have obtained access again to your account, or contact the Bursar's office.

Once an account has been identified as having been compromised, the password for the account will be scrambled, and the account holder will require assistance from the Help Desk to unlock the account.

A Computer Name is a unique identifier issued to every university owned device.

Current university computers use the following convention: (UWM or WAK)(6 digit Asset ID) (e.g. UWM001234).

Older computers may follow other conventions, such as (Department)-(Building/room)-(computer number) (e.g. CCL-BOL225-11), and (SA)-(Service Tag) (e.g. SA-1A2B3C4).

For a desktop computer, the label with the computer name is usually found on the top or side of the tower.

Electronic Waste (e-Waste) is used to refer to electronic devices that are at the end of their usefulness, or are obsolete.  A few good examples would be VCRs, CRT monitors, and old stereo equipment.  These products, while no longer useful in everyday life, are useful for their recycling/scrap potential.

All UWM students and staff are identified and granted access through their ePanther ID.  This is a username used to login to various UWM IT services, such as email, PAWS, Canvas, Campus Computer Labs, online library databases, campus wifi, and many others.

File Transfer Protocol - A standard network protocol used to transfer computer files between a user and server on a computer network.

GuestPass is the resident and guest access control system for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Registration is required for residents in Sandburg, Cambridge, and Riverview residence halls.  Guests may preregister by submitting the webform at https://web.uwm.edu/guestpass-web/#/register  and will be able to submit a photo through the application. 

For additional information call 414-229-6123 or email res-help@uwm.edu

Internet Explorer is a discontinued web browser developed by Microsoft. Support for Internet Explorer 11 ended on June 15, 2022.

If any site you visit needs Internet Explorer, you can reload it with Internet Explorer mode in Microsoft Edge.

MATLAB is a border-line programming language, often categorized as a productivity software due to its proprietary nature.  Used by engineers and scientists, MATLAB is designed to analyze mass amounts of data, and solve systems of equations that would be difficult to do by hand.  For more information on MATLAB, visit MathWorks website, found here.

Microsoft 365, is a collection of applications offered by Microsoft and include: Bookings, Calendar, Delve, Excel, Forms, Lists, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, People, Planner, Power Apps, Power Automate, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint, Stream, Sway, Teams, To Do, Visio, Whiteboard, and Word. 

UWM faculty, staff, and currently enrolled students are given free access to Microsoft 365 Apps. A majority of the applications can be accessed through both a web version and software version, including editions for mobile devices. 

For more information about Microsoft 365's capabilities and features, refer to the following UWM page: About Microsoft 365

To learn how to activate your UWM Microsoft 365 license, refer to the following Knowledge Base article: Microsoft Office 365 - How To Activate your O365 License 

Microsoft Edge is a web browser developed by Microsoft. It is the default web browser for Windows devices.

Power BI is a unified, scalable Microsoft Power App used for self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI).   It allows users to connect to, model and visualize data sets, as well as to create dashboards for themselves and their colleagues. 

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students and staff can receive a free license of this software, by requesting it via https://uwm.edu/dar. 

 A neural network is a machine learning model designed to mimic the function and structure of the human brain. Neural networks are intricate networks of interconnected nodes, or neurons, that collaborate to tackle complicated problems.

Microsoft OneNote is note-taking software, developed by Microsoft. It is available as part of the Microsoft Office suite and since 2014 has been free on all platforms outside the suite. OneNote is designed for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. 

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote

A one-time password (OTP) is an automatically generated numeric or alphanumeric string of characters that authenticates the user for a single transaction or login session.

Many hardware tokens contain an internal clock that, in combination with the device’s unique identifier, an input PIN or password, and potentially other factors, is used to generate a code, usually output to a display on the token. This code changes on a regular basis, often every 30 seconds. The infrastructure used to keep track of such tokens can predict, for a given device, what the proper output will be at any given time and can use this to authenticate the user.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/hardware-token

An email and calendaring application included in the Microsoft Office Suite.

Panthera is the Graduate School’s online application system for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This system will collect information about your educational background, transcripts, personal statement, letters of recommendation, writing samples, and application fees, for the purposes of applying to graduate school. It also features an application to become a teaching assistant.

Microsoft Scheduling Assistant is a function within Outlook email and calendar applications which helps find available times and rooms for users scheduling meetings or appointments.  

If someone has an ePanther account that has been closed after deprovisioning and still has an affiliation with UWM, they can request a sponsored account. They will need to find a sponsor who can confirm their affiliation and involvement with UWM.  

A sponsor is a non-student employee with an active account (e.g. professor, academic adviser, etc.)  

Sponsored accounts will need to be renewed after being open for a year.

Sponsored ePanther Accounts for departmental use can be requested using the Sponsored ePantherACCOUNT Request Form.

Sponsored accounts for instructors are processed through the Instructor Set Up Form. To access this form, navigate to the following webpage; Registrar Utilities for Instructors - after accessing this link, log in and click Instructor from the Other drop-down in the top menu bar.   Student requests must go through the Registrar's Office.  

SPSS Statistics is a software package for statistical analysis. It can be run on both Windows and macOS computers.

Get SPSS for your computer

• UWM students can obtain SPSS at no cost through the Software Shop.

• UWM faculty and staff can also obtain SPSS through the Software Shop at a cost.

  • Home Use licenses for SPSS are for installing on personal computers.
  • University Use licenses for SPSS are for installing on University computers.

After downloading the SPSS file through the Software Shop, you can find your authorization code in a .txt document within the zip file.

The Stellic Degree Audit Application is a student-driven, collaborative academic planning tool that employs the university's undergraduate catalog and degree requirements to assist students with schedule planning and in meeting their degree requirements. The Registrar's Office manages all facets and issues related to this function and will work with students to address any issues. For more information in regard to Stellic click here. 

In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information. (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching.

Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system, although they may also be chosen from a controlled vocabulary.

Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of other database systems, desktop applications, and operating systems.

(Source: Wikipedia)

The definition for the cloud can seem murky, but essentially, it’s a term used to describe a global network of servers, each with a unique function. The cloud is not a physical entity, but instead is a vast network of remote servers around the globe which are hooked together and meant to operate as a single ecosystem. These servers are designed to either store and manage data, run applications, or deliver content or a service such as streaming videos, web mail, office productivity software, or social media. Instead of accessing files and data from a local or personal computer, you are accessing them online from any Internet-capable device—the information will be available anywhere you go and anytime you need it.

Businesses use four different methods to deploy cloud resources. There is a public cloud that shares resources and offers services to the public over the Internet, a private cloud that isn’t shared and offers services over a private internal network typically hosted on-premises, a hybrid cloud that shares services between public and private clouds depending on their purpose, and a community cloud that shares resources only between organizations, such as with government institutions.

Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-dictionary/what-is-the-cloud

An acronym for University Information Technology Services. 

The UW Flexible option is offered at Milwaukee, Parkside, and Madison. Students follow a session-based schedule, being allowed three months to complete each course. Students can choose either the "All You Can Learn" or the single competency options, to complete their program in the most efficient manner possible. The program is self-paced and mainly online, although some programs do require in person attendance for clinical or laboratory content. Courses are offered across all campuses enrolled in the program, so Flex students will have multiple login credentials, dependent upon the campus at which their current competency set is being offered.  

UWM Office of Legal Affairs

Monday-Friday 8:30am-4:30pm

Telephone: 414-229-4278
Fax: 414-229-3919

For more information use the link below:

https://uwm.edu/legal/contact-us/