T-Square
What is T-Square?
- T-square is the name selected for Georgia Tech's Sakai installation.
What is Sakai ?
- An online collaborative platform initially developed by the University of Michigan , Stanford University , Indiana University, and MIT.
- An open-source, community supported platform written in Java, with an oracle database back-end.
- Named after the original “Iron Chef?in Japan (a University of Michigan choice that has been adopted).
- An open-source solution that allows us to innovate and to create a solution that fits our campus and our users unlike commercial products that are controlled by the vendor.
- Sakai is being used or considered by most of our peer institutions and is considered “enterprise ready?and stable.
- Tech and the rest of the Sakai community are able to address any issues that arise -- without waiting for a vendor to find the time and resources.
Who is in charge of T-Square?
The new Director of Educational Technologies, Clay Fenlason, has the mission to make T-Square a success at Tech.
- Clay has a staff (not yet filled) of programmers, but he also works with the entire T-Square team at Tech that includes people from OIT (several departments), CETL, the Library, and. DLPE.
How do I get help?
- Use the same mechanisms in place for getting any other technical assistance at Tech.
- The Remedy Ticket system (http://www.remedy.gatech.edu/cgi-bin/Service-Request/OIThome.pl)
- The IT Help Desk (phone: 404.894.7173, e-mail: support@oit.gatech.edu)
- Email CETL (cetlhelp@gatech.edu)
- Call CETL (404-894-4474)
- Basically, server/database/system issues are supported by OIT, while user support, innovation and pedagogical consultations are handled by CETL.