What are the TRACKS password complexity requirements?
In order to maintain the integrity and safety of the information on our network, password complexity requirements have been established by Information Technology. This means ...
What resources can my TRACKS account access?
Current students, staff, and faculty can use their TRACKS accounts to access many services at Florida Tech. Your TRACKS account and password are used for ...
What is TRACKS?
TRACKS is Florida Institute of Technology's account system that provides a single username and password for access to all university services granted to a user.
If ...
What do I do if I have a problem with my TRACKS account?
Determine which scenario below best matches the issue you are experiencing:
I am a newly admitted Continuing Education, Extended Studies or Online Learning Student and I ...
When do I get my Florida Tech email account?
Students
Main Campus - Melbourne: Your mailbox will be created once your tuition deposit it processed. It could take anywhere from 24-72 hours for your deposit ...
What is FitForum? What is its purpose and appropriate use?
FitForum is an email-based list forum.
The purpose of FitForum is the dissemination of information of interest to the Florida Tech community. This includes announcements of ...
What is an ethernet card?
This article is based on older technology. Most computers deployed on campus will no longer need an Ethernet Card to connect online.
An Ethernet card is ...
What should I do if my computer is stolen?
The college assumes no financial responsibility, explicit or implied, for damages to or loss of personal property. If students are not covered by their parents' ...
What is Panther Pass and how do I access it?
As soon as you have been admitted to the University and been given a TRACKS account, your next step is PantherPass.
With many items that need ...
What is PAWS and how do I access it?
PAWS Student Information
PAWS enables students to register, add/drop classes, and access and print academic and personal information via the web. The PAWS home page may ...
What software is available in the Multimedia Classrooms & Labs?
Windows 10
7-ZipAdobe Acrobat ReaderAdobe Flash PlayerAdobe Shockwave PlayerAliceANSYSArduinoArenaAspenTechArcGISAutoCADAutodesk Civil 3DAutodesk RevitBigloo Scheme CompilerBlueJCadenceCOMSOLCorona Labs VersionCreoDataFITDropboxEclipseGhostscriptGimpGNU ClispGoogle ChromeGoogle EarthIBM SPSSJava JDK / JRELabviewLaTexMATLAB Microsoft Internet ExplorerMicrosoft ...
What IT Services are Available to me?
For a detailed look at many of the services offered, please go to the IT website.
Faculty and Staff
The IT department offers faculty and staff a ...
What is Google Apps?
A bridge between our organization and Google products. On one side, we have communication and collaboration needs for our school. On the other side, there ...
Why are we using Google Apps?
To bring together essential communication applications. To improve productivity and communication. We can focus on student needs and adding value to the experience while Google ...
What options do I have for accessing my student email?
Your Florida Tech student email is a GSuite account with access to a Gmail mailbox.
The primary option for access is the Gmail Website, accessible by: http://my.fit.edu
It's packed with exciting ...
What is the campus MATLAB license?
MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language. Developed by MathWorks, MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation ...
What is PTC Creo?
PTC Creo is the new name for the Computer Aided Design (CAD for short) software ProENGINEER. It is used to model and design mechanical parts ...
What is ANSYS?
ANSYS is a Computer Aided Design (CAD for short) software for modeling and testing engineering designs in a virtual instance. This software allows across a ...
What is Fluent?
Fluent is a fluid dynamics branch of ANSYS software (a CAD/Simulation software) that allows the user to model flow, turbulence, and heat transfer. For example, creating ...
What is Polymath?
Polymath is a mathmatical computation software that allows the user to solve problems using numerical analyses. It can provide the solutions to the problems graphically ...
What/Where is OEC128?
OEC128 is a multimedia computer lab located on the 1st Floor of Olin Engineering Building. It is open from 8a.m to 8p.m, and requires key ...
What is Alice?
Alice is a 3D programming software that makes animation for interactive stories and games. It is primarily used as a teaching tool for introductory computing ...
What is ArcGIS?
ArcGIS is a mapping software published by the ESRI company. This software allows the user to create maps for analysis of data, workforce routes, weather awareness ...
Webroot is blocking a page, How do I view it?
Before concluding that a site has been blocked by Webroot, please attempt to verify if the site is active by other means. One potential way ...
What is the Blueshark Cluster?
The Blueshark Cluster is comprised of IBM iDataplex Systems with
50 compute nodes
13 big memory nodes
11 GPU nodes
1 head node
totalling 1720 cores and 4,397 GB of ...
What software and libraries are available on Blueshark?
The cluster environment is implemented in CentOS 7 Linux.
The following compiler suites, libraries, and software are installed, and can be updated by request. Some are OS level ...
What web hosting services are available?
Basic Level Web Hosting Services
Web Pages via TerminalFour
my.fit.edu personal website replacement options
Advanced Level Web Hosting Services
MySQL Database
...
What is TerminalFour?
Introduction
TerminalFour (T4) is a digital marketing & web content management platform for Higher Education. The content management platform handles the university web sites and pages. ...
Where do I obtain FortiClient VPN installers?
How do I obtain the FortiClient VPN
University-owned Computers
If you are on a University-owned laptop or PC the software may already be installed, please check your ...
What software is available through student RDS and how do I find it?
Click here for information on how to connect to Student RDS.
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2
Acrobat Reader DC Business Plan ProCyberRatNotepad++7-Zip File ManagerAnacondaBlueJCMakeCodeBlocksCPCeCygwinModelSimOffice Professional 2013Office Professional 2016OpenBugsPOM-QMPuTTYProject ...
What my.fit.edu personal website replacement options are available?
Replacement options listed by use case
Sharing files and folders with people
Google Drive
https://my.fit.edu for Students
https://go.fit.edu for Faculty and Staff
Microsoft OneDrive (https://portal.office.com)
Canvas Learning Management System (https://canvas.fit.edu)
Storing personal ...